The University of British Columbia from May 14-16, 2010. We are also grateful for the generous financial support provided by our sponsors: American Public Power Association, the Analysis Group, the Brattle Group, Cornerstone Research, Microsoft, NERA Economic Consulting, Public Utility Research Center at the University of Florida and the Robert F. Lanzillotti Public Policy Research Center at the University of Florida.
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To view the papers and the summary of all sessions (including the times), please go to http://editorialexpress.com/conference/IIOC2009/program/IIOC2009.html
Registrants may check in and pick up their badges and programs at either of the following locations: On Friday: Welcome Dinner Reception at the Colonnade Hotel (120 Huntington Ave.) beginning at 7:00 p.m. On Saturday: Continental breakfast will be available at the Hospitality Suite (Egan Center) on the Northeastern University campus on Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday: A box lunch will be available in the foyer of Shillman Hall, Northeastern University. For those interested, the following roundtable session will be held over lunch from 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. at 105 Shillman Hall: A Roundtable Discussion: Industry Restructuring under Financial Duress 
Sunday, April 5 Click here to see the full preliminary conference schedule including campus map. Conference ProgramInformation for Presenters, Discussants and ChairsA computer will be available in each session room. We recommend that you bring AV materials on a thumb drive and load them at the beginning of the session in which your paper is scheduled. Please make sure that the most recent version of your paper is uploaded on the Conference Maker site. You can access Conference Maker through In addition, if you have a newer version of
your paper, please post it by editing the record for your paper and clicking the YES button next to
Upload new version of paper? Discussants provide a useful service by clarifying for the listeners what the main strengths and weaknesses of a paper are and by giving candid suggestions to paper presenters for improvement of the paper. In order to accommodate four papers and four discussants within each 110 minute time block, paper presenters are asked to limit their remarks to 18 minutes and discussants are asked to keep their comments to 6 minutes. If there are minor suggestions that would be useful to the paper writer, but would not be of general interest to the audience, it is best to communicate these issues directly to the author after the session is completed. A session chair is asked to make sure that time is fairly allotted to presenters and discussants. Each session block is 110 minutes in length. Most sessions have four papers, while a few have three papers. It is recommended that you allocate about 18 minutes for each paper presentation, 6 minutes for the discussant's remarks, and about 4 minutes for discussion from the floor. Please encourage all of your participants to load any audiovisual content onto the computer before the beginning of the session. While most participants will stay to hear all of the papers in a session, a few may run from room to room during a time block to hear one paper in one room and a second in a different room. To accommodate these people, it is probably a wise idea to have the papers presented in the order that they are listed in the program and to try not to fall too far behind. If there are only three papers in your session, you are of course free to give your presenters and discussants more time. Northeastern Parking/DirectionsVisitors may park at the Northeastern University Renaissance Parking Garage at 835 Columbus Ave. | |||||||||
Rooms are being held at The Colonnade Hotel at the discounted group rate of $209 per day, plus applicable taxes.