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ICHEP 2016 ChicagoStatus Report
Young-Kee Kimthe University of Chicago
IUPAP C11 meetingAugust 18, 2015
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Dates: August 3 – 10, 2016
• Other conferences near the ICHEP 2016 time
– LHCP 2016, June 13 – 18, Lund, Sweden– Neutrino2016, London: July 4 – 9, London, U.K.– BOOST 2016, July 18 – 22, Europe
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Conference Location: Sheraton Hotel
Plenary session (~1,000 seats)9 Parallel sessions (50 – 400 seats)
a few small meeting rooms (20 – 30 seats)500 rooms for participants reserved
Agreement between “Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers” and “The University of Chicago” signed in October 2013
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Sheraton Hotel
The Chicago shoreline of Lake Michigan
Museum campusParks
Concert halls Beach
Sailing walking distance
Conference Location: Sheraton Hotel
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Lodging• Sheraton Hotel (conference location)
– 500 rooms per night (199 US$ / night)
• Club quarters (two hotels near Sheraton)– 300 rooms per night (130 ~ 150 US$ / night)– ~10’ walk to the Conference location
• https://www.google.si/maps/dir/Club+Quarters+Hotel,+Wacker+at+Michigan,+East+Upper+Wacker+Drive,+Chicago,+IL,+United+States/Sheraton+Chicago+Hotel+%26+Towers,+East+North+Water+Street,+Chicago,+IL,+United+States/@41.888714,-87.6248453,17z/data=!4m14!4m13!1
• About 100 rooms have two beds– Two people can shared one room– Sheraton Hotel is working to increase this number.
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Venue• Interactions among participants are critical!
– Interact and discuss work.– The venue facilitates these interactions
• Hotels and meeting locations: close to each other• Restaurants: next hotels and meeting rooms
• Satellite meetings– ICHEP hosting institutions (Chicago) are willing to host satellite
meetings before or after ICHEP 2016
• Interactions with industry– Exhibition (next to the poster session)– Booth– Session on career opportunities for students and postdocs
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Visas• Big concern
– Russia, China, India, …
• Preparation– Had a meeting with the visa subcommittee– Visa information on the ICHEP2016 web (Dec. 2015)– Added Heidi Schellman (IUPAP US Liaison) to the visa
subcommittee– Communication with APS DPF chair
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Registration fee and travel grants• Depends on the outcome of fund-raising
– Goal of the registration fee (as low as possible)• 450 – 550 US$ (general)• 250 – 350 US$ (students)
– Travel support for ~100 people• ~1,500 US$ / person 150k US$
– Young scientists– Scientists from developing countries– Level of support ranging from the registration fee to
the the full travel
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Sponsors• Committed:
• IUPAP, C11 (pending)• American Physical Society, DPF
• KEK, Japan• Kavli IPMU, Japan• IBS Center for underground physics,
Korea• IBS Center for Axion and Precision
Physics Research, Korea• IHEP, China• TRIUMF/AAPS, Canada• CERN, Europe• DESY, Germany
• U.Chicago, NIU, IIT, Argonne, Fermilab, …
• Current and future efforts• Submit a proposal to NSF
(August 2015)• Submit a proposal to DOE
(FY2016: after Oct. 2015)• Contacting companies,
publishers, other institutions.
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Social events
Sheraton Hotel
The Chicago shoreline of Lake Michigan
Museum campusParks
Concert halls Beach
Sailing walking distance
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Millennium Park Summer Music Festival – Free(every evening from Wed., August 3 to Sat., August 6)
https://www.google.si/maps/dir/Sheraton+Chicago+Hotel+%26+Towers,+East+North+Water+Street,+Chicago,+IL,+United+States/Jay+Pritzker+Pavilion+at+Millennium+Park,+201+East+Randolph+Street,+Chicago,+IL+60601,+United+States/@41.8861232,-87.6251668,16z/data=!3m
10’ walk from the Conference location
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Int. Advisory Committee: Proposal Need C11 endorsement