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Events, Meetings, Conferences, Seminars, Schools, and Workshops
Awards & Fellowships
- William E. and Diane M. Spicer Young Investigator Award - Nominations Due July 5
- Melvin P. Klein Scientific Development Award - Nominations Due August 1
- Farrel Lytle Award - Nominations Due August 10
- Joe Wong Users' Conference Poster Awards
- Dale E. Sayers Fellowship (NCSU PAMS Foundation)
Lightsource News, Videos and Animations
- The Future of Energy Technology as Seen Through the Eyes of X-rays (April 2017)
- Detectors long used to look at the cosmos are now part of X-ray experiments here on Earth
- Brighter Than A Billion Suns: Imaging Life On Earth (Phil Manning TEDx Talk, Oct 2016)
- 3-Dimensional Virtual Tour of the SSRL SPEAR3 Synchrotron
- Stanford, SLAC X-ray Studies Could Help Make LIGO Gravitational Wave Detector 10 Times More Sensitive
- SSRL BL6-2 Transmission X-Ray Microscopy
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X-ray Microscope Reveals 'Solitons,' a Special Type of Magnetic Wave
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KQED Science: What Happens When You Zap Coral With The World’s Most Powerful X-ray Laser?
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SLAC in the News: Gizmodo - '3 New Kinds of Battery That Just Might Change the World'
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X-Ray Laser Reveal Ultra-Fast Molecular Changes (Molecular Movie)
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Crystal ribbons forming as the solution is spread using a squeegee like technique
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Scientists Probe Lithium-Sulfur Batteries in Real Time (SU Precourt video)
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Live Look at SLAC Scientific User Support Building (SUSB) Construction
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SLAC Public Lecture:Don't Fade Away: Saving the Vivid Yellows of Matisse and Van Gogh
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Beamline scientist Apurva Mehta reminds us that SLAC is no longer about atom smashing
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TED Talk by William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes (Jump to 7:00 for SSRL portion).
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Bay Area News Group: SLAC (the laboratory formerly known as the Stanford Linear Accelerator)
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April 2011: Public Lecture: Life Redefined: Microbes Built with Arsenic
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February 2011: Uncovering Archimedes, Archaeopteryx and other Treasures of the Past!
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December 2010: Bacteria Built with Arsenic Found using SSRL imaging BL
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October 2010: Water, X-rays and Life on Earth (Anders Nilsson)