The 1999 meeting of the Behavior Genetic Association will be held in
Vancouver, BC, Canada. Kerry Jang <kjang@unixg.ubc.ca> is Local Host, and
Dick Rose <rose@indiana.edu>, President-Elect of the BGA is Program Chair.
Drs. Rose and Jang have been working with Norm Henderson and Nick Martin
to confirm plans for the conference, and we can now make a formal
announcement of the results. The web page for the conference will be at
http://www.bga.org/1999/ but we will keep you apprised of any important
news through this e-mail list.
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>From the Program Chair:
The 1999 BGA meeting is scheduled for Sunday, July 4, through Wednesday,
July 7, at the Coast Plaza Hotel, Stanley park, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
The 1999 meetings will overlap those of the International Society for the
Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), which meets July 5-9, at the same
hotel. BGA will organize a three-day program of scientific sessions July
4, 5, and 6; a plenary scientific session scheduled for the morning of
Wednesday, July 7, will be jointly organized and sponsored by BGA and
ISSID. BGA will have a welcoming reception the evening of Sunday, July
4th, on the 35th floor of the hotel, overlooking the city and its harbor.
The annual banquet will be held on Tuesday evening, July 6.
The local host for the 1999 meeting is Kerry L. Jang, in the Department of
Psychiatry at UBC. Kerry describes the Coast Plaza Hotel as a minute from
the beach/park area; sailing is 15 minutes away, Rocky Mountain or Coast
mountain hiking but 40 minutes distant.
Meeting with ISSID will offer the same advantages of this year's
back-to-back meeting with ISTS. BGA members can receive discounted hotel
rooms from July 3 to July 10, and you may wish to begin planning an
extended stay to attend ISSID meetings and/or enjoy the Vancouver area
during fine July weather.
Dick
Richard J. Rose
Professor of Psychology
and of Medical Genetics
Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47405-1301
Phone:+ 812-855-8770 Fax: + 812-855-4691
Twin Studies Office: + 812-855-4101
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Note that staying over the Saturday night (July 3) before the meeting
might save considerably on airfare. Here is a report of my own research
for your edification and amusement.
Method:
I have used http://www.travelocity.com/ (SABRE affiliate) to check for
lowest airfares and I've found that it's very good at picking out the best
prices. Anyway, it will give prices only 330 days in advance, so it
wasn't able to check for next July, but I did a test for April 1999 to see
what I'd get.
Results:
The price to fly round trip from St. Louis (STL) to Vancouver (YVR) for
April 3-6 (staying over Saturday night) was $504, but to do the same trip
from April 4-7 (*not* staying over Saturday night) was $1060.
Discussion:
These data support the hypothesis that staying over Saturday night may
save a lot on airfare. You'll have to check the correct dates and
departure city.
Conclusion:
We have the hotel a day early, so think about spending an extra day in
Vancouver before the conference.
Regards,
Mike
Michael B. Miller, M.S., Ph.D., M.P.E.
Department of Psychology
210 McAlester Hall
University of Missouri--Columbia
Columbia, MO 65211
Phone: (573) 882-5671
Fax: (573) 882-7710
e-mail: mbmiller@taxa.psyc.missouri.edu
web: http://taxa.psyc.missouri.edu/~mbmiller/