Nobel laureate Eric Cornell will give the commencement address and the University of Colorado at Boulder will confer 2,051 degrees during its winter commencement ceremony on Friday, Dec. 19.
Cornell is a senior scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder and an adjoint professor of physics at CU-Boulder.
The ceremony in the Coors Events/Conference Center will begin at 9:30 a.m. and last about one and a half hours. Guests are expected to be in their seats by 9:10 a.m. and early arrival is strongly suggested due to possible traffic delays, especially in the event of poor weather conditions. The university ceremony is free and open to the public and no tickets are required.
Guests also are asked not to bring large purses or bags to the ceremony, and guests entering the events/conference center may be subject to search.
Degrees awarded will include 1,507 bachelor's degrees, 393 master's degrees, 144 doctoral degrees and seven law degrees.
Cornell, along with CU-Boulder distinguished professor of physics Carl Wieman, received the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics for their landmark 1995 creation of the world's first Bose-Einstein condensate, a new form of matter created by cooling atoms to a few hundred billionths of a degree above absolute zero.
Cornell also is a fellow of JILA, a joint institute of CU-Boulder and NIST.
Free parking for guests will be available in various lots on campus and at all campus parking meters. Guests with disabilities who need additional assistance should contact the Office of Disability Services at (303) 492-8671.
Additional information about commencement, including a campus parking map, is available on the Web at .