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Art Meets Science

A Different Physics: The Poetics of Discovery

Presented by Lisa Rosenberg. How do poetic and scientific exploration create access and insight between domains? Can art created within the worlds of science...

Date Thursday, November 7, 2019
3:30 p.m.  –  5:00 p.m.  PT
Art Meets Science: A Different Physics
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Art Meets Science

Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime!

What is the nature of design and the meaning it holds in human life? What does it mean to design well? To design ethically...
Date Thursday, January 24, 2019
3:30 p.m.  –  5:00 p.m.  PT
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SLAC on Tap

Diamonds are (not) forever

In the film Diamonds are Forever, James Bond’s archnemesis uses diamonds to build a space-based  laser weapon that can blow up stuff on Earth...
Date Tuesday, June 25, 2019
6:00 p.m.  –  7:00 p.m.  PT
Location The Patio
An audience sits on a patio listening to a science talk and demonstration.
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Art Meets Science

Music for the Cosmos: An Exploration of Art & Physics

A visit to SLAC in October 2018 inspired Nitin Sawhney to create an original audio composition for two short visualization movies on the origins...

Date Tuesday, April 23, 2019
3:30 p.m.  –  5:00 p.m.  PT
Portrait Nitin Sawhney
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SLAC on Tap

What on earth do Maseratis, ice hockey and corgi puppies have to do with telescopes?

Presented by Margaux Lopez. 

Date Tuesday, April 30, 2019
6:00 p.m.  –  7:00 p.m.  PT
Location The Patio
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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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Community Day

STEM Community Day 2024

Thank you to all who joined us this year! 2024 event photos are available here.    STEM Community Day is a fun-filled event...
Date Saturday, October 5, 2024
1:00 p.m.  –  5:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Visitors watch a science demonstration at Community Day
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First microscopic movies of liquids getting vaporized by SLAC’s X-ray free-electron laser LCLS.