Schedule
All times listed below are Pacific Standard Time (PST). Participants can also find this schedule upon arrival in their packets.
Speaker and Workshop descriptions are available in the Speakers and Workshops sections of this website, respectively.
If you require assistance getting between any of the locations please contact us (uw.cuwip2019@gmail.com).
Friday, January 18
3:00 - 5:00 pm ~ Optional Lab Tours (meet in front of the Physics main office, room C121, of PAC)
4:00 - 5:30 pm ~ Check-In at Intellectual House
5:30 - 6:00 pm ~ Welcome Addresses and 5-minute introduction to the Intellectual House
Dr. Marjorie Olmstead, Local Organizing Committee Co-chair
Dr. Suzanne Hawley, Divisional Dean of Natural Sciences at University of Washington
Dr. Katherine Wright, Senior Editor at American Physical Society
6:00 - 7:15 pm ~ Dinner sponsored by Amazon at Intellectual House
Plenary "What Does Access Really Mean?" by Dr. Mary James, Dean for Institutional Diversity at Reed College in Portland, OR
7:15 - 9:00 pm ~ Icebreakers, Trivia, and Improv for Networking at the Intellectual House
Saturday, January 19
7:30 - 8:30 am ~ Continental Breakfast sponsored by Google at
University Inn for participants staying at University Inn Hotel or
PAA Foyer (light breakfast) for all other participants
8:45-9:45 am ~ Plenary "An Uncharted Journey from Lab Rat to CEO" at PAA 102 by Alison Yates, cofounder and CEO of Knitrino in Seattle, WA
9:45 - 10:15 am ~ Coffee/Tea Break sponsored by Nion at PAA Foyer
10:15 - 10:40 am ~ Poster Session 1 sponsored by Research Corp at PAB Hallways. See Poster guidelines
10:45 - 12:15 pm ~ Keynote address at PAA 102 by Dr. Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
12:15 - 12:30 pm ~ Group Photo at Physics/Astronomy Mark McDermott Plaza
12:30 - 1:30 pm ~ Lunch sponsored by Research Corp at PAA Foyer and Hallway
1:30 - 1:55 pm ~ Poster Session 2 sponsored by Research Corp at PAB Hallways. See Poster guidelines
2:00 - 3:25 pm ~ Parallel Sessions at PAA classrooms
- More information can be found on the workshops page!
3:30 - 4:00 pm ~ Coffee/Tea Break sponsored by Microsoft at PAA Foyer
4:00 - 5:00 pm ~ Career Panel at PAA 102
5:00 - 5:15 pm ~ Walk to Husky Union Building
5:15 - 6:15 pm ~ Career Fair sponsored by Amazon at HUB Lyceum
6:15 - 7:30 pm ~ Dinner sponsored by Zemax at HUB Lyceum
8:00 - 9:30 pm ~ Physics Slam sponsored by Global Good at Kane 120
Welcome address and introductions by Kai-Mei Fu, Local Organizing Committee Co-chair
MCs Meredith Fore and Brynn MacCoy, UW PhD students
Sunday, January 20
7:30 - 8:30 am ~ Continental Breakfast sponsored by Google at
University Inn for participants staying at University Inn Hotel or
PAA Foyer (light breakfast) for all other participants
8:45 - 9:45 am ~ Plenary "From Planetary Scientist to NASA Educator: A Travelogue" at PAA 102 by Dr. Emily Schaller, Science and Communications Project Manager for the National Suborbital Research Center at the NASA Ames Research Center
9:45 - 10:25 am ~ Parallel Sessions at PAA classrooms
- More information can be found on the workshops page!
10:30 - 11:00 am ~ Coffee/Tea Break sponsored by Micro Encoder Inc. at PAA Foyer
11:00 - 11:40 am ~ Parallel Sessions at PAA classrooms
- More information can be found on the workshops page!
11:45 - 12:45 pm ~ Reflection activity at PAA 102
12:45 - 1:00 pm ~ StepUp4Women: Direct action to increase women in physics at PAA 102
Katherine Wright, Senior Editor for Physics (APS)
Kai Wright, Women’s Program Coordinator (APS)
1:15 - 2:15 pm ~ Brown Bag Lunch funded by donations through crowdfunding at PAA Foyer
2:15 - 2:30 pm ~ Closing Comments in PAA Foyer, Kai-Mei Fu, Local Organizing Committee Co-chair
Thank you to all local and national sponsors, including our crowd fundraising donors, whose generous gifts have made this and all CUWiP conferences possible
All UW buildings are easily search-able on Google Maps. Physics/Astronomy Auditorium (PAA), Physics/Astronomy B-wing (PAB) and Physics/Astronomy Tower C-wing (PAC) are easily accessible through the Physics/Astronomy courtyard which is identifiable by a large p-orbital (peanut-shaped) statue.
All conference locations (indicated on the map below) are on the University of Washington campus, and include:
The traditional name for wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House comes from the Luhshootseed language and is phonetically pronounced “wah-sheb-altuh", 4249 Whitman Ct NE, Seattle, WA 98195
