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Presented by Sebastien Boutet. SLAC's X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source, launched a new generation of light sources when it opened 10 years...

stillframe from public lecture video Seeing is Exploding

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Giant planets can be up to 13 times the mass of Jupiter, while the least massive stars are about 80 times the mass of...

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Particle accelerators are used every day in a wide range of scientific, medical and industrial applications. But did you know that the task of...

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Presented by Sebastian Ellis. The nature of dark matter is one of the most captivating and fundamental open problems facing physicists today. Over many...

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

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Presented by Wah Chiu. Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a revolutionary technology for making 3D images of the inner workings of cells in much...

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At the center of the Earth, matter is crushed under pressures millions of times higher than we experience here on the surface. Pressures in...

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Presented by Rachael Kretsch. SARS-Cov-2 and other RNA viruses are formidable natural foes of humanity. To fight them, we must understand them better, especially...

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Presented by Cyndia Yu. Since the earliest times, we humans have attempted to understand and explain the world around us by observing our surroundings.

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Register to watch in person in the Kavli Auditorium, or watch the lecture live on our YouTube page. For a decade, SLAC has been...

SLAC Lecture | Revealing the Secrets of Transistors using Supercomputers

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At CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), protons collide at nearly the speed of light, unleashing a particle party that might reveal secrets beyond our...

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21-26 September 2025 at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Seeing is Exploding: Snapping Biological Images with X-ray Laser Blasts

Brown Dwarfs: Failed Stars or Overachieving Planets?

Super-Human Operator: Controlling Accelerators with Machine Learning

How to Bend a Stream of Dark Matter and Make it Shine

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

Cryo-EM: Amazing 3D Views of Life’s Molecular Machines

Liquid Diamonds: New Materials at Pressures of the Earth’s Core

Revolutionary 3D Views of Viral RNA Using Cryogenic Electron Microscopy

Seeing the Universe Through Quantum Eyes

Revealing the Secrets of Transistors using Supercomputers

The Fundamental Universe, Looking for Zebras, and the World’s Largest Demolition Derby

2025 SSRL/LCLS Users' Meeting