Lab Bookings

CIRMMT’s six centrally-located laboratories (8th floor, New Music Building) are a shared resource available to all members of the CIRMMT community for interdisciplinary, collaborative research projects.  CIRMMT laboratories are allocated on a per-experiment basis for a maximum of two months per booking.  Bookings of the laboratories are moderated by the Executive Committee (or delegates), whose goal is to implement an equitable use of the space.  Special priority is given to collaborative research projects involving two or more CIRMMT researchers from different disciplines.

All CIRMMT students and researchers (full, associate and affiliate) have card reader access to the Centre’s main doors.  Access to the CIRMMT labs and their related workstations is allocated according to the booking schedule.  Due to the Centre’s research mandate, CIRMMT laboratories are not to be used for teaching purposes.

Booking requests

• Please submit lab and equipment booking requests using the online booking system: http://booking.cirmmt.mcgill.ca.  If you do not have a username and password, contact our Technical Manager, Harold Kilianski, for assistance.
• Members can expect acknowledgment of booking requests within 48 hours from the CIRMMT technical team.  All booking requests that include technical assistance of any kind (including setup of equipment) are dependent on the availabilities of the technical staff. 
  
• In certain circumstances (lab booking only with no equipment, no technical help needed, etc.), the booking request will be automatically approved online and you will receive a booking confirmation immediately.  
• If a booking request is submitted by the 1st of the month prior to the month of the booking start date (for example, by January 1st for a February 12th booking), every effort will be made to accommodate the request.  Requests made after this deadline will be approved on a first-come first-served basis. 

• Booking cancellations must be made by 21:00 the evening before scheduled bookings.  Lab bookings may be released an hour from their starting time in the event that the requestors have not appeared for their booking.
  

Acknowledgment

It is expected that when CIRMMT labs are used in a research project, CIRMMT will be listed as part of the institutional affiliation in any publication. Example: “CIRMMT, Department X, University Y.”  As this is not possible for certain journals, which only list the university, use of CIRMMT labs should be recognized in the acknowledgements section.