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John Sarrao

Lab Director

John Sarrao became SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s sixth director in October 2023. The lab’s ~2,000 staff advance the frontiers of science by exploring how...

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Tearing apart a million-dollar microscope – for science

Peter Dahlberg has combined two complex imaging techniques into one. The 2021 Panofsky Fellow adds cryo-ET and biosensors to fluorescence microscopy to give context...

October 4, 2023  ·  6 min read
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Groundbreaking study shows defects spreading through diamond faster than the speed of sound

A groundbreaking study shows defects spreading through diamond faster than the speed of sound 

October 5, 2023  ·  6 min read
Shocking a diamond with a high-power laser produced defects that propagated faster than the speed of sound.
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APS Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP)

The goal of APS CUWiP is to help undergraduate women continue in physics by providing them with the opportunity to experience a professional conference...

Date Friday, January 19, 2024  –  Sunday, January 21, 2024
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Solar eclipse viewing party

Let’s observe a magnificent partial solar eclipse together! In addition to telescope viewings, this event will also feature a livestream of the annular eclipse...

Date Saturday, October 14, 2023
8:30 a.m.  –  11:30 a.m.  PT
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Dr. Lev Okun Honored by the Open Society Institute

Dr. Lev Okun will receive a special award created by the Open Society Institute (George Soros, Chairman) in recognition of his work in support...

December 9, 1997  ·  1 min read
Lev Okun and Sidney Drell at the installation of the BaBar Coil at SLAC's IR2
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B Factory Achieves First Collisions

A sophisticated new "particle smasher" at Stanford University built to explore the difference between matter and antimatter came to life this week with the...

July 30, 1998
View down the tunnel of the Asymmetric B Factory.
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Energy Secretary Bill Richardson Dedicates New Research Facility at Stanford

Energy Secretary Bill Richardson today joined leading scientists from around the world at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) to dedicate a state-of-the-art research...

October 26, 1998
Bill Richardson
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Burton Richter to Step Down as SLAC Director

Burton Richter, Nobel Prize laureate and a pioneer of the colliders that now dominate high-energy physics, announced today that he will step down Aug...

November 23, 1998  ·  5 min read
Burton Richter
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U.S. Department of Energy Signs New Contract with Stanford University

It's finally happened. After extensions and delays, hand wringing and anxiety, the contract between Stanford University and the Department of Energy was signed on...

December 22, 1998  ·  2 min read
Jim Turner and Burter Richter at the official signing of the 400-odd page document.
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B Factory Leader Dorfan Named Third Director of SLAC

Jonathan Dorfan, associate director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and head of its B-Factory project, has been named SLAC's third director, President Gerhard...

February 22, 1998  ·  4 min read
Jonathan Dorfan
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ARGOS Mission Seeks New Information about Black Holes and Neutron Stars

A collaboration of astrophysicists from the Department of Defense's Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), and particle physicists from the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator...

March 2, 1999
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