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Blazing the path to a fusion future

Register here to join us in-person, or watch online.  Realizing usable electrical power from nuclear fusion has been a grand challenge for physicists and...
Date Thursday, October 8, 2026
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
Public Lecture: Arianna Gleason
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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

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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Shocking Origin: Meteor Impacts and the Chemistry of Life

Presented by Arianna Gleason. When and where life originated on Earth – and if, or where, life exists elsewhere in the cosmos – are...

Date Thursday, May 27, 2021
10:00 a.m.  –  11:00 a.m.  PT
A Camera for the Invisible: Bringing the Higgs Boson into Focus
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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…
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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
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The Runaway Universe

The Universe appears to be flat, accelerating and lightweight. In this talk, I will explain what these terms mean, how we developed this view...
Date Tuesday, October 26, 2004
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium
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Searching for Trolls under the Electron Bridge

Presented by Elizabeth Ryland

Date Thursday, January 25, 2024
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
public lecture poster illustration of electrons going over a bridge