Conference Registration

Mark your calendar  for a double event November 9-12 2011 in Miami, FL: the 58th North American Annual Meetings of the Regional Science Association International and the Second Conference of the Regional Science Association of the Americas.

Conference registration is now open and will remain open through the end of the conference. However, participants are strongly encouraged to register early to facilitate the organization of the conference (and avoid late and on-site registration penalties). To register, please go to the User Area and either put in your username and password to login or create a new account so you can register for the conference.

Conference Registration Fee Will Include:

• Wednesday ice-breaker reception (8pm)
• Access to plenary sessions, exhibits, break-out paper sessions, and poster sessions
• Conference program
• Coffee/tea breaks
• Thursday evening reception
• Friday luncheon

Late Registration Surcharge

A late surcharge will be added to your registration fee if you opt to register after 5:00pm EST on October 25, 2010. We strongly discourage you from registering in person at the conference venue. The late fee also applies to students. The surcharge helps defray costs for walk-in registration services at the conference.

Non-conference Hotel Surcharge

Note also that attendees who do not register for an overnight stay at the conference venue (Grand Hyatt Denver) incur an additional surcharge of $150. This helps defray costs charged in the event that we do not meet the conference venue’s room-night quota, and the incentive helps us to continue to negotiate excellent discounted hotel rates for future conferences by preserving a good “history” of room pickup.  (This surcharge does not apply to students or to attendees with a local business address.)

Refund Policy

For any cancellations received before September 15, 2010, NARSC will retain $50 of your registration fee to cover credit card and related handling charges. For cancellations received between September 15, 2010 and October 25, 2010, $100 of your registration fee will be retained. For students, $25 of the registration fee will be retained for cancellations through October 30, 2010. For any cancelled guest reception and lunch ticket orders, $25 will be retained for cancellations until October 25, 2010. Refund requests should be submitted to NARSC’s Executive Director, Jean-Claude Thill. Under no circumstances will refunds be issued after 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on October 25, 2010. If, however, it becomes impossible for you to attend after October 25, you may optionally transfer your registration to an alternate participant by contacting NARSC’s Executive Director, Jean-Claude Thill.

Registration Fee Schedule

Registration Payment Methods

For online registration with credit cards, we accept only Mastercard, Visa and EuroCard. To pay by check, you will need to register online in the User Area and then mail in a check with the PDF registration form that you can download in the User Area. Note that payments by check must be received by the above-stated deadlines to receive the relevant rates.

Accessing the NARSC Website User Area

To register for the conference  and/or submit an abstract or session you must first login to the User Area. When you reach the login page of the User Area, you will be asked to click on a link and enter your e-mail address (username) so we can check if you are already in our database.

You should be ready to proceed if you attended the North American Meetings of the RSAI last year and/or the most recent conferences of WRSA, RSAmericas, SRSA, or Mid-Continent/CRSA and remember your password. If you have used the NARSC website to register for an earlier conference, but have forgotten your username/password, or are a member of a North American regional science organization but never attended a North American Regional Science Conference, you most likely are in our database. When you attempt to access the User Area you can request that your username/password combination be e-mailed to you to use to login.

If you are not in our database, you will need to register for a free NARSC user account and then you will be able to register for the conference and submit an abstract.

If you have questions about logging in, please send an e-mail to support [at] dreamco.com.

Adding Registration Items and Obtaining Receipts for Payments

You can always come back to your User Area to add items.

Receipts may be accessed in the User Area at any time for payments that you have made. Please use this facility whenever you wish to verify your registration status or need to print out a receipt for a travel reimbursement claim and/or your records.  (Those paying by check will receive an emailed notification when the check has been received.)