Spirit of Lyot: Update May 31, 2007 http://www.lyot2007.org/ ************************************************************ Dear Colleagues, We are looking forward to seeing you in Berkeley and wish you a safe journey. Here are a few updates that may interest you: BOOKLET AVAILABLE AS DOWNLOAD The Lyot Program Booklet, which will be distributed as a hardcopy when you arrive at the conference, is also available now as a pdf file at the following link: http://astro.berkeley.edu/~kalas/lyot2007/docs/lyot_program.pdf Here you will find the daily agenda and all abstracts. ELECTRONIC FILES: If you are a poster presenter and would like to give a 2-minute oral presentation during our "Poster Express" sessions on Monday and Tuesday, please e-mail your pdf, powerpoint, html, or keynote file to Christian Marois (cmarois@igpp.ucllnl.org). Similarly, for oral presenters, we would like to collect your electronic files as a backup to your talk and for posting on the web site. INTERNET ACCESS Attendees will be given account access information at the conference. We are planning four wireless routers which will appear as Lyot1, Lyot2, Lyot3, Lyot4, or something analogous. To spread the load evenly, we request that attendees attempt a connection based on the first letter of your last name: A - F Lyot1 G - L Lyot2 M - P Lyot3 Q - Z Lyot4 Final details and other connection options will be announced in the opening session. LAPTOP POWER Chevron Auditorium is a large room and we will have a limited number of power strips available for charging laptop batteries. For note-taking, we will also provide a conference pen and notebook. WELCOME RECEPTION Sunday evening between 6 PM and 8 PM we have a reception scheduled at the Bancroft Hotel, with drinks and snacks. Guests of registered attendees are also welcome. CONFERENCE PHOTOGRAPH At noon on Wednesday we will take the conference photo before everyone goes out for lunch. WEDNESDAY BANQUET We have an evening banquet for registered guests scheduled for Wednesday, June 06 (6:30 PM) at the UC Berkeley Faculty Club. Banquet tickets for extra guests are $20, payable at the door by check or cash. We request that you inform Lorraine Dowling (ldowling@astron.berkeley.edu) in advance so that we know how many extra people to expect and their meal preferences. CONTACT PHONE NUMBERS For questions and emergencies during the conference and after hours, please do not hesitate to call the following LOC members at their mobile phones: (510) 589-1593 Lorraine Dowling (510) 229-2715 Paul Kalas (510) 599-0604 Franck Marchis TRANSIT INFORMATION We recommend the BART train as an easy and inexpensive way to reach Berkeley from either of the local airports. For detailed information on BART see http://www.bart.gov/ For other local transportation and parking details, see: http://astro.berkeley.edu/~kalas/lyot2007/local.html Sincerely, Paul Kalas and the LYOT LOC