Archive
September 2019 - Present
Czars: Ryan Peterson and Drew Ames
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 3 | Journal Club: Time- and momentum-resolved phonon population dynamics with UED Scattering | Viktor Kravipin |
| Feb 25 | LIGO Cavity Stabilization | Rachel Margraf |
| Feb 11 | Discretized Lasers and Optimization of Their Parameters | Randy White |
| Feb 4 | FAST-HEP: High level analysis tool in particle physics | Andrew Naylor |
| Jan 28 | Undersampling and attosecond measurements | Anna Li Wang |
| Jan 21 | The White LED | Ryan Peterson |
| Jan 17 | The House and Senate: The Rules of Impeachment and Trial Procedure | Viktor Kravipin |
| Nov 22 | Econophysics: What Can Physicists Say About Money? | Viktor Kravipin |
| Nov 15 | Medieval Manuscripts: History and Recent Developments? | Griffin Glenn |
| Nov 8 | Krypton removal via chromatography for the LZ dark matter experiment | Drew Ames |
| Nov 1 | The Invention of History: Herodotus, Plutarch and 300: Rise of an Empire | Kathryn Ledbetter |
| Oct 25 | Homebrewing, more science than alcohol | Randy Lemons |
| Oct 18 | Observational Astronomy for Cheapskates | Ryan Linehan |
| Oct 11 | Microbunch Rotation for the Cavity-Based X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (CBXFEL) Project | Rachel Margraf |
| Oct 3 | Accelerating Your Code with Parallelism | Ryan Peterson |
June - August 2019
Czars: Ryan Peterson and Kelly Stifter
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 27 | Symmetries in Particle Physics | Dylan Rueter |
| Aug 20 | X-Ray Techniques Through History | Kathryn Ledbetter |
| Aug 13 | Phonons and you! | Viktor Kravipin |
| Aug 6 | Video Game Development: A Story of the Reality Check | Ryan Linehan |
| Jul 29 | Hunting for the Invisible: Searching for Dark Matter with the LZ experiment | Tomie Gonda and Kelly Stifter |
| Jul 23 | Introduction to Plasma Physics | Ryan Peterson |
| Jul 16 | X-Ray Techniques Through History (POSTPONED) | Kathryn Ledbetter |
| Jul 9 | History of SLAC | Randy White |
June 2018 - June 2019
Czars: Sanha Cheong and Tomie Gonda
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 6 | Select Effective Field Theory Results from the 2014-2016 LUX WIMP search run | Shaun Alsum |
| May 30 | Catching a Train in Ultraslow Time | Kathryn Ledbetter |
| May 23 | Compact Toroidal Hybrid | Tomie Gonda |
| May 16 | The Fermi Galactic Center Gamma-ray Excess | Tyler Anderson |
| May 9 | LArIAT: Liquid Argon In A Test-beam | Ryan Linehan |
| May 2 | Ultrashort Pulse Generation and Its Applications to Study of Materials in Non-equilibrium Conditions | Viktor Krapivin |
| Apr 25 | Radon reduction in gases for rare event search experiments | Maris Arthurs |
| Apr 18 | Studying Gap Junction Protein Regulation Using Fluorescence Microscopy | Rachel Margraf |
| Apr 11 | Physics of Humans: Modeling Pedestrian Dynamics | Sanha Cheong |
| Apr 4 | Spring 2019 Planning Meeting | Sanha Cheong and Tomie Gonda |
| Mar 15 | Generalized Numerical Inversion: Calibrating Data with Neural Networks | Sanha Cheong |
| Mar 8 | Fusion Energy | Tomie Gonda |
| Mar 1 | Radon Reduction in Gases for Rare-Event Search Experiments | Maris Arthurs |
| Feb 22 | A Lightning Round-table: Come share your work! | Anyone |
| Feb 15 | Advanced Accelerator Research at FACET/FACET II | James Allen |
| Feb 8 | Advanced spectroscopy with advanced detectors: Unraveling the mysteries of Hemoglobin using Transition-edge Sensors | Charles James Titus |
| Feb 1 | A Lightning Round-table: Let's learn from each other! | Anyone |
| Jan 25 | "No, we're still not done yet" - A Status Update for LZ Experiment | Ryan Linehan and Kelly Stifter |
| Jan 18 | LCLS-II: What's the big deal? | Kathryn Ledbetter |
| Jan 9 | Winter Quarter Planning Meeting | Sanha Cheong and Tomie Gonda |
| Dec 7 | The Profile Likelihood Ratio Limit Setting Technique | Shaun Alsum |
| Nov 30 | Investigation of Deferred Charge Effects in LSST Camera Sensors | Adam Snyder |
| Nov 16 | Zimbabwe | Tomie Gonda |
| Nov 9 | Cryogenic Prototypes for 3rd Generation Gravitational Wave Observatories | Edgard Bonilla |
| Nov 2 | Dark Matter Direct Detection Using Xenon TPC Technology | Maris Arthurs & Kelly Stifter |
| Oct 26 | A Quick Look at Big Bang Nucleosynthesis | Ryan Linehan |
| Oct 19 | Delivering Sample to Beam | Kathryn Ledbetter |
| Oct 12 | Searching for Heavy Photons | Matthew Solt |
| Oct 5 | History of CERN and Modern Particle Physics: How we got all the way to Higgs | Sanha Cheong |
| Sep 27 | Organizational Meeting for Autumn 2018 | Sanha Cheong and Tomie Gonda |
| Aug 22 | How Modern Particle Physics Came to Be | Sanha Cheong |
| Aug 8 | Exploring Neutrino Physics | Philip Weigel |
| Aug 1 | Hunting for Dark Matter with the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment | Tomie Gonda and Ryan Linehan |
| Jul 25 | X-Ray Techniques Through History | Kathryn Ledbetter |
| Jul 18 | LSST at SLAC: Building the World's Largest Digital Camera | Adam Snyder |
| Jul 11 | Get Crackin' and Start SLACin' | Kelly Stifter |
| Jun 27 | Organizational Meeting for Summer 2018 | Sanha Cheong and Tomie Gonda |
January 2017 - June 2018
Czars: Ryan Linehan and Kathryn Ledbetter
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 6 | Free Will Is Overrated: Statistical Mechanics of Humans | Sanha Cheong |
| May 30 | How to make your dreams come true in 19 hours or less - a true story | Jannicke Pearkes |
| May 23 | The Low-Mass Limit: Dark Matter Detectors with eV-Scale Energy Resolution | Noah Kurinsky |
| May 16 | Philosophy? Astronomy? Physics? : The Development of Physics Through the Ages. | Kathryn Ledbetter |
| May 9 | Neutrino Oscillations at NOvA | Nicole Hartman |
| May 2 | The Askaryan Effect in Ice and its Implications for the ANITA Experiment | Randy White |
| Apr 25 | Unraveling the 'Crypto-' In Cryptocurrencies | Adam Snyder |
| Apr 18 | Use of Various Transforms in Image Analysis | Ryan Linehan |
| Apr 11 | Recent results from SUE: Phase I of the LZ System Test platform at SLAC/Simulating Liquid Noble Gas Purity Monitors | Kelly Stifter/Philip Weigel |
| Mar 14 | An Exploration of Free Will | Shaun Alsum |
| Mar 7 | Cryptocurrency for Physicists | Sean McLaughlin and Dylan Reuter |
| Feb 28 | So you think you're a good person: a moment for self judgement. | Aude Glaenzer |
| Feb 21 | A Trip to Monte Carlo | Kathryn Ledbetter |
| Feb 14 | What is LSST and when is it going to be finished? | Adam Snyder |
| Feb 7 | How to Fake It on the Gig | Chris Davis |
| Jan 31 | Meme Topology | Tomie Gonda |
| Jan 24 | Hunting for the Invisible: Searching for Dark Matter with the LZ experiment | Kelly Stifter |
| Jan 17 | Video Game Development: A Story of the Reality Check | Ryan Linehan |
| Dec 7 | The Moon: Our decreasingly friendly neighbor | Devon Powell |
| Nov 30 | Are we real? Physics in a simulated universe | To Chin Yu |
| Nov 16 | Development of an ultrafast high average power, high repetition rate laser for LCLS-II | Matt Windeler |
| Nov 8 | Light in the time of the Luminiferous Ether | Ben Garber |
| Nov 2 | Development of an ultrafast high average power, high repetition rate laser for LCLS-II | Matt Windeler |
| Oct 25 | Coherent Scattering: When Two Bodies become Three | Noah Kurinsky |
| Oct 19 | Dark Fire and Neutron Star Inspirals: What can neutron stars tell us about dark matter? | Dylan Reuter |
| Oct 12 | 21st Century Epicycles: My Unhealthy Obsession with the Flat Earth | Sean McLaughlin |
| Oct 5 | Space Weather: The Final Frontier of Weather Prediction. | Kathryn Ledbetter |
| Aug 23 | Particle Tracking with the ATLAS FastTracker | Rob Mina |
| Aug 16 | LSST: The Next Generation Wide-Field Survey Telescope | Adam Snyder |
| Aug 9 | Inner-shell electron recoil calibration in liquid xenon | Dylan Temples |
| Aug 2 | Symmetries in Particle Physics | Dylan Reuter |
| Jul 26 | Designing Multimodal Experiments: Combining UED and LCLS | Kareem Hegazy |
| Jul 19 | What can 5% of the universe tell us about the 95%? | Sean McLaughlin |
| Jul 12 | The Hunt for Dark Matter | Ryan Linehan and Noah Kurinsky |
| Jul 5 | X-rays Through the Ages | Kathryn Ledbetter |
| Jun 28 | Get Crackin' and Start SLACin' | Kelly Stifter |
| Jun 7 | The Search for Heavy Photons | Matthew Solt |
| May 31 | The Mathematics of Blackjack | Devon Powell and Chris Davis |
| May 24 | Cylon: The Little Thermal Neutron Detector that Could | Ryan Linehan |
| May 17 | Nuclear Recoil Calibration in LUX for WIMP Event Searches | Shaun Alsum |
| May 10 | Looking for nothing: The search for dark matter at the LHC using monophoton and missing transverse energy final states | Kelly Stifter |
| May 3 | Astronomy of Ice and Fire | Adam Snyder |
| Apr 26 | Introduction to Neural Networks | Kareem Hegazy |
| Apr 19 | Physics of Roman Aqueducts | Kathryn Ledbetter |
| Apr 12 | New Long-Lived Particle Searches at the LHC | Rob Mina |
| Mar 15 | Intermittency in Solar Wind Plasma: Finding the Missing Dissipation | Kathryn Ledbetter |
| Mar 8 | On the Theory of Time-Dependent X-Ray Scattering | Matt Ware |
| Mar 1 | Invisible Fastballs: A Discussion of Ultra-High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos | Ryan Linehan |
| Feb 22 | Network Centrality: Google's PageRank | Edgard Bonilla |
| Feb 15 | Fun and Interesting Facts in Particle Physics History | Randy White |
| Feb 8 | Physics in Finance: A Double-Edged Sword | Michael Baumer |
| Feb 1 | Deflategate: The Science of Scandal | Devon Powell |
| Jan 25 | The Science (and Art) of Standardizing and Predicting Cross Country Races | Adam Snyder |
| Jan 18 | Organizational Meeting | Noah Kurinsky and Dylan Rueter |
September - December 2016
Czars: Noah Kurinsky and Dylan Rueter
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 7 | Searching for 'Invisible' Dwarf Galaxies using Strong Gravitational Lensing | Warren Morningstar |
| Nov 30 | LHC Beam Monitoring for CMS | Kelly Stifter |
| Nov 23 | NO SASS | Everyone |
| Nov 16 | Optimal Filtering: Estimating Best Possible Measurements in the Presence of Frequency-Dependent Noise with Applications to Optics, Gravitational Waves, Dark Matter Searches, and AM Radio | Noah Kurinsky |
| Nov 2 | Extra Dimensions and the Hierarchy Problem[pdf] | Jong Min Yoon |
| Oct 26 | High Power Millimeter Wave and Terahertz Sources[pdf] | Alysson Vrielink |
| Oct 19 | Quantum Field Theory without Feynman Diagrams | Andrew McLeod |
| Oct 12 | Directing a box office hit: What is the Titanic of molecular movies? | Matt Ware |
| Sep 28 | A Needle in a Haystack: Extracting Structural Information from Chemical Complexes in Solution via X-Ray Scattering | Kathryn Ledbetter |
| Sep 21 | Brighter and Shorter: LCLS configuration setups and diagnostics for super short pulses[pdf][pdf] | Nora Norvel |
| Sep 14 | Measuring the Invisible: How Statistics connects us from what in the universe we can see to what we can't.[pdf] | Sean McLaughlin |
Summer 2016 Seminar Series
Czars: Noah Kurinsky and Dylan Rueter
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 31 | End of Summer Celebration and Planning Meeting | Everyone |
| Aug 10 | Soft X-Rays and LCLS | Dan Higley |
| Aug 3 | Science and the Space Race | Devon Powell |
| Jul 27 | SASS Double Header: The Building Blocks of our Universe[pdf] | Joe DeRose and Dylan Rueter |
| Jul 13 | Electron Linacs and Free-Electron Lasers[pdf][mpg][link] | Bryant Garcia |
| Jul 6 | In Silico Microscopic Plasma Processes: From Astrophysics to the Lab | E. P. Alves, High Energy Density Science Division |
| Jun 29 | Dark Matter Searches: Hunting for Missing Mass from the Deepest Mines to the Edge of the Observable Universe[pdf] | Noah Kurinsky |
| Jun 22 | Wide, Fast, and Deep: Why SLAC is Building the World's Largest Digital Camera[pdf] | Michael Baumer |
January - June 2016
Czars: Noah Kurinsky and Dylan Rueter
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15 | SLAC Public Tours | Hila Shilon |
| May 18 | Measuring Distance to Galaxies in DES and LSST | Chris Davis |
| Apr 27 | Science and the Space Race | Devon Powell |
| Apr 20 | Searching for Dark Matter at Colliders: Monojet Signals ATLAS results[pdf] | Noah Kurinsky |
| Apr 13 | Exploring the SLAC Visualization Lab[link] | Devon Powell |
| Apr 6 | Beam-Based Free-Electron Laser Seeding | Bryant Garcia |
| Mar 29 | 750 GeV Di-Photon Excess | Dylan Rueter |
| Mar 15 | Organizational Meeting | |
| Mar 2 | Undulator Hall Tour | James MacArthur |
| Feb 23 | Laser shaping at LCLS | Siqi Li |
| Feb 9 | Nanoscale Control of All-Optical Magnetic Switching | TianMin Lui |
| Feb 2 | Football for Physicists[pdf] | Noah Kurinsky and Dylan Rueter |
| Jan 26 | Stop Shopping at Whole Foods: Why the organic food movement is bad for America | Sean McLaughlin |
| Jan 19 | Numerical Relativity: Solving Einstein | Bryant Garcia |
September - December 2015
Czars: Siqi Li and Ozhan Turgut
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 12 | Organization meeting | |
| Dec 4 | Cross-Layer Soft Error Resilience | Filippos Toufexis |
| Nov 18 | Automating Gravitational Lensing Detection | Andrew McLeod |
| Nov 11 | Efficient Scientific Computing Informed by Processor Architectures[pdf] | Noah Kurinsky |
| Oct 30 | Optical Processes in Two-Dimensional Materials | Hanzhe Liu |
| Oct 14 | Surface waves in open accelerating structures | Massimo Dal Forno |
| Oct 2 | Want to look directly at the sun? | James MacArthur |
June - September 2015
Czars: Siqi Li and Ozhan Turgut
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 29 | It is Rocket Science - Some basics on why sending things up there is hard | Bryant Garcia |
| Jul 22 | SLAC director QA | |
| Jul 8 | Do Scientific Theories Need to be Falsifiable | Michael Baumer |
| Jul 1 | Pimping Your Terminal | Chris Davis |
February - June 2015
Czars: James MacArthur and Ozhan Turgut
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| May 20 | Oil wrestling | Ozhan Turgut |
| May 13 | Circular polarization from an x-ray laser | James MacArthur |
| Apr 29 | Modern Bass | Chris Davis |
| Apr 15 | Organizational Meeting | Everybody |
| Apr 1 | Ballet: Swan Lake and Beyond | Siqi Li |
| Mar 25 | Non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation of exciton-polaritons at room temperature | Derrick Sherrod Boone Jr |
| Mar 18 | What can your eyes reveal ? | Adi Hanuka |
| Mar 11 | A Biography of Particle Accelerators: From Cockcroft-Walton to the LHC | Bryant Garcia |
| Feb 25 | Magnetization Dynamics in FePt | Patrick Granitzka |
| Feb 18 | How to Build a Telescope | James MacArthur |
| Feb 4 | Organizational Meeting, Free Pizza | James MacArthur and Derrick Boone |
July - December 2014
Czars: James MacArthur and Derrick Boone Jr.
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 12 | Magnetic Micro-manipulation: How to move individual cells with a joystick like it's a Video Game | Tom Henigan |
| Nov 5 | Electrons, Photons and Magnets | James MacArthur |
| Oct 15 | Crystal Channeling and its Applications | Siqi Li |
| Oct 8 | Shotgun talk: Novel Numerical Method for Simulating Collisionless Plasmas | Samuel Totorica |
| Oct 8 | Shotgun talk: Identification of intra-bunch dynamics for Cern Super Proton Synchrotron | Ozhan Turgut |
| Oct 8 | Shotgun talk: How CCDs Work | Mike Baumer |
| Oct 8 | Shotgun talk: Weak Gravitational Lensing | Chris Davis |
| Oct 8 | Shotgun talk: Bootstrapping Amplitudes in N=4 Super Yang-Mill | Andrew McLeod |
| Oct 8 | Shotgun talk: Pulse Measurement in the Time Domain | Hanzhe Liu |
| Sep 17 | Everything You Wanted to Know About Warp Drives - Except How to Build One | Derrick Boone |
| Sep 3 | The Physics of Dinosaur Motion | Mike Kozina |
| Aug 13 | Summer Student Practice Talks / Grad School Advice | SLAC Summer Students |
February 2014
Czars: Henrik Bjerke
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 12 | Home Coffee Roasting | Sho Uemura |
| Feb 5 | Winter Olympics | Henrik Bjerke |
July - December 2013
Czars: Crystal Bray and Hilary Noad
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 22 | More is Different[poster] | Spencer Gessner |
| Dec 4 | Org Meeting + Holiday Social[poster] | Everyone |
| Nov 13 | Invention Trivia | Helen Craig |
| Nov 6 | Dissipative Structures and Self-Organization | Georges Ndabashimiye |
| Oct 30 | Early Halloween | Everyone |
| Oct 23 | Government's Back | Everyone |
| Oct 9 | The First One is Free...[poster] | Winnie Liang |
| Sep 25 | Brain Rules[poster] | Crystal Bray |
| Sep 19 | Welcome to Stanford!!! | SASS |
| Sep 11 | Dark Matter Detection - In Space![poster] | Sho Uemura |
| Aug 28 | Lasers: Transforming the Opaque[poster] | Mike Kozina |
| Aug 22 | PSSI field trip | SASS Trip |
| Aug 7 | New Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Results from FACET[poster] | Spencer Gessner |
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January - June 2013
Czars: James Allen and Winnie Liang
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 29 | Movie Night: New Star Trek Movie | Theater |
| Jun 15 | Combing with a Laser | Mike Kozina |
| Jun 1 | Andrei Sakharov | Spencer Gessner |
| Apr 16 | Q+A | Persis Drell |
| Apr 5 | tour at Jasper Ridge | Lead Docent |
| Mar 19 | Org Meeting | Everyone |
| Mar 7 | SASS Field Trip: Tech Museum | James Allen |
| Feb 27 | Moonquakes | Mike Kozina |
| Feb 13 | Temperature: History and Measurement | Trevor McQueen |
| Feb 6 | Music21: A computer-aided musicology toolkit for python | Kristi Schneck |
| Jan 30 | Q+A | Chi-Chang Kao |
| Jan 23 | Cosmic Rays with Fermi-LAT | Warit Mitthumsiri |
| Jan 16 | Minimization Techniques | Sho Uemura |
July - December 2012
Czars: Helen Craig and Yeming Shi
| DATE | TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 2 | NO SASS: Winter Closure | NO SASS |
| Dec 26 | NO SASS: Winter Closure | NO SASS |
| Dec 19 | NO SASS: Winter Break | NO SASS |
| 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[link] | 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 |