Hotels and Local Transportation

The next SCICOMP meeting, SCICOMP 4, will be held at The Radisson Summit Hill 401 Summit Hill Drive Knoxville, TN 37902 865-522-2600 reservations: 800-333-3333 or            email: radknox@esper.com web: http://www.radisson.com        (search for Knoxville, TN) October 9: Tutorials       bring a laptop (Net connections supplied) October 10-12: Meeting Sessions

A block of rooms for the SCICOMP meeting, SCICOMP 4 has been arranged with The Radisson Summit Hill hotel, at a rate of $76 per night. See below for how to access this room block.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Many events take place in Knoxville, and hotel rooms can become scarce. Lodgings should be reserved as soon as possible!

Taxis from the airport cost about $22 one way. (There are no low-cost shuttles.) Downtown Knoxville is small and walkable, so a car is not necessary.

Here are two maps, in Adobe PDF format, of the central downtown area and the greater Knoxville metropolitan area.

Here are some web sites containing information local to Knoxville:

• Knoxville Convention and Visitors Bureau - http://www.knoxville.org/
  
  
• McGhee Tyson Airport - http://www.tys.org/
  
  
• Knoxville News-Sentinel - http://www.knoxnews.com/
  
  
• Sunsphere City Annual Manual - http://www.metropulse.com/dir_suncity/dir_anman/anman.html
  
  
• WUOT (91.9FM) NPR, for those who need their fix of Morning Edition and ATC - http://www.wuot.org/
  
  
• WDVX (89.9FM, 106.1FM downtown) Nonprofit, music of East Tennessee - http://www.wdvx.com/
  
  

For matters pertaining to Knoxville that are not addressed here, please email Trey White, of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, at whitejbiii@ornl.gov.