California Institute of Technology

California Institute of Technology dedicated a new research laboratory and a new accelerator at separate ceremonies held in Pasadena last month. The five-story Alfred P. Sloan Laboratory of Mathematics and Physics, converted from Caltech's old high-voltage experimentation laboratory, will provide 50 000 square feet of floor space for the school's fast-growing mathematics program and for expanding work in theoretical and experimental physics. The building houses a new low-temperature laboratory and a new accelerator laboratory, and the upper three floors contain offices for faculty members and graduate students in mathematics, as well as conference and seminar rooms, a lecture hall, and a library. The new structure was made possible by a gift to Caltech from the Sloan Foundation of New York.