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January 9, 2018
News Feature
Q&A: Alan Heirich and Elliott Slaughter Take On SLAC’s Big Data Challenges
As members of the lab’s Computer Science Division, they develop the tools needed to handle ginormous data volumes produced by the next generation of scientific discovery machines.
SLAC Computer Science Team
November 21, 2017
News Feature
Photos: LSST Camera's First Sensor Array Arrives
21 of these "science rafts" will go into the world's largest digital camera for astronomy, which is being assembled and tested at SLAC.
First LSST Science Raft
November 7, 2017
News Feature
Symmetry: An International Celebration of Dark Matter
Around the world, scientists and non-scientists alike celebrated the first international Dark Matter Day.
October 23, 2017
News Feature
SLAC’s Risa Wechsler Named American Physical Society Fellow
The astrophysicist is recognized for her leadership, mentorship and innovative work in understanding how galaxies form.
August 30, 2017
Press Release
Artificial Intelligence Analyzes Gravitational Lenses 10 Million Times Faster
Menlo Park, Calif.
Neural Nets and Gravitational Lenses
August 3, 2017
Press Release
Standard Model of the Universe Withstands Most Precise Test by Dark Energy Survey
SLAC and Stanford astrophysicists made crucial contributions to the galaxy survey, showing that the universe clumps and expands as predicted by our best cosmological models.
Blanco Telescope
July 3, 2017
News Feature
Scientists Complete the First “Science Raft” for the LSST
The raft is part of the sensor array that will make up the crucial camera segment of the telescope.
April 10, 2017
News Feature
Delving Into the 'Dark Universe' with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Two astrophysicists and a theoretical physicist discuss how the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will probe the nature of dark matter and dark energy by taking an unprecedentedly enormous scan of the sky.
January 12, 2017
News Feature
Symmetry: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Supernova
Using Twinkles, the new simulation of images of our night sky, scientists get ready for a gigantic cosmological survey unlike any before.
December 20, 2016
News Feature
Symmetry: 2016 year in particle physics
Scientists furthered studies of the Higgs boson, neutrinos, dark matter, dark energy and cosmic inflation and continued the search for undiscovere

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