General Instructions
Monday, August 14, 2017 at 6:00-8:00 PM, ROB Patio
Light Hors d'Oeuvres will be served
Dinners
Three SSI dinners are scheduled for the following dates: which:
Tuesday, August 15, 2017 at 6:00-7:30 PM, ROB
Patio
Monday, August 21, 2017 at 6:00-7:30 PM, ROB Patio
Thursday, August 24, 2017 at 6:00-7:30 PM, ROB Pario
Pre-registation is required. Each dinner is $10
for a student, $20 for a general participant.
Poster Sessions
Wednesday, August 16, 2017 at 6:00-7:00 PM, SUSB Lobby
Tuesday, August 22, 2017 at 6:00-7:00 PM,SUSB Lobby
Solar Eclipse Observation
Monday, August 21, 2017 from 9:45-10:45 AM, Kavli Patio
This is an extended coffee break between the first two lectures to allow the
observation of the solar eclipse. The expected eclipse path can be found on this
interaction map
which indicates ~74% maximum obscurity near SLAC at ~10:15AM. Eclipse
observation glasses advertised by NASA will be provided.
Soccer Match / IR2 Tour
Wednesday, August 23, 2017 has a joint event of
SSI vs SLAC soccer club soccer game, in conjunction with a
tour to IR2 (LZ test stand and LSST clean room)
- IR2 Tour (5:00--5:45pm): Tour include
LZ Xenon
purification plant and test platform, and
LSST camera construction clean room. Please follow
the map below to find
your own way to IR2 to meet at the gathering point (the entrance road slopes down towards IR2) at
5:00pm sharp. IR2 building is a Controlled Area so that you need
to
sign up to the tour online before the end of Monday
Aug/21. Check the
signup list.
- Soccer game (6:00-7:30pm), SLAC Arrillaga
Recreation Center soccer field (see
map below). Everyone
is welcome to play or cheer. The SLAC soccer club hosts
a BBQ after the game for the SSI team. If you are
interested staying for the BBQ, please sign up to the
soccer game sheet at the SSI registration desk. For SSI
team players, the nominated T-shirt color for SSI team is white or very light colored.
- During these events you can also take a walk on the
Hill vista trail in the map below to go to the Vista
point where you can get a straight view of the two mile
linear accelerator, the
Research Yard with
LCLS beam line and End Station A where the deep
inelastic scatter experiment in 1970
discovered the quark/parton inside nucleon. You can
also see the old SPEAR ring (now Stanford Syncrhtron
Radiation Lab - SSRL) which hosted the e+e- experiment
MK-I that discovered
charm quark and
tau lepton in 1974/1976.
Printable
PDF of the map.