Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource

Meetings, Conferences, Seminars, Schools, and Workshops

2015 is the International Year of Light (IYL)

Events

• SSRL/LCLS Users' Conference and Workshops, October 7-10, 2015 - REGISTER TODAY!

• Celebrating Artie Bienenstock -- A symposium on October 10, 2015 at SLAC will highlight Artie's contributions to science, graduate student training, Stanford University, US science policy, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the development of synchrotron radiation (link is external), and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL).Formal talks will focus on some of these topics, and informal contributions will also be welcomed.

• 2015 SSRL End of Run Party, August 14th @ 4pm

• SSRL Workshop on XAS and RIXS Data Analysis Using CTM4XAS and CTM4RIXS, March 2015
• SSRL/LCLS Users' Conference and Workshops, October 7-10, 2014
• SAM (Stanford Automounter) Developers Forum Workshop, October 10, 2014
• International Union of Crystallography, Montreal, Canada, August 5-12, 2014
• SSRL Imaging Summer School, July 11-15, 2014
• SSRL School on Synchrotron X-ray Scattering Techniques in Materials and Environmental Sciences, June 3-5, 2014
• NUFO Annual Meeting at PNNL in Richland, WA, April 30-May 2, 2014
• NUFO User Science Exhibition in Washington, DC, June 10, 2014
• Ultrafast X-ray Summer Seminar (UXSS 2014), June 15-19, 2014

• Photon Science Seminar Series
• SLAC Public Lecture Series
• All SLAC Events
• Archive: SSRL Meetings, Workshops & Training

Awards & Fellowships

• William E. and Diane M. Spicer Young Investigator Award - Nominations Due August 1
• Melvin P. Klein Scientific Development Award - Nominations Due August 15
• Farrel Lytle Award - Nominations Due August 15
• Dale E. Sayers Fellowship (NCSU PAMS Foundation)

Lightsource News, Videos and Animations

• Crystal ribbons forming as the solution is spread using a squeegee like technique

• Scientists Probe Lithium-Sulfur Batteries in Real Time (SU Precourt video)

• Behind the Scenes at SLAC - Virtual Field Trip

• Science of SLAC Video - Dancing Ribosomes: The Dynamics of Decoding

  Science of SLAC Video - Molecular Bling: The Surprising Properties of Small Diamonds

• Live Look at SLAC Scientific User Support Building (SUSB) Construction

• SLAC 50 years and counting

• Backstory: Riti Sarangi, SSRL Staff Scientist

• New X-ray APPES Technique Leads to Fuel Cell Advance

• SSRL SPEAR3 Electron Storage Ring

• SLAC Public Lecture:Don't Fade Away: Saving the Vivid Yellows of Matisse and Van Gogh

• Beamline scientist Apurva Mehta reminds us that SLAC is no longer about atom smashing

• SLAC Solves 200-Year-Old Opera Mystery

• ABC News on Chip Technology

• Mystery Atom Helps Plants Grow

• SLAC Spotlight: Sam Webb, Staff Scientist

• TED Talk by William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes (Jump to 7:00 for SSRL portion).

• Videos: Demystifying the Light Source Experience Workshop and other talks from the 2011 SSRL/LCLS Users' Meeting

• Bay Area News Group: SLAC (the laboratory formerly known as the Stanford Linear Accelerator)

• High-Sensitivity Electronic Skin

• Science@SLAC-Discovering New Drugs

• June 2011: X-Ray Reveals Fossil Secrets

• April 2011: Public Lecture: Life Redefined: Microbes Built with Arsenic

• February 2011: Uncovering Archimedes, Archaeopteryx and other Treasures of the Past!

• December 2010: Bacteria Built with Arsenic Found using SSRL imaging BL

• October 2010: Water, X-rays and Life on Earth (Anders Nilsson)

• SPEAR3 2003-2004 Installation Video

• SPEAR3 on NBC11, 2004

• SPEAR3 Dedication January 29, 2004

• SSRL Beam Line 12-2 Molecular Observatory

• SSR"P" Goes to "L", August 1977

• X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy, Nature July 1974

What is a Synchrotron and Synchrotron Radiation?

• Lightsources.org

• The Bragg Legacy (DLS Video commemorating 2014 International Year of Crystallography)

• What is a Synchrtoron (MAX IV video)

• Synchrotron Radiation Research, Ann. Rev. Nucl.. Part. Sci., 1978