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Jeney Wierman stands in the control room of SSRL. She, along with other members of the Structural Molecular Biology team...

Jeney Wierman of SLAC’s Structural Molecular Biology team

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Images of frost and a thermometer superimposed over an aerial view of an accelerator building.

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A cross section of the LCLS-II accelerator showing where liquid and gaseous helium flow in and out of the system.

Cross section showing pipes and liquid and gas helium

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Drone photo of the team working on LCLS-II cryoplant.

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The Laser Science and Technology (LST) division of the LCLS provides operational support for laser systems used in the LCLS...

Past Event

Presented by Aaron Lindenberg. As we reach the limits of high-speed computation based on silicon, ideas for the next generation of computers have focused...

Scientific facility

SSRL produces extremely bright X-ray light for probing our world at the atomic and molecular level. More than 1,600 scientists from all over the world use it each year for research that spurs advances in medicine, energy production, environmental cleanup...

Using X-rays from SSRL, Chuntian Cao maps silicon as it cycles within a battery.

News Feature

The Stanford Board of Trustees held its first meeting of the 2022-23 academic year Oct. 17-18. Trustees toured the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and...

News Feature

Once built, the system could produce fast X-ray pulses ten times more powerful than ever before.

illustration of an electron beam traveling through a niobium cavity – a key component of SLAC’s future LCLS-II X-ray laser.

SLAC EXPERTS

Areas of research: S3DF (SLAC Shared Science Data Facility); evaluating technologies for massive scale analytics; forming partnerships with technology providers; developing and recruiting computing...

SLAC Experts

Areas of research: New technologies; machine learning; deep learning; artificial intelligence; accelerator physics; physics and machine learning

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NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST

Careers at SLAC

Revealing the Secrets of Transistors using Supercomputers

Jeney Wierman at SSRL

LCLS-II 2k cooldown

Cross section of cryomodule

Cryoplant team

Amedeo Perazzo on Data Management at LCLS

LCLS laser lab

Leaving Transistors in the Dust: Visualizing the Next Computing Revolution

Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL)

‘Real-world impact’: Stanford Board of Trustees learns how SLAC can change the future

Researchers adapt a Nobel Prize-winning method to design new, ultra-powerful X-ray systems

Adeyemi Adesanya

Daniel Ratner