Stanford Graduate Student Orientation
SLAC Program Sep/21-22, 2016
This is part of the two day program for incoming new graduate students at Stanford starting Fall 2016. The Wednesday Sep/21 program will have Stanford campus emphasis, while the Thursday Sep/22 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/22, 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/22 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 | SUSB, Building 53 | Light refreshments | ||
| 9:00--9:20 | Trinity Conference Room A/B* |
Introduction | Ariel Schwartzman | pptx |
| 9:20--9:45 | Accelerator Physics | Agostino Marinelli | pptx | |
| 9:45--10:05 | LCLS | Michael Minitti | pptx | |
| 10:05--10:25 | SSRL | Johana Nelson Weker | pptx | |
| 10:25--10:40 | Panofsky Auditorium lobby, Building 53** | Break | ||
| 10:40--11:00 | Trinity Conference Room A/B* |
Particle Physics Theory | Natalia Toro | |
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11:00--11:20 |
Particle Physics Experiments | Ariel Schwartzman | pptx | |
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11:20--11:40 |
Particle-Astro Experiments | Tom Shutt | ||
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11:40--12:00 |
Biosciences | Soichi Wakatsuki | ||
| 12:00--14:00 | Cafe Patio area, Building 53, 2nd floor 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. Zhirong Huang | RSB (52) | 382 | 3:30--5:00pm | ||
| Prof. Tor Raubenheimer | RSB (52) | 385 | 2:30--5:00pm | ||
| Dr. Mark Hogan | RSB (52) | 365 | 3:30--4:30pm | ||
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/lab | |||||
| Toney Michael | RSB (52) | 362 | 5:00--6:00pm | ||
| Johana Nelson Weker | 137 | 214 | 2:00--3:45pm | ||
LCLS
| Events | Name | Building | Room | Wednesday | 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 |
Biosciences
| Events | Name | Building | Room | Wednesday | Thursday |
| Open office/lab | |||||
| Soichi Wakatsuki | 137W | 304 | 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 | 2:00--4:00pm | ||
| Prof. Pat Burchat | Varian (on campus) | 158 | 2:30--4:00pm | ||
| Dr. Rich Partridge | Kavli(51) | 324 | 3:00--5:00pm | ||
| Prof. Tom Shutt | Kavli(51) | 211 | 3:00--5:00pm | ||
| Prof. Risa Wechsler | PAB (on campus) | 211 | 2:30--5:00pm | ||
| Lab tours | CDMS Cryogenic Test Facility (Dr. Rich Partridge) | Kavli(51) | 324 | 2:00--3:00pm | |
| KIPAC Visualization Lab (Prof. Risa Wechsler) | 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 | ||
| Prof. Giorgio Gratta | Varian (on campus) | 146 | 1:00-3:00pm | ||
| 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.
Theory group research at SLAC
A theory group meeting will take place in Madrone Room 224 at 2:00pm
Free bus service
Stanford campus <=> SLAC Contacts:
Marguerite Shuttle and SLAC Building Map
Marguerite shuttle
