[time-nuts] NIST time and frequency seminar - 11-14 June in Boulder, CO

[Dave Daniel]

If you are interested in checking out Boulder while you are there, two hotels to look at are the Boulderado at 13th and Spruce, and the Broker Inn, which is now apparently owned by Rodeway, on 30th St.

Staying at the Boulderado affords close access to the Pearl St. Mall, an old open-air mall (not like the new ones springing up everywhere) with lots of restaurants with outdoor seating, other strange shops and various performers (if you do go there and see a guy named Bongo tying balloons for children, please tell him Dave Daniel said “hi”; I believe he was a physicist in a former life)

I’ve stayed in both hotels, many times (StorageTek used to put employees up in the Broker).

I have no idea what the rates are these days, but one can look them up online. They are probably more expensive than your run-of-the-mill Holiday Inn, but if the difference is not that great, it would be worth staying at one of them.

There is also the historic Stanley hotel in Estes Park of “The Shining” fame (built by the famous Stanley brothers). Estes Park is a bit of a drive from Boulder (but not too bad) and Estes Park is a stone’s throw from Rocky Mountain National Park, another cool place to visit if one is considering things in addition to the NIST conference. When StorageTek used to send me to Colorado for business I used to always tack on a weekend at my expense to visit these sorts of places.

If I still lived there, I’d attend the conference in a heartbeat.

DaveD

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> On Feb 16, 2019, at 12:06, jimlux <jimlux at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> On 2/15/19 11:06 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote:
>>>> https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2019/06/2019-nist-time-and-frequency-seminar
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>>> Mother of God, John, what makes this meeting worth the price?
>> Hi Bill,
>> Yes, it sounds high but perhaps not out of line for multi-day professional conferences / seminars these days. True, you have to factor in Denver flights and Boulder hotels. But when you consider where it's held and who's speaking and how long it lasts, it starts to look like something between a bargain and a worthy bucket list item. NIST takes T&F seriously; this is not some sort of cheap corporate or product marketing show.
> 
> Hotels in Boulder aren't that expensive, compared to other places. Govt per diem is $159/lodging, Meals & Incidentals $66. The implication is that you'll find plenty of places where hotel is <=$159/night (Compare Boston for IMS at $273  + $71 and let's not even get started on Silicon Valley hotel costs)
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> Denver is a big hub airport so you can get there non-stop from lots of places.
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> Particularly if you're going to it as part of "work", the cost is quite reasonable in the context of your salary - which is how conference organizers look at it.  When I was on the organizing committee for a conference last year, we struggled with the whole "what should it cost" thing. Obviously, you'd like it as cheap as possible, but there are significant costs associated with putting on a conference.
> 
> Since NIST is US Government, there's probably GSA rules about how much they have to charge for the use of the resources.
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> 
>> Look over the agenda and note both the wide range of topics covered and the personnel doing so. The sessions tend to be very high quality. A portion of attendees are the kind sent by their companies to "learn about time & frequency" this week, so as a practicing time nut you are well above that. On the other hand, NIST keeps the conference current and practical and detailed so even the most seasoned time nut will learn a great deal. You may also meet lifelong contacts. I have attended and highly recommend it.
>> If it's just registration price that keeps an energetic curious time nut from attending let me know. In years past I've recommended NIST allow a limited time nut discount and that's worked. Let me know off-list if this is something you'd like to be considered for.
>> /tvb
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