2009 California APS meeting

1. 2009 California APS meeting Karl van Bibber 28 March 2009

2. Aerial photo of NPS looking SW

3. About NPS • The premier U.S. defense university, celebrating its centennial year • Purely graduate school; moved from Naval Academy in 1951 • 700 faculty; 2500 students comprised of 1600 U.S. officers, 200 foreign officers, 700 civilian • Organized in four schools • Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Sciences • Graduate School of Organizational & Information Science • Graduate School of Business & Public Policy • School of International Graduate Studies • Campus is built on historic Del Monte Hotel (c. 1880); about half-mile square plus heavy labs on the Navy’s Monterey Pines golf course • Immediately off Hwy 1, Del Monte Ave. exit in Monterey • 5-minute drive from Monterey Airport • About 100 miles south of SFO, 50 miles south of San Jose Int’l • Excellent conference management department • Let’s navigate in by http://www.nps.edu

4. Campus map of NPS 270 180 129 75 1329 (Capacity of larger conference rooms)

5. Google map (zoom in)

6. Google map (zoom out)

7. Candidate dates • Pattern has been Friday-Saturday • We should avoid • Week of September 21-25 (final exams and graduation) • October 13-17 (DNP, Hawaii) • November 2-6 (DPP, Atlanta) • We propose three options; King Hall open for all dates: • October 23-24 • October 30-31 • November 13-14 • Let’s discuss various factors (e.g. school schedules) and converge on a final date at this meeting

8. Local organizers • NPS local organizing committee: • Bruce Denardo (Chair) • Pete Crooker • Scott Davis • Raquel Herold (Administrator) • Michelle Merenbloom (NPS head of conference office)

9. Security issues • We have many conferences per year (40 or more major ones) with foreign nationals in attendance • But NPS is a Navy installation & it is not as open as a typical civilian campus • However, it is not significantly more restrictive than at a DOE/SC lab, e.g. LBNL nowadays • Per discussions with Security, the tentative plan is: • There will be a registration cut-off date a couple of weeks or so before the conference • Conferees will receive their conference badge Friday morning either at the Pass Office, or possibly at the hotel • Saturday morning, all attendees will need to show photo ID matching their conference badge before getting on the bus • “Loose line-of-site” shepherding of SCFN conferees to and from lunch in Herrmann Hall • Be aware security is always a dynamic issue

10. Conference dinner possibilities Dinner at the Monterey Bay Aquarium is a perennial conference favorite But NPS ballroom probably is better for an after-dinner speaker & cheaper

11. Other considerations • Cost of this event has not yet been studied • We will get a waiver for basic use • The NPS Foundation (some allocation of which I control) can be expected to defray various costs at the few $K level • A big plus is that a strong representation attending & presenting from NPS is guaranteed • There may be competition (classes, other workshops) for the smaller conference rooms needed for parallel sessions, but this will be worked out