Ginsburg Center for Quantum Precision Measurement

The Ginsburg Center will include a 4-story main building with office and collaborative spaces, and a seminar pavilion, a multi-purpose space for seminars, lectures, and special events, connected by a breezeway that will provide a pre-event staging area and entrance to both spaces. Unbeknownst to the casual passerby, the above-grade structures will be bolstered by an invisible world below, where much of the cutting-edge quantum and gravity wave research will take place. A subterranean laboratory space will provide necessary vibration and light control, and a tunnel will provide access to the adjacent building.

Research in the Ginsburg Center will include Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) future technology and precision engineering, the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM), Condensed Matter/Quantum Theory, and an Atomic, Molecular, and Optical (AMO)-based experiment.

The project is in the design development phase; construction is expected to begin in 2024, with occupancy anticipated for summer 2026.

Ginsburg Center Construction FAQs

For more information, refer to Facilities AVP David Kang's Ginsburg Center Construction Update and Impact to Campus Access and Parking memo or contact dandc@caltech.edu with any questions.

Additional campus closures announced June 2024, here.