Conference Venue
The meeting will be held in downtown Oakland at the Marriott Oakland City Center Hotel, adjacent to the Oakland Convention Center.  The Marriott is located in the heart of the revitalized downtown area. Close by are historic Old Oakland, City Center plaza, Chinatown, the Federal Building, and Jack London Square on the waterfront.

Oakland Marriott City Center
1001 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94067
(510) 451 4000
Fax 510 835 3466
Marriott toll-free reservation (800) 228 9290

Early Registration/Reception: Sunday, March 25, 5 to 7 PM, Topper Rooftop Ballroom (21st floor). If weather cooperates, you will be treated to a sunset view of San Francisco. 

Registration: opens Monday March 26 7:00 AM Jewett Foyer 

Plenary Sessions & Invited Talks: Jewett Ballroom

Podium Presentation: four parallel sessions: three  in Jewett A, B and C and one in Room 208

Reading Room: Room 201

Poster Session/Reception: Tuesday March 27 3:30 to 6 PM Exhibition Hall East in the Oakland Convention Center.

Joint Meeting Banquet
Monday March 26 7 PM at the Restaurant Peony (388 9th St., #288, Oakland). 

Restaurant Peony is located one block from the Oakland Marriott City Center Hotel. (Clck here for map). It is a leading Cantonese restaurant in Oakland's Chinatown known for serving authentic Dim Sum lunches and elaborate banquets in its spacious dinning facility. The banquet cost is $28/person inclusive tax and gratuity. Tickets must be purchased in advance by March 23. Beer and wine will be available for purchase. 

Transportation

Maps
The location of the hotel and driving instructions can be found on Marriott's web site.
Click here for a map of the Bay Area.
Clck here for a map of Downtown Oakland 

 

Accommodations
A block of sleeping rooms has been held at the Marriott Oakland City Center Hotel.  All accommodations are to be booked by individual participants.  Call 800-228-9290 to reserve and please mention "Combustion Institute" to receive the discounted conference rate of $145/night single or double.  Regular rate at the Marriott is $229/night. Rooms at conference discounted rate will be held until March 2, 2001. 

Other hotels/motels are available in Downtown Oakland, Jack London Square, Berkeley and San Francisco. Room rates may vary from $100 to well over $300/night.

 

Dining
No visit to the Bay Area is complete without sampling its wide range of fine foods. Close to the conference hotel, Old Oakland, City Center, Jack London Square, and Chinatown have many lunch and dinner options. LBNL's restaurant web page provides an extensive list of places in Berkeley and North Oakland. Many local restaurants are listed on SFGate's East Bay Neighborhood page.
 

Lunch Spots: The City Center complex at 12th Street and Broadway has a food court with typical fast food and sandwich outlets. Near the Convention Center's 10 St entrance are the Pacific Coast Brewing Company and the Deli in Ratto's market. Le Chavel on Clay is another lunch option. Across Broadway from the hotel in Chinatown, there are many Chinese and Vietnamese Restaurants along 8 th St, Franklin St. and Webster St. for you to sample a bowl of authentic Cantonese wonton noodle soup or Vienamese Pho (rice noodle soup with beef). Please view our  downtown map to get your bearing.

Northern California and Bay Area Sights
Late March is the perfect time to visit the Bay Area and Northern California. It is at the end of the rainy season, which colors the Bay Area's golden hills green and brings copious amounts of snow to the Sierra Nevada for skiers. Average high/low temperature for March is 62/46 F, with rainfall averaging 3.24".

Recreation and sightseeing possibilities in the greater San Francisco Bay Area are endless!

Nearby Destinations

	San Francisco is only 12 minutes away by BART from the conference hotel. The cable car terminal, Union Square, Geary Street theaters, SF Museum of Modern Art, and the Metreon entertainment and dining complex are a short walk from the Powell Street BART station. The City is also accessible by ferry from Jack London Square.
	Berkeley, home of the University of California at Berkeley and LBNL, is only 5 minutes away by BART. The Gourmet Ghetto, on Shattuck Avenue between Virginia and Rose, and the new 4th Street shopping/dining area on 4th and Hearst are well worth a visit.
	Parks, including Marin Headlands, Point Reyes National Seashore, Muir Woods, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and the East Bay Regional Parks, offer scenic hiking and biking trails.

Further Away

	Napa and Sonoma are world-class wine regions are about 60 miles north of Oakland.
	Livermore Valley, close to Sandia Livermore and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, also produces fine wines.
	Monterey and Carmel are 110 miles southwest of Oakland.
	Sierra Nevada Ski Resorts are 180 miles east of Oakland on I-80 (north Lake Tahoe) or US-50 (south Lake Tahoe).

 

Combustion Research in the Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area is home to many combustion researchers. Why not pay them a visit?

• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Sandia National Laboratories, California
• Stanford University
• SRI International
• University of California at Berkeley
• University of California at Davis

 

Acknowledgment
The 2nd Joint Meeting of the US Sections of the Combustion Institute acknowledges  LBNL's Environmental Energy Technologies Division for  underwriting the conference coordination cost for this meeting.

We also thank HbT, Inc for sponsoring the Poster Session Reception.

The following sponsors have provided finiancial assistance for student travel:

NASA Microgravity Combustion Science, Glenn Research Center
Amtec Engineering, Inc
Ford Motor Company, Scientific Research Laboratory

We are also grateful to the following local organizations who have contributed staff time, facilities and other resouces

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sandia National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory