Conference Venue

The 19th Magnetic Recording Conference (TMRC) will be organized in Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore. One of Singapore¡¯s premier 5-star hotels, it is located near the picturesque Singapore river, downtown and the shopping district Orchard road. By taxi, it takes roughly 20-30 minutes from Changi airport to the hotel.

For details about conference hotel, please click here and visit the website. Please click here to download reservation form and book your rooms in the conference hotel.

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In order to take advantage of the discount rates, please send the reservation form before 06 July 2008 (Sunday) via fax or email directly to hotel upon completion. Thereafter, rooms are subject to availability at Hotel’s best available rate.

To get to the conference venue, the most convenient and recommended way is to take a taxi or cab from Changi International Airport, straight to the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel. In Singapore, taxi fares are affordable and are charged according to electronic meter readings based on the distance traveled. There are several hotels with similar names. So, when you tell the hotel name to the taxi driver, please mention the hotel name in full, "Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel" and in addition you may say Havelock Road.

The MRT station (Metro or Subway equivalent) nearest to the hotel is Outram Park (EW16) which is about 1 km from the conference site. Besides, the MRT, the hotel is also served by buses: Bus numbers to Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel area are: 16, 195, 75 and 970.

Conference Committee


Conference Co-Chairs
Prof. Tow Chong Chong
Data Storage Institute, Singapore
Prof. Mark H. Kryder
Carnegie Mellon University, USA

General Secretary
Dr. Bo Liu
Data Storage Institute, Singapore

Program Co-Chairs
Dr. Gerardo Bertero
Western Digital, USA
Prof. David Bogy
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Prof. Hiroaki Muraoka
Tohoku University, Japan

Publicity Co-Chairs
Dr. Yoshihiro Shiroishi
Hitachi Ltd, Japan
Dr. S.N. Piramanayagam
Data Storage Institute, Singapore

Publication Co-Chairs
Prof Ed Schlesinger
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Dr Tiejun Zhou
Data Storage Institute, Singapore

Local and Poster Session Chair
Dr Zhimin Yuan
Data Storage Institute, Singapore

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