Stanford Graduate Student Orientation
SLAC Program Sep/20-21, 2017
This is part of the two day program for incoming new graduate students at Stanford starting Fall 2017. The Wednesday Sep/20 program will have Stanford campus emphasis, while the Thursday Sep/21 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
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/21, 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 can also use the Marguerite shuttle to return to campus. Please see the end of this page for details about the Marguerite shuttle.
Thursday Sep/21 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: Siqi Li 8:50--9:00 SUSB, Building 53 Light refreshments 9:00--9:20
Trinity Conference Room A/B*Introduction Charles Young slides 9:20--9:45 Accelerator Physics Agostino Marinelli slides 9:45--10:05 LCLS Michael Minitti slides 10:05--10:25 SSRL Johana Nelson Weker slides 10:25--10:40 Panofsky Auditorium lobby, Building 53** Break 10:40--11:00
Trinity Conference Room A/B*Particle Physics Theory Friedland Alexander slides 11:00--11:20
Particle Physics Experiments Mark Convery slides 11:20--11:40
Particle-Astro Experiments Tom Shutt slides 11:40--12:00
Biosciences Wah Chiu slides
12:00--14:00 Panofsky lobby and exhibit hall area Lunch will be distributed in the Panofsky auditorium lobby
Lunch + Poster session ***
(lunch prioritized to serve new students and poster authors first)Conversations between students and faculty/staff
* Trinity Conference Room is in Building 53 (SUSB) ground floor
** Panofsky Auditorium is directly ouside the Trinity conference room
*** For poster authors: easels will be provided, but you need to print the poster yourself and as well as its own backing board to stand on an easel.
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 Prof. Tor Raubenheimer RSB (52) 385 3:00--5:00pm Prof. Lia Merminga RSB (52) 350 2:00--3:45pm Dr. Mark Hogan RSB (52) 365 2:00--4:00pm
Aceeleratior facilities tour:
Optional walking tour around the site through SPEAR, across LCLS, and into NLCTA.SSRL
Events Name Building Room Wednesday Thursday Open office Johana Nelson Weker 137 214 2:00--3:45pm
LCLS
Events Name Building Room Thursday Lab tour Tour of the LCLS X-ray Free Electron Laser facility (Alan Fry) SUSB (53) SUSB lobby, take shuttle to LCLS 2:00--3:30pm Open Office Gorkhover, Taisia 40a 112 2:00--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--4:00pm Prof. Pat Burchat Varian (on campus) 158 2:30--5:00pm Prof. Tom Shutt Kavli(51) 211 2:00--4:00pm Prof. Risa Wechsler PAB (on campus) 211 2:30--5:00pm Lab tours CDMS Cryogenic Test Facility (Paul Brink, Noah Kurinsky) Kavli(51) 324 2:00--3:00pm KIPAC Visualization Lab (Ralf Kaehler) Kavli(51) 2nd floor 3:00--4:00pm IR2 (Prof. Dan Akerib) )Kavli(51) 223 4:00--5:00pm CDMS Cryogenic Test Facility tour:
Tour of the CDMS Cryogenic Test Facility will highlight the work being done at Stanford and SLAC to develop and test detectors for the SuperCDMS SNOLAB experiment. These detectors utilize phonon and ionization signals in Si/Ge detectors to search for low-mass dark matter interactions, complementing the search for dark matter at higher mass by LZ. The tour will take those interested into the clean room where the Fermi gamma ray telescope for a firsthand look at prototype hardware for the experiment, as well as the inside of the dilution refrigerator capable of achieving 7 mK that will be used for testing.IR2 tour:
From 4-5pm, we will host a tour of the experimental hall IR2, which used to house the BaBar experiment and is now the home of the LSST clean room and the LZ Liquid Nobles test platform. In this dark sector of the lab, LSST will build the world largest camera for studying dark energy and dark matter, while LZ is prototyping and carrying out detector RD on liquid xenon from planned and future dark matter experiments.
There will be sign-up sheet available in the morning sessions and at lunch time. We will leave from the Dan Akerib office at 4pm.
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 CLA (84) Group C Conference Room 2:00--5:00pm
EXO (program summary) Events Name Building Room Wednesday Thursday Open Office /Open lab Dr. Peter Rowson CLA (84) 204B 3:00-5:00pm Lisa Kaufman CLA (84) B212 2:00-4:00pm
Heavy Photon Search (HPS) at JLab Events Name Building Room Thursday Open Office / Open lab Dr. Tim Nelson CLA (84) B200 2:00--5:00pm
MicroBooNE / DUNE Events Name Building Room Thursday Open Office Dr. Mark Convery CLA (84) B171 2:00--5:00pm Open Office Kazu Terao CLA (84) B198 2:00--5:00pm
SLAC CDMS Group Events Name Building Room Wednesday Thursday Open Office /Open lab Paul Brink CLA (84) 310 3:00-5:00pm Noah Kurinsky CLA (84) 302-1 2:00-4:00pm
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.
Theory group research at SLACA theory group open house/meeting will take place in Madrone Room 224 at 2:30pm
Marguerite Shuttle and SLAC Building Map
Marguerite shuttle Free bus service Stanford campus <=> SLAC
Contacts:
SLAC Orientation Program: Prof. Ariel Schwartzman