Venue
The workshop will be held in Room 410 at NASA's Spitzer Science Center (SSC) on the campus of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, CA, USA.
The Spitzer Science Center, an autonomously managed organization within IPAC, is located in the Keith Spalding Administration Building on the southeast corner of California Boulevard and Wilson Avenue. It is labeled as Building 6 on this interactive Caltech campus map.
Spitzer Science Center / California Institute of Technology
1200 East California Boulevard
Pasadena, CA 91125
Phone (626) 395-8000
You may enter the building via the public entrance on the east side of the building. From the lobby, take the elevator to the 4th floor.
Visitor Information:
For visitors coming to Caltech, Caltech maintains a visitor webpage with information about parking, hotels and more. Please see: http://www.caltech.edu/content/plan-your-visit
Parking is available in the underground parking structure just south-east of the Keith Spalding building/SSC - see the Caltech parking map.
Visitors must have a Caltech Parking Permit, which can be obtained from the pay station located at the California St. parking structure. Parking permits, obtained from the projects MUST be dated the date you are parking, undated permits will result in a City of Pasadena parking ticket.
Individuals with handicapped access, must also display a parking permit, but can then follow regular handicapped parking regulations.
Hours of enforcement are Monday - Friday, 7am to 5 p.m. Red zones, fire lanes, no parking zones, handicapped spaces, and certain posted reserved spaces are enforced 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
You may currently park without a permit on the east side of Wilson, north of Tournament Park, for an unlimited time. The west side of Wilson is now a one-hour parking zone from 7AM to 5PM and tickets are given frequently. Please check signs carefully when parking on the street. See the Caltech parking website for additional information.
About the Spitzer Science Center:
The conference room, KS 410, on the top floor of the SSC, features a view of historic Mt. Wilson Observatory. The 100-inch (2.5 m) Hooker telescope at Mt. Wilson was the largest aperture telescope in the world from its completion in 1917 to 1949, and the 60-inch telescope which was the largest telescope in the world when it was completed in 1908. With the Hooker telescope, Hubble was able to prove that the Andromeda nebula is an object beyond our Milky Way galaxy, and show that the Universe is expanding.
The responsibility for the Spitzer Science Center (SSC) was assigned to Caltech/IPAC in 1997, and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope began science operations in 2003.
About IPAC:
In 1985, IPAC was established on the campus of the California Institute of Technology as the "Infrared Processing & Analysis Center" for data from IRAS -- the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, joint project of the US, UK and the Netherlands. IPAC has since grown beyond its inaugural name, and built upon its experience in infrared data processing and analysis to provide a range of support for more than 20 missions and projects with observatories both in space and on the ground.
To learn more about IPAC, visit http://ipac.caltech.edu.
