SLAC Tours
SLAC tours are offered in two separate groups during the
Tuesday Sep/20 12:35-2:30pm extended lunch hours. Sign up to the
tours are included in the registration. Each group will have 80min of
tour time with lunch staggered to be before and after the tour respectively. The tour bus will start boarding next to the Kavli building
at
12:35pm for group 1 and
1:05pm for group 2. The visiting points:
- Klystron gallery alcove: showing an underground
section of the linac and a view into the 2 mile long
klystron gallery which is a "must see" for SLAC.
- Near and Far Experimental Halls of the Linac Coherent Light Source
(LCLS), the latest facility of high intensity X-ray
laser for photon science.
- Collider Hall with the MK-II and SLD experiments at the SLAC Linear Collider which had e+e- operation at the Z0 peak during the LEP era.
- Research yard hill top lookout point for a view of the Linac,
and the historical site of End Station A and SPEAR (now SSRL).
Monday Informal Dinner Groups
For
Monday Sep/19, there is not official dinner arrangements so that everyone is free to explore local restaurants of their own choice. Those not having their own dinner plans already could consider to join one of the informal dinner groups targeting some of the local restaurants on the
Local Drinking and Dining page. The poll for choices on some proposed options are posted on the
workshop wiki, which will be regrouped into a few streams for popular choices, and arrange car pooling to make these groups work. Those interested please fill the polls before Monday afternoon break.
Reception Buffet
A buffet reception is currently planned for
Tuesday Sep/20 6:30pm on
SLAC site at the Panofsky auditorium breezeway, with an extensive finger food menu and drinks.
BBQ Dinner
A barbecue dinner is planned for
Wednesday Sep/21 6:00pm on
SLAC site at the Panofsky auditorium breezeway and cafeteria
dining area, with a variety of selections for the BBQ grill and drinks.
Excursion
An excursion is tentatively scheduled for
Thursday Sep/22 in the afternoon
before the dinner cruise.
This is currently envisaged to be a bus tour to San
Francisco with two vista point stops before dropping off
downtown for some free time:
- 1st stop is tentatively planned for
Twin Peaks for a view of San Francisco, but the
viability of this depends on the daily condition and the
bus driver
- Drive over Golden Gate Bridge to the
Parking Vista Point at the other (Sausalito) end of the
bridge as a 2nd stop for the view of the Golden Gate
Bridge, the Bay and the city.
- Back into San Francisco city to drop people off at
two spots for some free time:
Everyone needs to navigate yourself
to Pier-3
for the dinner cruise in the evening. Please give
plenty time to ensure arrival at Pier-3 by the 6:30pm
Hornblower boarding time. Most above spots are within 30min walk from Pier-3, but faster with cable car California Line or light rail line F. We would not recommend other farther touring spots such as Golden Gate Park as there may not be sufficient time to get back to the dinner cruise.
The two vista points are not the usual place you go
without a car or during a compact short trip so that
hopefully they will be a fresh experience for most
people, may be even some locals. However, the viability
depends on weather as Twin Peaks in particular only makes
sense when it's not foggy. We may alter this
preliminary plan still due to weather or lack of time to
go to both vista points etc.
Workshop Dinner
A dinner cruise on San Francisco Bay is planned for
Thursday, Sep/22, evening. Some info on the Hornblower
dinner cruise can be found on
the
Hornblower
website. Boarding time is 6:30pm
at
Pier-3.
Because the boat is shared with other parties, it will
not wait for late arrivals. For those driving themselves
to the dinner cruise, please allow plenty of time
for
parking near Pier-3
(pdf) which can be tricky. If you want to park on Pier-3,
you should mention you will be on Hornblower cruise to get the
reduced parking fee of $10.