It is best to fly into Denver International Airport (DIA), which is located approximately 45 minutes away from Boulder. To get to Boulder from DIA, take the RTD AB bus, which costs $11.00 one-way ($20 roundtrip) pay exact amount on the bus, and leaves from the WEST side of DIA, level 5, island 5, once an hour, roughly 15 or 20 mins after the hour. Inquire at the RTD booth for precise times. For more details check at the RTD booth or see http://www.rtd-denver.com/skyRide/ or http://www.yellowtrans.com/shuttle.html. RTD buses run many routes so it is important that you take the AB route. The bus makes a couple of stops on the way to Boulder and then has quite a few stops in Boulder. If you are staying in Kittredge Commons, please get off at the Broadway - Regent stop, which is on the corner of Broadway and Regent drive, with Broadway running along the west side of campus. Kittredge Commons, where most of you will be living and eating is located on campus, and is a 5 minute walk south-east (away from the mountains) of this RTD bus stop. Please consult the map of campus provided in this packet, or on the web located at: http://www.colorado.edu/Directories/WebMap/.
Another mode of transportation between DIA and Boulder is the Supershuttle (phone: 303-227-0000 or web: http://www.supershuttle.com/default.aspx?content=Boulder) which provides door-to-door service and also leaves DIA every hour.
Unless you requested special housing in your original application, all students will be housed in a double room in Kittredge Commons on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Bed sheets, pillow cases, etc. will be provided with your dormitory room but you should bring your own soap, shampoo, etc. There are no phones in the rooms, phone jack is active if you want to purchase/bring a telephone. The main Kittredge Commons number is (303) 492-6777. You must check out of your dormitory room at the end of the school no later than Saturday morning of the last day.
Breakfasts (7:00am - 8:30am), lunches (11:00am - 1:30pm) and dinners (5:00pm - 6:30pm) will be provided free of charge on weekdays; Use the meal card, handed out to you with your room key at check-in, in order to get access to the dinning facilities. All meals except for the picnics will be held at Kitteridge Commons. You will be on your own for the weekend meals. Boulder offers a large selection of cuisine, which you are urged to take advantage of.
Lecturers will be provided with meal tickets (free of charge), which they can use to pay for their meals in Kittredge Commons and organized picnic events. Lecturers who stay through a weekend will be given a per diem of $40 to cover their meals.
Family and significant others who are not participants or lecturers will need to purchase meal tickets from the Kittredge Commons front desk in order to attend any of the meals in the Dining Hall.
Contact Leo Radzihovsky for additional tickets to the picnics.
You can pick up your room key at the front desk of Kittredge Commons at any time day or night (24 hours) after 7am Sunday morning before the first day of the School. Sunday evening prior to the start of the School, there will be a 6:30pm-8:00pm registration mixer with light refreshments in the Hard Drive Cafe, located in the basement of Kittredge.
If you arrive too late to pick up your registration packet, i.e., after 8pm, please note that the first lecture starts on Monday morning, at 9:00am in the Duane Physics Building, G125.
All lectures (with any exceptions announced well in advance) will be held in room G125 (1st floor, one above the ground floor), in Duane Physics Building, a 10 minute walk north of Kittredge. Typically there will be two lectures in the morning, 9:00am-Noon and one after-lunch lecture at 2:00pm-3:00pm, followed by a daily discussion session. Some additional seminars and discussions will also be held, with a detailed schedule found in this packet. As well as posted on the web here for the 2007 school.
All students are strongly encouraged to present a poster at the school. Details about the posters will be contained in the admission letter and the Poster Session Schedule is posted here for the 2007 school.
All sessions will take place in the faculty lounge on the 11th floor of Duane Physics Building. Students are also encouraged to organize their own seminars and study groups. These can be held in the evenings or available time in the afternoons in room G131 on the ground floor of Duane Physics building.
Copies of lectures notes will be available during the School. Soon after end of the School, these will also be available on the Web.
Students from US schools, please submit your reimbursements to Nikki Kilbride (303-492-3367, Kilbridn@colorado.edu) in her office on the 6th floor of Gamow Tower (which is part of Duane building). Make sure to provide your name, social security number, your mailing address and to submit your original airline receipt; copies of tickets or invoices are unfortunately not acceptable. If you come by car please produce original credit card receipts for gas and tolls as evidence of travel. Your reimbursement check will be mailed to your mailing address within approximately 4-6 weeks.
There are a couple of Macs in Duane Physics Building and around campus which allow you to access the internet and to telnet into remote machines without an on-campus account or password. If your computer needs are more serious than just following the latest condmat preprints or the stock market and news, then the PC's in the PC lab on the 1st floor of Duane Physics building, Rm. G116 will also come in handy. The lab is open 24 hrs and requires an Identikey login and password. Login information is available in your registration packet.
Pay for print cards are available at Norlin Library, and other locations. A credit card must be used to activate the card.
There are computers in the TV Lounge of Kittredge Commons, which allow access to telnet, email, and the web and are available 24 hours a day. If you would like personal, 24 hr computer access, you can activate a direct high-speed internet connection right in your room!.
Internet access through ResNet in the Residence Halls is available at no charge using the conference identikey. An Ethernet cable is not provided, bring a standard Ethernet cable.
In general, however, you should not count on getting any serious computing done while you are here. Instead focus on lectures, interaction with your peers and lecturers, thinking, and the outdoors.
Campus athletic facilities (pool, weight-room, basketball court, ice rink, etc. ...) are available at the Student Recreation Center by showing your gold conference card and paying $5 per day or $20 per week.
HOURS:
Mon-Fri 6am - 10pm
Sat and Sun 11am - 9pm
There are many libraries on campus, but the most relevant one is the Lester Math/Physics Library located on the 1st floor of Duane Building, Rm. G140, right next door to the lecture room.
HOURS:
Mon-Thurs 7:30 am to 9 pm
Fri 7:30 am to 5 pm
Sat 12pm-5pm
Sun 12 pm to 7 pm
To check out books from the library you will have to sign up for all campus library privileges at the Circulation Desk in Norlin Library by presenting a photo ID.
Boulder and its surroundings offer a large spectrum of first rate outdoor recreational activities, which include hiking, mountain biking, running, rock and ice climbing, white water rafting, fishing, bird watching, outdoor concerts, and numerous local microbreweries. Chautauqua Park, an area right in front of the Flat Irons mountains (the logo appearing in most photos of Boulder), south-west of campus, is a must-visit park with a huge selection of trailheads, best heading to Green and Bear mountains. Another attraction, closer to campus is the Creek path, (just north, down hill of Duane Physics building), which runs along the Boulder Creek from the foothills, several miles west of town, to the prairie, several miles east. Pearl Street Walking Mall, located downtown Boulder, approximately 0.5 mile north of campus is also a must place to visit and to hang out in the evenings. If you have a car, I strongly recommend that you visit Rocky Mountain National Park, approximately 50 miles north-west of Boulder.
Bicycle rentals are available through the University (http://ubikes.com), and Boulder Bike Smith (http://boulderbikesmith.com). Boulder is extremely bicycle-friendly with numerous paths and racks around town.
For more details please consult information enclosed in your registration packet on hiking and Boulder surrounding or purchase one of many guides to the Boulder area.
If you want to receive mail while attending Boulder Summer School, please use the following address:
<your name>
Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Physics Department
CB 390 University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0390
Please make sure not to give out this address for something, e.g., magazine subscription, that will continue coming even after you leave the School.
The phone number for the Department of Physics is: (303) 492-6952
The phone number for the Boulder CM School administrative office is: (303)492-3367
The phone number for the Kittredge Commons is: (303)
492-6777
To receive a fax please use (303) 492-2998 for the fax machine in the Condensed Matter Laboratory (CML) on the 6th floor of Gamow Tower. Please make sure to tell fax sender to have "Boulder Summer School" clearly written out on the cover sheet in addition to your name, so that the departmental secretary who will not recognize your name will flag it as a fax for someone in the School.
University of Colorado and NSF does not take out any health or accident insurance for the lecturers and participants of the Boulder School; this is your individual responsibility.
To park at Kittredge Commons, you can purchase a 5 week permit from Parking services for $48.75 (rates will go up July 1st). Weekly permits are available at the front desk for $20 per week. Parking is allowed only in the lot listed on the permit.
Boulder is at an altitude of 1 mile above sea level. The weather is sunny, 80-90 Fahrenheit or even hotter during the day and drops by 10-20 degrees in the evening; the humidity is nonexistent (drink plenty of water!). While sunny weather is the norm around here, Boulder weather is notorious for quick changes, especially in the mountains. On hikes you will have to be prepared for bright sun, wind, rain, heat, cold, and snow, so hiking boots, long pants, a jacket and a hat as well as sunscreen are essential. For more information on the local weather see http://bcn.boulder.co.us/weather/local.html.
Boulder has a very extensive bus system. If you would like to visit a location beyond the vicinity of campus, visit http://rtd-denver.com/ for bus route information. For more detailed information about Boulder such as maps, weather, recreation see http://www.colorado.edu/visit/. For more information about the University of Colorado at Boulder, please see http://www.colorado.edu/.