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Upcoming Event · Public Lectures

Catalytic Adventures in an X-ray Playground

Join us at the Kavli Building or online. Registration is required if you plan to attend in person. Catalysts are the unsung heroes of our modern age.  Working tirelessly behind the scenes, they find many applications that touch our lives...
Public Lecture: Adam Hoffman
Nov 20
Past Event · Community Day

STEM Community Day 2025

Join us for science fun at STEM Community Day on October 25 at SLAC!

A child looks at a light bulb while wearing glasses with diffraction lenses
UPDATE: This lecture has been postponed.  From our kitchens to our clothes to the delivery of medicines, plastics play an indispensable role in our daily lives. But, the end-life of these plastics is not always taken into account. Few types...
Public Lecture: Ozge Bozkurt
Past Event · Seminars and conferences

2025 SSRL/LCLS Users' Meeting

21-26 September 2025 at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Users' Meeting 2025
Electrons are tiny, charged particles with huge jobs: They hold all matter together, they drive the chemical reactions that power life, and they transport information and energy across the globe. Despite their importance, we still don’t fully understand how they...
A headshot of Taran Driver next to the SLAC on Tap logo with the words "Home brewed science" surrounding the logo
The world’s biggest digital camera was built at SLAC, and shipped to the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in northern Chile last year. This observatory has a goal no less ambitious than to map the entire the southern sky and...
Public Lecture: Travis Lange
Please join us for a workshop being hosted as part of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s X-ray and Ultrafast Strategic Initiative. The workshop is focused on advancing the durability of energy technologies through mastery of fundamental processes leading to material degradation...
Mastering Materials Durability for Next-Generation Energy Technologies
SLAC is hosting a workshop Driving critical chemical transformations with photons, electrons, and catalysts. The workshop will identify key approaches and opportunities to breathe new life into the structure-function paradigm foundational to the understanding of chemistry.
Driving Critical Chemical Transformations with Photons, Electrons, and Catalysts
At CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), protons collide at nearly the speed of light, unleashing a particle party that might reveal secrets beyond our wildest theories. But sifting through that data is like looking for a needle in a haystack—a...
SLAC on Tap Julia Gonski
Register to watch in person in the  Kavli Auditorium,  or watch the lecture live on our YouTube page.  For a decade, SLAC has been using its X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source, to explore the properties of matter at...
SLAC  Lecture | Revealing the Secrets of Transistors using Supercomputers