Deep Hypha 2006

Baton Rouge LA

24 (Friday) – 26 (Sunday) February 2006

Sign up for the final Deep Hypha (RCN: A Phylogeny for Kingdom Fungi) meeting to be held 24 (Friday) –26 (Sunday) February 2006. RSVP to Meredith Blackwell mblackwell@lsu.edu.

How to get to Baton Rouge by Air

The closest airport is Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport (BTR). It is serviced by several major airlines. It's roughly a 15 minute taxi ride to LSU's Cook Conference Center (about $25). Alternatively, many rental car companies are available and there is ample parking at the Lod & Carole Cook Conference Center & Hotel.
New Orleans International Airport (MSY) is about a one-hour drive away. There is no public transportation from MSY so it is necessary to rent a car and drive via I-10 west to Baton Rouge.

How to get to Baton Rouge by Car

From I-10 (east or west) get off at the Dalrymple Drive exit and turn right off the exit ramp. You will have a residential area on your right and University Lake on your left. Continue about 1 km into the LSU campus past East State Street until WEST Lakeshore Drive forks off to the left. You will see the International Culture Center on the left near the intersection. Follow West Lakeshore for about 300 meters until you come to the Cook ALumni and Conference Center at 3838 West Lakeshore Drive.

DIRECTIONS TO LSU http://www.lsu.edu/about_dr.htm

Where to stay? Conference Lodging

The Lod & Carole Cook Conference Center & Hotel

http://cookconferencecenter.com/ special rates for our meeting are shown below. Roll away beds are not available meaning two people must share a bed if more than two people (maximum of 4) want to stay in either a suite or standard room. A substantial breakfast buffet is served each morning. The Lod Cook Hotel is at the edge of the campus a little further than Pleasant Hall (and the Chimes) for those who remember the very first DH meeting.

Rates:

Rooms/ $ per night with breakfast included

Double (2 double beds) suites --$113 +10 + 10–max 4/room, 2/bed

King (2 king-sized beds) suites $113 +10 + 10–max 4/ room, 2/bed

Standard doubles $93 – max 4/ room, 2/bed

YOU CANNOT BOOK THE GROUP RATE ONLINE

For the group rate phone the toll free number 866-610-2665 and mention Deep Hypha

If you do not feel you will able to walk 0.66 mile twice a day we can help. Please contact Meredith Blackwell (mblackwell@lsu.edu) for special arrangements.

LSU Campus http://www.lsu.edu/campus/

1. Cook Conference Center & Hotel (the map was made before the hotel)

2. Life Sciences Building (all talks in the auditorium, LSB A101)

3. LSU Union

4. The Chimes and other Tiger Town establishments

Where to eat?

A breakfast buffet is included with your reservation at the Cook Alumni and Conference Center in the Shaquille R. O'Neal Lodge on the ground floor of the hotel.

For food and drink there are many Tiger Town restaurants within walking distance (see the map below):

The closest place to eat lunch on Saturday is the LSU Union, but it will NOT be open on Sunday except for a buffet, so you may want to try an off campus establishment. Louie’s for any meal 24 hours a day; famous for breakfasts (omelets, sandwiches, salads, home cooked entrees), 209 W. State St.
The Chimes for lunch and dinner (great local fare including, gumbo, étoufée, steaks, salads, wide variety of beers), 3357 Highland Rd.
Saigon for lunch and dinner (Vietnamese food), 180 W. State St. (in small shopping center to right, closed Sunday)
Inga's Sandwiches, 244 W. State St. (in small shopping center to left)
Serrano’s Salsa Company for lunch and dinner (Mexican food), 3347 Highland Rd.
Arzi’s (Lebanese food), 276 W. Chimes St. (closed Sunday)

Many other small sandwich and fast food shops are located in the two block area to the west of Highland Rd. on W. Chimes and W. State St. Most are open for lunch and dinner.

Esoterica

How to figure the date of Deep Hypha 2006

· We use algorithms. The date of Easter Day was defined by the Council of Nicaea in AD325 as the Sunday after the first full moon, which falls on or after the Spring Equinox. The Equinox is assumed to always fall on 21st March, so the calculation reduces to determining the date of the full moon and the date of the following Sunday. The algorithm used here was introduced around the year 532 by Dionysius Exiguus. Under the Julian Calendar a simple 19-year cycle is used to track the phases of the Moon. Under the Gregorian Calendar (devised by Clavius and Lilius, and introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in October 1582, and into Britain and its then colonies in September 1752) two correction factors are added to make the cycle more accurate.

From http://michaelthompson.org/technikos/easter.php

· More: The full moon that fixes date for Easter. The general rule of thumb for Protestants and Catholics has been that Easter is always the first Sunday after the first full moon occurring on or after the vernal equinox, usually known as the first day of spring. But the formula, the U.S. Naval Observatory points out, is not a precise reflection of the actual rules. Under the formula established by the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea when it was convened in the year 325 by the Roman Emperor Constantine, the vernal equinox is always assumed to occur March 21, regardless of where the sun is astronomically. If churches were to employ the definition used by astronomers – who define it as the moment when the sun is at 0 degrees longitude – they would acknowledge that the equinox could arrive as early as March 20 or as late as March 22. Generally, such differences usually don’t matter much when it comes to setting the date of Easter. But there are times when they do. For example, in 1962, the full moon occurred March 21, at 7:55 a.m. Jerusalem time, six hours after the astronomical equinox. But according to the preset formula that churches use to calculate the full moon – using tables laid out by Dionysius Exiguus, the abbot of Scythia in the sixth century – the full moon that year took place March 20, several hours before the equinox. In the astronomical case, the full moon in 1962 followed the equinox; but in the ecclesiastical definition, it preceded the equinox. Following the established rules, Christians celebrated Easter in 1962 on April 22 because the next ecclesiastical full moon did not arrive until April 18. Another wrinkle: All these official church calculations are, like the civil calendars we use today, based on the calendar promulgated by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 as a correction to the Julian calendar put into place 16 centuries before by Julius Caesar. The big difference between the Gregorian calendar now in use and the old Julian calendar is that it introduces an additional day every four years, the “leap-year rule,” to keep the calendar and the sun’s actual movements more in line. Even though the Gregorian calendar was recognized as being more precise, it wasn’t until the 1700s that it was adopted by most of western Europe. Even today, many Eastern Christian churches still determine the date of Easter using the Julian calendar.

(From FortWayne.com)