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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
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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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SLAC ON TAP

A battery walks into a bar...

Presented by Johanna Nelson Weker. X-ray vision might sound like the stuff of superheroes and science fiction, but at SLAC’s Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource...

Date Monday, January 27, 2020
6:00 p.m.  –  7:00 p.m.  PT
Location The Old Pro
Staff scientist Johanna Nelson Weker gives a talk about pushing the battery revolution.
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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
Logo
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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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Public Lecture

Charging ahead: batteries of the future

Presented by Yi Cui, SLAC/Stanford University. To transform our energy sources to carbon neutrality, we need to power as much of modern society as...

Date Thursday, October 6, 2022
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in the Panofsky Auditorium in the Science…
public lecture art charging ahead: batteries of the future