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      Revealing nature’s fastest processes with X-rays, lasers and electrons

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      Studying the particles and forces that knit the cosmos together

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      Building smaller, faster, more powerful accelerators for all

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Seeing the Universe Through Quantum Eyes

Public lecture presented by Cyndia Yu

June 2, 2022  ·  01:01:43  runtime
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Seeing the Universe Through Quantum Eyes

September 22, 2022
poster for public lecture called Seeing the universe through quantum eyes
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SLAC's LSST Camera inside clean room

The LSST Camera is being tested inside the clean room at SLAC

September 22, 2022  ·  00:00:30  runtime
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SLAC full campus

Aerial view of SLAC’s   campus. Stanford campus and Hoover tower can be seen in the distance.

September 22, 2022
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Sunrise timelapse of SSRL

Sunrise timelapse of SSRL (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource)

September 22, 2022
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SLAC's LCLS-II First Light celebration

View of SLAC’s LCLS-II First Light celebration on October 26th 2023 with DOE Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and LCLS team
September 22, 2022
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Chitosanase crystals

Crystals of the soil virus AMG product (chitosanase) at 400x magnification. Individual crystals were cryo-cooled in liquid nitrogen before being...
August 12, 2022
Crystals of the soil virus AMG product (chitosanase) at 400x magnification.
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Array of rainbow-tinted views

August 9, 2022
an array of rainbow-tinted views of a tiny 3D object that spells "DOE"
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Topological insulator

August 17, 2022
Against a black background, thin, glowing red wires at top impinge on the hexagonal surface of a translucent mass. Small white dots travel along the edges of the surface in two directions. Within the mass, two orange cones meet at their tips.
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SLAC’s vintage ACE3P software

With help from two small businesses, SLAC’s vintage ACE3P software is spreading its wings to make supercomputing easier and faster.

August 22, 2022
A large, complex shape is seen against a blue background crisscrossed with white lines. The shape is dark blue and resembles a brick partially topped with a thick shark’s fin. Three areas of bright red, orange and green, are on the shape’s bottom edge.
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SLAC’s ACE3P Software

To find the best possible shape for an accelerator component (left), researchers often have to tweak a number of factors...
August 22, 2022
A diagram shows a curvy gray shape before (left) and after its shape is optimized by trimming away a section shown in green. A chart at center shows blue and red lines converging on an ideal target value over a number of simulation runs.
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LCLS-II 2k cooldown

August 30, 2022
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