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A shuttle will be provided from the Westin Hotel to the Watson Institute at 8:15am on Friday and Saturday mornings.  It is also a nice walk to the Institute.  Directions are below:


Some walking suggestions...

From the Westin hotel to the Watson Institute (conference site).


  1. Very nice.  About 25 minutes.  You need to walk up the hill.
  2. When you leave the hotel, you see a large black ball.  Turn left onto West Exchange Street.  Then, immediately left onto Sabin which becomes Exchange Terrace.  You then walk past the Courtyard Hotel on your left.  Continue straight. 
  3. Cross the canal and go up the hill.  The street changes names to Angell St.  
  4. About half way up the hill, turn right onto Benefit.
  5. Go about two blocks and turn left onto College, at the corner you will see the Providence Athenaeum Library.  It is old.
  6. Pass through the gates into Brown University.
  7. The building immediately in front of you is University Hall, the first building at Brown.  Go around it by passing to its right.
  8. Cut across the green to the far right corner in front of the John Carter Brown Library.
  9. Leave the green and turn left onto George Street.  Walk one block.
  10. Turn Right onto Thayer and the Watson Institute is one block down on your left (111 Thayer Street).