The next ATLAS Distributed Computing Technical Interschange Meeting (TIM) workshop will be held in-person at Stony Brook University (SBU), NY from Tuesday 21 January 2025 afternoon until Thursday 23 January 2025 midday. We strongly encourage in-person participation. Remote participation will be provided via Zoom for the plenaries. Talks and discussions will be scheduled both in the morning and in the afternoon in the US Eastern timezone.
The main meeting will be in Physics room P118 on the ground floor of the Physics Building. The room P119, directly opposite is available for smaller meetings.
A reminder of the BNL, CERN and SBU Code of Conduct: "Be excellent to each other". All attendees must adhere to the CERN Code of Conduct.
The time and duration of each block is preliminary and subject to change depending on the number of questions and the time taken up by the discussion.
Dinner is at 19h on Wednesday at the Curry Club in Port Jeff. Everyone will pay their $70 themselves at the restaurant. If you have >2 drinks - those are extra!
Lunch on Wednesday is at 13.30 next door to Physics (pay your own)
You can park for free at the hotel. Otherwise - you can park in an Staff/Faculty lot IF you have a daily permit that Chris will have available every day at the meeting
Please contact Mario, Andreu, Shawn, Torre and Alexei to add topics for discussion to the agenda.
Please contact Leisa and Cecilia if you have questions related to administrative assistance.
The most convenient hotel is the Hilton Garden Inn, which is on Campus:
https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/ispsbgi-hilton-garden-inn-stony-brook/
there is a block reservation of rooms at this hotel until Dec 5th with discounted rate of $155/night. Reservations can be made by calling the hotel at 631-941-2980 and referencing the Atlas Tim Meeting 2025 or the group code 92H. After Dec 5th - the unbooked rooms will be freed up. They will still be available to book - but at the normal price as of when you book.
Reservations can also be made via the following link:
Available Rooms - Hilton Garden Inn Stony Brook
An alternative, about 10 mins drive away, is the Holiday Inn Express:
https://www.ihg.com/holidayinnexpress/hotels/gb/en/centereach/stony/hoteldetail
Parking at the hotels is free. We can provide parking passes for other car parks on campus.
If anyone is coming by train from NYC/JFK/LGA, you can get a train to Stony Brook station and then walk across campus.
