The 6th Conference on Clifford Algebras and their
Applications in Mathematical Physics,
Tennessee Technological University,
Cookeville, Tennessee, May 20-25, 2002
Lecture Series on Clifford Algebras and Applications, May 18-19, 2002

Sponsorship:

This conference is co-sponsored by the American Mathematical Society and by the International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation (ISAAC). Professor Steven Krantz, sk@math.wustl.edu, from Washington University represents AMS on the Scientific Committee.

Financial assistance is provided by the National Science Foundation, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Center for Manufacturing Research, and the Provost Office at Tennessee Technological University; the Graduate School at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, and the College of Arts and Sciences at George Mason University.

Local Information:

Tennessee Technological University is one of 46 institutions in the Tennessee Board of Regents system, the seventh largest system of higher education in the nation. The Tennessee Board of Regents is the governing board for this system which is comprised of six universities, fourteen two-year colleges, and twenty-six Tennessee Technology centers. The TBR system enrolls more than 80 percent of all Tennessee students attending public institutions of higher education.

The campus is located in Cookeville, a city of 28,000 located on the eastern Highland Rim of Tennessee. In addition to the main campus of 235 acres, the University owns and operates two farms for instruction and research purposes and operates the Joe L. Evins Appalachian Center for Crafts located on Center Hill Lake near Smithville. The surrounding area, enhanced by three major lakes, abounds in natural beauty and is served by several state parks.

To find map of Cookeville, go to http://www.mapquest.com/. Enter "Cookeville" and "TN" under city and state. Then, by selecting option Gov/School and then Colleges, you will be able to find the TTU campus near the Quadrangle between Willow Avenue, 12th Street and Jefferson Avenue in the northern part of the city.

General Information:

The 6th Conference on Clifford Algebras will be a continuation of a 16 year old sequence of international conferences devoted to the mathematical aspects of Clifford algebras and their varied applications in mathematical physics, cybernetics, robotics, image processing and engineering. Previous meetings took place at: University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K., 1985; University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France, 1989; University of Gent, Gent, Belgium, 1993 and University of Aachen, Germany, 1996. The most recent meeting took place in Ixtapa, Mexico, 1999. Among mathematical structures considered are: Grassmann algebras and supersymmetry, quaternions, octonions, division and Clifford algebras over arbitrary fields, other algebraic structures including quantum groups and multivector algebras, spin structures and Clifford bundles, local and global problems for Dirac operator, Connes spectral triples and noncommutative geometry, Clifford analysis and quantum logic. Applications in physics cover a wide range of topics from classical mechanics to general relativity, twistor methods, electromagnetism, elementary particle physics, quantum mechanics, perturbative renormalization, spin foam models and quantum gravity. Applications in robotics include double quaternions, rigid motions, constraint manifolds, inverse kinematics, robot arm geometry. It is expected that somewhere between 100 and 150 participants, including graduate students, will attend this conference.

Conference Office:

Conference Office is located in the Mathematics Department Office in Bruner Hall 235. It is staffed by two Conference Secretaries: Mrs. Patsy Peavyhouse, E-mail: ppeavyhouse@tntech.edu, tel. (931) 372-3441, and  Mrs. Vickie Mayberry, E-mail: vmayberry@tntech.edu, tel. (931) 372-3442. The office fax number is (931) 372-6353. Any questions, requests for local arrangements, payment of the Conference Fees, etc., or, in general, any communication regarding the Conference should be directed to Patsy, Vickie, or to Dr. Rafal Ablamowicz, E-mail: rablamowicz@tntech.edu, tel. (931) 372-3569.

Registration and Conference Fees:

The registration and fees payment is a two step process:

• Step 1: Please go to one of the Conference Registration Pages and enter your data into the database managed by Dr. Bertfried Fauser, Bertfried.Fauser@uni-konstanz.de, Universität Konstanz. Once you register, you will automatically receive updates on a regular basis. Through this page, you will also be able to submit abstract if you intend to present a 30-minute paper or a poster.
• Step 2: To complete your registration and pay conference fees, please visit CONFERENCE FEES AND PAYMENT INFORMATION, and submit Registration and Fees Payment Form

The Organizers of the Conference request that anyone planning to register for this lecture series does so before the deadline of March 15 so that enough copies of the lecture notes with the six lectures can be prepared. The registration fee will cover the cost of the lecture notes that will be distributed to the registered participants on Saturday, May 18, 2002.

For a complete list of all Conference Fees and instructions how to pay them, please go to CONFERENCE FEES AND PAYMENT INFORMATION.

On-site Late Registration will be available on Saturday, May 18, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.; on Sunday, May 19, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; and on Monday, May 20, from 7:30 a.m. until 10:30 a.m..

Financial Support:

Financial support for all plenary speakers, lecturers, session organizers, graduate students, women, minorities, unemployed participants, and persons applying from developing countries is provided through the National Science Foundation grant,  the College of Arts and Sciences, the Center for Manufacturing Research, and the Provost Office at Tennessee Technological University; the Graduate School at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, and the College of Arts and Sciences at George Mason University. Some support has been already committed by our sponsors. If you are in need of such support, please indicate so in the comments section on the conference registration page. Preference in determining support will be given to those presenting a paper in one of the thematic areas covered by the Conference.

• To request a specific support from Organizers, please complete point 15 on the Registration and Fees Payment Form when submitting it. Please do not forget to register also via one of the Registration Pages listed above.

Organizers request that you help them correctly estimate need for support by registering early. All persons who plan to take part in the conference (including the plenary speakers), and who plan to apply for financial support from the Organizers are asked to use, to the highest extent possible, their own funds from any grants, e.g., NSF grants, that they may have or that they may apply for in their home countries, or through their institutions. This will enable the Organizers to support those who do not hold such grants, or who do not have possibilities to obtain such funds.

Here are additional sources of support that may be available:

• Travel Grants for women offered by Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM): deadlines to apply October 1, February 1, and May 1 of each year: go to http://www.awm-math.org/travelgrants.html

Contributed 30-minute papers are invited. Abstracts must be submitted by MARCH 15 via the registration page.

Instructions for Authors:

When submitting an abstract or a complete paper, or a poster, for a possible publication in edited volumes after the conference, Organizers request that all Authors follow "Instructions for Contributing Authors" that are available as a .dvi file Authors.dvi (23K) and a Postscript file Authors.ps (265K). All necessary macros and style files, including "Instructions for Contributing Authors" file, can be downloaded as a .zip file Authors.zip (238K) or as a self-extracting file Authors.exe (268K) (for Windows systems). It is also available as a .pdf file Authors.pdf (107KB).

Call for Posters:

If you intend to present a poster, please submit a title and a brief abstract by MARCH 15 via the registration page. Then, send a complete printable file in one of the following formats: .ps. .dvi, or .pdf to Dr. Rafal Ablamowicz, rablamowicz@tntech.edu. The length of the poster papers is generally limited to eight pages. Longer posters may be accepted per agreement with Dr. Rafal Ablamowicz. When preparing a poster, lease follow "Instructions for Authors" posted above. For more information go to posters.

Organizers:

• Rafal Ablamowicz, mailto:%20rablamowicz@tntech.edu, Department of Mathematics, Box 5054, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN 38505, U.S.A., tel. (931) 372-3441 (office), (931) 372-3569 (direct line), fax: (931) 372-6353, home page: http://math.tntech.edu/rafal/
• John Ryan, jryan@comp.uark.edu, Department of Mathematics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, U.S.A., tel: 501 575 6334, fax: 501 575 8630, home page: http://comp.uark.edu/~jryan

• Rafal Ablamowicz, rablamowicz@tntech.edu, Mathematics
• Jack Armistead, jarmistead@tntech.edu, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
• Michael Allen, mallen@tntech.edu, Mathematics
• Joe N. Anderson, JAnderson@tntech.edu, Electrical Engineering
• Susan Elkins, selkins@tntech.edu, Conference Office
• Ramesh Garimella, rgarimella@tntech.edu, Mathematics
• Steve Khleif, skhleif@tntech.edu, Mathematics
• Yung-Way Liu, ywliu@tntech.edu, Mathematics
• Allan Mills, amills@tntech.edu, Mathematics
• Jeff Norden, jnorden@tntech.edu, Mathematics
• Brian O'Connor, bmoc@tntech.edu, Mathematics
• P. K. Rajan, pkrajan@tntech.edu, Electrical Engineering
• Srini Ramaswamy, srini@csc.tntech.edu, Computer Science
• Annie Selden, selden@tntech.edu, Mathematics
• Alexander Shibakov, ashibakov@tntech.edu, Mathematics

• Ludwik Dabrowski, dabrow@sissa.it, Mathematical Physics, SISSA, Trieste
• Tevian Dray, tevian@math.orst.edu, Oregon State University, Mathematics
• John Gilbert, gilbert@fireant.ma.utexas.edu, University of Texas, Austin, Mathematics
• Gerald Kaiser, kaiser@wavelets.com, Virginia Center for Signals and Waves
• Julian Lawrynowicz, jlawryno@krysia.uni.lodz.pl, University of Lodz, Mathematics
• Shahn Majid, s.majid@qmw.ac.uk, Queen Mary, University of London, Mathematics
• Mircea Martin, mmartin@harvey.bakeru.edu, Baker University
• Michael McCarthy, jmmccart@uci.edu, University of California, Irvine
• Garret Sobczyk, sobczyk@mail.udlap.mx, Puebla, Mexico, Mathematics
• Frank Sommen, fs@cage.rug.ac.be, State University of Ghent
• Vladimir Soucek, soucek@karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Charles University Prague, Mathematics
• Daniele Struppa, dstruppa@gmu.edu, George Mason University, Virginia

• Rafal Ablamowicz, rablamowicz@tntech.edu, Tennessee Technological University, Mathematics
• Tom Branson, branson@math.uiowa.edu, University Iowa, Mathematics
• Ugo Bruzzo, bruzzo@sissa.it, SISSA
• Joachim Cuntz, cuntz@math.uni-muenster.de, University of Münster,
• Bertfried Fauser, Bertfried.Fauser@uni-konstanz.de, Universität Konstanz
• Bernard Jancewicz, bjan@ift.uni.wroc.pl, Uniwersytet Wroclawski, Wroclaw
• Steven Krantz, sk@math.wustl.edu, Washington University, AMS Representative
• Michael McCarthy, jmmccart@uci.edu, University of California, Irvine
• Artibano Micali, micali@math.univ-montp2.fr, Mathematics, Universite Montpellier
• Marius Mitrea, marius@math.missouri.edu, University of Missouri, Mathematics
• Victor Palamodov, palamodo@post.tau.ac.il, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University
• Ian R. Porteous, porteous@liverpool.ac.uk, University of Liverpool, Mathematical Sciences
• Tao Qian, fsttq@wkg1.umac.mo, University of Macau
• Waldyr Rodrigues, walrod@ime.unicamp.br, IMECC-UNICAMP, Brazil
• Marcos Rosenbaum, mrosen@nuclecu.unam.mx, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
• John Ryan, jryan@comp.uark.edu, University of Arkansas
• Garret Sobczyk, sobczyk@mail.udlap.mx, Puebla, Mexico, Mathematics
• Frank Sommen, fs@cage.rug.ac.be, State University of Ghent
• Wolfgang Sprößig, sproessig@math.tu-freiberg.de, TU Bergakademie, Mathematics, Freiberg, Germany

Joseph C. Varilly, Universidad de Costa Rica, "The Interface of Noncommutative Geometry and Physics"

• Helga Baum, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, "Conformally invariant spinor field equations and special geometric structures"
• Carlos A. Berenstein, University of Maryland, "Problems of Pompeiu and Morera Type in Quaternionic Spaces"
• Michael Eastwood, University of Adelaide, "Symmetry and Differential Invariants"
• Bertfried Fauser, Universität Konstanz, "Grade Free Product Formulae from Graßmann Hopf Algebras"
• Alexander J. Hahn, University of Notre Dame, "The Clifford Algebra in the Theories of Algebras, Quadratic Forms, and Classical Groups"
• Jacques Helmstetter, Université de Grenoble I, "Lipschitz's Methods of 1886 Applied to Symplectic Clifford Algebras"
• David Hestenes, Arizona State University, "The Development of Geometric Algebra and Calculus -- A Personal Retrospective"
• Tadeusz Iwaniec, Syracuse University, "A Study of Nonlinear PDE's via Exterior Algebra"
• Palle Jorgensen, University of Iowa, "Quantum Wavelet Algorithms: Factorization, and Use of Clifford Groups and Algebras"
• Jan J. Koenderink, Universiteit Utrecht, "Geometry of Image Space"
• Heinz Krüger, Universität Kaiserslautern, "The Lepton as a Lightlike Point"
• Anthony Lasenby, Cambridge University, "Applications of Geometric Algebra in Electromagnetism, Quantum Mechanics and Gravity"
• Shahn Majid, Queen Mary, University of London, "Electromagnetism and Gravity on Finite Noncommutative Spaces"
• Michael McCarthy, University of California, Irvine
• Marius Mitrea, University of Missouri, "Decomposition Theorems for General Dirac Operators on Nonsmooth Manifolds"
• Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University, "Dirac Operators and Manifolds with a Uniform Structure at Infinity"
• Zbigniew Oziewicz, UNAM, "Clifford Coalgebra"
• Tao Qian, University of Macau, "Paley-Wiener Theorem in the Clifford Algebra Setting"
• Lee Smolin, Pennsylvania State University, "An Approach to String Theory Based on the Exceptional Jordan Algebra"
• S.L. Woronowicz, Warsaw University, "Entropy uncertainty relations in quantum groups"

• Clifford analysis (Marius Mitrea, marius@math.missouri.edu, and Mircea Martin, mmartin@harvey.bakeru.edu, Organizers)
  • Dirac operators
  • Wavelets, non-linear transformations
  • Harmonic analysis/Fourier analysis
  • Singular integral operators
  • Discrete potential theory
  • Initial value and boundary value problems

• Geometry (Tom Branson, branson@math.uiowa.edu, and Ugo Bruzzo, bruzzo@sissa.it, Organizers)
  • Geometric index theory
  • Conformal and noncommutative geometry
  • Geometric integral transforms
  • Spin structures and Dirac operators
  • Twistors, tractors, and related topics
  • Invariant differential operators
  • Quaternionic geometry

• Mathematical structures (Ludwik Dabrowski, dabrow@sissa.it, and Bertfried Fauser, Bertfried.Fauser@uni-konstanz.de, Organizers)
  • Hopf algebras and quantum groups
  • Category theory, structural methods
  • Quadratic forms, Hermitian forms, Witt groups, Clifford algebras over arbitrary fields
  • Lie algebras, spinor representations, exceptional Lie algebras, super Lie algebras
  • Clifford algebras and their generalizations
  • Infinite dimensional Clifford algebras and Clifford bundles

• Physics (William Baylis, baylis@uwindsor.ca, and Giovanni Landi, landi@univ.trieste.it, Organizers)
  • Perturbative renormalization and Hopf algebra antipodes
  • Spectral triples and elementary particle physics
  • q-deformations and noncommutative spacetime
  • Quantum Field Theory using Hopf algebras and other algebraic techniques
  • Spin foams and quantum gravity
  • Quaternionic quantum mechanics and quantum fields
  • Dirac equation in electron physics
  • Electrodynamics
  • Non-associative structures, octonions, division algebras and their applications in physics

• Applications in computer science, robotics, engineering (Jon Selig, seligjm@sbu.ac.uk, and Gerald Sommer, gs@ks.informatik.uni-kiel.de, Organizers)
   
  • Quantum computers, error correction, algorithms
  • Robotics,  inverse kinematics, space control, navigation, cybernetics, image processing and engineering
  • Neural networks

In the spirit of past conferences, organizers of the 6th Conference propose to organize Round Table discussions on subjects of interest to the participants, poster sessions, and a series of lectures on Clifford algebras and their applications.

• Lecture Series on Clifford Algebras and Applications, May 18--19, 2002 (Garret Sobczyk, sobczyk@mail.udlap.mx, Organizer)
  We plan to offer six 90 minute lectures (two 45 minute blocks with 10 minute break) by leading authorities in the field. The lectures will be accessible to beginning graduate students and newcomers with no prior knowledge of Clifford algebras. Lecture notes with the lectures will be made available to those who register for this lecture series. The registration fee is 25 U.S. dollars and the registration deadline is also March 15, 2002, although late registrations will be possible at a higher cost. The fee will include a copy of the lecture notes and refreshments. This fee is separate from the conference registration fee. To pay this fee and register for the Lecture Series, please complete point 6 on Registration and Fees Payment Form. All persons attending the Lecture Series are expected to register for the Conference. The titles of the  lectures are:
   

  LECTURE SERIES ON CLIFFORD ALGEBRAS AND APPLICATIONS, 
  MAY 18 AND MAY 19, 2002

  Saturday, May 18, 2002
  10:30 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.	Lecture 1: INTRODUCTION TO CLIFFORD ALGEBRAS Presenter: Pertti Lounesto, plounest@pp.htv.fi (Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia)
  1:30 p.m. -   3:10 p.m.	Lecture 2: MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE OF CLIFFORD ALGEBRAS Presenter: Ian R. Porteous, porteous@liverpool.ac.uk  (University of Liverpool).
  3:30 p.m. -   5:10 p.m.	Lecture 3: CLIFFORD ANALYSIS Presenter: John Ryan, jryan@comp.uark.edu (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville).
  Sunday, May 19, 2002
  12:30 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.	Lecture 4: CLIFFORD ALGEBRAS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS Presenter: Heinz Krüger, krueger@physik.uni-kl.de (Universität Kaiserslautern).
  2:30 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.	Lecture 5: CLIFFORD ALGEBRAS IN ENGINEERING Presenter: Jon Selig, seligjm@sbu.ac.uk (South Bank University)
  5:30 p.m. - 7:10 p.m.	Lecture 6: CLIFFORD ALGEBRAS IN DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY Presenter: Tom Branson, branson@math.uiowa.edu (University of Iowa)

  It is planned that these lectures will be made available to the conference participants during the conference and that they will be published after the conference in a book form. LaTeX style files, macros, a template, and instructions for the lecturers can be downloaded as one single .zip file: lectemp.zip (192 KB). The instructions themselves can be downloaded as a .dvi file lectemp.dvi (10KB) or a Postcript file lectemp.ps (198 KB ), or as a .pdf file lectemp.pdf (61KB). With any technical questions, please contact Rafal Ablamowicz, rablamowicz@tntech.edu.
   

• Poster sessions
  If you intend to present a poster, please submit a title and a brief abstract by MARCH 15, 2002, via the registration page.

  Posters are expected to be in the form of a paper prepared according to the "Instructions for the Authors" no more then 8 pages long (format 8.5" by 11", or format A4). Space will then be provided to each contributor to display his/her paper. If more space is needed or if a different format poster is planned, please contact Dr. Rafal Ablamowicz, Organizer, at rablamowicz@tntech.edu.
   

• Round Table Discussion (Josep Manel Parra, jmparra@hermes.ffn.ub.es, Josep Maria Pozo, jpozo@ffn.ub.es, Garret Sobczyk, sobczyk@mail.udlap.mx, Organizers)
   Possible topics for discussion include:
   
  • Clifford algebras in undergraduate and graduate education. In what undergraduate or graduate courses can Clifford algebra be most successfully taught?
  • Clifford algebras as an alternative language to matrix methods
  • Is there room for Clifford algebra in the undergraduate classroom?
  • Undergraduate research in Clifford algebras
  • Clifford algebra in industry
     
  Other subjects are also possible. Please propose additional subjects directly to Dr. Garret Sobczyk, sobczyk@mail.udlap.mx, or via the comments box when registering through the registration page.
   
• Book Exhibits
  The following publishers will display books and offer discounted prices to the Conference participants: Birkhäuser, Springer Verlag, American Mathematical Society, Cambridhe University Press, and other publishers whose names will be posted once confirmed.

  Note to interested publishers: Please contact Dr. Rafal Ablamowicz, Organizer, at rablamowicz@tntech.edu, if you would like to attend the conference as exhibitor. You can register as exhibitor via the Registration and Fees Payment Form.

• ALL PARTICIPANTS are asked to register via one of the two Registration Pages located in Konstanz and in Cookeville. Then, to complete registration, please submit the Registration and Fees Payment Form.
• Participants needing an official invitation are asked to request an invitation letter from one of the Organizers. It is preferrable that such request is made via the Comments box on one of the two Registration Pages.
• Lectures will take place in Bruner Hall (find #51 on campus map), the home of the Mathematics Department at Tennessee Tech. More information will be posted as the organization of the conference moves forward. Any questions or issues related to the organization of the 6th Conference please address to the organizers.
• University shuttle service will be available from the Nashville Airport to Cookeville on May 18 and 19; from Cookeville to the Nashville Airport on May 25 and 26; from the conference hotels to Bruner Hall in the morning and from Bruner Hall to conference hotels in the evening. Please visit the shuttle bus schedules for times.
• Five Plenary Talks of 50 minutes each are planned for each day: two in the morning and three in the afternoon. Additional 10 minutes will be left for discussion. One plenary talk will take one 60-minute block. This will give room for up to 24 plenary talks including two talks on Wednesday morning but no talks on Wednesday afternoon, and two talks on Saturday morning.
• Regular Talks will run in five parallel sessions of 30 minutes each. Please go to the conference registration page where you can indicate that you intend to present a regular 30 minute paper and then follow a link to the Abstract Submission Page where you can submit title and abstract of your paper.
• Poster Sessions will be available. Please go to the conference registration page where you can indicate that you intend to present a poster and follow a link to the Abstract Submission Page where you can submit title and abstract of your poster.
• All plenary talks will be given in Bruner 119 auditorium equipped with state-of-the-art multimedia equipment including projectors, moving screens, and audio equipment. Regular two-panel chalk board and a white plactic board are also available in that room.
• All parallel talks will be given in adjacent classrooms in Bruner Hall with screens, overhead projectors, and Internet connections.
• A special series of Lectures on Clifford Algebras aimed at graduate students will be presented on May 18 (Saturday) and May 19 (Sunday) before the conference.
• On the third floor, in Bruner 305, the Department of Mathematics houses its computer laboratory. The computer laboratory will be open during the conference and it will be available to all conference participants. They will be able to send and receive e-mail messages and have access to Internet. A high-capacity network laser printer and the computer projector are available in the room as well. The computer laboratory can be used for computer demonstrations and for talks requiring access to a computer. An overheard Proxima projector is connected to a demonstrator's workstation. All computers in the lab run Windows NT 4.0 OS.
• Proceedings: Proceedings will not be published. It is planned however to publish three or four edited volumes with well-developed contributions that have been presented at the conference. All papers will be refereed. These edited volumes will be similar to the edited volumes published after the 5th Conference, Ixtapa, 1999. Discussions with several leading publishers are under way. Similar volume is being planned for the lecture series on Clifford algebras organized by Garret Sobczyk.
• The banquet is planned for Friday evening. It's cost is included in the registration fee.
• Wednesday adternoon after 12:10 p.m. will be free of lectures and presentations. A trip is planned to Grand Ole Opry in Nashville to a country music show. Another possible events will be to attend a live music concert at Ryman Auditoriumin Nashville, a tour of President Andrew Jackson's Home near Nashville and/or take an evening cruise on the Cumberland River on General Jackson Showboat. The extra cost is estimated not to exceed around $70 per person. Transportation to Nashville and back to Cookeville will be provided. Please indicate your selection on the Registration Form (coming soon). Final decision where we will go will depend on interest and availability. Individual trips can also be made. Many beautiful sites are listed below.
• Additional private tours may be selected from http://www.naccu.org/conferences/2001/tours.htm.
• More information will be posted as the organization of the conference moves forward. Any questions or issues related to the organization of the 6th Conference please address to the organizers.

Hotels:

• Please select a hotel from the list below and make your own reservation that will suit you. These hotels are located within 150 m of each other and are about 4 miles (6.4 km) from the TTU campus (too far to walk). The Conference Organizers plan to privide bus transportation in the mornings from the hotels to the campus, and from the campus to the hotels in the afternoons.
• All room prices below include a continental breakfast. Only Holiday Inn has its own restaurant and a lounge. However, there are many restaurants along Interstate Drive and Jefferson Avenue and a shopping mall within a walking distance from these hotels.
• The following hotels have agreed to offer special prices to the conference participants. Please send email, fax, or call the contact person listed for each hotel citing the confirmation number and/or the name of the group reservation. You will not be able to get these prices if you try to register via the hotel web page. Prices are guaranteed for the period starting Saturday, May 18, 2002, until Sunday, May 26, 2002, but you must make your reservation before the release date which is either two weeks or one week before May 18, 2002, as indicated below.
• Hotels will try to honor these special prices for the conference participants after the release dates but they cannot guarantee them after the release date specified. Thus, please make your reservations before the release date.
• Standard tax on hotel rooms is 13.75% which consists of 8.75% state tax and 5% hotel tax. The state tax is waived for those holding tax-exempt status.
• For more information about each hotel please see its web page.
• You can make hotel reservations now until the release date.
• To locate hotels on the map vis a vis the TTU campus, go to http://www.mapquest.com/. By selecting option Gov/School and then Colleges, you will be able to find the TTU campus near the Quadrangle between Willow Avenue, 12th Street and Jefferson Avenue. Hotels listed below are located at the intersection of S.Jefferson and Interstate Drive near exit 287 off I-40 at the bottom part of the map. Use the Big Map option in MapQuest for a better view.

Campus Dormitories:

• Very basic accommodations in a student on-campus dormitory will be available from Saturday, May 18, 2002, through Sunday, May 26, 2002, as follows:
  (a) Cost per night in a double room will be 9 (nine) U.S. dollars (no additional tax) per person.
  (b) Cost per night in a single room will be 11 (eleven) U.S. dollars (no additional tax).
  (c) Rooms will have one or two beds but bed linens, towels, and soap will not be provided: please bring your own, e.g., a sleeping bag or couple of blankets.
  (d) There will be a functioning on-campus telephone in each room.
  (e) Common bathrooms and washing rooms on each floor.
  (f) No smoking is allowed in the dormitory hallways, but it is allowed in rooms.
  (g) Vending machines are located in hallways, laundry machines are also available, and a small common kitchen..
• Dormitories are within a walking distance to all University buildings (just across the street) including: the University Library, the University Center with a small food store, a coffee shop, two ATM money machines (STAR, Cirrus, +Plus systems), a small bank, a small post office, cafeteria, sandwich shops, bookstore, etc., the University Fitness Center, and Bruner Hall where all talks will be held.
• Not far from the University campus, within a walking distance (10-15 minutes), there are three restaurants and a food store. Within 20-25 minutes, there is a city post office and Cookeville town square.
• It is much too far and impossible to walk to hotels where other conference participants will be located.
• Normal check-in times: Saturday, May 18, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., and Sunday, May 19, from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Other times and days are available upon request and prior arrangements with the Conference Office.
• Normal check-out times: Saturday, May 25, from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Sunday, May 26, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Other times and days are available upon request and prior arrangements with the Conference Office.
• If you would like to reserve and pay for a dormitory room, please indicate so on the Registration and Fees Payment Form.

• Approximate cost of meals in campus cafeteria is as follows: (a) $5.50 for breakfast (all you can eat, self serve), (b) $5.50 for lunch (all you can eat, self serve), and (c) From $5.50 (all you can eat, self serve) to $15.00 for a dinner. Tickets can be purchased at the door. A limited number of even less expensive meal tickets may be available from the organizers (please inquire with the Conference Secretaries or with Rafal Ablamowicz). Within walking distance from campus there are three small restaurants serving lunches and dinners: "Ochia" (10 minute walk from Bruner Hall), a small Thai restaurant, serves just a few meals  for about $5.00 each; "Spankies" (10 minute walk from Bruner Hall), a pub-like restaurant has a rather long menu and serves beer; and "El Tequila" (15-20 minute walk), is a full-fledged Mexican restaurant that serves lunches for about $8-$10 and dinners for about $15. There is also "Wendie's" (10 minute walk from Bruner Hall), similar to McDonald's a fast food place with similar prices. In the University Center, there are other fast-food places serving pizza, Mexican food, and sandwiches. A large selection of restaurants is located within a walking distance from the hotels (but not from the campus) such as "Red Lobster", "Logan's Steak House", "China House", "Chili's Grill & Bar", "Applebee's Restaurant", "Fazoli's Italian Restaurant", "Golden Corral", etc. A list of these restarurants will be made available at the Conference Office.
• Driving directions to Cookeville from Nashville International Airport:
  (a) Upon exiting the airport, look for signs to Interstate I-40 to Knoxville.
  (b) Follow I-40 to Knoxville going East for about 72 miles or 1 hour.
  (c) Upon reaching Cookeville:
       (i) If you want to get to the University, take Exit 286 to South Willow Avenue and then go North (turn left upon exiting highway) on Willow Avenue for a few miles until you see University on your right. Turn right at the lights to enter the campus on University Drive. Bruner Hall will be the second building on your right after the stop sign. Ask secretary at the Conference Center for a parking tag.
      (ii) If you want to go to one of the conference hotels (Holiday Inn, Hampton Inn, Comfort Suite, Ramada Suites), go further east to the next Exit 287 on South Jefferson and then go Noth (turn left upon exiting highway) on Jefferson Avenue. You will see Holiday Inn on your right, and Hampton Inn, Comfort Suite, Ramada Suites on your left. You will need to turn left into the Interstate Drive to get to these three hotels.
• For those wishing to take the University shuttle bus from the airport to Cookeville, please make a reservation by purchasing a ticket through the Registration and Fees Payment Form. Please indicate on the form your arrival date, time, and flight. We plan a few bus runs on Saturday and Sunday, May 18 and 19, including one or two in the mornings so that those planning to attend the Lecture Series at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday and at 12:30 a.m. on Sunday will be able to come on time to the University. Please see the shuttle bus schedules for the departure times from the airport.
• There will be a daily shuttle bus schedule  from the conference hotels to Bruner Hall in the morning and from Bruner Hall to conference hotels in the evening. Please visit the shuttle bus schedules for times.
• Get driving directions to Cookeville, TN, from any place in the U.S. using Expedia
• Nashville International Airport (65 miles, 1 hr away from Cookeville, TN) - http://www.nashintl.com/
  • Rental Car Agencies at Nashville International Airport - http://www.nashintl.com/rental.html
• Atlanta International Airport (230 mi, 4 hrs away from Cookeville, TN) - http://www.atlanta-airport.com/
• Local car rentals in Cookeville, TN:
  • General requirements to rent a car in the U.S. (for details please check with a car rental company:
    • A valid driver's license issued by any US state, territory or possession; a driver's license issued by a Canadian province; a license issued by a country that has reciprocal agreement with the US; a license issued by a country that participated in the 1949 Geneva Convention on Road Traffic (this practically means any country);
    • International Driver's Permits are only valid if presented with the original license from the home country. International Driver's Permit is not acceptable by itself;
    • Major credit card such as VISA, MASTERCARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS, etc.;
    • Passport.
  • Enterprise Car Rental: tel. 1-800-rent-a-car (1-800-736-8222 toll free or 520-6181 local)
  • Additional local car rentals
• Louisville International Airport (217 mi, 3 hrs 50 mins away from Cookeville, TN) - http://www.louintlairport.com/
• Some of the useful links in Cookeville taken from http://www.cookeville.com/:
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• Get driving directions to any place listed below from Expedia
• Burgess Falls, near Cookeville, TN, walking trails, nice falls (7 miles, 25 mins by car from Cookeville, TN)
• Cumberland Caverns, near McMinnville, TN, Tennessee's largest cave, a historic 1812 saltpeter mine, pools and waterfalls, spelunking for kids (46 miles, 57 mins)
• Virgin Falls National Wilderness, near Eastland, TN, 100-ft waterfall emerging from an underground river, hiking (36 miles, 58 mins)
• Nashville, TN, Opryland Hotel, "Music City" (65 miles, 1 hr)
• Fall Creek Falls, near Pikeville, TN, (65 miles, 1 hr 13 mins)
• Stones River National Battlefield, Murfreesboro, TN (74 miles, 1 hr 20 min)
• Wild & Scenic Obed River, near Wartburg, TN, canoeing and white water rafting (82 miles, 1 hr 27 mins)
• Oak Ridge Visitors Center, near Oak Ridge, TN: Historic Manhattan Project Sites, American Museum of Science and Energy  (81 miles, 1 hr 31 mins)
• Canoe the Sequatchie, Class I stream, near Dunlap, TN (62 miles, 1 hr 36 mins)
• Lost Sea, near Sweetwater, TN, cave formations, many interesting rooms, underground lake, boat rides (104 miles, 1 hr 44 mins)
• Big South Fork National Recreation Area, near Oneida, TN, hiking, biking, fishing (82 miles, 2 hrs 4 mins)
• Lynchburg, TN, Jack Daniels Distillery tour (95 miles, 2 hrs 5 mins)
• Forbidden Caverns, near Sevierville, TN, fabulous formations, towering chimneys, and waterfalls (131 miles, 2 hrs 13 mins)
• Ruby Falls, near Chattanooga, TN (92 miles, 2 hrs 15 mins)
• Chattanooga, TN, mountain trails, white-water rafting on Ocoee river, aquarium, Tennessee river rides, Civil War sites (92 miles, 2 hrs 15 mins)
• Cherokee National Forest, hiking along Appalachian Trail, kayaking in Ocoee river, fish the Hiwassee river (92 miles, 2 hrs 15 mins)
• Chattanooga National Military Park, Fort Oglethorpe, GA, the oldest and the largest Civil War Park (100 miles, 2 hrs 26 mins)
• Gatlinburg, TN, and the Great Smokey Mountains National Park, mountain trails, aquarium (144 miles, 2 hrs 28 mins)
• Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky, one of the largest caves in the world (142 miles, 2 hrs 52 mins)
• Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama (163 miles, 3 hrs)
• Cherokee Indian Reservation, near Cherokee, NC (35 miles from Gatlinburg, TN, 179 mi, 3 hrs 10 mins from Cookeville)
   

Last revised: March 19, 2002/ra, rablamowicz@tntech.edu