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Cosmic Dawn: The First Star in the Universe

What was the first thing in the Universe? A black hole or a star? How did it form? Even our biggest and best telescopes...
Date Tuesday, April 29, 2008
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium
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The Dark Side of the Universe

Presented by Marusa Bradac. One of the greatest accomplishments in recent astrophysics is the creation of a model for the complete inventory of the...

Date Tuesday, August 28, 2007
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium
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A Comet on Earth: Results from the Stardust Mission

Presented by Sean Brennan. The Stardust mission returned from a 6-year voyage in January of 2006. During the mission it swept through the tail...

Date Tuesday, August 29, 2006
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium
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Space: The Hunt for Hidden Dimensions

Presented by JoAnne Hewett. Extra dimensions of space may be present in our universe. Their discovery would dramatically change our view of the cosmos...

Date Tuesday, April 25, 2006
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium
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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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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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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)
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KIPAC public lecture

The next decade of discovery with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Date Wednesday, September 13, 2023
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Milky Way above Rubin Observatory
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Public Lecture

Cosmic Shadow Theater: Casting Light on Galaxies

Presented by Emmanuel Schaan

Date Thursday, July 27, 2023
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
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Dark Matter Searches with Astrophysical Objects

In this lecture, Dr. Rebecca Leane will review a range of dark matter searches using celestial objects, including exoplanets, solar-system planets, the Sun, and...

Date Tuesday, July 18, 2023
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
A galaxy in space
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Caterina Vernieri

Assistant Professor of particle physics and astrophysics

Areas of research: Physics of the universe; particle physics; LHC physics with the ATLAS Experiment; Higgs boson; advanced accelerator R&D; future electron-positron collider R&D...

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The End of Spacetime

Spacetime and quantum mechanics are the pillars of our modern understanding of fundamental physics. But there are storm clouds on the horizon indicating that...
Date Wednesday, June 20, 2018
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
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