Prospective Graduate Student Open House Mar/2015
SLAC Program
This is part of the two day program on Mar/17-18 for prospective graduate students admitted to Stanford for Fall 2015. The morning programs are at Stanford campus with research introduction and student dialogue. For the afternoons, both Stanford campus and SLAC have open office and open lab programs for both days, with Tuesday Mar/17 has Stanford campus emphsis, while Wednesday Mar/18 program has SLAC emphasis.
With SLAC as an independent school in the Stanford academic system, the extensive research programs in the two faculties at SLAC also offer formal supervision for Stanford student theses.
SLAC Particle Physics and
Astrophysics (PPA) Faculty
SLAC
Photon Science Faculty
To help seeding the investigation of the various research
opportunities, the suite of search orientation talks on the SLAC programs
for the current 1st year graduate students when they started in Sep/2014
can be found in the link below:
New Graduate Student Orientation program at SLAC for class of 2014
(Sep/2014)
2015 Open House Program Summaries
Link to Stanford overall
Mar/2015 open house program
Printer friendly PDF copy of SLAC Mar/2015 open house program
Tuesday Mar/17 SLAC Program
For those would like to visit SLAC open house/lab on Mar/17 Tuesday afternoon, you can take the Marguerite shuttle to travel to SLAC and return to campus. Please see the end of this page for details about the Marguerite shuttle.Wednesday Mar/18 SLAC Program Schedule
For Wednesday Mar/18, there will be a dedicated bus to take students from campus to SLAC after lunch. Please look for SLAC faculties towards the end of Wednesday lunch on campus to gather to walk to the bus (depart 1:30pm from Roth Way between the Rodin Sculpture Garden and the Oval).
| Time | Activities | ||||
| 1:15--1:20 pm | Gatrher at Physics and Astrophysics Building (PAB) lobby | ||||
| 1:20--1:30 pm | Walk to bus parked at Roth Way between Palm Drive and Rodin Sculpture Garden | ||||
| 1:30--1:50 pm | Bus to SLAC and drop off of people not attending tours at SLAC parking lot E | ||||
| Tour A (Accelerator) | Tour B (Photon Science) | Open Office /
Open Lab (See below) |
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| 1:55--2:15 pm | Klystron Gallery | 1:55--2:10 pm | Klystron Gallery | ||
| 2:20--3:15 pm | NLCTA +posters on FACET etc | 2:15--2:50 pm | LCLS Experimental Halls NEH/FEH | ||
| 2:55--3:20 pm | SSRL | ||||
| 3:20--5:00 pm | Open office and open lab | ||||
| 5:05pm (sharp) | Bus departs from SLAC parking lot E (see map below) back to Stanford campus | ||||
Note: Those wishing to return to Stanford campus at a different time can always take the Marguerite shuttle yourself.
SLAC Open House Programs for Mar/18
Tours
SLAC tours (route map) are offered on Wednesday Mar/18 as indicated in the schedule above. To make ensure you are on the list for the experimental area access, please signup to the tour online. The final list of participants.
Open Office / Lab
For individual faculty availability, please check the online Goolg Doc of overall open office/lab listing which is being updated online. Below are some of the group events at SLAC:
| Accelerator Physics (Graduate Student Brochure, E163) | ||
| Building: RSB (52) | Venue: various offices | Open house office/lab 2-5pm: available faculty/staff list. |
| PULSE Institute | ||
| Building: Central Lab (40) | Venue: 40A ground floor | Open house office, lab tours, posters.2-5pm. |
| Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at KIPAC | ||
| Building: Kavli (51) | Room: various | Open offices: 2-5pm. Visualization Lab demo: 3:30-5:00pm. |
| Particle Physics Theory | ||
| Building: ROB (48) | Room: Madrone (224) | Group general discussion at 3:00pm. Open offices 2-5pm. |
| Particle Physics Experiments | ||
| Building: Central Lab Annex (84) | Room: B259 | Central hub point for visits to open office/lab of ATLAS, Heavy Photon Search (HPS) at JLab, EXO, MicroBooNE/LBNE |
| Building: Kavli (51) | Room: various | opene office/lab for CDMS, LUX / LZ |
Marguerite Shuttle and SLAC Building Map
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Marguerite shuttle
Free bus service Stanford campus <=> SLAC |
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Contact: Prof. Dong Su