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Upcoming Event · Public Lectures

How we built the world's largest digital camera

Register to watch in person in the  Kavli Auditorium,  or watch the lecture live on our YouTube page.  Note: The lecture was originally scheduled for July 31. The updated date is now August 7. If you previously registered for a...
Date Thursday, August 7, 2025  · 7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
Public Lecture: Travis Lange
Aug 07
Past Event · Public Lectures

Revealing the Secrets of Transistors using Supercomputers

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...
Date Thursday, March 27, 2025  · 7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
SLAC Lecture | Revealing the Secrets of Transistors using Supercomputers
Past Event · Public Lectures

Microbes Mining Minerals: A New Route to Plant Cultivation

Register to watch in person in the  Kavli Auditorium,  or watch the lecture live on our YouTube page. Plants supply us with food, clothing, medicines, fuels, and other necessities of life.  For their growth, plants need essential minerals from the...
Date Thursday, January 23, 2025  · 7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
Public Lecture: Joycelyn Richardson
Past 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 CERN...
Date Thursday, December 5, 2024  · 7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
Public lecture illustration
Past Event · Public Lectures

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

It is a mystery how the earliest organisms on earth evolved the means to thrive, grow and reproduce under the sparse conditions of the young planet. Primordial earth had little oxygen and in the deep seas, no available light. One...
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