On 12/19/07, Tom Holden thomas.holden@gmail.com wrote:
There's a small lecture theatre at the OII (around 40 people), a medium one at Balliol next door (currently around 100 due to rows of tables, could probably double this if they were taken out, health and safety regs permitting) and assorted large to gigantic university lecture halls in walking distance (no more than 15 mins). Other Balliol spaces we could use include the hall (larger than the lecture theatre, but not ideally suited to lectures due to benches and tables), assorted seminar rooms, the JCR (large and informal space with sofas and coffee tables) and we could potentially also have a marquee in the garden.
Hi Tom, in terms of the lecture space you've outlined, there doesn't seem to be a large enough lecture theatre which would be used for closing plenaries/opening sessions. We would need somewhere that holds *all conference participants at one time* - in other words, if we are going to have 500 participants, we need a lecture theatre that holds 500. Is there anything in Balliol or nearby that would hold such numbers?
Cormac