Last January Krazer hosted a LEM in Boston @ MIT. It was a lot of fun especially with the added benefit of the participation of the Tesla group. These grad students and Post Docs (and undergrads?) from the institute are not members of PL, but do know a thing or two about lasers and I think they probably had an OK time as well because they recently leased some warehouse space (hacker space) and are willing to open this up for another meeting this coming January.
On campus was a kick, but a little scary as well (dodging fire alarms and such). I don't know if Krazer would be willing to bring a short tour to the ultra-fast labs again, but if he is then this is, as I understand it, the only place beside Max Plank that is doing exactly this type of research and you DO want to see this.
The weakened of Jan. 24-26 looks promising, but the details are a little soft right now, maybe one long day, maybe a Friday set up and Saturday to play? I will be bringing 4-5 people and 4 projectors with 50 watts total output. I know Fearless is working on another projector similar to one of mine. It might be neat to see shows with well over 100 watts of combined output. Audio should not be a problem, but others might have a better idea what would work best.
Hotels, directions, bars, restaurants and timing I am going to defer to Krazer and Fearless. They are both much closer than me, but Krazer said I could go ahead and start the thread to give everyone a heads up and see how much interest there might be.