Parking options:
(CLOSEST) Lot 17 garage/Engineering Drive ramp (behind the Mechanical Engineering Building).
(IN CASE LOT 17 IS FULL) Union South parking garage (Lot 80) (Entrance off Dayton St.)
You can check parking availability here: http://transportation.wisc.edu/parking/lotinfo_occupancy.aspx
Check in - Enter the Materials Science Building from the entrance on University Avenue. Name tags and updated literature will be available at that time.
Hotel options:
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel 525 West Johnson Street, Madison, Wisconsin, 53703 TEL:(608)251-5511
Closest, but only 8 rooms available ($130/night)!
Reservation deadline is May 10, 2014. Book under Group code "ENGR"
Jon McCarthy, Ph.D. Director of Shared Facilities (608) 263-1073 E-mail: jjmccarthy@wisc.edu
Erin M. Gill, Ph.D. Administrative Director (608) 263-0612 E-mail: emgill@wisc.edu
Felix P. Lu, Ph.D. Asso. Instrumentation Innovator (608) 263-0612 E-mail: fplu@wisc.edu
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Overview
UW Madison is hosting a Shared Instrumentation Facilities open house on Thursday and Friday, June 5-6, 2014, to increase awareness of the unique and broad spectrum of capabilities within our characterization and fabrication laboratories. The open house is held in conjunction with the Midwest Microscopy and Microanalysis Society meeting (M3S) on in situ microscopy of materials, on Friday, June 6th, 2014 only (M3S Registration information).
The open house will be held in the Materials Science Building with specific functions next door in the Mechanical Engineering Building (final details to be announced when you check in).
Join us for tours, demos, refreshments and research & operations discussions involving the materials characterization and fabrication facilities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Engineering Quad.
For more information, please contact Dr. Jon McCarthy, Director of Shared Instrument Facilities.
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