Re: Staggering US and European congresses
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 10:19 pm
hilltopgo wrote:willemien wrote:What is the best stagering?
if i interprete http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetlag correctly
then East Asia - Europe - USA - East Asia is for most people better than
East Asia - USA - Europe - East Asia.
But also there should be 2 weeks between the two USA congresses (to overcome jetlag)
That sounds like the European Congress ought to happen before the US Congress. Which puts the US Congress in August -- potential conflict with students returning to school (and their families). Most schools here start up again in early September, but it seems to me like an increasing number of them are starting up as early as the middle of August.
I don't think this necessarily rules out having the US Congress in August. I would like to see them staggered, though perhaps with only a week between the events.
The jetlag issue does suggest that the European congress should come first. I'd think that a week between would be close enough. If it is two weeks then the expenses for the Asian pros start rising.
The wikipedia article suggested above says 1 day for every 1.5 timezones when going west. So even if you folks in Europe have it someplace in eastern Europe at UTC+3, and we have ours on the west coast at UTC-8, that is only 11 hours total. 11/1.5 = 7.33, and that is worst case. So a week should be enough.
Is there anybody here who is involved in scheduling 2012 in Cologne? Or could you point them to this thread?