More than 300 gathered for a day-long symposium to celebrate the history and future of the pioneering X-ray laser.

He helped lay the groundwork for SLAC’s LCLS X-ray laser and for the institute, which was founded to explore the science LCLS would enable.

Using a 5,000-mile network loop operated by ESnet, researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) recently transferred 1 petabyte in 29 hours, with encryption and checksumming, beating last year's record by 5 hours, an almost 15 percent improvement.

A team of electrical designers develops specialized microchips for a broad range of scientific applications, including X-ray science and particle physics.