text: Department of Mathematics 3 x Lectureships in Statistics Further Particulars The College Imperial College London consistently achieves one of the highest rankings nationally and internationally, as listed in the Times Higher QS World University Rankings 2009. The Rector, Sir Keith O'Nions FRS, is the College's academic head and chief executive officer. The Chairman of the Court and Council is Lord Kerr of Kinlochard. The Mission Imperial College embodies and delivers world class scholarship, education and research in science, engineering and medicine, with particular regard to their application in industry, commerce and healthcare. We foster interdisciplinary working within the College, and collaborate widely externally. Strategic Intent To remain amongst the top tier of scientific, engineering and medical research and teaching institutions in the world To develop our range of academic activities to meet the changing needs of society, industry and healthcare To continue to attract and develop the most able students and staff worldwide To establish our Business School as one of the leading such institutions in the world To communicate widely the significance of science in general, and the purpose and ultimate benefits of our activities in particular. Formation and History Imperial College was established in 1907 in London's scientific and cultural heartland in South Kensington, as a merger of the Royal College of Science, the City and Guilds College and the Royal School of Mines. St Mary's Hospital Medical School and the National Heart and Lung Institute merged with the College in 1988 and 1995 respectively. Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School merged with the College on 1 August 1997 to form, with the existing 1 departments on the St Mary's and Royal Brompton campuses, the Faculty of Medicine. The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology joined the Faculty of Medicine in 2000. The integration of basic science research and clinical facilities is unique in rheumatology in Europe. In 2007, the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, was formed by merging Hammersmith and St Mary's Hospitals' NHS Trusts with the College, forming the country's largest NHS Trust. This also established the UK's first Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) bringing together healthcare services, teaching and research for maximum synergistic benefits. Imperial College was an independent constituent part of the University of London until July 2007, when it was granted a new royal charter declaring it an independent university in its own right. The academic structure of Imperial College is divided into three faculties, the Faculties of Engineering, Natural Sciences and Medicine. The College's other major academic unit is the Business School. Staff and Students The academic and research staff of 3,184 includes 68 Fellows of the Royal Society, 68 Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering, 78 Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences, one Fellow of the British Academy, four Crafoord Prize winners and two Fields Medalists. Fourteen Nobel Laureates have been members of the College either as staff or students. The College has over 13,019 students, of whom 34 percent are postgraduate. Twenty nine percent of students come from outside the European Union. External assessment of the College's teaching quality in many different subject areas has been judged to be of high standard. The proportion of women students has increased to 36 percent of the total. Research The quality of the College's research has been judged consistently to be of the highest international standard and the proportion of income from research grants and contracts is one of the highest of any UK university. The concentration and strength of research in science, engineering and medicine gives the College a unique and internationally distinctive research presence. Generous support for the College's work comes from a wide variety of sources. From industry there are donations towards certain senior academic posts, advanced courses, bursaries and scholarships. The single largest contribution to the College from industrial concerns is in the form of contracts to carry out research. The College also gains considerable support from research councils and charities to undertake research. 2 Teaching and Learning The College's overall educational aim is to ensure a stretching and exhilarating learning experience and, while maintaining its traditional emphasis on single honours degree courses, it also aims to give students the opportunity to broaden their experience through courses relevant to student and employer needs. In its MSc course provision, the College seeks to provide a wide range of specialist courses in areas in which it has particular expertise. Many of those offered by non- medical departments emphasise the valuable interaction between scientific/technological training and industrial experience, whilst those offered by the medical departments focus on subjects at the interface between basic science and medicine and on specialist education for doctors and other health professionals in training. In addition, the College's wide range of PhD programmes reflect its aim of pursuing research at the frontiers of scientific, engineering, management and medical knowledge and the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of this research. The Centre for Educational Development raises and consolidates the profile of learning, teaching and educational development throughout the College. Newly- appointed non-clinical lecturers must enroll on the Certificate of Advanced Study for Learning and Teaching, and there are many learning and teaching activities for more experienced staff. The Graduate School of Life Sciences and Medicine is the focus of postgraduate education and research in these areas. It maintains, enhances and monitors quality, and disseminates best practice, whilst initiating and developing new programmes, particularly those with an interdisciplinary slant. The Graduate School of Engineering and Physical Sciences (GSEPS) is the focus for postgraduate education and research in the Engineering and Natural Science faculties and has quality assurance responsibilities for the two non-faculty departments: Humanities and the Business School. The College's teaching quality is audited regularly, both internally and externally. Recent external audit found teaching quality to be of a high standard. Location The College now has one of the largest operational estates of any UK University. It includes six central London campuses, the main South Kensington campus, the Charring Cross campus, the Chelsea and Westminster campus, the Hammersmith campus, the Royal Brompton campus and St Mary's campus. Silwood Park, a postgraduate campus at Ascot in Berkshire, houses the Ecology and Evolution Section of the Biology Division, in the Department of Life Sciences. The successful Master's courses in Crop Protection, Forest Protection and Ecology, Evolution and Conservation are run at Silwood together with the newly created Master's course in Conservation Science, and there is a thriving postgraduate community. The campus houses excellent research facilities and a wide range of natural environments. The NERC funded Centre for Population Biology is also based at Silwood, together with a Business Centre. 3 1. The Faculty of Natural Sciences The Faculty of Natural Sciences is dedicated to delivering the highest possible quality teaching and research at the heart of Imperial College London and fosters excellence in a diverse and supportive community. The Faculty fully embraces teaching and research activities across the core scientific disciplines of Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and Life Sciences. The Faculty also hosts the Centre for Environmental Policy, the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, the Institute for Systems Biology, the Porter Institute and the Institute for Security, Science and Technology. The Faculty's academics enjoy the highest standing and the research volume, the quality of publications and the number of citations are enviable. The Faculty is committed to interdisciplinary and inter-Faculty activities and strives to provide the kind of environment where these collaborations can flourish. The Faculty benefits from national and international alliances and collaborations with industry and other institutions and organisations. The Faculty is committed to continuing to attract and develop the highest quality students and staff for its successful undergraduate and postgraduate courses. The Faculty is led by the Principal, Professor Maggie Dallman, and employs over 1,200 staff, teaches 3,000 undergraduates and 1,200 postgraduate students and has a research income totalling £57 million (2008-09 figures). Further information about the Faculty's structure and activities can be found on its web site: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/naturalsciences 2. The Department of Mathematics The Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London is one of the largest in the UK, with 750 undergraduates undertaking a broad range of BSc and MSci courses, 50 MSc students and 125 PhD students. The teaching staff comprises 60 academic staff (including 39 Professors), some 25 Research Associates/Fellows, and a steady flow of international visitors. In addition, the Department is fortunate in having a number of eminent Emeritus Professors and Senior Research Fellows who play a continuing role in the research life of the Department. Academic staff within the department hold many prestigious prizes and awards. Please see http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/mathematics/about/prizesandawards for further information. The principal aim of the Department is to train professional mathematicians and statisticians to pursue the study of scientific and technological problems by mathematical methods, and to undertake research in various branches of the subject. A further important function is to provide instruction in Mathematics for students who require it as ancillary to courses of study in other departments of the college. Substantial computing power is available to faculty and postgraduates and all members of the Faculty can expect an up-to-date computer in their office. The College has a responsive central IT advisory service, including a telephone helpline. The Department's undergraduate teaching programme incorporates a number of three and four year Mathematics degrees, as well as the Mathematics part of three joint degrees in Mathematics and other disciplines. Externally, the Department is 4 responsible for much ancillary teaching of Mathematics and Statistics to the other departments of the College. There is currently a great demand, both in research and in industry, for well-trained, highly qualified mathematicians and statisticians. To meet this demand, the Mathematics Department is offering three one-year MSc courses, in Applied Mathematics, Pure Mathematics, and Mathematics and Finance. A new full-time MSc course in Statistics is under development. Full details can be found at http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/pgprospectus. We also host an extensive PhD programme (around 125 students). The Department acts as a unified whole in most respects, but for administrative convenience is organised into Sections with distinctive research directions: Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics (this Section includes Numerical Analysis), Statistics and Mathematical Finance. Statistics In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise the Statistics Section came joint third in the UK, in terms of world-leading and internationally-excellent research. The Statistics Section currently has three Professors (David Hand FBA, Andrew Walden, and Alastair Young), one Senior Research Investigator (Wojtek Krzanowski), one Honorary Principal Research Fellow (Prof Martin Crowder), one Reader (Niall Adams) two Senior Lecturers (Emma McCoy, and Lynda White), six Lecturers (Nick Heard, Giovanni Montana, Yvonne Ho, Axel Gandy, Ajay Jasra, and Dimitris Tasoulis), and one temporary lecturer (Rodney Coleman). There are currently about thirty postgraduate students and four postdoctoral fellows. There is a regular flow of visiting academic staff from around the globe. The Section has an established international reputation for its methodological work in Bayesian analysis, classification, data mining, reliability and survival analysis, statistical signal processing, and for its applied work in retail finance and biostatistics. In recent years it has built an increasing reputation for its work in statistical genetics, genomics and bioinformatics, and in contemporary approaches to frequentist statistics, in particular involving the bootstrap. Significant research funding is contributed by industrial sponsors, as well as by the research councils. Further details of the Section and its activities are available on our website at: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/statistics Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise the AMMP Section came joint 7th in the UK, with a high percentage of research deemed to be internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour. Research in this Section is loosely organized into a number of overlapping research groups: Dynamical systems, Biomathematics, Mathematical Physics, Fluid Dynamics, Applied Analysis and Computation and Integrable Systems. Currently the Section has approximately forty full time staff members whose interests cover virtually all areas of applicable Mathematics; on many of these topics there are 5 close links, overlap and collaborations with the other Sections of the Mathematics Department, other departments within the College and elsewhere. There are many postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers, with academic visitors passing through regularly, which makes for a lively and dynamic research environment. Within the Section there are regular seminar series, two weekly colloquium series, focussed working groups, postgraduate talks as well as specialist graduate lecture courses: formal courses include the Applied Mathematics MSc and a joint MSc program with the Aeronautics department on Computational Fluid Mechanics. Further details of the AMMP Section, the research groupings, seminars and individual staff interests can be found at http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/ammp. Mathematical Finance The Mathematical Finance Section is one of the most established of its kind in the world, and has a strong reputation for the breadth and quality of its research in the mathematics of financial markets. Active areas of research include, for example: interest rates and foreign exchange, Levy processes and their applications, information-based asset pricing, stopping-time problems in finance, multi-name credit risk management, spectral methods in finance, macro-economic models for inflation, price formation and interacting agents, and models for commodity and energy trading. The staff include: Professor Lane P. Hughston (Head of Section), Professor Mark H. A. Davis, Dr Chris Barnett, Dr Dorje C. Brody, Dr Martijin R. Pistorius (Programme Director, MSc in Mathematics and Finance), and Dr Harry Zheng. Senior Research Investigator: Professor Nick Bingham. Visiting Professors: Dr Alexander Lipton (Merrill Lynch) and Dr Damiano Brigo (Fitch Ratings) The Mathematical Finance Section offers postgraduate courses in mathematical finance at both MSc and PhD level. The MSc in Mathematics and Finance is designed for graduates in mathematics or science-based subjects with a high mathematical content. The MSc programme can be undertaken full-time over one year or part-time over two years. It combines graduate-level instruction in the mathematics of financial markets with a programme whereby students undertake summer projects in collaboration with banks, hedge funds, agencies, and systems providers in the finance industry. The Section has some 35 PhD students at present, funded by a variety of means, including Departmental DTA awards, external scholarships, and industry sponsorship, the latter often being arranged in collaboration with the Institute for Mathematical Sciences. There is seminar in mathematical finance that meets regularly on Wednesday afternoons which is attended by academics, students, and industry practitioners. Further details of the Mathematical Finance Section and its activities are available at: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/mathfin. Pure Mathematics In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) Pure Mathematics was rated top in the UK with the highest percentage of world-leading and internationally-excellent research ratings. 6 Over the past ten years, twelve new permanent appointments have been made in the Pure Mathematics Section, including those of Simon Donaldson FRS, Ari Laptev, Michael Ruzhansky, Kevin Buzzard, Alexei Skorobogatov and Alessio Corti. There are currently about 30 PhD students and 12 postdoctoral researchers in Pure Mathematics. Research areas include Geometry (in a broad sense, encompassing differential and algebraic geometry, symplectic topology, geometric aspects of mathematical physics and PDE), Number theory and algebraic geometry (particularly elliptic curves and modular forms, Diophantine equations and arithmetic algebraic geometry), Algebra (particularly finite and algebraic groups, probabilistic and asymptotic group theory, representation theory and algebraic combinatorics), Analysis and probability (analysis and potential theory on Riemannian manifolds, graphs and other spaces, analysis of infinite dimensional spaces, Markov semigroups and statistical mechanics), Stochastic analysis and mathematical finance (stochastic differential equations, non-linear filtering and applications to mathematical finance). For more details of the staff and research interests in the Pure Mathematics Sections see our website http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/puremaths. 3. Details of the Posts: LECTURER IN STATISTICS JOB DESCRIPTION Main Duties Research To conduct a personal research programme, ideally in one of the areas in which the Statistics Section already has strengths, though candidates with expertise in other areas of Statistics will also be considered; To publish research in refereed journals; To generate grant income; To play an appropriate role in the national and international statistical community and learned societies; To promote the reputation of the statistics group, the Department, and the College, through scientific meetings and other activities. Teaching Teaching students at undergraduate level: this will be a mix of lecturing, academic tutoring, classwork, demonstrating and personal tutoring, on courses agreed with the Head of Section; Participate in the preparation and delivery of the new MSc programme; Research and PhD postgraduate student supervision and teaching; Curriculum development work; To be responsible for managing and developing staff such as Research Associates or Research Fellows; To contribute to the assurance and enhancement of the quality of teaching and learning and research within the Department, in line with College 7 standards. Administration/Management To undertake appropriate administrative tasks as directed by the Head of Section; To attend relevant academic or management committees; To comply with relevant College policies, including Financial Regulations, Equal Opportunities Policy, Promoting Race Equality Policy, Health and Safety Policy, Information Systems Security Policy and Intellectual Property Rights and Register of Interests Policies; Other analogous duties commensurate with the grade of the post. Job descriptions cannot be exhaustive and the post-holder may be required to undertake other duties, which are broadly in line with the above key responsibilities. Imperial College is committed to equality of opportunity, equal treatment, and to eliminating discrimination. All employees are expected to adhere to the principles set out in the Equal Opportunities in Employment Policy, Promoting Race Equality Policy and Disability Policy and all other relevant guidance/practice frameworks. PERSON SPECIFICATION Criteria A good honours degree in mathematics, statistics, or closely related discipline; Evidence of experience of teaching at undergraduate and/or postgraduate level across a range of subjects ideally within the field of statistics; PhD (or equivalent) in Statistics or a closely related discipline; Experience as a postdoctoral researcher is desirable; Evidence of independent research activity, as demonstrated by papers in leading journals, conference proceedings, etc.; Excellent organisational, communication, and interpersonal skills; Excellent motivational skills. 4. Salary and Conditions of Service A full set of terms and conditions will be given to the successful candidate, together with the College's most important policies which affect staff. The principal terms and conditions are as follow: Salary Details - Lecturers The Lecturer scale runs from £42,500 to £47,450 per annum (effective from 1 August 2010 until further notice, for London and Silwood Park). . 8 The post will be graded at Level C in the Academic and Research Job Family. Any salary increases or performance payments will be determined in accordance with procedures which govern senior academic staff. Annual cost of living increases will be determined by Imperial College through its local collective bargaining machinery. Other Terms and Conditions: Salaries are payable on the 24th day of each month (the exception being December) by transfer to a bank or building society account. Deductions in respect of income tax and National Insurance contributions will be made from salaries at the statutory rates. All appointments are conditional on medical clearance by the College Occupational Health Service confirming that the candidate is fit for employment. Academic staff normally take annual leave during College vacations and by arrangement with the Head of Department in the light of academic and departmental requirements. Annual leave entitlement is 39 days for full time staff (pro rata entitlement for part time staff). This is inclusive of 8 days for Public holidays and a total of six days each year when the College is closed over Easter and Christmas. In some years, because of the day of the week on which Christmas day falls, a decision may be made to increase the College closure to seven days. In these circumstances the annual leave entitlement will be increased to 40 days for full-time staff (again pro-rata for part-time staff). At the beginning of the leave year staff will be required to allocate the appropriate number of days of their mandatory leave entitlement to cover the College Closure days and Public holidays that fall within that leave year. For part-time staff the allocation should cover their normal working days that fall upon a College closure day, bank or public holiday during that leave year. The College Closure days and Public Holidays are listed on the HR website. The occupational pension scheme is the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS). Staff who are already members of the Federated Superannuation System for Universities (FSSU) or the National Health Service Superannuation Scheme (NHSPS) may, if they are still eligible, retain their membership in these schemes. Unless stated otherwise in the offer of employment, or agreed by the head of department, the appointment may be terminated by either side by giving a minimum of three months' notice in writing. The last day of service should fall on one of the following dates: 31 December; 31 March; 30 June or 30 September or at the end of a term by agreement with the Head of Department. All appointments have a probationary period of six months, or, in the case of non- clinical Lecturers and clinical Senior Lecturers, a training and development review period, which lasts 3 years for non-clinical Lecturers, and 5 years for clinical Senior Lecturers. Staff on fixed term contracts receive notice of the ending of their employment within that contract. No further contractual notice will be given unless the contract is to terminate prior to the end date specified in the offer of employment. In these circumstances the notice from the College would be as above. 9 As stated in the Core Terms and Conditions of Service, the normal retirement date is 30 September following the 65th birthday or on 30 September if the birthday is that day. 5. Applications Our preferred method of application is online via our website at the following link: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/employment (select "Job Search"). Please complete and upload an application form as directed and submit any other relevant supporting documents such as your full CV. Alternatively, if you are applying for the Lectureship position, you may e-mail your application and CV to: Doris Abeysekera, Personal Assistant at email@example.com Telephone: +44 (0)207 594 8547 Applicants must complete a College application form and attach to it a copy of their CV, to include the following information: a) Applicant's full name, private address and telephone number b) A confidential fax number and e-mail address, where possible c) Degrees (including Universities and dates) d) Past and present posts e) List of publications f) Brief description of future research plans g) Information on research grants and contracts which have been obtained, student supervision, etc. If candidates choose to e-mail their application, a hard copy of the application with an original signature on it will also be required, together with the recruitment monitoring form, and the CV to: Doris Abeysekera (for the Lecturer position) 536 Huxley Building Imperial College London London SW7 2AZ Email firstname.lastname@example.com Closing date for Lectureship applications: 31 December 2010 Interview date: To be determined All candidates will be contacted after the shortlisting process has been completed. 10


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Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced a new theme study, as part of the National Park Service Heritage Initiative that will identify places and events associated with the story of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans for inclusion in the parks and programs of the agency.
The theme study is part of a broader initiative under the Obama Administration to ensure that the National Park Service reflects and tells a more complete story of the people and events responsible for building this nation. The National Park Service has ongoing heritage initiatives to commemorate minorities and women who have made significant contributions to our nation's history and culture, including studies related to the history of Latinos, women, and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Secretary Jewell made the announcement outside the Stonewall Inn in New York City, the site of a riot in 1969 that is widely recognized as a catalyst for the modern civil rights movement in the LGBT community. It is currently the only LGBT-associated site that has been designated a national historic landmark by the National Park Service as a property having extraordinary significance in American history.
"We know that there are other sites, like Stonewall Inn, that have played important roles in our nation's ongoing struggle for civil rights," said Jewell. "The contributions of women, minorities and members of the LGBT community have been historically underrepresented in the National Park Service, and the LGBT theme study will help ensure that we understand, commemorate and share these key chapters in our nation's complex and diverse history."
"The National Park Service is America's storyteller and protector of the places where America's history can be found," National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis said. "As we prepare to celebrate the National Park Service's Centennial in 2016, we have rededicated ourselves to sharing more diverse stories of our nation's history, particularly the struggles for civil rights. By telling these stories, we are inviting new audiences to visit their national parks and historic sites and to discover a personal connection in these special places."
The study will be a public-private partnership with funding provided by the Gill Foundation through the National Park Foundation.
"LGBT history is American history," said Gill Foundation founder Tim Gill. "The contributions of LGBT people are part of the great American journey toward full equality, freedom and liberty for all our citizens. While we take this important step to recognize the courageous contributions of LGBT Americans, we need to unite together in the days ahead to ensure we leave none of our fellow Americans behind."
Over the next 12 to 18 months, the National Park Service will work with scholars to explore ways to celebrate and interpret LGBT heritage. The scholars will hold their first meeting in Washington, D.C., on June 10. The public will be invited to take part in this meeting to learn more about the initiative and share comments on its initial phases.
The goals of the heritage initiative include: engaging scholars, preservationists and community members to identify, research, and tell the stories of LGBT associated properties; encouraging national parks, national heritage areas, and other affiliated areas to interpret LGBT stories associated with them; identifying, documenting, and nominating LGBT-associated sites as national historic landmarks; and increasing the number of listings of LGBT-associated properties in the National Register of Historic Places.
The National Register of Historic Places is the nation's inventory of properties deemed to be central to its history and worthy of recognition and preservation. It includes more than 89,000 entries, incorporating more than 1.7 million individual buildings and sites representing local, state or nationally significant people, places and events. Just over 2,500 of these properties are national historic landmarks, designated by the Secretary as representing the highest level of national significance. Relatively few of these properties can be identified as representing the stories associated with African Americans, American Latinos, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, American Indians, Native Alaskans and Native Hawaiians, or women. Currently, only four LGBT history-related properties are included in the National Register of Historic Places.
In 2010, the National Historic Landmark (NHL) Program began actively looking for sites associated with LGBT history that may have the potential to be designated as NHLs or listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The LGBT theme study will expand upon this work, and provide a framework for future site nominations for both the NHL's and National Register of Historic Places. Owner approval for these sites is necessary before nominations can be prepared and the NHL Program has begun working with the LGBT community to encourage both outreach to owners and the completion of nominations for these properties.
The National Park Service is already making great strides in encouraging the nomination of properties that are associated with groups who have been historically underrepresented in parks and programs. Over the past four years approximately 70 percent of nominated national historic landmarks represent stories of diversity.
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Will be spending four days in Washington DC in mid October. Is Rock Creek Park logistically too far away from the main sites in DC? First time travelers there so will want to see the monuments, congress, etc., and were planning to either use public transportation or walk.
J Joel
Washington DC lodging near Rock Creek Park
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The DC metro's red line in NW Washington travels by (aka under) Rock Creek Park in the stretch roughly from Woodley Park to Cleveland Park. (The red line is a major metro line within the city that will let you visit many places quite easily either by metro or metro + foot, and there are also busses that stop in/around the area. In other words, public transit options from Woodley Park are excellent.) There are several hotels and a B&B within minutes by foot of the Woodley Park metro stop -- a Marriott, Omni Shoreham, and the Woodley Park Guesthouse.
Lots of good restaurants in various price ranges in the neighborhood, too, and close to the National Zoo.
Hope that helps! -
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Rock Creek runs through the western side of DC from the Maryland line to the Potomac River at Georgetown. Areas near the park where you will find hotels are around the Cleveland Park, DupontCircle, and Foggy BOttom metro stations.
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There are actually a couple of hotels in Georgetown and for that matter in the so-called "west end" that would be close enough to the LOWER part of Rock Creek Park and you could walk from those.
You have to realize exactly what the park consists of; mostly wooded areas with lots of picnic groves. There are some paths, horse paths, etc., but this is not like the "usual" city park you may be thinking of.
Here's the link to a map which might be helpful in planning:
http://www.nps.gov/rocr/planyourvisit/upload/rocrmap1.pdf -
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I am going to recommend the Woodley Park Guest House. I have stayed there 3 times, all memorable, twice while I was traveling alone. You can see the Metro stop from the front porch and can walk to the park. I particularly liked the quietness when I returned in the evening. After a day of sightseeing you can relax on the porch or take a walk in the neighborhood.
Only one word of warning. Do not try to travel back to the Woodley Park area on the Metro during rush hour.
October is also a nice time to go. Beautiful fall weather and no crowds. If you are interested in tours of the archives or Library of congress, book them online before your go. However, I booked the Capital tour online and could have gotten in with a smaller group had I not reserved a time. For security reasons, once you book you are stuck with that time and group. -
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Thank you all. Being budget minded, did just make reservations with a Best Western in the Arlington area. The Woodley Park Guest House sounds lovely so I will check out the pricing on it. From looking at Google Maps, it seems the Rosslyn/Iwo Jima area will be a good starting point for daytime sightseeing trips. True? I'm a jogger/walker so was looking at Rock Creek as a great place to do that. But it looks like the Potomac might have a nice pathway too. Also true? Thanks again! Starting to get excited. Waiting to hear back from our congressperson regarding tours.
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There is a pathway between the Potomac and the old C+O Canal which runs alongside. This is on the north shore of the river. You can reach it if you cross Key Bridge from the Rosslyn area of Arlington.
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If you like trail running, you can just go to Theodore Roosevelt Island and do that, it's very close obviously, they have trails on it.
There is also Mt Vernon Trail nearby in Lady Bird Johnson Park along the Potomac which you can see on the map. This website has maps of both http://bikeitorhikeit.org/mount_vernon_trail.htm
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