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1pm – 6pm, Conference Registration
Once you have arrived at the conference, you can check in. Instructions to finding check in can be found here.
1pm – 5:30pm, Optional Lab Tours
Some physics labs at Georgia Tech are offering lab tours. Each lab has set lab tour times and a maximum number of people who can participate in the lab tour. If you would like to participate in any of the the lab tours, please remember to wear appropriate lab attire, including closed toed shoes. Some labs may bar entry if you are wearing high heels since they are a safety hazard.
Please check in to the conference before attending any lab tours.
The lab schedule below is under construction and lab groups are still being added.
| 1pm | 1:30pm | 2pm | 2:30pm | 3pm | 3:30pm | 4pm | 4:30pm | 5pm | |
| Chaos Lab (6) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Epigraphene Lab (8) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||||
| Curtis Lab (12) | Y | Y | Y | Y | |||||
| Yunker Lab (8) | Y | Y | Y | ||||||
| Goldman Lab (15) | Y | Y | |||||||
| Chapman Lab (8) | Y | Y | Y | ||||||
| Matsumoto (ARTSY) Lab (8) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
3pm – 5pm, Optional Javascript Workshop
Interacting Computer Simulations Using Javascript
Howey Building Lecture Hall L4
Python and JavaScript are becoming the dominant languages for technical programming. While Python is more used for scientific investigations, JavaScript is as fast and has the advantage of allowing interactivity and easy animations. Therefore it can be used to make more interactive physics simulations where a system can be studied directly by changing parameters on the fly.
In this workshop we will give you the basics to make html-JavaScript programs to solve physics problems through a web browser on a PC, Mac, tablet and/or cellphone.
Topics will include: Drawing and animations of physics problems such as Snell law, oscillating springs, pendulum and parabolic motion and other systems solved with ordinary differential equations.
Workshop materials: Link to Course Files.
Please check in to the conference before attending this workshop.
4:00pm – 5:00pm, Optional Python Workshop
Intro to Python with GitHub
Boggs Building Lecture Hall B5
During the workshop, we will touch on two main topics — introduction to collaborative coding with GitHub, and Parallel and remote computing with Google Colab. If you have one, please bring your laptop to the workshop. I have prepared the material for an audience with no prior knowledge in these topics. I’ll start from the basics, and I hope you will learn a lot from the tutorial! In preparation for the workshop, please create a GitHub account and download GitHub Desktop.
Workshop materials: Link to Colab Notebook; Link to Slides
Please check in to the conference before attending this workshop.
Starting at 4pm, Hotel Check In
If you are staying at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, check in starts at 4pm. You are only staying in the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center if you have received direct communication from cuwip[@]physics.gatech.edu confirming your hotel accommodation. You do not need to simultaneously check in with your roommate; you will receive separate room keys.
6pm – 7pm, Transportation to the Atlanta Botanical Gardens
We will take two sets of buses from Georgia Tech Campus to the Atlanta Botanical Gardens, the location of dinner, our first panel, and our evening social event. If you drive separately to the Gardens, we will not reimburse your parking fee. Buses will return to campus starting at 9pm and will stop at both the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center and the Parking Deck for commuters.
7:30pm – 9pm, Dinner and Panel #1
Dinner will be served at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. During Dinner, we will hear a welcome address from Dr. Laura Cadonati (GaTech), Dr. Jennifer Curtis (GaTech), and Shannon Greco (APS). The topic of Panel #1 is “What can you do with a physics degree outside of academia?”
9pm – 11pm, Optional Atlanta Botanical Gardens Social Event
Walk through the gardens, including multiple greenhouses and a tree-tops walkway.
9pm – 11pm, Transportation Back from the Atlanta Botanical Gardens
Bus transportation back from the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Buses will make multiple rounds from the Gardens back to campus and make two stops: one at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center and one at Parking Deck Visitor 5. Last call will be at 11pm. If you do not catch this bus, you will be responsible for your own travel back to campus.