Educational Activities and Information Resources

SLAC Summer Institute on Particle Physics

Each summer, the laboratory hosts a two-week Summer Institute on Particle Physics that offers a unique combination of opportunities for critical review of recent major progress in high-energy physics and for continuing education of graduate students and postdoctoral research scientists. The format consists of school lectures followed by a three-day topical conference with up-to-date reports of experimental and theoretical developments in the field of particle physics. The school lectures are organized around a general topic that varies from year to year; past topics have included lepton-hadron scattering, the third family and the physics of flavor, spin structure in high-energy processes, particle astrophysics and cosmology, and gravity.

The school attracts an international audience of a few hundred physicists, both experimentalists and theorists, providing a lively and provocative forum where discussion sessions complement lectures, allowing issues of particular interest to the students to be closely examined. Graduate students at Stanford are encouraged to attend and should find the Institute infor-mative and stimulating. More information is available by calling the conference coordination office at (650) 926-2710 or sending e-mail to ssi@slac.stanford.edu.
 

SLAC Seminars

A variety of lectures and seminars are offered for the physics community at SLAC. Four weekly series provide an overview of the recent advances in high-energy physics: the SLAC Colloquium (held on Monday afternoons), SLAC Experimental Seminars (held midday on Tuesdays and Thursdays), and two series of theoretical seminars (held midday on Wednesdays and Fridays). Topics in accelerator physics are covered in the SLAC Accelerator Department Seminar series (held on Thursday afternoons).

In addition, when distinguished physicists visit the laboratory or as a topic of special importance arises, special lectures or series of lectures are often offered. Many of the research groups hold their own special-topic seminar series.

Graduate students are encouraged to attend the various meetings described above. Titles, times, and locations of all seminars are listed in the weekly SLAC Compendium. For a copy, call the SLAC Public Affairs office at (650) 926-2204.
 

SLAC Graduate Student Advisor’s Office

This office administers graduate student affairs at SLAC, provides an interface with the Physics, Applied Physics, and Engineering Departments of Stanford University, and handles questions, problems, and concerns of Stanford graduate students performing research at SLAC.

Information regarding research opportunities at SLAC and appointments with faculty representatives of the various research programs may be arranged by calling the Particle Physics Graduate Student Coordinator at (650) 926-2805 (e-mail: gradoffice@slac.stanford.edu) or by calling the SSRL Graduate Student Coordinator at (650) 926-2057 (e-mail: ssrlgrads@slac.stanford.edu).
 
 

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