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Lab tours will take place on Friday afternoon.
Choose one of the tour options, sign up now , and arrive by 2:30 pm MT to participate. Extra CU Physics/JILA tours will be available to students who sign up for the "early bird" group and arrive by 1:30 pm. Some additional on-site tours will be available to students who arrive up to 3:30 pm MT.
Tour options
Tour options
These tours run 3-5 pm MT.
For all tours except the New Physics Lab, meet at Duane physics building on CU campus by 2:30 pm or the tour site meetup location by 3:00 pm to participate.
For the New Physics Lab, meet at the Embassy Suites hotel lobby by 2:30 pm.
CU Physics and JILA
CU Physics and JILA
The CU Physics department and JILA research institute both host cutting edge research facilities in almost all areas of physics. These tours will include atomic clocks (Ye lab), molecular spectroscopy (Lewandowski lab), quantum materials (Cao lab), and more!
LASP/NSO
LASP/NSO
The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics is at the forefront of solar, planetary, and space physics research, climate and space-weather monitoring, and the search for evidence of habitable worlds. The National Solar Observatory right next door operates the world’s most extensive collection of ground-based optical and infrared solar telescopes and auxiliary instrumentation. This tour may include sites such as spacecraft fabrication facilities, planetary science artifacts, and satellite control rooms.
New Physics Lab
New Physics Lab
The new physics lab hosts a hypervelocity dust accelerator used for investigation into the physics of micrometeorid impacts, high-speed dust in the lunar environment, and instrument calibration and testing. See the 3MV pelletron, beamline chamber, and test chamber, along with several experiments and instrumentation that are awaiting beamline time in the bay.
CU Engineering
CU Engineering
This tour group will see CU electrical and environmental engineering labs.
NIST
NIST
The National Institute of Science and Technology is located just a mile south of CU Boulder's main campus. Specific details on which labs will be included will be updated later on, but possibilities include: timekeeping and atomic clocks, atmospheric spectroscopy with frequency combs, quantum information, and quantum materials
Early-bird CU Physics/JILA tours
Early-bird CU Physics/JILA tours
Interested in CU Physics/JILA tours aaaaand another off-campus tour? You can do both! We will have a limited number of spots to tour CU Physics and JILA labs early. You must arrive by 1:30 pm to participate in this group. Sign up for the 1:30 "2 Lab" CU Physics/JILA tour in addition to the 3-5 pm tour of your choosing when sign ups open on Jan. 13th.
The Extended CU Physics/JILA tours
The Extended CU Physics/JILA tours
Want to stay in one place the whole time to maximize how much you can see? Sign up for the "7 lab" CU Physics/JILA tour group if you will arrive by 1:30 pm and prefer to only tour CU Physics/JILA labs.
Later gator CU Physics/JILA tours
Later gator CU Physics/JILA tours
Unsure if you will make it in time for anything? If you think you miiiiight get to campus by 2:30pm MT, go ahead and put your name down for the "later gator" CU Physics/JILA tours. If you show up by 2:30, we will make sure you see Five labs! For planning purposes, only do so if you genuinely think there is a chance you can make it, and please let us know ASAP if that will no longer be the case.
Deadlines and dates
Deadlines and dates
Thursday, December 19th at 5 pm MT: deadline to sign up for the NIST tour. This has to be earlier because NIST requires IDs and other information that we need to coordinate in advance
Monday, January 13th at 6 pm MT: sign up for all other 3-5 pm tour options and the early on-site tour groups opens. Mark your calendar. Some tours have limited space and will be first-come, first-served.
Sign up!
Sign up!
If you choose to attend the NIST tour, sign up here. NIST sign up now closed. Please sign up for a different option below.
All other tour sign ups are now open! (Note: your browser might be converting the times on the poll to your current time zone. Make sure you calculate it for MT when making your plans.)
Site meetup locations
Site meetup locations
CU/JILA, NIST, LASP, Engineering: Meet at 2:30 pm at the Duane physics building on CU Boulder campus (exact location TBD) and we will take you to the tour site. If you absolutely need to bring your luggage to attend the tour, please arrive by 2:20 pm to drop it off for storage in the physics building.
Or, if you prefer, you can meet us at the tour site. Make sure you arrive there by 2:55 pm with no luggage.
New Physics Lab: This location is closer to your hotel anyway! Just meet us in the Embassy Suites hotel lobby at 2:30 or at 3400 Marine St. by 2:55 with no luggage. You can walk there in 20 minutes or bus part of the way if you prefer.
Further details (and a contact phone number) will be sent via email a couple of days beforehand.
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