SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

SLAC 50th Events

SLAC is hosting and participating in many events this year that will celebrate the lab's past and welcome its bright future.

Information about these events, and many others, will be posted here when details are available--so check back often. In the meantime, join us at our next public lecture or for an anniversary tour!

UPCOMING EVENTS

Bay Area Science Festival

Saturday, November 3rd, 2012
AT&T Park
24 Willie Mays Plaza, San Francisco, CA

Wonder what the universe looks like at the smallest and largest scales? Find out how scientists at SLAC use X-ray laser vision to see the invisible, and how telescopes both on earth and in space are used to study mysterious dark matter and dark energy.


Bay Area Science Festival
PAST EVENTS

SLAC 50th Anniversary Celebrations - AUG 24-25, 2012

Friday, August 24th, 2012
Panofsky Auditorium / Stanford Faculty Club
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Anniversary Dinner
(event invitation required)
Saturday, August 25th, 2012
SLAC Campus
11:00 am - 1:30 pm
SLAC Employee Luncheon
(former/current employees)
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Anniversary Reception
(event invitation required)
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Anniversary Ceremony and Celebration
(invited guests and former/current employees)
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Burt Richter - SLAC: 50 Years on the Frontier, 1962-2012

May 10, 2012
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Menlo Park, California

SLAC Director Emeritus and 2010 Enrico Fermi Award recipient Dr. Burton Richter presents this retrospective of the history of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, from the lab's inception within the physics community at Stanford University, to becoming the multiprogram laboratory that it is today.



USA Science and Engineering Festival

April 27th-29th, 2012
Washington Convention Center
Washington D.C

Wonder what the universe looks like at the smallest and largest scales? Find out how scientists at SLAC use X-ray laser vision to see the invisible, and how telescopes both on earth and in space are used to study mysterious dark matter and dark energy.


USA Science Festival

Kids Night - SLAC After Dark

6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
April 11, 2012
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA

Join us for the lab's first-ever "after dark" event for K-12 SLAC Kids!

Starting at 6:30 pm on April 11, 2012, SLAC employees and their children are invited to spend an evening exploring the lab's science and interacting with SLAC researchers. Snacks and hands-on science activities will precede a special lecture presented by Sam Webb (SSRL) on imaging ancient fossils using advanced x-ray technology.

Please contact Melinda Lee (x8547) with any inquiries.


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