Stanford Graduate Student Orientation
SLAC Day Thursday Sep/20/2012
This is part of the two day program for incoming new graduate students at Stanford starting Fall 2012. The Thursday Sep/20/2012 program will be hosted at SLAC, while the Wednesday Sep/19 program will be organized on Stanford campus.
A printable copy of the program: [PDF]
Collected slides from some of the Wednesday campus program talks:
| Time | Location | Program/Presentation | Speaker/organizer | talk files/ material | |
| 7:00--8:15 | Travel to SLAC | Find your own way to take the free Marguerite shuttle. Catch shuttle (SLAC Line) on Sierra Mall in front of Hewlett and get off at SLAC Kavli Building. Travel time ~20min. [SLAC Line schedule] | |||
| 8:15--9:00 | Redwood Room* | Light Breakfast | |||
| 9:00--9:15 | Redwood Room | Introduction |
Lance Dixon, Anders Nilsson |
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| 9:15--9:45 | Redwood Room | Accelerator Physics | Tor Raubenheimer | pptx | |
| 9:45--10:15 | Redwood Room | LCLS | Jo Stohr | pptx | |
| 10:15--10:30 | ROB patio/hallway | Break | |||
| 10:30--11:00 | Redwood Room | SSRL | Piero Pianetta | ||
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11:00--11:30 |
Redwood Room | Photon Science | David Reis | ||
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11:30--12:00 |
Redwood Room | Particle Physics Theory | Jay Wacker | ||
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12:00--12:30 |
Redwood Room | Particle Physics Experiment | Ariel Schwartzman | pptx | |
| 12:30--14:00 | ROB patio/hallway | Lunch + Poster
session
Conversations between students and faculty/staff |
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14:00--17:00 |
Various locations | Open House: open office, lab tours (details see below) | |||
| 13:30--15:45 | Accelerator tour: LCLS Undulator/ FACET/ NLCTA |
Start from ROB Redwood Room, West Parking Lot (led by Spencer Gessner) | |||
| 14:00--16:00 | Photon Science tour: LCLS/ SSRL | Start from ROB Redwood Room, West Parking Lot (led by John Galayda) | |||
| 17:00--18:00 | Go back to Stanford campus by Marguerite shuttle on yourself. [SLAC Line schedule] | ||||
* Redwood Room is in Building 48 (ROB) ground floor
SLAC Particle Physics and
Astrophysics (PPA) faculty graduate student program
SLAC Open House Programs
Accelerator Physics:
| Accelerator Research Opportunities | ||||
| Events | Name | Building | Room | Description/Time |
| Tours | please see the main program table above for new tour details (updated Sep/19) | |||
| Open Office | ||||
| Prof. Alex Chao* | A&E (41) | 100 | 1:30--5:00pm (*will be represented by Daniel Ratner) | |
| Prof. John Fox | 280C | 106 | 2:00--4:00pm | |
| Dr. Joel England | A&E (41) | 134C | 1:00--5:00pm (may be at NLCTA during tour time) | |
| Dr. Mark Hogan | A&E (41) | 130C | 2:00--5:00pm | |
| Prof. Tor Raubenheimer | 280A | 275 | 2:00--5:00pm | |
| Prof. Ronald Ruth | A&E (41) | 100A | 2:00--4:00pm | |
LCLS/SSRL/Photon Science:
| Photon Science | ||||
| Events | Name | Building | Room | Description/Time |
| Tours | please see the main program table above for new tour details (updated Sep/19) | |||
| Open Office/lab | ||||
| PULSE Institute | 40 | ground floor | 2:00--3:30pm | |
| Prof. David Reis | 40 | 162 | 2:00--5:00pm | |
| Prof. Joachim Stohr | 40 | 310 | 2:00--3:00pm (please check with Jo during lunch) | |
Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology with KIPAC:
Some KIPAC faculties also have open office on campus. Please check the full open office schedule for details.
| DES / LSST | ||||
| Events | Name | Building | Room | Time |
| Open Office | Prof. David Burke | KIPAC (51) | 313 | all day |
| Prof. Aaron Roodman | KIPAC (51) | 210 | 10:30am--5:00pm | |
| Fermi / CTA | ||||
| Events | Name | Building | Room | Time |
| Open office | ||||
| Prof. Elliott Bloom | KIPAC (51) | 215 | 11:00am--1:30pm | |
| Dr. Greg Madejski | KIPAC (51) | 314 | 2:00--5:00pm | |
| CDMS | ||||
| Events | Time | Building | Room | Time |
| Open Office | ||||
| Dr. Rich Partridge | Kavli (51) | 324 | 2:00--5:00pm | |
| Please also check Prof. Blas Cabrera's open office time on Stanford campus | ||||
Particle Physics Experiments:
ATLAS/EXO/HPS: Central Lab Annex (CLA, building 84) Room B259 will be a central reception point for students with to get directions to open office meetings, lab tours and conversations with existing students and people in the various programs.
| ATLAS (program summary) | ||||
| Events | Time | Building | Room | Description |
| Lab tour | 2:00-5:00pm |
CLA (84) | gather at B259 | a) ATLAS pixel/tracker labs b) High bandwidth DAQ lab. |
| Events | Name | Building | Room | Time |
| Open Office | ||||
| Prof. Ariel Schwartzman | CLA (84) | B257 | 2:30--5:00pm | |
| Prof. Dong Su | CLA (84) | B287 | 2:30--5:00pm (except some lab tour times) | |
| Dr. Charlie Young | CLA (84) | B222 | 2:30--5:00pm | |
| EXO (program summary) | ||||
| Events | Name | Building | Room | Time |
| Open Office /Open lab | ||||
| Prof. Martin Breidenbach | CLA (84) | B210 | 2:00--5:00pm | |
| Please also check Prof. Giorgio Gratta's open office time on Stanford campus | ||||
| Heavy Photon Search (HPS) at JLab | ||||
| Events | Name | Building | Room | Time |
| Open Office | Prof. John Jaros | CLA (84) | B228 | 2:00--5:00pm |
Particle Physics Theory:
Research Office Building (ROB, building 48) Room B224 will be a central reception point for students with HEP theory interests to get directions to open office meetings and conversations with people in the HEP theory group.
| Particle Physics Theory | ||||
| Events | Name | Building | Room | Time |
| Group session | General discussion with theory group together | ROB (48) | 224 | 2:00-3:00pm |
| Open Office | Prof. Lance Dixon | ROB (48) | 229 | 3:00-4:00pm |
| Dr. Stefan Hoeche | ROB (48) | 220 | all day | |
Marguerite Shuttle and SLAC Building Map
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Marguerite shuttle
Free bus service Stanford campus <=> SLAC
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Building map and Marguerite stops inside SLAC (pdf)
Contacts:
Stanford Student Orientation Committee chair: Prof. Phil Bucksbaum SLAC PPA graduate student program manager (and info on this page): Prof. Dong Su