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Jupiter in a Bottle: Extreme States of Matter in the Laboratory

Presented by Siegfried Glenzer. Normally we think of hydrogen as a gas.  But elsewhere in the universe, hydrogen under extreme pressure can exist in...

Date Tuesday, March 24, 2015
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Kavli Auditorium
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Public Lectures

Archaeopteryx: Bringing the Dino-Bird to Life

Some 150 million years ago, a strange creature died in a tropical lagoon that today is located in Bavaria, Germany. In 1861, a single...
Date Tuesday, January 25, 2011
11:30 a.m.  –  12:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium
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Public Lecture

Saving the Mary Rose: Synchrotrons and the Preservation of a Tudor Warship

The Mary Rose, built in 1511, was the flagship of King Henry VIII. She sank in 1545 while en route to confront the French...
Date Tuesday, October 2, 2012
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium
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Public lecture

Making Molecular Movies: 10,000,000,000,000 Frames per Second

Presented by Kelly Gaffney. Movies have transformed our perception of the world. With slow motion photography, we can see a hummingbird flap its wings...

Date Tuesday, December 12, 2006
11:30 a.m.  –  12:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium
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Public Lectures

Archimedes: Accelerator Reveals Ancient Text

Archimedes (287-212 BC), who is famous for shouting 'Eureka' (I found it) is considered one of the most brilliant thinkers of all times. The...
Date Tuesday, December 13, 2005
11:30 a.m.  –  12:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium
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Public Lecture

Shocking Origin: Meteor Impacts and the Chemistry of Life

Presented by Arianna Gleason. When and where life originated on Earth – and if, or where, life exists elsewhere in the cosmos – are...

Date Thursday, May 27, 2021
10:00 a.m.  –  11:00 a.m.  PT
A Camera for the Invisible: Bringing the Higgs Boson into Focus
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public lecture

How Science Unlocks Copper's Hidden Powers

Presented by Diana Gamzina. In particle accelerators, electrons are pushed to extreme energies by electromagnetic fields that oscillate inside evacuated metal cavities. Those cavities...

Date Tuesday, November 10, 2020
9:00 a.m.  –  10:00 a.m.  PT
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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...
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
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SLAC on Tap

Lasers not attached to sharks, ultrafast science and the quantum mechanics of your sunglasses

Join us for the inaugural SLAC on Tap event at The Patio in Palo Alto. SLAC scientist Alan Fry will chat about lasers not...
Date Tuesday, February 26, 2019
6:00 p.m.  –  7:00 p.m.  PT
Location The Patio
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Special Events

SSRL 50th anniversary celebration

Join us for a full day of talks and panel discussions looking at the past, present and future of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource...

Date Thursday, April 20, 2023
8:00 a.m.  –  5:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road Menlo Park, CA 94025
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Seminars and conferences

2023 SSRL/LCLS Users’ Meeting

This annual meeting is a unique opportunity to gather together the light source community in a single scientific event that includes numerous presentations in...

Date Sunday, September 24, 2023  –  Friday, September 29, 2023
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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
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