Next Week Rehearsal in the Lecture Hall

So, the word is that the auditorium where the Symposium will be held is available -- as of now -- next Monday (the 2nd) or Tuesday (the 3rd), but only before 4pm each day. The rest of the week is busy and there are only little one and two hour pockets of time available, which wouldn't be enough time for all of you to present in conditions that reasonably approximate the symposium itself. I'm going to confirm the booking of the hall with Kent Long after we meet, but I wanted you to think about and weigh in on the two choices. I'm thinking we'll need five continuous hours, roughly, and even if neither of these times are ideal, perhaps we can find a way to scrunch everybody in? Comments here are welcome, and we'll talk about it tomorrow as well.

This is Sasha's note to Kent about getting everybody's presentation materials in the same place to help the event proceed more smoothly:

"Kent, the spiel is that everyone should put their materials on some kind of portable media to be loaded onto a master laptop for the presentation date. In the past, students have generally decided to alter their files after the rehearsal, so final versions can be loaded the morning of (the 9th or 10th) and staff will be here to accommodate that."

Sasha also said she'll try to be around to help should we need her, but that Kent is the go-to person this year for most of this stuff.

Hope that's clarifying. See you all soon.