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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
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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

Carolyn Nelson

Chief Human Resource Officer & Interim Chief Diversity Officer
Portrait of Carolyn Nelson, SLAC's chief human resources officer

Craig Burkhart

Interim – Associate Lab Director, Fundamental Physics Directorate
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John Sarrao

Lab Director

John Sarrao became SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s sixth director in October 2023. The lab’s ~2,000 staff advance the frontiers of science by exploring how...

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Public Lectures

​​Primordial Pathway: A Legacy of Ancient Life on Earth

It is a mystery how the earliest organisms on earth evolved the means to thrive, grow and reproduce under the sparse conditions of the...
Date Thursday, October 10, 2024
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
Public Lecture: Macon Abernathy

Manuel Gnida

Head of External Communications

Manuel joined SLAC Strategic Communications & External Affairs in 2014. Before overseeing external communications, he managed SLAC's media relations program and wrote about the...

Manuel Gnida Portrait
Past Event
SLAC on Tap

What’s the (dark) Matter with our Universe? Rubin Observatory is on the Case!

Discovering millions of galaxies and unraveling the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy is far out! Join us at the Dutch Goose for...
Date Thursday, August 22, 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 Hannah Polleck

Arianna Gleason

Staff scientist and deputy director of SLAC's High Energy Density Science division
Headshot of Arianna Gleason

Alan Fry

Project director for SLAC’s Matter in Extreme Conditions Petawatt Upgrade (MEC-U)
Headshot of Alan Fry

Siegfried Glenzer

Professor of photon science and director of SLAC’s High Energy Density Science division
Headshot of Siegfried Glenzer