How to get to the meeting

BY CAR.
We are roughly at the intersection of RT 128 and the MASS PIKE. Click here for driving instructions from the cardinal points on the compass. Parking is ample and free. When you get to the main gate of Brandeis (which will be unmanned), turn left onto the campus ring road. In about 100 yards you will come to a cross roads. To the left is a round building, which is the Spingold Theater. To the right is the Shapiro Campus Center (glass, stone and large amounts of green copper. From the other side it is quite hideous.). At the cross roads turn LEFT and park behind the Theater. On the maps, this is T lot. You will have a 100 yard walk to the meeting.
BY RAIL.
If the weather is OK this is a very good way to get here. We are on the North Station - Porter Square - Concord - Fitchburg line. The stop is called "Brandeis/Roberts" and is about 200 yards from the meeting. There are inbound trains at 8:24 and 9:05, and outbound trains at 8:44. Click here to see a timetable.
At the Brandeis/Roberts stop, follow the crowd out through the parking lot and across the street. Halfway up the hill you enter the campus, passing under a new dorm. Go up the stairs which are to your immediate right (most folk will do the same). Just keep going, then through another parking lot -- you will see a large lawn in front of student center where the meeting will be. (Behind that, farther up the hill, you will see an astrodome on top of the physics building. This can be seen from just about anywhere on campus if you get disorientated.)
The Shapiro Theater is on the ground floor, on the north side of the building. On the second floor is an open computer cluster where you can check e-mail etc.
Audio visual information: we will have an overhead projector, and a laptop hookup for both PCs and Macs. We shall also have on hand a Dell laptop PC running Office XP under Windows 2000, and a Mac laptop running OSX Office, if you want to bring just a CD.
In past years we have laid on lunch for everybody. This year the provost was unable to be quite so lavish, so we are on our own for lunch. There are two good places on campus: a coffee shop in the same building as the meeting, and the campus pub (with draft Sam Adams for Herman). A five minute walk to just over the railway lines finds two good deli's and a pizza shop.
You will find a PDF campus map, and a very clever interactive map HERE.
The Shapiro Campus Center is fully handicapped accessible, and there are HP parking places close to the door. If you need to avail yourself of these, email me and I will tell you how to get to them.