Special Events

IEEE ISM2006 will have a special tour to Calit2 on Dec 12 from 1-2:30pm. The tour is free to all registered conference attendees. You can find out more about Calit2 at their website.
 

Tentative schedule:
12:30pm Bus leaves conference site
1:00pm Bus arrives Calit2
1:10pm Welcome and introduction speech by Calit2 Director Larry Smarr
1:30pm Calit2 state-of-the-art high tech facilities tour. Clean rooms, MEMS labs, immersive virtual reality facilities, and a digital cinema theater are just a few of the specialized facilities in the Calit2 buildings.
2:30pm Bus leaves Calit2
3:00pm Back to conference site and afternoon sessions will start

Some facts about Calit2 UCSD site - "The Cal-(IT)2 building is designed to foster teams of faculty, students, visiting scholars, and industrial partners to make fundamental discoveries and address complex societal problems more creatively and comprehensively. These teams are already being drawn from the physical, biological, and social sciences, the arts, and the humanities. For example, on the ground floor, physicists, chemists, and materials scientists in the clean room and materials characterization lab will be colocated with artists and computer scientists in the New Media Arts facilities, which we expect to foster new collaborations. The facility has been designed to help the public understand how technology is conceived, studied, developed, and implemented, especially in integration with other technologies, such as in Cal-(IT)2¡¯s ¡°living laboratories.¡± Visitors will be able to explore an exhibit gallery, look down from a catwalk to watch scientists at work, and stroll through a rooftop ¡°antenna garden¡± to learn about wireless technology."

An immersive visualization lab - This interactive display space, including a six-walled, two-story virtual-reality CAVE theater, will be used to envision new ways to work, communicate, and play. Research is expected to enable new forms of scientific investigation, visualization of ever-more-complex data sets and tasks, richer forms of tele-presence, and new types of artistic expression, as well as lead to development of new methodologies and technologies.

Clean room - including nanoscale fabrication lab supporting optical lithography, state-of-the-art e-beam lithography, maskmaking, metalization/thin film deposition, back-end processing, reactive ion etching, and wet processing.

150-seat auditorium - for conferences, workshops, symposia, and performances.

Multi-purpose room -