Archive
July - December 2012
Czars: Helen Craig and Yeming Shi
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 12 | NO SASS: Finals | NO SASS |
| Dec 5 | SASS Presents a Showing of Decay[poster] | Decay |
| Nov 28 | Organizational Meeting[poster] | Everyone |
| Nov 21 | NO SASS: Thanksgiving | NO SASS |
| Nov 14 | Overview of Linac Cohoerent Light Source[poster] | Michael Kozina |
| Nov 7 | Tour of the FACET tunnel and experimental area[poster] | Spencer Gessner |
| Oct 31 | The Science of Predicting Elections[pdf][poster] | Steve Herrin |
| Oct 24 | CANCELED: SASS goes to Jasper Ridge[poster] | Joe Farrell |
| Oct 17 | Particle Accelerators... in Space[pdf][poster] | Paul Simeon |
| Oct 10 | Puzzled?[pdf][poster] | Sho Uemura |
| Oct 3 | SASS goes to Kipac Viz Lab[poster] | Mandeep S. S. Gill |
| Sep 26 | Organizational Meeting[poster] | Everyone |
| Sep 19 | NO SASS: Orientation Week[poster] | NO SASS |
| Sep 12 | Non-academic Career Panel[poster] | Yvonne Edmonds, Alan Wong, David Bernstein, Alexander Giryavets, Sameer Bhalotra |
| Sep 12 | NO SASS | NO SASS |
| Sep 5 | The force: from metal plates to the accelerating expansion of the universe[poster] | Yeming Shi |
| Aug 29 | SASS goes to Stanford Student Observatory[poster] | Robert Moffatt |
| Aug 22 | Laser Pulse Characterization and Shaping using MIIPS[pdf][pptx][poster] | David Nicholson |
| Aug 15 | The Science of Doctor Who[pdf][poster] | Elwin Martin |
| Aug 8 | Energy[pdf][poster] | Burton Richter |
| Aug 2 | After Dark: Mars[poster] | Everyone |
| Aug 1 | NO SASS | NO SASS |
| Jul 25 | GPU Programming[pdf][poster] | Spencer Gessner |
| Jul 18 | Dino Science[pdf][pptx][poster] | Mike Kozina |
| Jul 11 | Death from the Skies![pdf][poster] | Kristi Schneck |
| Jul 4 | 4th of July--NO SASS | NO SASS |
| Jun 27 | NO SASS | NO SASS |
January - June 2012
Czars: Mike Kozina and Kristi Schneck
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 13 | Finals Week | |
| Jun 6 | Ultrafast Stuctural Switching in Superionic Nanocrystals[poster] | Tim Miller |
| May 30 | Paleomagnetism[poster] | Mike Kozina |
| May 23 | Unconventional Computing[poster] | Georges Ndabashimiye |
| May 16 | The Mystery of Missing Mass[poster] | Alex Drlica-Wagner |
| May 9 | The New EdTech Movement[poster] | Paul Simeon |
| May 2 | Higher Harmonic Generation[poster] | Crystal Bray |
| Apr 25 | Ultrafast Photovoltaic Responses in Ferroelectric Thin Films[poster] | Dan Daraciang |
| Apr 18 | Philosophy of Science[poster] | Martin Jankowiak |
| Apr 11 | What makes a mountain impressive?[poster] | Andrew Larkoski |
| Apr 4 | Organizational Meeting[poster] | |
| Mar 21 | Finals Week | |
| Mar 14 | Cosmology with Gravitational Lens Time Delays[poster] | Keith Bechtol |
| Mar 7 | Magnetization Dynamics[poster] | Benny Wu |
| Feb 29 | CDMS at SLAC[pdf][poster] | Kristi Schneck |
| Feb 22 | Extrasolar Planets[poster] | Warit Mitthumsiri |
| Feb 15 | FACET: Little Beams, Big Fields[pdf][poster] | Spencer Gessner |
| Feb 8 | Magnitites | Roopali Kukreja |
| Feb 1 | EXAFS Studies of the Thermoelectric Ba8Ga16Sn30[poster] | Mike Kozina |
| Jan 25 | Questioning Quantum Mechanics?[pdf][poster] | Kurt Barry |
| Jan 18 | The Current State of Science Education in the USA[poster] | Cat Graves |
July - December 2011
Czars: Alex Drlica-Wagner and Alice Allafort
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 11 | Organizational Meeting[poster] | |
| Dec 28 | SLAC Shutdown | |
| Dec 21 | SLAC Shutdown | |
| Dec 14 | Finals Week | |
| Dec 7 | Q and A with the SLAC Director[poster] | Persis Drell |
| Nov 30 | Scientific Fraud[poster] | Djordje Radicevic |
| Nov 23 | Thanksgiving Break | |
| Nov 16 | Controlling an Experiment[poster] | Steve Herrin |
| Nov 9 | Human Endurance Running[poster] | Keith Bechtol |
| Nov 2 | Positrons from Space![poster] | Warit Mitthumsiri |
| Oct 26 | Geologic Carbon Sequestration[poster] | Natalie Johnson |
| Oct 12 | Manganites[poster] | Mark Burkhardt |
| Oct 5 | Organizational meeting[poster] | Everyone! |
| Sep 28 | Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes[poster] | Alex Drlica-Wagner |
| Sep 21 | Break! | None |
| Sep 14 | Break! | None |
| Sep 7 | The Sun[poster] | Alice Allafort |
| Aug 31 | TBD | David Bernstein |
| Aug 24 | The Collatz Conjecture[poster] | Andrew Larkoski |
| Aug 17 | ALICE at LHC[poster] | Ashley Parker |
| Aug 11 | Citizen Science - NEW DATE!! -[pdf][poster] | Levi Simons |
| Aug 3 | Break for SSI | |
| Jul 27 | Next generation colliders[poster] | Lauren Gilbert |
| Jul 20 | PyMercury: Interactive Python for the Mercury Monte Carlo Particle Transport Code[poster] | Forrest Iandola |
| Jul 13 | Creativity and Reality in Science and Engineering[poster] | Martin Perl |
January - June 2011
Czars: Patty Voll and Katie Malone
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 6 | Break! | |
| Jun 29 | Organizational Meeting[poster] | You! |
| Jun 22 | Sonoluminescence: Light from Sound[poster] | Alex Drlica-Wagner |
| Jun 1 | Cherenkov Telescopes[pdf][poster] | Manuel Paz Arribas |
| May 26 | SLAC Lunch Talk: Particle Accelerator on a Chip | Chistopher McGuinness |
| May 18 | What is Science?[pdf][poster] | Kassa Betre |
| May 11 | Visualization Lab: Universe in 3D[poster] | Ji-hoon Kim |
| May 4 | Introduction to Genetic Algorithms[pdf][poster] | Patricia Voll |
| Apr 27 | Cerenkov Light Imgaging in Biomedicine[pdf][poster] | Nicole Ackerman |
| Apr 20 | Wernher von Braun[poster] | Keith Bechtol |
| Apr 13 | Future Science at FACET[poster] | Joel Frederico |
| Apr 6 | Organizational Meeting[poster] | Katie Malone and Patty Voll |
| Mar 30 | The Lost QCD Lecture[poster] | Richard Feynman(!) |
| Mar 9 | Planck: Early Results[poster] | Stephen Osborne |
| Mar 2 | Bose-Einstein Correlations[poster] | Katie Malone |
| Feb 23 | An Introduction to Monte Carlo[pdf][poster] | Josh Lande |
| Feb 16 | Science at LCLS[poster] | Cat Graves |
| Feb 9 | Early Universe Cosmology[poster] | Bart Horn |
| Feb 2 | Fractals: an Ode to Mandelbrot[poster] | Andrew Larkoski |
| Jan 26 | Photography for Physicists[pdf][poster] | Joel Frederico |
| Jan 19 | Jets and Jet Substructure at the LHC[poster] | Martin Jankowiak |
| Jan 12 | Organizational Meeting[poster] | You! |
| Jan 5 | Dynamical behavior of coherent phonons in semimetals: Measuring fast electron decoherence rates with slow pulses[poster] | Jian Chen |
July - December 2010
Czars: Andrew Larkoski and Catherine Graves
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 29 | SLAC Shutdown | |
| Dec 22 | SLAC Shutdown | |
| Dec 15 | High Performance Computing for Science[poster] | Keith Bechtol |
| Dec 8 | Finals! | |
| Dec 1 | Scientific Opportunities in Germany[pdf][poster] | Steve Ehlert |
| Nov 24 | Thanksgiving! | |
| Nov 17 | TDAQ[poster] | Josh Cogan |
| Nov 10 | Dalitz Plots[pdf][poster] | Brian Lindquist |
| Nov 3 | LCLS: The First Round[poster] | Jamie Cryan |
| Oct 27 | The Deepwater Horizon Disaster[pdf][poster] | Rudy Resch |
| Oct 20 | How to make Ultrafast Movies of Magnetic Nanopillars[poster] | David Bernstein |
| Oct 13 | Plasma Wakefield | Joel Frederico |
| Oct 6 | Organizational Meeting[poster] | You! |
| Sep 29 | Break! | None |
| Sep 22 | QED for Beginners[pdf][pdf][poster] | Wells Wulsin |
| Sep 15 | Groups in Physics[pdf][poster] | Andrew Larkoski |
| Sep 8 | Photon-Enhanced Thermionic Emission: A New Approach to Solar Energy Harvesting[pptx][poster] | Jared Schwede |
| Sep 1 | Fitting the Unknown[pdf][poster] | Josh Lande |
| Aug 25 | John Harrison and the Problem of Longitude[pdf][poster] | Keith Bechtol |
| Aug 18 | How well do you 'know' physics?[pdf][poster] | Warit Mitthumsiri |
| Aug 11 | XAS[pdf][poster] | Matt Antalek |
| Aug 4 | Cognition of Visual Processes[pdf][poster] | Evan Li |
| Jul 28 | Hydrogen Storage[poster] | Jacob Schalch |
| Jul 21 | Animals of SLAC[poster] | David Bernstein |
| Jul 14 | Q and A with the SLAC Director[poster] | Persis Drell |
| Jul 7 | Demystifying the Cloud: A Survey of Cloud Computing[pdf][poster] | Jesse Dunietz |
| Jun 30 | Quantum Error-Correcting Codes: Shor's Algorithm[pdf][poster] | Joel Frederico |
January - June 2010
Czars: Warit Mitthumsiri and Joel Frederico
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 23 | Organizational Meeting[poster] | You! |
| Jun 16 | (Break) | |
| Jun 9 | TBD | (Finals) |
| Jun 2 | EXO-200[poster] | Derek Mackay |
| May 26 | Fermi: From Mission Concept to Launch[poster] | Keith Bechtol |
| May 19 | Organizational Meeting[poster] | You! |
| May 12 | X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy[poster] | Dan Miller |
| Apr 14 | LHC Theory[pdf][poster] | Andrew Larkoski |
| Mar 31 | Methods of Dark Matter Detection[poster] | Rudy Resch |
| Mar 17 | Richard Phillips Feynman - The Last Journey of a Genius (1988) | Movie |
| Mar 10 | EEHG 101: Echo 7[key][ppt][pdf][poster] | Pierre Pernet, Joel Frederico |
| Mar 3 | Einstein's Politics[pdf][pdf][poster] | Wells Wulsin |
| Feb 24 | Optical Fiber Communication[pptx][pdf][poster] | Zafar Yasin |
| Feb 17 | Organizational Meeting[pdf][poster] | You! |
| Feb 10 | Gell-Mann on Beauty and Truth in Physics[poster] | (Movie) |
| Feb 3 | Quantum Field Theory[pdf] | Martin Nagel |
| Jan 27 | SQUIDs: Beyond Calamari | Tom Lippman |
| Jan 20 | TBD | Power outage!!! |
| Jan 13 | Organizational Meeting | You! |
June - December 2009
Czars: Dan Miller and Joshua Lande
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 27 | SQUIDS[pdf] | Tom Lippman |
| Nov 25 | No Meeting - Happy Thanksgiving! | |
| Nov 18 | California Wildflowers[pdf][poster] | Dave Bernstein |
| Nov 4 | X-ray Diffractive Imaging: A Tutorial | Diling Zhu |
| Oct 28 | Fuel Cells[ppt][poster] | Daniel Miller |
| Oct 21 | Gravitation: Introduction to the Einstein equations[pdf][poster] | Manuel Franco Sevilla |
| Oct 14 | Water[ppt] | Ira Waluyo |
| Oct 7 | What You Didn't Know About Neutrinos[pdf] | Nicole Ackerman |
| Sep 30 | STXM[pptx] | Cat Graves |
| Sep 23 | Engineering the LHC[pdf][poster] | Wells Wulsin |
| Sep 16 | The Electrifying Nikola Tesla[ppt][poster] | Keith Bechtol |
| Sep 9 | Life with More Than 4: Extra Dimensions[pdf] | Andrew Larkoski |
| Sep 2 | Oil and Catalysis | Toyli Anniyev |
| Aug 26 | Colossal Magnetoresistance [pdf] | Mark Burkhardt |
| Aug 19 | Ancient Physics[ppt] | Joshua Lande |
| Aug 12 | Simulating the Gamma Ray Sky[ppt] | Andrew McLeod |
| Aug 5 | Batteries[pdf] | Kelton Stefan |
| Jul 29 | Musical Overtones | Marc Davidson |
| Jul 22 | In Search of Pi[pdf] | Aidan Sean Randle-Conde |
| Jul 8 | The Fauna of SLAC[pdf] | Dave Bernstein |
| Jul 1 | Organizational Meeting | You! |
| Jun 24 | Modern Cosmology[pptx] | Alex Drlica-Wagner |
January - June 2009
Czars: Steve Herrin and Daniel Ratner
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 17 | An Overview of Recent Fermi Results [pdf] | Joshua Lande |
| Jun 10 | Machine Learning | Steve Herrin |
| May 27 | XRF Imaging [pdf] | Bryce Cronkite-Ratcliff |
| May 20 | IceCube[pdf] | Wells Wulsin |
| May 13 | Tour of Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve | Dave Bernstein |
| May 6 | The Cantor Set[jpg][jpg][jpg] | Josh Cogan |
| Apr 29 | Superconductivity[ppt] | Nicholas Breznay |
| Apr 22 | Supersymmetry[pdf] | Andrew Larkoski |
| Apr 8 | Dark Matter Search[pdf] | Andrew Wagner |
| Apr 1 | Gamma-ray Bursts[ppt] | Aurelien Bouvier |
| Mar 11 | Introduction to Philosophy of Science[pdf] | Eugenia Puccio |
| Mar 4 | High Resolution Magnetic Imaging[ppt] | Lisa Qian |
| Feb 25 | Ultrafast Dynamics of Water[ppt] | Erzsi Szilagyi |
| Feb 18 | Hidden Message[ppt] | Chihway Chang |
| Feb 11 | The Copernican Revolution [pdf] | Aidan Randle-Conde |
| Feb 4 | HESS[pdf] | Steven Ehlert |
| Jan 28 | FLASH: Spectroscopy with FELs [pdf] | David Bernstein |
| Jan 21 | Unix Tutorial[pdf] | Joshua Lande |
| Jan 14 | Large Scale Physics in a Small Scale Space[pdf] | Susannah Dickerson |
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July - December 2008
Czars: Nicole Ackerman and Keith Bechtol
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 3 | Diversity in Physics[pdf] | Nicole Ackerman |
| Nov 26 | No Meeting - Happy Thanksgiving! | |
| Nov 19 | Organizational Meeting[html] | YOU! |
| Nov 12 | Solar Power[pdf] | Jake Anderson |
| Nov 5 | History of neutrinos | Steve Herrin |
| Oct 29 | ITER: The journey to nuclear fusion[pdf] | Paul Simeon |
| Oct 22 | Main Control | Danielle Sanzone |
| Oct 8 | LSST -- may stars be the actors and dark energy direct, shoot a-- -- movie in the sky[ppt] | Chihway Chang |
| Oct 1 | X-ray Lasers and You: An LCLS Primer[ppt] | Daniel Ratner |
| Sep 24 | Measurement Problems in Quantum Mechanics[pdf] | Wells Wulsin |
| Sep 10 | Accelerator Basics[ppt] | Martin Nagel |
| Sep 3 | Plasma Wakefield Accelerators using TW Lasers[ppt] | Andreas Walker |
| Aug 27 | The Earth from Space[ppt] | Keith Bechtol |
| Aug 20 | Teaching and Education | Zack Valdez |
| Aug 13 | Hadron Therapy [pdf] | Aidan Randle-Conde |
| Aug 6 | Writing for your Science[ppt] | Calla Cofield |
| Jul 30 | Cosmology, Gravity and Large-scale Structure | Adam Mantz |
| Jul 23 | KamLAND: where we've been, where we hope to go[pdf] | Kathy Downum |
| Jul 16 | Ultrafast Magnetization Dynamics | Sara Gamble |
| Jul 9 | Organizational Meeting - Bring your ideas! | You! |
| Jul 2 | Accelerating electrons...and scaling cliffs | Chris McGuinness |
January - June 2008
Czars: Wells Wulsin and Manuel Franco Sevilla
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 25 | No meeting | |
| Jun 18 | HEP to medical physics[mov] | Adam Cunha |
| Jun 11 | No meeting - Finals week | |
| Jun 4 | VizLab Tour | Fen Zhao |
| May 28 | Acoustic Detection of Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Ray Neutrinos | Naoko Kurahashi |
| May 21 | Gravitational Wave Detection with Atom Interferometry | Surjeet Rajendran |
| May 14 | Catch me if you can: Searching for gluinos at the Tevatron[pdf] | Mariangela Lisanti |
| May 7 | Ultracold Plasmas[pdf][ppt] | Zafar Yasin |
| Apr 30 | GLAST and the search for dark matter[pdf] | Yvonne Edmonds |
| Apr 23 | BaBar for Dummies[pdf] | Andrew Wagner |
| Apr 16 | Pragmatic Astronomy[pdf] | Lance Simms |
| Apr 9 | No meeting - A much deserved rest | |
| Apr 2 | Innovations in teaching introductory physics[ppt][pdf] | Wells Wulsin |
| Mar 26 | If I only had a brane - a story about gravity and QCD[pdf] | Florian Bernlochner |
| Mar 19 | Measurement of beta in charmless B decays[pdf] | Josh Thompson |
| Mar 12 | Neutrino mixing and the KamLAND experiment[pdf] | Manuel Franco Sevilla |
| Mar 5 | Plasma wakefield acceleration: An experimental view[pdf] | Ian Blumenfeld |
| Feb 27 | Bell's Theorem...What?![pdf] | Kyle Knoepfel |
| Feb 20 | No meeting - BaBar collaboration mtg | |
| Feb 13 | No meeting - BaBar analysis school | |
| Feb 6 | Gravitational Lensing[pdf] | Doug Applegate |
| Jan 30 | CP Asymmetry in B -> pi decays[pdf][ppt] | Mark Allen |
| Jan 23 | Search for neutrinoless double beta decays with EXO[ppt][pdf] | Derek Mackay and Nicole Ackerman |
| Jan 16 | Physics prospects at a Super-B Factory[pdf] | Michael Mazur |
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