IVOA 2007 Beijing

2007.05.13

Group photo will be taken at stairs before the BOCH building during cafe break of the 1st Plenary session.

Cafe break will be at the ground floor, outside of the Plenary Meeting Room.

2007.05.08

A TAXI Guide Card is prepared here. Please show it to the taxi driver if he can't understand your English.
About money exchange: In the downtown and the airport, there are many banks and ATMs where you can exchange money. US dollars and Euro are widely accepted. Credit card is acceptable at most of supermarkets, restaurants and shopping centers.

2007.05.01

Translation TIPS: "Dongfang Oriental Culture Hotel"="Beijing Oriental Culture Hotel", "Dongfang" is the Chinese pronunciation of "Oriental". Hope you are not confused by the two spellings used here.
Translation TIPS: "Dong St."="Dongdajie"="East Road", "Nan St."="Nandajie"="South Road", "Dajie"="street"="road", which are all Chinese pronunciation.

2007.04.30

Maps for Beijing Oriental Culture Hotel (BOCH) location and surrounding restaurants are added here.

2007.04.29

On-line registration closed. If you do hope to attend the meeting, please contact with Chenzhou Cui at "ccz (at) bao.ac.cn".

2007.04.25

Attention please, from May 1st to 7th, it is public holiday in China. Maybe some emails and faxes can't be dealt with promptly.

2007.04.22

Network is available at both meeting rooms and hotel rooms. At the meeting rooms, it is wireless network. In the hotel rooms, DHCP LAN network will be available.
Electricity is 220 volts/50 Hz. At the meeting rooms, there will be many universal outlets that can handle a wide variety of plug shapes.

2007.04.11

The participants who have reserved for airport pick up service please kindly pay attention to the sentence mentioned below and pay at the registration desk.
A person will handle a board with the words "IVOA2OO7Beijing" waiting for you at the airport.

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