Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource

by Lori Ann White

A team of researchers used the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource to verify that their computer-designed proteins worked as they’d hoped.

Understanding why proteins interact with certain specific molecules and not with the myriad others in their environment is a major goal of molecular biology.

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from SSRL/LCLS User Research Administration

by Mike Ross

Two enthusiastic Congressional supporters of scientific research and a panel of scientist-entrepreneurs headlined a Silicon Valley Leadership Group meeting at SLAC that focused on the benefits of light source research.

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by Glenn Roberts Jr.

Named for Indian physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and the subject of his 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics, "Raman scattering" explains how some light particles gain or lose energy and change frequency when scattered from an atom or molecule.

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Event Series:  Other or None Event Date:  Friday, October 5, 2012 - 1:15a.m. - Saturday, October 6, 2012 - 12:00p.m.

by Lori Ann White

A team of researchers has used the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource to decipher the structure of an enzyme common to more than 20 deadly diseases.

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A group of SLAC leaders hosted a visiting team of research executives and scientists from Bosch, an international company that engages in research and development in a range of fields and operates a research and technology center in Palo Alto, on Sept. 12.

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by Glenn Roberts Jr.

From detecting concealed weapons and other security threats to manipulating and studying molecules and nanomaterials, potential applications for terahertz (THz) radiation are varied and growing, noted scientists who participated in this month's "Frontiers of THz Science" workshop at SLAC.

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Event Series:  Other or None Event Scientific Area:  Other Event Organization:  SSRL events Event Date:  Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - 8:00a.m. - 4:40p.m.

Event Series:  Other or None Event Scientific Area:  Other Event Organization:  SSRL events Event Date:  Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - 8:00a.m. - 4:30p.m.

Event Series:  Other or None Event Scientific Area:  Accelerator Science Event Organization:  SSRL events Event Date:  Thursday, October 4, 2012 - 10:45a.m. - 12:45p.m.

by Mike Ross

Now a postdoc at Berkeley Lab, former Stanford graduate student James Cryan is being honored for his innovative contributions to the development and execution of “pump-probe” experiments at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source.

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by Lori Ann White

"Terahertz radiation" is a neglected band on the electromagnetic spectrum. It doesn't work well for long-distance communication, it doesn't penetrate materials very deeply, and it's hard to generate and control. Nevertheless, terahertz radiation can give us important information, and the so-called "terahertz gap" is beginning to be filled in.

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by Lori Ann White

Tim Miller, a graduate-student member of the SIMES and Stanford PULSE institutes, will receive the 2012 Melvin P. Klein Scientific Development Award for his leadership and ingenuity in establishing a new type of experimental capability that enables ultrafast X-ray experiments at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource.

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by Glenn Roberts Jr.

Nearly 2,000 people will gather at SLAC today and tomorrow to celebrate 50 years of scientific achievements and look forward to the lab’s next half century.

In the early 1960s, a two-and-a-half-mile-long strip of land in the rolling hills west of Stanford University was transformed into fertile ground for physicists' dreams.

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by Lori Ann White

Tom Cahill of the DELTA Group at UC-Davis is a frequent visitor to the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource because he knows that you just can't beat a synchrotron for figuring out what's in samples.

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by Mike Ross

In the first of an occasional series of articles profiling companies that supply or use SLAC facilities, we look at Pleasanton-based Xradia, Inc., which designs and makes innovative X-ray microscopes.

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