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Arianna Gleason

Staff scientist and deputy director of SLAC's High Energy Density Science division
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Alan Fry

Project director for SLAC’s Matter in Extreme Conditions Petawatt Upgrade (MEC-U)
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Siegfried Glenzer

Professor of photon science and director of SLAC’s High Energy Density Science division
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Public Lectures

Microbes Mining Minerals: A New Route to Plant Cultivation

Register to watch in person in the  Kavli Auditorium,  or watch the lecture live on our YouTube page. Plants supply us with food, clothing...
Date Thursday, January 23, 2025
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
Public Lecture: Joycelyn Richardson

Erin Woodward

Science & Technology Communications Officer

Science & Technology Communications Officer

Erin Woodward

Chris Tassone

Associate Lab Director, Energy Sciences
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Past Event
public lecture

The Tug of War that Shapes the Universe

Presented by Justin Myles. As the universe expanded from the Big Bang, regions where the density of matter was higher than average grew into...

Date Thursday, September 30, 2021
10:00 a.m.  –  11:00 a.m.  PT
illustration of a tug of war in the universe
Past Event
public lecture

Photosynthesis: How Plants Build the Air We Breathe – Atom by Atom

Presented by Franklin Fuller. Over billions of years, plants and cyanobacteria changed the Earth’s atmosphere by inhaling carbon dioxide, storing the carbon in solid...

Date Thursday, November 18, 2021
9:00 a.m.  –  10:00 a.m.  PT
Public Lecture poster: picture of movie
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public lecture

Getting to the Core of Earth’s Magnetic Field by Ben Ofori-Okai

Presented by Ben Ofori-Okai. Earth’s magnetic field does more than just help us to navigate. It is also used by animals for orientation and...

Date Thursday, February 3, 2022
9:00 a.m.  –  10:00 a.m.  PT
Public lecture poster for Getting to the Core of Earth’s Magnetic Field
SLAC Experts

Daniel Ratner

Machine Learning Department Head

Areas of research: New technologies; machine learning; deep learning; artificial intelligence; accelerator physics; physics and machine learning

Physicist Daniel Ratner.
SLAC Experts

Wah Chiu

Professor at SLAC and Stanford Director of CryoEM and Bioimaging Division at SLAC

Areas of research: Science of life; cryo-EM; bioimaging; RNA structure; cryo-ET of neuronal cells; atomic-resolution cryo-EM; pandemic-related structures

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Norbert Holtkamp

Deputy Director 2014-2022

Norbert Holtkamp was SLAC's deputy director and project director for the construction of LCLS-II. He is a SLAC professor of photon science and of...

Portrait of Norbert Holtkamp