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Making Waves in a Superconductor

Superconductors are materials in which electric current flows freely, without resistance. They are used to create the powerful magnetic fields needed to operate MRI...
Date Tuesday, January 29, 2019
11:30 a.m.  –  12:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium, Science and User Support Building (B53)
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3D Printing for Perfect Metal Parts

Presented by Christopher Tassone. Throughout human history, improvements in the structure of metals have been essential to the sharpness of swords and the strength...

Date Tuesday, March 26, 2019
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium, Science and User Support Building (B53)
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Seeing is Exploding: Snapping Biological Images with X-ray Laser Blasts

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...

Date Tuesday, May 21, 2019
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium, Science and User Support Building (B53)
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Brown Dwarfs: Failed Stars or Overachieving Planets?

Giant planets can be up to 13 times the mass of Jupiter, while the least massive stars are about 80 times the mass of...
Date Tuesday, July 30, 2019
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium, Science and User Support Building (B53)
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Super-Human Operator: Controlling Accelerators with Machine Learning

Particle accelerators are used every day in a wide range of scientific, medical and industrial applications. But did you know that the task of...
Date Tuesday, October 1, 2019
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium, Science and User Support Building (B53)
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How to Bend a Stream of Dark Matter and Make it Shine

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

Date Tuesday, November 19, 2019
11:30 a.m.  –  12:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium, Science and User Support Building (B53)
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10 Years of Cosmic Fireworks with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

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

Date Tuesday, July 24, 2018
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium, Science and User Support Building (B53)
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Cryo-EM: Amazing 3D Views of Life’s Molecular Machines

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...

Date Tuesday, September 25, 2018
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium, Science and User Support Building (B53)
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Liquid Diamonds: New Materials at Pressures of the Earth’s Core

At the center of the Earth, matter is crushed under pressures millions of times higher than  we experience here on the surface.  Pressures in...
Date Tuesday, November 27, 2018
11:30 a.m.  –  12:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium, Science and User Support Building (B53)
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Revolutionary 3D Views of Viral RNA Using Cryogenic Electron Microscopy

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...

Date Thursday, April 7, 2022
10:00 a.m.  –  11:00 a.m.  PT
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Seeing the Universe Through Quantum Eyes

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

Date Thursday, June 2, 2022
12:00 p.m.  –  1:00 p.m.  PT
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Revealing the Secrets of Transistors using Supercomputers

Register to watch in person in the  Kavli Auditorium,  or watch the lecture live on our YouTube page.  For a decade, SLAC has been...
Date Thursday, March 27, 2025
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
SLAC Lecture | Revealing the Secrets of Transistors using Supercomputers