Useful Information

Transportation & Lodging

Bus transportation will be provided from the Comfort Inn to the Workshop and will return to the Comfort Inn at the end of each day’s sessions.  Specific times will be included on the agenda.

Lodging for Users Week 2010 is at the GSA rate of $90 at the Comfort Inn in Oak Ridge. This room rate is only available until August 23rd, when the remaining rooms will be sold at the hotel’s regular rate.  The block is reserved under ‘2010 Users Week’.  There are many other hotels in Oak Ridge.  Please see additional listings here.

Contact Information for the Comfort Inn

433 S. Rutgers Ave.
Oak Ridge TN 37830
Phone: 865.481.8200
Fax: 865.483.6142
Toll Free: 1.800.228.5150

**Invited Speakers** – do not make hotel reservations as your arrangements will be provided. You will be contacted regarding travel and lodging arrangements. You will need to register for the meeting as ‘Invited Speakers’ to collect the information required for access.

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory website provides links to airports and car rentals as well as area maps. Oak Ridge, TN is served by the airport in Knoxville (abbreviation TYS), about 30 minutes away. Information about the airlines and related ground transportation (limousines, taxis to hotels) is available at their website. We have had great success with Executive Van and Limo at 865.671.2509 [toll free at 1.800.432.7923].  If you want to be picked up at ORNL, Oak Ridge Yellow Cab [865.483.4343] and Executive Van and Limo are the only services with approved access to ORNL. You will need to call for reservations.

Directions & Maps

Maps of the Oak Ridge area and ORNL can be found on ORNL’s Getting to ORNL page.

Sessions for Users Week 2010 will be held at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, on different days at the Conference Center (building 5200) and at the Spallation Neutron Source and Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences on Chestnut Ridge. See the forthcoming schedule for details.  A bus from the conference hotel in Oak Ridge will be the best method to come to ORNL. The bus will return to the conference hotel at the end of each day’s sessions. Specific times will be included on the agenda.

Attendees may drive their own vehicles to ORNL, but must allow an extra 30 minutes for processing at the security portal. For those driving take Bethel Valley Road westbound to the security portal, stop and show identification for each member in the vehicle.  Upon approval, continue westbound on Bethel Valley Road for about 3 miles to the first traffic signal. If the day’s session is at SNS, then turn right at the signal and the large stone “Spallation Neutron Source” sign. Proceed up the road 1.8 miles to a large flat parking area at the top of the hill, park in front of the building that has three flag poles in front of it (Building 8600).  To the right of the flag poles is the main entrance.  If the day’s session is at the ORNL Conference Center, then proceed straight ahead at the first traffic light to the roundabout and take the first right turn into the parking lot.  The Conference Center is the closest building to the parking lot across Bethel Valley Road and is also the home of the Visitor Center and the cafeteria.

Additional directions from specific locations can be found on ORNL's Driving Directions page. A McGhee Tyson Airport to Oak Ridge/ORNL/SNS route map is provided here in PDF format. Addtional maps can be found on ORNL's Getting to ORNL or Getting Around ORNL pages such as this visitor center campus map and SNS campus map also provided in PDF format.

Poster Sessions

There will be a poster session on Tuesday evening with limited space available:

  • Tuesday, September 14, during the evening reception, will feature posters dealing with nanoscience or microscopy.

Attendees may submit requests to present posters for the Tuesday evening session using this online poster submission form. The deadline for poster submissions is August 31st.

Instructions for preparing posters

  • Tabletop poster boards and adhesive Velcro tabs will be provided for mounting posters.
  • You may bring your poster to the meeting in any convenient format such as a rolled-up sheet, pre-mounted on a rigid board, or as a set of smaller sheets.
  • Posters must fit within an area that is 42 inches wide and 42 inches high.
  • Posters should be printed mechanically using ink-jet, laser, or similar type printer and have a “professional” appearance, meeting the customary standards for display at international scientific conferences.

RidgeDance Nanoscience Film Festival

The CNMS is planning to present the 5th edition of its popular RidgeDance NanoScience Film Festival during its 2010 User Meeting. The festival features entertaining, short videos depicting nanoscience research submitted by CNMS users, meeting attendees, colleagues abroad, and CNMS staff. (See last year’s RidgeDance program.) You are invited to submit a video for the festival.  Enter your intention (not binding) to upload a film clip here. The submission deadline is midnight, September 3rd. However, if you have a late submission, please email Chris Rouleau to ask whether it can still be accepted.

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