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We'd never consider holding a conference on the
Burnaby campus. We tend to run all our conferences at Harbour
Center. They charge for rooms, but it is not too bad. The
catering is pretty pricey and you have to use their
coffee/beverages (sometimes we sneak in our own cookies). We also
purchased an LCD projector for the department as the cost is about
equivalent of renting one from Harbour Centre for 4 days. (For a
single session conference with a 120 people, though, you would
have to use one of their big rooms and their projector with a technician) The upside: there are good hotels all around that offer an SFU rate ($159/night for the Pan Pacific!?), lots of lunch and dinner choices, etc. Another alternative: with a large number of out-of-town guests, hotels will give you a package deal on the facilities if you book rooms with them. If you are thinking of an intensive retreat-like meeting, though, downtown distractions are a disadvantage. If it is out of season, try some of the lodges/guesthouses in the vicinity: Brew Creek Centre a few kms before Whistler, there are places on the gulf islands, if you want to go all out:Toffino (Middle Beach lodge has an old lodge and a new one and, off-season, it is not too outrageous for what you get if you take the old one) A lot of these places are happy to make you package deal and visitors from out of town have a blast being in nature. I would be surprised if you could not find a retreat both more secluded and cheaper than Whistler. But the cost of an out-of-town retreat is going to be much higher than a downtown conference wherever you go. On 18/08/2014 11:36 PM, Marni Mishna
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The downtown campus is often available, although it is a little bit frustrating the extent to which they are costly to organize academic events. We would like to run a math conference at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, and we are obliged to pay for minimum of 4 hours for front of house to direct conference goers to their seats, and a projectionist. When I protested that perhaps a projectionist was a bit exaggerated for displaying pdf files, particularly since it is different from IT support to say, stream the talks, I was informed that these are money making endeavours for the university, and that is how it is done. Good luck Nancy. Marni On Aug 18, 2014, at 11:02 PM, Walter Piovesan <walter@sfu.ca> wrote:Is Downtown Vancouver not an option? On Aug 18, 2014, at 10:40 PM, Nancy Forde <nforde@sfu.ca> wrote:Dear all, I am putting together a proposal for an international conference of about 120 attendees, and am looking to you for recommendations of good locations not to far from Vancouver. I have budget estimates for Whistler, but the costs are very high. I would prefer to host the meeting somewhere other than SFU Burnaby, as there are few dining options right here. Does anyone on this list have venues that they would recommend for a meeting of this size? Best wishes, Nancy -- Nancy Forde Associate Professor Department of Physics Simon Fraser University 8888 University Dr. Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 -- nforde@sfu.ca 778-782-3161; 778-782-3592 (fax) http://www.sfu.ca/fordelab————--------------------------- Walter Piovesan Research Data Library ** I am on campus Mondays , Tuesdays Wednesdays ** |