Stanford Graduate Student Orientation
SLAC Program Sep/16-17/2015
This is part of the two day program for incoming new graduate students at Stanford starting Fall 2015. The Wednesday Sep/16 program will have Stanford campus emphasis, while the Thursday Sep/17 program will have SLAC emphasis with research introductions at respective locations, both campus and SLAC have open office/lab programs for both days. With SLAC as in independent school in the Stanford academic system, there are extensive research programs in the two faculties at SLAC for Stanford students to choose their thesis topic and advisor from.
SLAC Particle Physics and Astrophysics (PPA) faculty
Stanford Campus Orientation Program
Wednesday Sep/16 Stanford campus research introduction session schedule
Stanford Campus <=> SLAC Travel
For those who would like to visit SLAC open house/lab on Wednesday afternoon, please check the free campus Marguerite shuttle schedule to travel to SLAC. For Thursay Sep/17, there will be a dedicated bus to take students from campus to SLAC in the morning (depart 8:30am sharp from the end section of Via Ortega just outside the multi-story parking structure). At the end of Thursday SLAC orientation, students are will also use the Marguerite shuttle to return to campus yourself. Please see the end of this page for details about the Marguerite shuttle.
Thursday Sep/17 Research Introduction Session at SLAC
Time Location Program/Presentation Speaker/organizer talk files/ material 8:30--8:50 Travel to SLAC Bus will wait at Via Ortega and depart 8:30am sharp Student guide: James MacArthur 8:50--9:00 ROB patio Light refreshments 9:00--9:20 ROB
Redwood Room*Introduction Aaron Roodman, Bill Weis ppt, pdf 9:20--9:45 Accelerator Physics Zhirong Huang 9:45--10:05 LCLS Bill White 10:05--10:25 SSRL Mike Toney pptx,pdf 10:25--10:40 ROB patio Break 10:40--11:00
ROB
Redwood RoomPhoton Science David Reis 11:00--11:20 Particle Physics Theory Alex Friedland 11:20--11:40
Particle Physics Experiments John Jaros 11:40--12:00
Particle-Astro Experiments Dan Akerib
12:00--14:00 ROB patio and lawn Lunch + Poster session **
(lunch prioritized to serve new students and poster authors first)Conversations between students and faculty/staff
* Redwood Room is in Building 48 (ROB) ground floor
** For poster authors: easels will be provided, but you need to print the poster yourself and better with its own backing board to stand on an easel. Some backing board will be provided to pin/clip the posters without own backing board.
SLAC Open Office/Lab Programs
Please be aware that the open office/lab list is still being updated beyond the official online surveyAccelerator Physics
Events Name Building Room Wednesday Thursday Open Office/lab Dr. John Fox (represented by Ozhan Turgut, Claudio Rivetta) RSB (52) 362 3:00--5:00pm 3:00--5:00pm Prof. John Galayda RSB (52) 312 4:00--6:30pm Prof. Norbert Holtkamp CLA (40) R106 2:30--5:00pm 2:00--5:00pm Prof. Zhirong Huang RSB (52) 382 3:30--5:00pm Prof. Tor Raubenheimer RSB (52) 385 2:30--5:00pm Tours Possible Tours of Klystron Gallery, FACET, NLCTA (hosted by Spencer Gessner, Ziran Wu). Please sign up and select tour preference. Will decide by Sep/16 (and announce here) which tour sites will be included based on the level of interest. Tours will gather at ROB patio (where lunch/poster session will be) to depart at 2:00pm.
LCLS/ SSRL/ Photon Science
More Photon Science faculties have open office on campus. Please check the full open office schedule for details.
Events Name Building Room Wednesday Thursday Open House Prof. Phil Bucksbaum/
PULSE Institute40A Pulse Institute open office/lab on campus 2:30--4.30pm Open Office/lab Prof. David Reis 40A 163/204-205 2:30--5:00pm
Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology with KIPAC
More KIPAC faculties only have open office on campus. Please check the full open office schedule for details.
Events Name Building Room Wednesday Thursday Open Office Prof. Dan Akerib Kavli(51) 223 2:30--5:00pm Prof. Elliott Bloom Kavli(51) 215 2:30--5:00pm 2:30--5:00pm Prof. Pat Burchat Kavli(51) 235 on campus 2:30--4:00pm Dr. Rich Partridge Kavli(51) 324 2:00--3:30pm Prof. Aaron Roodman Kavli(51) 210 2:30--5:00pm 2:30--5:00pm Prof. Tom Shutt Kavli(51) 211 3:00--5:00pm Prof. Risa Wechsler Kavli(51) 218 on campus 2:30--5:00pm Lab Tour Tour of the IR2 clean room for LZ / LSST construction will show in particular the LZ Liquid noble detector test platform at IR2: The LZ group at SLAC is putting finishing touches in place for a first run of their newly installed test platform for liquid noble detectors. The test platform shares space with the LSST clean room in the IR2 hall, the former home of the BaBar detector. The test platform will support prototyping work for the LZ experiment, which will use 10 tons of liquid xenon to search for dark matter, as well as future liquid noble detector R & D and characterization. Organizer: Prof. Dan Akerib 2:00--3:00pm Starts 2:00pm from the ROB patio (poster session and lunch site). Please sign up by Sep/16 to ensure gate clearance.
Particle Physics Experiments
ATLAS/HPS/microBooNE-DUNE: 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 (SLAC program summary) Events Names Building Room Thursday SLAC ATLAS Open Office/lab ATLAS group (Dr. Charlie Young) CLA (84) B259 2:00--5:00pm Prof. Ariel Schwartzman and Prof. Su Dong will be at ATLAS meetings in Europe during orientation. You are welcome to contact them by E-mail for additional conversations.
EXO (program summary) Events Name Building Room Wednesday Thursday Open Office /Open lab Prof. Martin Breidenbach CLA (84) B210 1:30--4:30pm 2:30--3:30pm Prof. Giorgio Gratta CL (40) 210A 2:00-3:00pm
Heavy Photon Search (HPS) at JLab Events Name Building Room Thursday Open Office / Open lab Prof. John Jaros CLA (84) B228 2:00--5:00pm
MicroBooNE / DUNE Events Name Building Room Thursday Open Office Dr. Mark Convery CLA (84) B171 2:00--5:00pm
SLAC CDMS Group Dr. Rich Partridge (see KIPAC program for open office/lab) LUX / LZ (New group at SLAC as of 2014) Prof. Dan Akerib, Prof. Tom Shutt
Particle Physics Theory
Research Office Building (ROB, building 48) Madrone Room 224 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 Wednesday Thursday Open Office Group open house session ROB (48) 224 2:00--3:00pm Prof. Lance Dixon ROB (48) 229 2:30--5:00pm 2:30--5:00pm Prof. JoAnne Hewett ROB (48) 210 3:00--5:00pm 2:30--5:00pm
Marguerite Shuttle and SLAC Building Map
Marguerite shuttle Free bus service Stanford campus <=> SLAC
Contacts:
SLAC Orientation Program: Prof. Dong Su