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To achieve our ambitious goals and keep SLAC a great place to work, the lab needs a creative, diverse and united workforce – people with a wide variety of experiences and ideas, skills and backgrounds. SLAC people are scientists, engineers...

Here you will find a list of links most frequently visited by SLAC employees.

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory offers free educational tours (transportation not included). Tours last approximately 90 minutes, and tour locations may vary according to site availability and group interests.

SLAC will be hosting two  annual Regional Science Bowls for teams of Bay Area high school and middle school students in 2026.

Modern technology creates new opportunities for society: Just think about how artificial intelligence has changed our cars and cell phone apps.

SLAC develops and deploys some of the world’s most advanced scientific tools for exploring how the universe works at the biggest, smallest and fastest scales. Here we explain how they work and the exciting discoveries they make possible.

The lab is organized into six scientific directorates, each of which plays an important role in advancing our lab, backed by our core operations teams all supporting our shared mission.

In 1962, in the rolling hills west of Stanford University, construction began on the longest and straightest structure in the world.