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Past Event · Public Lecture

Searching for Trolls under the Electron Bridge

Register here to watch in person in the  Kavli Auditorium,  or watch the lecture live on our YouTube page. Plants draw energy for all their chemical reactions from sunlight. Why can't we? In theory, this can be done by building...
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

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...
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

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...
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
Past Event · Public Lecture

Seeing the Universe Through Quantum Eyes

Presented by Cyndia Yu. Since the earliest times, we humans have attempted to understand and explain the world around us by observing our surroundings.

Date Thursday, June 2, 2022  · 12:00 p.m.  –  1:00 p.m.  PT
illustration of universe and human eye
Past Event · Public lecture

Revolutionary 3D Views of Viral RNA Using Cryogenic Electron Microscopy

Presented by Rachael Kretsch. SARS-Cov-2 and other RNA viruses are formidable natural foes of humanity. To fight them, we must understand them better, especially their main component, RNA.

Date Thursday, April 7, 2022  · 10:00 a.m.  –  11:00 a.m.  PT
video still frame of public lecture about revolutionary 3-D views of viral RNA
Past Event · public lecture

Getting to the Core of Earth’s Magnetic Field by Ben Ofori-Okai

Presented by Ben Ofori-Okai. Earth’s magnetic field does more than just help us to navigate. It is also used by animals for orientation and migration,  and it protects life on Earth from charged particles that stream in from the sun...

Date Thursday, February 3, 2022  · 9:00 a.m.  –  10:00 a.m.  PT
Public lecture poster for Getting to the Core of Earth’s Magnetic Field