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Catalysis: the Hidden Path to Foods, Fuels and Our Future

Public lecture presented by Simon Bare

January 30, 2018  ·  00:58:34  runtime
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Mayall Telescope Star Trails

Star trails take shape around the 14-story Mayall Telescope dome in this long-exposure image.

February 9, 2018
Mayall Telescope Star Trails
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Paint-On Solar Cells: How the Magic Happens

Public lecture presented by Kevin Stone

November 28, 2017  ·  01:04:32  runtime
Stillframe image from public lecture Paint-on solar cells
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Molecular layers in battery electrolyte 

An illustration of electrolyte molecules arranging themselves into layers within a few nanometers of a battery electrode.

February 22, 2018
Illustration of molecular layers in battery electrolyte
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Improving Batteries from the Atoms Up

Presented by Yijin Liu. In batteries, energy is stored in tiny particles within the electrodes that individually breathe in and out and chemically evolve...

Date Thursday, February 11, 2021
9:00 a.m.  –  10:00 a.m.  PT
Public Lecture | Improving Batteries from the Atoms Up presented by Yijin Liu
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A Camera for the Invisible: Bringing the Higgs Boson into Focus

Presented by Caterina Vernieri. The Higgs boson was discovered in 2012 at the world’s most powerful particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in...

Date Thursday, March 25, 2021
10:00 a.m.  –  11:00 a.m.  PT
At SLAC we are constructing the core of the biggest and fastest camera ever built to capture the Higgs boson in action.
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Vera Rubin, giant of astronomy

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will be named for an influential astronomer who left the field better than she found it.

January 7, 2020
Vera Rubin
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Public Lecture

A Sparkle in the Dark: The Outlandish Quest for Dark Matter

Presented by Maria Elena Monzani. The nature and origin of dark matter are among the most compelling mysteries of contemporary science.

Date Tuesday, January 28, 2020
11:30 a.m.  –  12:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium, Science and User Support Building (B53)
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Imaging sensors installed in LSST ComCam

The LSST camera integration and testing team inserted a raft of nine imaging sensors into the body of the ComCam. This miniature version of...

March 5, 2019
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Light dark matter is a thousand times less likely to bump into regular matter than previous astrophysical analyses allowed

A SLAC/Stanford study of the population of satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way provides new clues about the particle nature of dark matter.

July 11, 2019  ·  6 min read
Dark matter simulation
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DESI points 5,000 robotic ‘eyes’ at the sky to explore dark energy

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument begins final testing, setting the stage for a 5-year survey that will analyze the light of 35 million galaxies.

October 28, 2019  ·  7 min read
DESI ‘eyes’
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Public lecture

10 Years of Cosmic Fireworks with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

Presented by Eric Charles. A single gamma ray carries millions of times the energy of a single photon of visible light.  This means that...

Date Tuesday, July 24, 2018
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium, Science and User Support Building (B53)
stillframe image from lecture titled 10 Years of Cosmic Fireworks with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope