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Upcoming Event · Public Lectures

Expecting the Unexpected with AI at Particle Colliders

Register to watch in person in the  Kavli Auditorium,  or watch the lecture live on our YouTube page.  In particle physics, we search for new elementary particles that signal extensions of the fundamental interactions of nature. Experiments at the...
Date Thursday, December 5, 2024  · 7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
Upcoming Event flyer
Dec 05
Past Event · Public Lectures

​​Primordial Pathway: A Legacy of Ancient Life on Earth

Register to watch in person in the  Kavli Auditorium,  or watch the lecture live on our  YouTube page. It is a mystery how the earliest organisms on earth evolved the means to thrive, grow and reproduce under the sparse conditions...
Date Thursday, October 10, 2024  · 7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
Public Lecture: Macon Abernathy
Past Event · Public Lectures

Radio Axion: Tuning in to the Dark Matter Airwaves

Presented by Chelsea Bartram

Date Thursday, August 1, 2024  · 7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
Public Lecture: Chelsea Bartram
Past Event · Public Lectures

Mercury Rising: The Toxicology of a Global Pollutant

Presented by Ashley James

Date Thursday, May 23, 2024  · 7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Public Lecture: Ashley James
Past Event · Public Lecture

Searching for Trolls under the Electron Bridge

Presented by Elizabeth Ryland

Date Thursday, January 25, 2024  · 7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
public lecture poster illustration of electrons going over a bridge
Past Event · Public Lecture

Faster! Catching up to electrons on the move

Presented by Taran Driver

Date Thursday, November 30, 2023  · 7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
Taran Driver Public Lecture
Past Event · Public Lecture

Clocking Electrons: an Attosecond Stopwatch

Presented by Siqi Li

Date Thursday, September 21, 2023  · 7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
Public Lecture Siqi Li Poster
Past Event · Public Lecture

Cosmic Shadow Theater: Casting Light on Galaxies

Presented by Emmanuel Schaan

Date Thursday, July 27, 2023  · 12:00 p.m.  –  1:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
Public Lecture Poster - Cosmic Shadow Theater: Casting Light on Galaxies
Past Event · Public Lecture

Capturing Molecular Motion using Artificial Intelligence

Presented by Axel Levy.

Date Thursday, April 6, 2023  · 7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location Kavli Auditorium, SLAC, Building 51
public lecture poster image
Past Event · Public lecture

What in the cell is going on?

Presented by Peter  D. Dahlberg. Viewing cellular machinery at the nanoscale. 

Date Thursday, January 26, 2023  · 7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium, SLAC, Building 53
cryo-EM image of Caulobacter bacterium