Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
June 17 - 21, 2013

 Sigmetrics Banquet

The Sigmetrics Banquet will take place from 6:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. on Wednesday, 6/19, at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. The museum is a very short walk from the conference location and is shown on the map that you received in your program. The banquet will include a detailed tour of the famous "Dinosaurs in Their Time" exhibit.

[From the exhibit literature]: This exhibit of specimens ranging from Diplodocus to T. Rex places dinosaurs in the proper ecological and behavioral context, posed amidst contemporary plants and animals, and in the correct postures (according to the latest paleontological research). Like many cultural institutions in Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History was founded by the mega-industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who took an early interest in paleontology. Many of the dinosaurs in this museum (including specimens of Allosaurus, Apatosaurus and Stegosaurus) were retrieved by Carnegie's employees from the Uinta Mountains on the Colorado/Utah border. In fact, Carnegie held such a fearful monopoly over this area that, in 1915, President Woodrow Wilson decided to "nationalize" it as Dinosaur National Monument.