Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
August 2-4, 2000
Fourth Circular
Sponsors: Overseas Chinese Earth Science and
Technology Association (OCESTA)
Geological
Society of China
Natural
National Science Foundation, China
National
Taiwan University
National
Central University
University
of Hong Kong
Theme: Geology of China and Trends of Earth
Sciences for the New Millennium
Organizing Committee:
J.G.
(Louie) Liou, (Chairman; Stanford University)
I-Ming Chou
(Co-chairman; U.S. Geological Survey)
Ta-liang
Teng (Co-chairman; University of Southern California)
Sun Shu
(Co-chairman, Natural National Science Foundation, China)
Chen
Yuchuan (Co-chairman, Geological Society of China, Beijing)
Yi-Ben Tsai
(Co-chairman, National Central University)
Ho-kwang
Mao (Geophysical Laboratory)
Cong Bolin
(Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing)
Milly Wang
(Geological Society of China, Beijing)
Ching-Hua Lo
(National Taiwan University)
Min Sun
(University of Hong Kong)
William
H.K. Lee (U.S. Geological Survey, retired)
An Yin
(University of California, Los Angeles)
Youxue
Zhang (University of Michigan)
Zhanhao
Duan (University of California, San Diego)
Program Committee:
Edmund
Chang (Chairman; Stanford University)
Chen-Lin
Chou (Co-chairman; Illinois State Geological Survey)
Ta-liang Teng (Co-Chairman;
University of Southern California)
Yao Yupeng
(Natural National Science Foundation, China)
Ruth Zhang
(Stanford University)
Wang Yanjun
(Geological Society of China, Beijing)
Li-Yuan
Hsiao (Stanford University)
Yong-Jun
Yue (Stanford University)
Tentative Schedule:
8/2 (Wednesday)
7:00 - 8:00 Pick-up participants from motel
7:30 - 8:30 Registration and continental Breakfast
(Hartley Conference Rm)
8:30 - 9:30 Opening Ceremony with a few invited
speakers
9:30 -10:20 Photograph and coffee break/poster
10:20 - 12:00 Plenary session (P1; four invited keynote
speeches)
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch break and poster session
1:30 - 3:10 Four simultaneous sessions (session nos.
1-4)
3:00 - 3:30 Beer and coffee break/ poster
3:30 - 5:30 Session no. 1-4 (continued)
5:30 - 6:40 Short
tour and walk around the Stanford Campus
6:40 - 7:30 Bus ride to restaurant (Ming’s Palace)
7:30 - 9:30 Banquet at Ming’s Palace
8/3 (Thursday) Field Trip to the San
Andreas Fault and the Franciscan Complex
8:00 Buses to pick up participants
(meet at Oak and Sky Ranch motels)
8:20 Leave for San Andreas Fault
along Hwy 280
8:40 Qverview of the San Andreas
Fault at the vista point along HWY 280
10:00 Southern end of the Golden Gate
Bridge
10:40 Northern end of the Golden Gate
Bridge
11:30-2:30 Tiburon Melange (Blueschist/Eclogite
blocks); Box Lunch
3:30 - 5:00 Ribbon Chert at the Marine Headland
(northern side of the Golden Gate)
6:00 - 8:00 Dinner at China town
9:00 Return to Motels
8/4 (Friday) Scientific Sessions at Stanford University
7:00 - 8:00 Pick-up participants from motel
7:30 - 8:00 Continental breakfast (Hartley Conference
Rm)
8:00 - 8:50 Plenary session (P2; 2 invited keynote
speeches)
9:00 - 10:20 Session nos. 5-8 (4 lecture rooms)
10:20 -
10:40 Coffee
break/poster
10:40 - 12:00 Session nos. 5-8 (continued)
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch break
1:30 - 3:10 Session nos. 9-12 (4 lecture rooms)
3:30 - 3:30 Beer and coffee break/poster
3:30 - 4:30 Session nos. 9-12 (continued)
4:30 - 5:00 Break/poster
5:00 – 6:00 Closing
ceremony and open forum (discussion and proposals for committee and next
conferences)
6:30 - 8:30 Outdoor dinner
8:30 – 9:00 Back to motels by bus
Program:
The formal presentations will be in Chinese and the
tentative program is attached at the very end of this circular. Changes will be
made due to cancellations. Please check the updated version from time to time
on our web site ( www.geochina.org ).
Oral Presentations:
(1) We
will have six invited keynote speeches (25 minute each); four plenary speeches
will be given in the morning of August 2nd, and two in the morning
of August 4th.
(2) Except
for the keynote and some presentations in session 5, each oral presentation
will be limited to 20 minutes (15 minutes for presentation, and 5 minutes for
discussion and changeover time between speakers). Some presentations in session 5 will be limited to 15 minutes
(see attached program).
(3) We
plan to have four simultaneous oral sessions, except during the six keynote
presentations. Each room will be equipped with 2 screens, two 2” x 2” (35mm)
slide projectors, and two overhead (viewgraph) projectors. If you need other audio and video equipment
(including VHS player and monitor, MS Power Point Presentation), please contact
Yong-Jun Yue (<yongjun@pangea.stanford.edu>).
The use of MS Power Point Presentation is discouraged, unless you bring your
own computer with you. This is mainly because of many unforeseeable
difficulties in the compatibility of the equipment. We strongly advise you to
have a backup plan (i.e., slides or transparencies ready) if you plan to use
Power Point presentation.
Poster Presentations:
(1) Many
poster boards (1.22 m [or 4 ft] High x 1.83 m [or 6 ft] Wide) will be available
for assigned presentations. All posters
should be placed on the assigned posterboards on the first day of the
conference, and it will be read during coffee breaks and lunchtime on the first
and last days of the conference.
(2) If
you want to present new maps or something not included in the program, please
contact Yong-Jun Yue (<yongjun@pangea.stanford.edu>).
(3) Thumbtacks,
pushpins, tape, and scissors will be available. Additional supplies may be available, however, if you have
special needs for your poster presentation, please contact Yong-Jun Yue.
Weather and Clothes:
It could be quite cool in early August at San Francisco area; bring your sweater or light jacket. For the field trip, we recommend comfortable clothes and shoes (no hi-heels, please).
Abstract volume:
We have received 127 abstracts, and they together with short
field trip guide will be compiled and bounded into the conference volume for
distribution at the meeting.
Registration Fee:
We have received minor financial supports from Natural
National Science Foundation, China, National Youth Commission, Executive Yuan,
Taiwan, and School of Earth Sciences and Department of Geological and
Environmental Sciences of Stanford University. If these funds are successfully
transferred to our account, a registration fee of US$140 for each participant and US$70 for each student, accompanying person, and keynote speaker
will be charged. It will cover the costs for the abstract volume, meals
(including 2 breakfasts, 3 lunches, one banquet on 8/2, and one
dinner on 8/4), coffee, tea, and other drinks for breaks and poster
sessions, and transportation for field trip, during the meeting, and
between airport and motel (the fee is fixed even you may miss
some of the activities).
Please pay cash (US
dollars) when you register; checks (including travelers checks) or credit cards
will not be accepted. A formal receipt will be provided.
Motels:
The cost for the motels nearby Stanford area is very
expensive. We have made arrangements with the first three motels. Please make your
own reservation as early as possible, because it will be difficult to find
rooms available in the area near Stanford University in August (note that no
more two-bed rooms are available at Sky Ranch Inn and Oak Motel). The easiest
way to make reservation is by sending a fax directly to the motel or
you may send e-mail to Ms. WANG who will pair you to smoking or non-smoking
rooms or to I-Ming Chou. These motels
are close by and will be easy to assemble for bus transportation. You may also
make reservation with Super 8 (see hotel No. 4 below) through internet; it
offers group rate. If you are from mainland China, and need help, please
contact:
Ms. WANG, Yanjun
Geological Society of China
Fax: 86-10-68311324
e-mail: "Geo SC" <gsc@cags.cn.net>
(1) Sky Ranch Inn:
Address: 4234 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, California, CA
94306
Phone: (650)
493-7221
1-800-255-4759
Fax: (650) 493-0858
There are 11 rooms of two
beds, $93.5 total/night
There are 17 rooms of
one bed (king-size or queen-size), $82.5 total/night (for one or two persons)
Continental
breakfast is included.
(2) Oak Motel:
Address: 4279 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, California, CA
94306
Phone: (650)
493-6644
(650)
493-6645
Fax: (650)
493-3593
There are 18 rooms
with two beds, $108.90 total/night
There are 21 rooms with one bed, $86.90 total/night
(for one or two persons)
Continental
breakfast is included.
(3) Motel 6:
Address: 4301 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94306
Phone: (650)
949-0833
Fax: (650)
941-0782
There are about 60 rooms available,
either with two beds or with one king-size bed.
The rates are $69.29/night for one person (Monday to
Thursday) and 80.29/night for weekend
$75.89/ night for two persons (Monday to Thursday) and
$86.89/night for weekend
They don't serve continental breakfast
but only coffee.
(4) Super 8: (for detail, local map, and
reservation, see the web site
http://www.super8.com) [Specify the city of
Palo Alto in California when you
search in the web site]
Address: 3200 El Camino Real, Palo
Alto, CA 94306
Phone: 650-493-9085
or 1-800-800-8000
Local
Transportation:
We will try to arrange your
transportation between San Francisco Airport and motel for those who arrive
on August 1st and leave on August 5th. Those arrive or depart in different dates need a special
arrangement. Please give the following information to Ms. Wang Yanjun before she
leaves Beijing on July 29: (1) dates of arrival and
departure; (2) flight numbers and arrival and departure time; (3) how
many people in your group; and (4) which motel will you stay and
the length of your stay.
Otherwise, make your own arrangement
with Blue shuttle (you can find information at airport; it costs about $25 from
airport to Palo Alto) or Bay Porter Express at:
Phone: (415) 467-1800, or
1-800-287-6783 (from San Francisco Airport only);
Fax: (415) 467-8783.
Price: $19 for the first passenger,
additional passenger $10 each, and children under 12 years old $5 each. 2 bags
per person, additional bags $2 each. (Prices subject to change).
For a group of 7 passengers, the total cost will be $60 (better to have reservation about two weeks in advance).
If you are at San Francisco Airport, and absolutely don’t know how to make arrangement for your local transportation, please call Prof. Liou at (650) 723-2716 or Dr. Zhang Ruyuan at (650) 723-5028.
Medical
Insurance:
We suggest that you purchase your own medical insurance for the period of your visit in United States. It is important to have this protection, because the medical expenses in US are quite expensive. Stanford University, OCESTA, and any other sponsors of this conference will not be responsible for any of your medical expenses.
Additional
Information:
(1) Currently we have more than 150 people indicated that they would attend the meeting; the list of possible participants and the list of abstracts received are given in the OCESTA web site (www.geochina.org). We plan to post all abstracts in the web site.
(2) If you need an invitation letter for visa application, and haven’t received it by now, please let us know right away. If you plan to make additional travel or stay to the other cities or organizations during your visit to the U.S., please make your own arrangement.
(4) The
program given below is just a tentative one.
We expect all papers will be presented in the conference. However,
if you know for sure that you will, for whatever reason, not be able to come to
present your paper, please notify us as soon as possible, so that we can
make necessary adjustment in our program. We also need to make reservations for
bus services and meals (especially the banquet); we appreciate very much that
you let us know in advance that you will not be able to come or will miss some
of the events. In this way, we can keep expenses within our budget.
(5) If
you need us to help you make motel reservation, we will be happy to do so; the
room assignment will soon be posted in our web site. Please check it to make sure that it is what you want. Again,
please notify the motels or us if you change you arrival date; otherwise, we
still need to pay whether you use the service or not, because your reservation
was guaranteed by Prof. Liou’s credit card.
(6) For
more information, please contact Edmund Chang (edmund@pangea.stanford.edu ),
I-Ming Chou (<imchou@usgs.gov
>), J. G. Liou (<
(7)
liou@pangea.stanford.edu >) or Wang
Milly/Wang Yanjun (< gsc@cags.cn.ne t>). To
be more efficient, please communicate with organizers in English.
(8) We
like your constructive suggestions for the conference. Please send them to us.