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Upcoming 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
Oct 10
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  · 7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 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
Past Event · Public Lecture

Charging ahead: batteries of the future

Presented by Yi Cui, SLAC/Stanford University. To transform our energy sources to carbon neutrality, we need to power as much of modern society as possible with clean electricity.

Date Thursday, October 6, 2022  · 7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in the Panofsky Auditorium in the Science…
public lecture art charging ahead: batteries of the future