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ACCOMODATION

Accommodation for all participants will be at the Carey Center. The Carey Center is convenienty located on UBC campus and 5 min. walking distance from the conference venue. We have pre-booked 40 rooms for our conference. The prices range from $69-75/night: single ($69) or queen rooms ($71 without TV, $75 with TV). Parking ($5) and breakfast ($6) will cost extra. All rooms have free high speed internet access, however there is no wireless available and the guests are asked to bring their own ethernet cable. Please contact the Carey Center directly to make reservations and quote the Emergent Gravity Conference:
Contact Carey Halls
If your accommodation is to be paid by the conference, we will be making your reservation and take care of the payment.

Public transport directions to UBC can be found on the translink website. The UBC stop is UBC LOOP, "UNIVERSITY BLVD @ EAST MALL, UBC". For arrivals by car we suggest to consult google maps.

DIRECTIONS

If you arrive at the Vancouver International Airport (YVR), we suggest that you take a taxi to UBC or Carey Hall, see UBC campus map section B6. A taxi trip from YVR to UBC will cost 30-40 Canadian dollars and will take approximately 30-45 minutes, depending on traffic.

Taxis

UBC-Downtown $20-25; UBC-Airport $30-40.
Checker: (604) 731-1111
Yellow Cab: (604) 681-1111

Buses from Vancouver International Airport to UBC

From Vancouver International Airport, take bus #424 to Airport Station, transfer to bus #98 B-Line, get off at Granville St. at Broadway, and transfer to either the #17 UBC or #99 UBC buses. All buses are leaving from the North Bus Loop, see see UBC campus map section C5. In addition, it is possible to use the Canada line to Cambie Street, called "Broadway-City Mall", and then take #99 to UBC.

Conference venue - IRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE

Talks will be held in Room 182 on the first floor of at the IRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE, see UBC campus map section C4.

1961 East Mall
Entrance to lecture theater: East Mall @ Agricultural Road
Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1
Canada

in Room 182 on the ground floor (downstairs from the entrance level). Figure below shows the floor plan for the IRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE.
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Poster session, Coffee break on Thursday, and start of lab tour

The extended coffee break & poster session is taking place at the building next to the conference venue in Hennings 318,

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
6224 Agricultural Rd.,
Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z1, Canada

on the 3nd floor in the main entrance, see floor plan in the Figure below.
Hennings Building

Conference dinner

The conference dinner will take place on the 27th of August on top of the city at Seasons in the Park. Poised at the peak of Queen Elizabeth Park, this glass-wrapped restaurant offers stunning views of Vancouver’s shimmering city skyline, North Shore Mountains and Pacific Ocean.

The address of the restaurant is:
Queen Elizabeth Park
West 33rd Avenue and Main St., Vancouver, B.C. Canada
T: 604-874-8008
1-800-632-9422
F: 604-874-7101

There are several busses going to the conference dinner, #33 gets you right there ask the bus driver to get off at 33rd and Main Street; or look up bus other connections under www.translink.ca.