SLAC Support Services

Getting to SLAC

SLAC is located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, about 3 miles west of the central Stanford University campus. Stanford’s Marguerite shuttle bus runs between central campus and SLAC on the half-hour from 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM, and from SLAC to central campus on the quarter hour from 7:45 AM to 5:45 PM Monday through Friday, except university holidays. The shuttle is free and open to the public. Parking is also free at SLAC.

Regular operating hours at SLAC are from 6:30 AM to 5:30 PM, Monday through Friday, and from 6:00 AM to 5:30 PM during daylight-saving time. For Stanford students who need to work at SLAC off regular operating hours, a valid Stanford University Identification card, a SLAC entry card, or a car-window decal is required for entry. The SLAC entry card may be obtained from the SLAC Personnel office when registering as a SLAC student.

 A map showing SLAC, Stanford, and the surrounding Bay Area is at the end of this section.
 

The SLAC Library

The SLAC Library, located on the second floor of the Central Laboratory, Room Y215, is staffed for reference and other assistance from 8 AM to 5 PM, Monday through Friday, but is open for on-site use 24 hours a day through advanced arrangement. SLAC-based students, employees, users, and visitors may borrow materials and use the photocopying and printing facilities for Library material.

The SLAC Library provides essential information services to support Laboratory research programs in high-energy particle physics; particle accelerator theory, design, and construction; and in synchrotron radiation-based accelerator theory, design, and instrumentation.

In addition, the SLAC Library provides a variety of databases useful to the worldwide high-energy physics community through cooperation with other high-energy physics libraries. The SPIRES-HEP database (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/find/spires.html) provides timely, accurate, and comprehensive bibliographic coverage of the world’s high-energy physics preprints.

Visit the SLAC library web site at http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library
 

The SLAC Housing Office

The SLAC Housing Office is located in the Administration and Engineering (A&E  Building, Room 226, and is staffed from 8 AM to 5 PM, Monday through Friday. The SLAC Housing Office provides listings of apartments and rooms available for rent.
 

List of Helpful Contacts

Executive Officers of the Faculty  (650) 926-2856
faculty@slac.stanford.edu

Particle Physics
Graduate Student Coordinator (650) 926-2805
gradoffice@slac.stanford.edu

SSRL Graduate Student Coordinator (650) 926-2057
ssrlgrads@slac.stanford.edu

Graduate Student Coordinator,
Varian Physics, Stanford University (650) 723-0830

SLAC Housing Office (650) 926-4132
housing@slac.stanford.edu (650) 926-3111

SLAC Library (650) 926-2411
library@slac.stanford.edu

SLAC Human Resources (650) 926-2353
employment@slac.stanford.edu (650) 926-2366

SLAC Summer Science Institute (650) 926-2710
ssi@slac.stanford.edu

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