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29th SLAC Summer Institute
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Welcome Reception August 12
There
will be a welcome reception for Summer Institute participants and their
families on Sunday, August 12, 2001 from 3:00PM to 8:00PM.
The reception will be at the Elliott Program Center on the Stanford
University Campus (www.stanford.edu/home/visitors/campus-map.html).
Conference Dinners August 14, 16, 21, 23
Our
conference dinners are a tradition and a great forum for meeting
your fellow colleagues and a chance to make new connections in your
field. The dinner packages cost $50 for four dinners for regular
participants and $25 for four dinners for student participants.
Comparing the price with area restaurants illustrates that they
are an exceptional value. Lick Observatory Tour August 17We have arranged a special evening tour of the Lick Observatory (http://www.ucolick.org/) on the evening of Friday, August 17, 2001 for participants of the SLAC Summer Institute. The observatory is able to handle only 40 people for the tour (adults only). The cost of the tour is $35.00 per person. This includes transportation to the observatory, entrance fee, and a box lunch to bring along with you. Buses will leave from SLAC at 3:30 PM to arrive at the observatory by 6:00 PM. There will be a sign-up sheet for the tour during registration. At that time you may sign up for the tour and pay by cash, check (drawn on a US bank), money order or credit card. Because of the limited space, only the first 40 people who sign up and pay for the tour will be allowed to go.
At the Observatory, you can look forward to seeing the 120-inch reflecting telescope (the main research instrument used by the astronomers at Lick), and learning about the ongoing research in astronomy and astrophysics, and, weather permitting, viewing astronomical objects through the 36-inch refracting telescope. There is also a gift shop where you may purchase photographs, posters, booklets and T-shirts.
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