SSP will provide complimentary airport shuttling from Los Angeles International Airport to block hotels on Saturday May 7 and Sunday May 8th. In order to use the shuttle from the airport, you must fill out the online travel form (http://apps.societyforscience.org/cgi-bin/offparty/Chklist.asp). Outbound airport shuttling will be provided on Friday, May 13th from Noon until 5 PM and on Saturday May 14th from 3:30 am until 1 pm from downtown block hotels. In order to reserve a spot on those shuttles, you must make a reservation on site at Intel ISEF at the Tours Desk in the South Hall Lobby of the Los Angeles Convention Center.
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CityPass Hollywood Walk of Fame™ is a value pass that saves you 50% on Hollywood’s 4 most popular attractions. The pass includes 4 tickets for the following attractions:
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Los Angeles Grand City Tour - Limited Availability, Book Soon!
Our expert guides will lead you on a journey through Los Angeles highlighting the city’s world famous landmarks, history, and cultural communities including Downtown LA, Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Santa Monica. The tour will begin in Downtown Los Angeles and continue through Hollywood (Hollywood Sign, Walk-of-Fame, Chinese Theatre, Kodak Theatre), Beverly Hills (Rodeo Drive), Farmers Market, and Santa Monica Beach. This is the most comprehensive city tour we will offer for the conference.
Voucher Information
DIRECTIONS - Please PRINT and redeem this voucher at present it to staff the ISEF tour desk to validate your tour ticket. Coaches for the tour will board from the Los Angeles Convention Center, South Hall.
$50
104 persons daily
Redemption invalid for students on Thursday, May 12 from 10am – 2pm.
Event Date Availability
May 8 at 10:00am, May 9 at 10:00am, May 10 at 9:00am, May 12 at 10:00am
See Above
5 hours
Enter Member ID ISEF when prompted.
Tour of CalTech Campus – Offered May 9 Only! Limited Availability!
Based in Pasadena, CA, the mission of the California Institute of Technology is to expand human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education. CalTech investigates the most challenging, fundamental problems in science and technology in a singularly collegial, interdisciplinary atmosphere, while educating outstanding students to become creative members of society. Our tour will focus on the CalTech campus, curriculum and history. Photography is permitted. There will be some stair climbing and much of the tour will be outdoors. Please dress accordingly for weather conditions.
Additional Voucher Information
DIRECTIONS - Please PRINT and redeem this voucher at present it to staff the ISEF tour desk to validate your tour ticket. Coaches for the tour will board from the Los Angeles Convention Center, South Hall. A minimum of 25 persons must be signed up to operate this tour.
$25
104 persons
none
May 9, 2011
10:00am
Tour of Northrup Grumman Los Angeles Facility – Extremely Limited Availability! Open to US Nationals Only
This is a behind-the-scenes tour of the Northrup Grumman facilities. IMPORTANT! Due to security restrictions this tour is available to US nationals only.
DIRECTIONS - Please PRINT and redeem this voucher at present it to staff the ISEF tour desk to validate your tour ticket. Coaches for the tour will board from the Los Angeles Convention Center, South Hall. 20 persons will be required to sign up in order to operate this tour.
$55
IMPORTANT!! Due to security restrictions this tour is available to US nationals only. Photo ID will be required.
20 persons
Daytime Tour of Mount Wilson Observatory – Offered May 9 Only! Extremely Limited Availability!
Mount Wilson Observatory’s 60-inch telescope saw first light in 1908. Funded by Andrew Carnegie, the telescope was the world’s largest until the Mount Wilson 100-inch was completed in 1918. During the WWI years, Harlow Shapley used it to overturn the long accepted view that the sun was at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. Shapley used the great light gathering power of the 60-inch to show that our solar system is instead half way out toward the edge of our Galaxy. The telescope was a workhorse instrument for astronomy for over half a century and used by astronomical luminaries such as Edwin Hubble, Walter Baade and Allan Sandage to unravel the secrets of stars and galaxies. Today, the 60-inch is the largest telescope in the world devoted entirely to public viewing of astronomical objects. Its large light collecting mirror and the exquisite skies over Mount Wilson provide an unrivaled and unique experience. Group tours are led by docents of the Mount Wilson Observatory Association. The daytime tour does not include looking through the telescope however we may be allowed inside telescope domes to see the instruments close up. Typically, groups see the telescope through the Visitors' Gallery inside the dome.
DIRECTIONS - Please PRINT and redeem this voucher at present it to staff the ISEF tour desk to validate your tour ticket. Coaches for the tour will board from the Los Angeles Convention Center, South Hall. 25 persons will be required to sign up in order to operate this tour.
50 persons
Shopping Tour – Limited Availability!
An expert shopping guide will escort our group to Hollywood’s most glamorous shopping destinations with time built in for lunch (cost of lunch not included in the program).
DIRECTIONS - Please PRINT and redeem this voucher at present it to staff the ISEF tour desk to validate your tour ticket. Coaches for the tour will board from the Los Angeles Convention Center, South Hall. Tour includes round trip coach transportation, on-site coordinator. A minimum of 25 persons will be required to operate this tour.
$35
May 10 at 9:00am and May 11 at 10:00am
See above
6 hours
Tour to Museum of Jurassic Technology – Offered May 10 only! Very Limited Availability!
The Museum of Jurassic Technology traces its origins to the earliest days of the institution of the museum, which it dates back to Noah's Ark, the first and most complete Museum of Natural History known to man. The Museum's catalog includes a mixture of artistic, scientific as well as some unclassifiable exhibits, and evokes the cabinets of curiosities that were the 18th century predecessors of modern natural history museums. The factual claims of many of the Museum's exhibits strain credibility, provoking a rich array of interpretations from commentators. The Museum was the subject of a book by Lawrence Weschler in 1995 entitled "Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder," and the Museum's founder David Wilson received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 2001. The Museum's introductory slideshow recounts that, "In its original sense, the term, "museum" meant "a spot dedicated to the Muses, a place where man's mind could attain a mood of aloofness above everyday affairs." In this spirit, the Museum of Jurassic Technology's dimly lit atmosphere, wood and glass vitrines and labyrinthine floorplan lead visitors through an eclectic range of exhibits on art, natural history, history of science, philosophy, and anthropology with a special focus on the history of museums, and the varieties of paths to knowledge. In 2005, the Museum opened its Tula Tea Room, a Russian-style tea room where Georgian tea and cookies are served to patrons. This room is a miniature reconstruction of the study of Tsar Nicolas II from the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Borzoi Kabinet Theater screens a series of poetic documentaries produced by the Museum of Jurassic Technology in collaboration with St. Petersburg-based arts and science collective, Kabinet. The series of films entitled A Chain of Flowers draws its name from the quote by Charles Wilson Peale: The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life. The titles of the films are Levsha: The Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea, Obshee Delo: The Common Task, and Bol'shoe Sovietskaia Zatmenie: The Great Soviet Eclipse.
DIRECTIONS - Please PRINT and redeem this voucher at present it to staff the ISEF tour desk to validate your tour ticket. Coaches for the tour will board from the Los Angeles Convention Center, South Hall. Tour includes charter coach transportation, step-on guide/coordinator, museum admission, museum tour, free time in Culver City for lunch. A minimum of 20 persons will be required to operate this tour.
52 persons
May 10, 2011
9:00am
Getty Center Museum Tour – Offered May 11 only! Limited Availability!
The J. Paul Getty Museum designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Richard Meier sits high atop the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking the Los Angeles basin in Wes Los Angeles. Art on display at the Getty Center includes Van Gough’s famed “Iris’s” and one of the nation’s most important collections of "pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts; and 19th- and 20th-century American and European photographs". The museum is organized over five buildings, called pavilions: North, East, South, West and the Exhibitions Pavilion. The Exhibitions Pavilion acts as the temporary residence for traveling art collections and the Foundation's artwork for which the permanent pavilions have no room. The permanent collection is displayed throughout the other four pavilions chronologically: the North houses the oldest art while the West houses the newest. The first-floor galleries house light-sensitive art, such as illuminated manuscripts, furniture, or photography. Computer-controlled skylights on the second floor galleries allow paintings to be displayed in natural light. The second floors are connected by a series of glass-enclosed bridges and open terraces, both of which offer views of the surrounding hillsides and central plaza. The famed 134,000-square-foot Central Garden is a focal point of the Getty Center and is the work of artist Robert Irwin. Planning for the garden began in 1992, construction started in 1996, and the garden was completed in December 1997. Irwin was quoted as saying that the Central Garden "is a sculpture in the form of a garden, which aims to be art”. A tree-lined walkway descends to a plaza, while water in a stream criss-crosses the walkway, continues through the plaza, and goes over a stone waterfall into a round pool. A maze of azaleas floats in the pool, around which is a series of specialty gardens. More than 500 varieties of plant material are used for the Central Garden, but the selection is "always changing, never twice the same". Tours of the museum collections, architecture and gardens will be provided to our groups.
DIRECTIONS - Please redeem this voucher at the ISEF tour desk in exchange for your tour ticket. Coaches for the tour will board from the Los Angeles Convention Center, South Hall. Charter coach, step-on guide/coordinator, museum admission and tours of architecture and grounds. A minimum of 20 persons per bus will be required to operate this tour.
$45
May 11, 2011
Tour to University of Southern California (USC), Exposition Park Museums (California Science Center & Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History) – May 11 only! Limited Availability!
DIRECTIONS - Please redeem this voucher at the ISEF tour desk in exchange for your tour ticket. Coaches for the tour will board from the Los Angeles Convention Center, South Hall. Charter coach, step-on guide/coordinator, tour of USC campus, and museum admissions. A minimum of 25 persons per bus will be required to operate this tour.
$32 (youth 13-17), $34 (adults 18+)
Disneyland Tour – Offered May 13 Only! Pre-booking Price $98 (tickets $108 on-site)
12:30pm Departure from the Los Angeles Convention Center, 1:15pm Arrive Disneyland
9:00pm Disneyland closes 9:30pm Board Coaches 10:00pm Departure for Los Angeles 10:45pm Hotel drop offs
DIRECTIONS - Please redeem this voucher at the ISEF tour desk in exchange for your tour ticket. Coaches for the tour will board from the Los Angeles Convention Center, South Hall. Tour includes round trip coach transportation to Disneyland, special discounted student rate tickets to Disneyland Park, on-site coordinators to help answer questions and give directions.
$98
1500
May 13
12:30pm
10 hours
Annual Jet Propulsion Laboratory Open House - Offered May 14 Only! Extremely Limited Availability!
DIRECTIONS - Please redeem this voucher at the ISEF tour desk in exchange for your tour ticket. Coaches for the tour will board from the Los Angeles Convention Center, South Hall. Tour includes round trip coach transportation, on-site coordinator and admission to open house. A minimum of 25 persons per bus will be required to operate this tour.
104
May 14
Overnight at the Mount Wilson Observatory
Mount Wilson Observatory’s 60-inch telescope saw first light in 1908. Funded by Andrew Carnegie, the telescope was the world’s largest until the Mount Wilson 100-inch was completed in 1918. During the WWI years, Harlow Shapley used it to overturn the long accepted view that the sun was at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. Shapley used the great light gathering power of the 60-inch to show that our solar system is instead half way out toward the edge of our Galaxy. The telescope was a workhorse instrument for astronomy for over half a century and used by astronomical luminaries such as Edwin Hubble, Walter Baade and Allan Sandage to unravel the secrets of stars and galaxies. Today, the 60-inch is the largest telescope in the world devoted entirely to public viewing of astronomical objects. Its large light collecting mirror and the exquisite skies over Mount Wilson provide an unrivaled and unique experience.
DIRECTIONS - Please visit the ISEF tour desk for detailed information regarding this tour. Coach for the tour will board from the Los Angeles Convention Center, South Hall. Tour includes evening coach transfer to the observatory, trip coordinator, observatory overnight fee, view through telescope, morning coach return to Los Angeles. 20 persons will be required to operate this tour.
$125
Ages 12+
20 students, 5 adults (18+)
May 15, 2011
TBA