This is a page for organizers to keep track of details and ongoing discussions.
Conference dates
The conference will be held July 25-29, 2022. (Changed from the earlier suggestion of July 11-15 - see 10/3/19 email from Gladis.)
Accommodations and lecture hall reservations
We have secured a reservation with Conference Housing Services of 200 dorm beds for July 24-30, 2022 (an email from Teri Parker dated September 17, 2019 confirmed earlier dates of July 11-15, 2022. Gladis later contacted Conference Housing and confirmed changing the dates to July 24-30). The reservation will be held until January 2022, at which time we will need to sign a contract and commit funds to secure the reservation.
We have secured a reservation of a conference hall with the UC Davis Conference Center for July 25-29, 2022.
Committees
Organizing committee:
people currently involved are Anne Schilling, Eugene Gorsky, Erik Carlsson, Fu Liu, Monica Vazirani, Dan Romik, Jesus De Loera.
We probably need to decide on a chair for the organizing committee at some point.
Program committee chairs:
Thomas Lam, Hugh Thomas, Josephine Yu agreed to serve.
Organizational meetings
First organizational meeting: held on 9/26/19.
In attendance were: Anne, Dan, Erik, Fu, Monika, Eugene.
We discussed dates, dorm and lecture room reservations, the program committee chairs, drawing up a budget, and possible sources for funding.
Action items: Anne will draw up a rough budget. We will review it and start working on preparing a request for funds to send to the Dean. Dan said he will help with this.
Budget
A proposed rough budget prepared by Anne.
Expenses
Lecture hall: $\$3820 = 5\times \$764$ (5 days for 9 hours)