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 | ||
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10:40--11:00 |
ROB Redwood Room |
Photon Science | David Reis | |
| 11:00--11:20 | Particle Physics Theory | Alex Friedland | ||
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11:20--11:40 |
Particle Physics Experiments | John Jaros | ||
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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
| Events | Name | Building | Room | Wednesday | Thursday |
| Open House |
Prof. Phil Bucksbaum/ PULSE Institute |
40A | 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. |
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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
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Marguerite shuttle
Free bus service Stanford campus <=> SLAC
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Contacts:
SLAC Orientation Program: Prof. Dong Su