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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
SLAC on Tap event series poster
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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
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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 Lectures

How we built the world's largest digital camera

The world’s biggest digital camera was built at SLAC, and shipped to the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in northern Chile last year. This...
Date Thursday, August 7, 2025
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
Public Lecture: Travis Lange
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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
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Public lecture

What in the cell is going on?

Presented by Peter  D. Dahlberg. Viewing cellular machinery at the nanoscale. 

Date Thursday, January 26, 2023
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium, SLAC, Building 53
cryo-EM image of Caulobacter bacterium
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Special Events

SSRL 50th anniversary celebration

Join us for a full day of talks and panel discussions looking at the past, present and future of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource...

Date Thursday, April 20, 2023
8:00 a.m.  –  5:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road Menlo Park, CA 94025
Panofsky auditorium with SSRL 50th graphic
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Special Events

KIPAC 20th anniversary community day

This event is free, open to all, and family-friendly hosted by Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) at Stanford University, Science &...
Date Saturday, April 15, 2023
1:00 p.m.  –  5:00 p.m.  PT
Location Stanford University, Science & Engineering Quad
Dwarf Galaxy 3.
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Public Lecture

Capturing Molecular Motion using Artificial Intelligence

Presented by Axel Levy.

Date Thursday, April 6, 2023
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location Kavli Auditorium, SLAC, Building 51
public lecture poster image
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Special Events

Mysteries of the Universe & Time Machines

This week 200 members of the Cosmic Microwave Background Stage-4 (CMB-S4) collaboration are meeting at SLAC to focus on the continuing development of...
Date Tuesday, August 1, 2023
6:30 p.m.  –  7:30 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Trinity Room
Mysteries of the Universe & Time Machines Image