Events archive

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Past Event · Seminars and conferences

2023 SSRL/LCLS Users’ Meeting

This annual meeting is a unique opportunity to gather together the light source community in a single scientific event that includes numerous presentations in the plenary, poster, and parallel sessions.

UED transition state
Past Event · Public Lecture

Clocking Electrons: an Attosecond Stopwatch

Register here  to watch in person in the  Kavli Auditorium,  or watch the lecture live on our YouTube page. Electrons in a molecule zip around the atom in times measured in billionths of a billionth of a second, or...
Public Lecture Siqi Li Poster
Milky Way above Rubin Observatory
Past Event · Special Event

Mysteries of the Universe & Time Machines

This week 200 members of the Cosmic Microwave Background Stage-4 (CMB-S4) collaboration are meeting at SLAC to focus on the continuing development of this science research project.  CMB-S4 and the next generation telescopes will provide measurements of the cosmic...
Mysteries of the Universe & Time Machines  Image
Register here  to watch in person in the  Kavli Auditorium,  or watch the lecture live on our YouTube page. The afterglow from the Big Bang, called the "cosmic microwave background radiation," serves as the backlight in a shadow...
Public Lecture Poster - Cosmic Shadow Theater: Casting Light on Galaxies
Past Event · KIPAC public lecture

Dark Matter Searches with Astrophysical Objects

In this lecture, Dr. Rebecca Leane will review a range of dark matter searches using celestial objects, including exoplanets, solar-system planets, the Sun, and the Earth.

A galaxy in space
Past Event · Seminars and conferences

SLAC Workshop on the Future of Nano/Microelectronics

Invited speakers from national labs, academia, and industry, will describe their thoughts on the future of nano/microelectronics.

SLAC Workshop on the Future of Nano/Microelectronics May 25-26, 2023
Past Event · Special Event

SSRL 50th anniversary celebration

Join us for a full day of talks and panel discussions looking at the past, present and future of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL).

Panofsky auditorium with SSRL 50th graphic
Past Event · Special Event

KIPAC 20th anniversary community day

This event is free, open to all, and family-friendly hosted by Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) at Stanford University, Science & Engineering Quad. 
Dwarf Galaxy 3.

Presented by Axel Levy.

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