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Community Day

Community Day 2019

Community Day is an evening of enriching activities to learn about science and have fun doing it.

Date Saturday, October 19, 2019
5:00 p.m.  –  9:00 p.m.  PT
Scientist wearing a hard had showing a young person how to do a science experiment.
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Public Lectures

Radio Axion: Tuning in to the Dark Matter Airwaves

Presented by Chelsea Bartram

Date Thursday, August 1, 2024
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
Public Lecture: Chelsea Bartram

Facilities and centers at SLAC

Facilities at SLAC with SPEAR3 at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) to the left and Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) hutch to the right. 

September 29, 2022
Facilities at SLAC with SPEAR3 at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) to the left and Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) hutch to the right.
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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
Public Lecture Siqi Li Poster

Attosecond pulses

In two recent experiments, SLAC researchers demonstrated new methods to use attosecond pulses in pump-probe experiments and generate high-power attosecond...
May 13, 2024
attosecond pulses
Public Lecture Poster

Expecting the Unexpected with AI at Particle Colliders

December 6, 2024
Poster illustration of public lecture featuring Julia Gonski
Public Lecture Poster

Primordial Pathway: A Legacy of Ancient Life on Earth

October 11, 2024
Poster illustration of public lecture featuring Macon Abernathy
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Public Lectures

Expecting the Unexpected with AI at Particle Colliders

Register to watch in person in the  Kavli Auditorium,  or watch the lecture live on our YouTube page.  In particle physics, we search for...
Date Thursday, December 5, 2024
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
Public lecture illustration
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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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SLAC on Tap

Shocking to the Core: Adventures in Earth Science

Double your pressure, double your fun! Join us for SLAC on Tap on May 9, when SLAC scientist and rock star Arianna Gleason will...

Date Thursday, May 9, 2024
5:00 p.m.  –  7:00 p.m.  PT
Location The Dutch Goose, 3567 Alameda de las Pulgas Menlo Park, CA 94025
SLAC on tap promo with Arianna Gleason
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Public lecture

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
stillframe public lecture jupiter in a bottle
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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
SLAC on Tap event series poster