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One of 17 national laboratories supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, SLAC is also marking its 60th anniversary this year.

Aerial view of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Under his 10-year leadership, the lab has significantly expanded its research and impact.

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Secretary of Energy Rick Perry speaks at a town hall meeting with SLAC staff

SLAC hosts a range of exciting events to raise awareness, inform, educate and connect with sitewide staff, Stanford, local communities and the general public.

The award celebrates Huang’s achievements studying atom-scale physics with fast X-ray pulses.

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Ghostly X-ray images could provide key info for analyzing X-ray laser experiments.

SLAC Recent History (1990s-today NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Camera module) – Building the largest digital camera for a 10-year survey of the universe in search of dark matter and a detailed mapping of our solar system, such as...

Building the largest digital camera for a 10-year survey of the universe

From social media to market analysis, people use pattern recognition and machine learning to sift through enormous amounts of data and reach new levels of understanding. Now scientists are using those same tools to track millions of individual molecules as...

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Stanford signs new five-year contract to manage SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Chi-Chang Kao to step down as SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory director

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Yijing Huang wins 2022 LCLS Young Investigator Award for work on controlling unique structures of semiconductors

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