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Public Lecture Poster

10 Years of Cosmic Fireworks

Poster for public lecture presented by Eric Charles.
July 11, 2018
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10 Years of Cosmic Fireworks with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

Public lecture presented by Eric Charles

July 24, 2018  ·  01:08:03  runtime
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Photosystem II 

In photosystem II, the water-splitting center cycles through four stable states, S0-S3. On a baseball field, S0 would be...

May 12, 2020
Photosystem II
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Liquid Diamonds: New Materials at Pressures of the Earth’s Core

November 8, 2018
public lecture poster titled Liquid Diamonds: New Materials at Pressures of the Earth’s Core
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Liquid Diamonds: New Materials at Pressures of the Earth’s Core

Public lecture presented by Emma McBride

November 27, 2018  ·  01:03:26  runtime
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Making Waves in a Superconductor poster

January 10, 2019
Public lecture poster titled Making Waves in a Superconductor
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Brown Dwarfs poster

Public lecture presented by Presented by Eric Nielsen
June 26, 2019
Public lecture titled Brown Dwarfs: Failed Stars or Overachieving Planets?
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UED schematic

Schematic of  SLAC’s new apparatus for ultrafast electron diffraction – one of the world’s fastest “electron cameras” – researchers can study motions in materials...

July 10, 2019
UED schematic
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Brown Dwarfs: Failed Stars or Overachieving Planets?

Public lecture presented by Eric Nielsen

July 30, 2019  ·  01:12:54  runtime
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An electron bunch passes through hydrogen plasma

Animation illustrating the concept of the Trojan horse method. An electron bunch from SLAC’s FACET facility (bright spot at right) passes through hydrogen plasma...

August 9, 2019
An electron bunch passes through hydrogen plasma
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Turning CO2 from smokestacks into products

Researchers at Stanford and SLAC are working on ways to convert waste carbon dioxide (CO2) into chemical feedstocks and fuels...
September 9, 2019
Diagram of scheme for turning CO2 from smokestacks into products
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Super-Human Operator: Controlling Accelerators with Machine Learning 

Public lecture presented by Auralee Edelen
September 12, 2019
public lecture poster Super-Human Operator: Controlling Accelerators with Machine Learning
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