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Revealing nature’s fastest processes with X-rays, lasers and electrons
Studying the particles and forces that knit the cosmos together
Building smaller, faster, more powerful accelerators for all
Understanding the machinery of life at its most basic level
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Linac Coherent Light Source
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests
Cryogenic Electron Microscopy
Stanford Institute for Materials & Energy Science
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics & Cosmology
Stanford PULSE Institute
Center for Interface Science & Catalysis
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST
SLAC & Stanford build the world’s largest digital camera for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
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Reinventing the way we break down plastic waste
Thursday, March 26, 20267:00–8:00 p.m. PDT
Public lecture presented by Silvia Bonoli
Public lecture presented by Emanuel Strauss
Public lecture presented by Yasunobu Uchiyama
A drone circles the Rubin Observatory at sunset in 2024, just before it begins a 10-year survey of the southern sky.
A view of Cerro Pachón at sunset in 2024 shows the Rubin Observatory with Gemini South and SOAR in the distance, ahead of Rubin’s...
In about 10 hours of observations, NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory discovered 2,104 never-before-seen asteroids in our solar system, including seven near-Earth asteroids (which...
Made from over 1,100 images captured by NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the video begins with a close-up of two galaxies then zooms out...
Public lecture presented by Michael McGehee
Presented by Bill Schlotter
Public lecture presented by Lance Dixon
