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Date:2010-08-24 09:14:00
Sender:Mike Pearlman/ILRS CB <Carey Noll <Carey.Noll@nasa.gov>>
Subject:[SLR-Mail] No. 1903: 17th International Workshop on Laser Ranging - May-16-20, 2011
Author:Mike Pearlman
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SLR Electronic Mail 2010-08-24 09:14:00 UTC Message No. 1903
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Author: Mike Pearlman/ILRS CB
Subject: 17th International Workshop on Laser Ranging - May-16-20, 2011

This is a correction to the previously issued email. Note that the
meeting will take place May 16-20, 2011. Sorry for any confusion.

The next International Workshop on Laser Ranging was previously
scheduled to be held in Concepcion Chile in January 2011.=20
Unfortunately, due to the earthquake there in February, it was=20
no longer possible to hold the workshop in Chile. BKG has offered=20
to host the 17th workshop in Bad K=F6tzting, Germany, near the=20
Wettzell Geodetic Observatory, from May 16-20, 2011. Johannes Ihde=20
has provided the following information concerning accommodations=20
and travel to the venue; blocks of rooms have been reserved at=20
these hotels starting May 15:

Hotels in Bad K=F6tzting:
- Hotel Zur Post: 20 rooms (http://www.posthotel-bad-koetzting.de/ )
- Hotel Amberger Hof: 25 rooms (http://www.amberger-hof.de/ )
- Pension Steidl: 10 rooms (http://www.pension-steidl.de/ )
- Pension Raab: 10 rooms (http://www.gaestehaus-am-ludwigsberg.de )
Hotel in Arrach (20 min. from Bad K=F6tzting, by car):
- Hotel Herzog Heinrich: 70 rooms (http://hotel-herzog-heinrich.de )
Hotel in Grafenwiesen (between Arrach and Bad K=F6tzting):
- Hotel Birkenhof: 25 rooms (http://www.hotel-birkenhof.de/ )

The local organizers will arrange for the transfer between hotels =
outside=20
of Bad K=F6tzting and the meeting venue.

Participants will need to arrange transportation from the nearest =
airports=20
to Bad K=F6tzting. How to reach Bad K=F6tzting by train:
o =46rom Munich airport:
- Journey time: 3.5-4 hours
- Daily connections via Schwandorf and Cham (Oberpf.)
- Last departure about 19:30 p.m.
- Alternatively by rental car: distance 160km, journey time 2 hours
o =46rom Frankfurt airport:
- Journey time: 6-7 hours=20
- Daily connections via N=FCrnberg, Schwandorf and Cham (Oberpf.)
- Last departure about 16:30 p.m. (Sundays about 18:00 p.m.)
o =46rom N=FCrnberg airport:
- Journey time: 3 hours
- Daily connections via Schwandorf and Cham (Oberpf.)
- Last departure about 19:00 p.m. (Sundays about 20:30 p.m.)
- Alternatively by rental car: distance 155km, journey time 2 hours

More information on the workshop program, etc. will be sent in the =
coming=20
weeks.

Regards,

Mike Pearlman=20
Dr. Michael R. Pearlman
Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden St.
Cambridge MA 02138
tel. (617) 495-7481
fax. (617) 496-0121
e-mail. mpearlman@cfa.harvard.edu


From: Carey Noll

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