🏅 Congratulations to SLAC Professor Emerita Helen Quinn, who has won the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze's Matteucci Medal! Quinn is noted for her work in theoretical physics concerning axions and puzzles in the Standard Model of particle physics. She is the fourth woman ever to receive the prize, which was first awarded in the nineteenth century. Read more: https://bit.ly/3y1xhVy
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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What started as a group of 200 people, all focused on a single project – to build and operate the world’s longest linear accelerator – has grown over the last 60 years into a large and diverse workforce that performs and supports cutting-edge research across a variety of disciplines. Our 1,700 employees include scientists, engineers, technicians and specialists in a wide range of operational support areas, from human resources and business services to facilities, security and maintenance, all working together in a collaborative environment. SLAC employs the best and brightest minds in their fields, and every member of our staff, working individually and in teams, makes important contributions to our success. By tapping into the interest and motivation of our employees and offering guidance and opportunities for development, we seek to provide an enriching work environment. As Stanford employees, SLAC staff members have the opportunity to partner with other world-class talent at one of the world’s best universities and can also take advantage of the many educational and social opportunities that Stanford offers.
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https://www6.slac.stanford.edu
External link for SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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- Research Services
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- 1,001-5,000 employees
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- Menlo Park, California
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- Government Agency
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- 1962
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- Electron-based accelerator research and technology, Theory and innovative techniques for data analysis, modeling, and simulation in Photon Science, Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics, and Particle detector research and technology
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2575 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, California 94025, US
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🌚 About 2,200 people took part in hands-on science activities, performances, lectures, and exhibits at Sanford Underground Research Facility's #NeutrinoDay celebration this year. Check out the recap: https://bit.ly/3W0O7vO
The view from Neutrino Day 2024
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Less than one month to go until the Integrated Chemical Imaging workshop! Register to attend from the comfort of your own office or home and tune in on Aug. 12-13: https://bit.ly/4d1hqFq This workshop focuses on how to integrate microstructural and microscale chemical information using multiple techniques, and implementing such data in Earth system model development. Hosted by the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
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Scientist | Mentor | Head of Laboratory at Paul Scherrer Institute | Associate Prof at University of Zurich
Last week, after visiting the Advanced Light Source, Ryan Baumbach and I went across the bay to get to know the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. It was an equally exciting and impressive visit and I am grateful to John Sarrao for hosting us and giving us this opportunity to learn about current and future plans for LCLS, LCLS-II (and LCLS-II-HE) and SSRL, and strategies to deal with future demands for data and computing. Many thanks also go to Andrea Reed for the flawless organization of the visit! We enjoyed the fantastic discussions with Bob Schoenlein, Christopher Tassone, Leilani C., Carla Laasch, Jana Thayer, and John Schmerge. It was particularly interesting to talk to some of the junior staff members as well and learn about their work on imaging, spectroscopy, protein crystallography and quantum materials research. Molleigh Preefer, Ailiena Maggiolo and Vivek Thampy (We spoke to some more but I couldn’t remember all the names). As a bonus, I had a very interesting exchange with Jennifer Fowlie on helimagnets after my seminar. I would like to thank all of you for this great visit! And also thanks to James Cryan for the nice SLAC Photon Science Seminar Mug!
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I am very excited to share my position at Stanford University's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory as a software engineer intern! This summer I'm collaborating with an amazing team to translate economic experimental projects to an accessible programming language. Thank you to the SAGE Journey (Science Accelerating Girl's Engagement Program) for this internship opportunity and community since 2020. I look forward to learning with the GISMo team (Grid Integration Systems and Mobility). #stanforduniversity #SLAC #SAGEjourney #departmentofenergy
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Internship Spotlight: Sarah Cole is a Materials Science and Engineering student at Boise State, and a Research Intern at the SLAC-Stanford Battery Center at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory this summer. She is researching materials for energy storage. Go Broncos! Boise State College of Engineering
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Registration is open for the From Innovation to Manufacturing: California’s Battery Ecosystem conference co-organized with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. We hope you can join us for deep discussions on advanced manufacturing of batteries in California.
Battery Manufacturing Conference
energystorage.lbl.gov
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Experienced Innovator and Business Leader in Sustainability and Tech | Project and Product Director | 2021 Women in Tech Global Awards finalist
It was great reconnecting with an old friend from ALBA Synchrotron, this time at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Back to past memories while touching the future! Life has a way of bringing us delightful surprises—what a gracious quantum glitch! Moltes gràcies per la visita Xavier Permanyer Bel!
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I was privileged today to deliver a talk as an invited speaker—my first—about the 4 summers I spent as an intern at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and LCLS from 2016-2019 and where they’ve led me in my scientific career. My goal was to prepare the interns for the unexpected: to encourage them to embrace it. After all it was the unexpected opportunities I was given through the LCLS internship program that led me to CU Anschutz and to founding J-KOA. It was such an honor to present these ideas to the interns whom I was so impressed by—the future of science is bright! I also incorporated elements of my culture and channeled my heritage emphasizing how our strength lies in our roots by speaking to the various cultural icons that have inspired me. Most significantly, I was also greeted with a lei made by one of the staff at SLAC—one of the greatest honors I’ve received. And I did all of this with my parents and my aunt in the audience cheering me on. All of this is and my invitation today are owed to Alan Fry—the director of the LCLS intern program. He not only took a chance on me 8 years ago by bringing me into the program, he also trusted me by allowing me to spearhead the student liaison position and found the EDI in STEAM symposium at SLAC as an intern. This will stand out as one of the highlights of my career, and I’m so grateful to Alan and SLAC for having me.
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Professor @ Stanford/SLAC | X-ray Science, Electronics and Nanophotonics, Ultrafast Optics and Lasers, Sustainability
How do materials change their structure in tiny, rapid steps? This knowledge is essential for advancing many technologies, especially in computing. Devices like magnetic storage, memory resistors, and special transistors rely on these quick changes to function better and faster. These structural changes often happen in stages, some lasting only a trillionth of a second. Using powerful X-ray lasers at #LCLS at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, these rapid changes become visible in incredible detail. Griffith et al. show how temporary disordered states play a crucial role in how quickly and completely a material switches from one state to another. Traditional tools sometimes miss these temporary disordered states, leading to incorrect predictions about how fast materials can switch. For example, they might only see the initial quick change and wrongly assume the entire process is just as fast. To get a complete picture, Griffith et al. used a technique called pair distribution analysis, which looks at both ordered and disordered states across different scales. The method requires high-energy X-rays and is challenging to perform with current, rather low repetition rate sources. The planned extension of the superconducting accelerator driven XFEL LCLS to high photon energies will make these experiments truly shine. This will provide opportunities to understand the mechanisms behind material switching and phase transitions, leading to better and faster devices. The future is material science is bright! #science #research #materials #computing https://lnkd.in/gJpsuVhb
Resolving length-scale-dependent transient disorder through an ultrafast phase transition - Nature Materials
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