Location & Travel
All BodyTech Symposium events will be held in the Calit2 building at the University of California, Irvine. Venues include the Atrium and Auditorium on the first floor and the eMedia Studio on the second floor (room 2100, at the top of the stairs).
The Calit2 building is located at the intersection of East Peltason Road and Los Trancos Drive on the UC Irvine campus, centrally located in Southern California. For driving directions and parking information, see:
Travel
The most convenient airport to UC Irvine is the John Wayne/Orange County Airport (SNA). A taxi from SNA to UCI will take about 15 minutes and costs about $20.
If you fly into Los Angeles (LAX), a taxi to UCI or local hotels will take about an hour and costs about $100. The Super Shuttle service, available on the arrivals level at LAX, costs $45 per person and $9 for each additional person.
Hotel
A special symposium rate of $79 per night plus tax is available at the Atrium Hotel (949-833-2770), very near the John Wayne/Orange County Airport (SNA) and three miles from UCI. Call the hotel directly and request the BodyTech Symposium rate for the UCI Dance Department. The special rate includes complimentary breakfast and free shuttle service to and from UCI and the airport.
Hotel details are available at http://www.atriumhotel.com.
About Calit2
The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology - known as Calit2 - is a two-campus multidisciplinary research institute. One of four UC California Institutes for Science and Innovation, Calit2 divisions at UCI and UC San Diego leverage academic expertise with industry experience to conduct cutting-edge research in diverse fields.
The 120,000-square-foot Calit2 building was dedicated in November 2004, and consists of research labs, offices, support space, meeting space and a four-story atrium. It includes a 2,100 square foot media arts lab (the eMedia Studio), fully equipped auditorium, a clean room that provides a filtered-air environment, a large-scale visualization lab, and other labs optical devices, nanotechnology and network research.
The Calit2 building is considered a living lab, containing open research space that can be reconfigured easily to accommodate evolving research projects.
The structure is equipped throughout with high-speed wireless Internet access, UCI's first Voice-over-IP phone system and customized ad hoc in-house networks. It also includes high-capacity access to statewide and nationwide high-speed fiber optic networks, as well as the ability to handle future internal fiber optic networks. In collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey, researchers equipped the building with more than 40 seismic sensors that measure ground motion and building motion with the same system. The building was as named "Best of 2005" in the higher education category by California Construction magazine.