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Jonathan Dorfan and David Hitlin Receive 2016 Panofsky Prize

The American Physical Society has recognized both researchers for their leading role in SLAC’s BABAR experiment, which confirmed theorists’ description of how nature treats...

October 16, 2015  ·  5 min read
Jonathan Dorfan and David Hitlin
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Paul Fuoss Receives Lytle Award for Developing X-ray Technique to Better Explore Materials

A physicist at Argonne National Laboratory has been recognized for pioneering experiments at SLAC that helped establish a new way to study the structure...

October 19, 2015  ·  3 min read
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Symmetry Gets a New Look

Welcome to the Symmetry redesign!

October 20, 2015
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

Frightfully Smart Jack-o’-lanterns

These physics-themed jack-o’-lanterns come with extra brains.

October 20, 2015
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SLAC's Claudio Pellegrini Receives Fermi Award at White House

President Obama honored a SLAC and UCLA scientist for work that paved the way for the brightest sources of X-ray light on the planet.

October 21, 2015  ·  3 min read
Image - Claudio Pellegrini, right, talks with President Obama in the Oval Office on Tuesday. (Pete Souza/Official White House Photo)
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Stanford and SLAC Celebrate Arthur Bienenstock

An all-day symposium recognized the professor emeritus for his many contributions to the scientific community, from pioneering synchrotron radiation research at SSRL to making...

October 22, 2015  ·  5 min read
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VIA Symmetry Magazine

The Particle Physics Personality Quiz

What topic in particle physics are you destined to study? Take the quiz to find out!

October 27, 2015
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Cosmic Clue: The Dark Matter Mystery

The universe is full of giant structures like galaxies and clusters of galaxies. What holds them together? Over the past century, many diverse observations...
Date Tuesday, November 17, 2015
11:30 a.m.  –  12:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium (the New Science and User Support Building)
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Next up: A Turbocharged LHC

Physicists are already preparing upgrades that will increase the physics reach of the Large Hadron Collider in the next decade.

October 29, 2015
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Scientists Get First Glimpse of Conductivity That Could Break Size Barriers for Memory

A Stanford/SLAC study of an exotic material known as a magnetic insulator found the walls between its magnetic regions are conductive, opening new approaches...

October 29, 2015  ·  5 min read
An illustration of electrically conductive areas (blue) along the boundaries of tiny magnetic regions, or domains, in chunky grains of a material that normally doesn’t conduct electricity.
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First Neutrino Sightings by MicroBooNE

Researchers hope that the new experiment will shine light on how elementary neutrinos morph from one type into another.

November 2, 2015  ·  1 min read
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Winning photos from the 2015 SLAC physics photowalk

The SLAC Photowalk took a group of 17 photographers, ranging from amateur to professional, behind the scenes to photograph SLAC's world-class science facilities.

November 2, 2015  ·  1 min read
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