2–6 Jun 2025
Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center (ESJ)
US/Eastern timezone

Logistics

Venue

The conference is held at the Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center (ESJ) located at 4131 Campus Dr, College Park, MD 20742 (building 226 on campus map). 

The meeting will be held in room 2309 and 1309. 

On-Site Wifi
 
eduroam
The eduroam network is available across campus and is usually reliable - it is used by the campus as the local secure network. If you have eduroam credentials, feel free to use them.
 
umd-guest
The campus guest netowrk is umd-guest. It creates a guest account on demand and you login with the generated credentials. Note that you will need a phone number to receive an authentication text message. The process for Andriod, IOS, and laptops is described here: Connect to the UMD Wireless Network
 
If you cannot use the automatic account generation, please see one of the UMD organizers for assistance.
 

Parking

Information for on campus parking is available here. The closest garages to the Edward St. John center are the Regents Drive Garage (visitor parking is on the roof) and the Union Lane Garage.  The Stadium Drive Garage is a couple of blocks farther away, but also has visitor parking.

Hotels

There are several hotels on campus but we don't have a reserved room block. More hotels around the area can be found on Google.

Here are the on campus hotels: 

College Park | The Hotel at The University of Maryland

7777 Baltimore Avenue
College Park, MD 20740

Marriott Hotel & Conference Center – College Park

3501 University Boulevard East
Hyattsville, MD 20783

Cambria Hotel College Park

8321 Baltimore Avenue
College Park, MD 20740

 

Getting Around

During the summer, the University of Maryland College Park runs a free shuttle bus route around the campus, to the College Park Metro Station, and to off-campus shopping locations. No ID is required. Here is the Shuttle-UM web site, and here is the route map and schedule PDF.

Other options such as electric bikes and scooters are also available. Information can be found here: https://transportation.umd.edu/

Travel to other places in DMV metropolitan area via metro system can be found here: https://www.wmata.com/

METROBUS

WMATA also operates a number of MetroBuses in the area. Routes that run near and through campus include: