Local Information

Conference Venue

IPCO 2025 will be held in Shriver Hall on the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University . The Summer School will be held in the Clipper Room on the second floor, while the main conference will be held in the main auditorium.

Shriver Hall is at the south end of the JHU Homewood Campus, behind the Baltimore Museum of Art. Maps of the JHU Homewood Campus are available here . Parking for Shriver Hall is in the South Garage, 3101 Wyman Park Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, located opposite and just north of the Wyman Park Building.

Hotel Information

Special discounted rates for IPCO attendees are available at the following three hotels.

  • The Study : 0.4 miles from venue

  • The Inn at the Colonnade : 0.6 miles from venue

    • Booking link
    • Hotel phone number: 410-235-5400 (ask for Rob or Dorothy in Sales)

  • Hotel Indigo : 2.3 miles from venue

    • Booking link
    • Hotel phone number: 410-625-6200 (ask for reservations, and reference the JHU - International Conference Optimization or group booking code ICO)
    • One can take the JHU shuttle (see in particular the Homewood-Peabody-JHMI shuttle tab for the schedule) or the Charm City Circulator (Purple Route) from the Washington Monument to the JHU campus where the conference/summer school is. This is a 10-15 min ride.

Another reasonable hotel option is the following, although there is no discounted IPCO rate.

Map of Conference Locations

Travel

  • Baltimore is on the Northeast Corridor rail line, so is easily accessible by train. Amtrak serves intercity routes, and the local commuter train system, the MARC train , has frequent trains to and from Union Station in Washington, DC. Amtrak and the MARC Penn line trains stop at Baltimore Penn Station in midtown Baltimore. Amtrak trains from Washington Union cost approximately $30 and take 40 minutes, while the MARC Penn trains from Union cost $9 and take approximately an hour. From Penn Station, the purple line of the Charm City Circulator or the silver or 51 lines of the MTA local bus will take you to JHU Homewood.

  • Baltimore is served locally by Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI), and is also accessible from Reagan National Airport (DCA) and Dulles International Airport (IAD).

Local Organizing Committee

  • Amitabh Basu (chair), Johns Hopkins University, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
  • Tinglong Dai, Johns Hopkins University, Carey School of Business
  • Michael Dinitz (webmaster), Johns Hopkins University, Computer Science
  • Kimia Ghobadi, Johns Hopkins University, Civil and Systems Engineering