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Public Lectures

Humans Navigating Complexity with AI Helpers

Modern particle accelerator control rooms are like busy air traffic control centers, where skilled operators juggle hundreds of interconnected and time-sensitive tasks to generate...
Date Thursday, January 22, 2026
7:00 p.m.  –  8:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Auditorium
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Past Event
SLAC on Tap

Attoseconds, X-Ray Lasers, and Tracking Sub-Atomic Sheepdogs

Electrons are tiny, charged particles with huge jobs: They hold all matter together, they drive the chemical reactions that power life, and they transport...
Date Thursday, August 21, 2025
5:30 p.m.  –  7:30 p.m.  PT
Location The Dutch Goose, 3567 Alameda de las Pulgas Menlo Park, CA 94025
A headshot of Taran Driver next to the SLAC on Tap logo with the words "Home brewed science" surrounding the logo
Video

How Rubin will map the universe

Over the full 10-year survey, Rubin Observatory will produce half an exabyte of data. To make use of this data, teams of scientists and...
February 20, 2026
Video
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Seminars and conferences

Mastering Materials Durability for Next-Generation Energy Technologies

Please join us for a workshop being hosted as part of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s X-ray and Ultrafast Strategic Initiative. The workshop is focused...
Date Wednesday, June 25, 2025  –  Thursday, June 26, 2025
Mastering Materials Durability for Next-Generation Energy Technologies

Science Bowl

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

SLAC Regional Science Bowl 2020-competition photo
News Brief
VIA Berkeley Lab

DESI completes planned 3D map of the universe and continues exploring

SLAC scientists played key roles in leadership, survey design, cosmological  applications, studies of dark matter and of links to the cosmic microwave background.

April 15, 2026
Star trails over the Mayall Telescope.
News Brief

Light-controlled beta blockers show promise for new and improved medicines

Researchers used X-ray lasers to control a modified cardiovascular drug with light and captured snapshots showing how it binds to proteins.

April 6, 2026  ·  4 min read
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Feature

Primordial magnetic fields could resolve the Hubble tension and other cosmic mysteries

An international team of researchers simulated magnetic forces in the early universe and found they could bridge the gap between the observed and calculated...

March 13, 2026  ·  6 min read
A simulation of the distribution of matter in the early universe
Past Event
Community Day

STEM Community Day 2025

Join us for science fun at STEM Community Day on October 25 at SLAC!

Date Saturday, October 25, 2025
1:00 p.m.  –  5:00 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Science and User Support Building, Kavli …
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Links

A–Z index

A Accelerator on a Chip (ACHIP) Admin guide, Stanford All-employee memos Archives, History and Record Office (AHRO) ATLAS Atlas@SLAC 
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Multimedia

How NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory maps the universe every night

This video breaks down how Rubin will run the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and build a 10-year time lapse of the...

April 23, 2026  ·  1 min read
Rubin Observatory with the night sky and Milky Way in the background
News Brief

Groundbreaking instrument back online, marking a key milestone in high-energy upgrade to SLAC’s X-ray laser

The X-ray Pump Probe instrument is returning to normal operations this spring, anticipating a major capability boost when the high-energy beam comes online. 

April 29, 2026  ·  9 min read
Person in teal jacket leaning over perforated metal table, holding green panel near robotic arm in industrial laboratory setting.