Cupertino, California, December 19, 2005 ― Following another record-breaking attendance at ISOPE-2005 in Seoul, Korea, the 16th (2006) Annual International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference will be held at Grand Hyatt San Francisco Hotel, San Francisco, California May 28-June 2, 2006. ISOPE arranged special group room rates, and the ISOPE conference participants will have free internet access from their rooms.
Grand Hyatt is surrounded by high-end fashionable shops, department stores, restaurants and theaters. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Asian Museum are only a few blocks away and the Opera Building and Davies Symphony Hall 10 short blocks away. Entry to China Town is 2 blocks away while Japan Town is farther out west some 14 blocks away.
Almost all major airlines from all around the world serve San Francisco International Airport (SFO). SFO is located 28 km to the south of San Francisco and Grand Hyatt can be easily reached by taking BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) metro directly from the SFO Airport terminal.
Fisherman’s Wharf, Pier 39 and Ghiardelli Square are no more than a leisurely 30-minute walk from the hotel. But you can take the famous cable car, in case you are tired of walking. Golden Gate Park and Ocean Beach can be reached in 15 minutes by bus. See http://www.sanfranciscoonline.com for more. The conference program in January 2006 provides more: www.isope.org .
Author Gene Fowler said: “Every individual should be allowed to love two cities-his/her own and San Francisco.” Besides its friendly citizens ¾ some 800,000 citizens out of 6 million in the entire SF Bay Area, San Francisco is famous for its natural and man-made beauty, and as cultural center, culinary center and technology center. Two great universities and thousands of start-up companies with cutting edge technology are located in SF Bay Area.
Driving 20-40 minutes to the south of SFO, you enter the Silicon Valley: Palo Alto, Mountain View, Cupertino, Santa Clara and San Jose. ISOPE office is located in Mountain View, next to AOL and Nokia, 30 minutes south from SFO.
Some 91 sessions of refereed papers are organized in cooperation with its Technical Program Committee (TPC) members from 25 countries of the International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE) and 24 international cooperating organizations. Delegates from over 45 countries will be attending, as in previous years. Since 1990, ISOPE has held 32 successful international conferences and symposia.
Further information will be posted on www.isope.org or ISOPE-2006 San Francisco and/or can be obtained from the ISOPE (Tel. 1-650-254-1871; Fax 1-650-254-2038; meetings@isope.org; www.isope.org).
ISOPE-2006 TPC