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Events and Resources
- SLAC Public Lecture Series
- All SLAC Events
- RIXS 2024 | Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of XAS, XPS and RIXS
- SSRL EXAFS Summer School; talks
- Computational Methods in the Structural Sciences (2022 talks)
- SSRL & LCLS Fundamentals YouTube channel
- SSRL/LCLS Users' Meeting & Workshops, Sept. 22-27, 2024
- Archive & Library of SSRL Events, Training & Resources
Awards & Fellowships
- SLAC Panokfsky Fellowships - Applications Due Nov 2 (Panofsky Fellows)
- William E. & Diane M. Spicer Young Investigator Award - Nominations due July 1
- Farrel W. Lytle Award - Nominations Due July 1
- SSRL Scientific Development Award - Nominations Due August 1
- Joe Wong Outstanding Poster Awards
- Student Poster Awards Sponsored by BioXFEL 2020-2023
- Melvin P. Klein Awards 2006-2023
Lightsource News, Videos and Animations
- Yijin Liu SLAC Public Lecture: Improving Batteries from the Atoms Up (Feb 2021)
- Diana Gamzina SLAC Public Lecture: How Science Unlocks Copper’s Hidden Powers (Nov 2020)
- Congratulations to the Outstanding Poster Presenters (Oct 2020)
- Case van Genuchten receives 2020 Farrel W. Lytle Award for drinking water treatment research (Sept. 2020)
- Kelly Summers recives 2020 Klein Award for research on treatments for Alzheimer's Disease (Sept 2020)
- In a search for COVID-19 treatments, researchers pursue a drug used on cats (August 2020)
- Peter Chung receives 2020 Spicer Award (July 2020)
- How clean water technologies could get a boost from X-ray synchrotrons (July 2020)
- COVID-19 related research news (May 2020)
- Nick Edwards Public Lecture: Discovering the Colors of Fossil Creatures (May 2020)
- Rethinking the Minamata Mass Poisoning Tragedy (Interview with Ashley James, U Saskatooon, February 2020)
- Rust offers a cheap way to filter arsenic-poisoned water (January 2020)
- Discover our worldwide collaboration and what we do for scientist, engineers, technicians, students...
- Taking a Closer Look at the Causes of Stroke (November 2019)
- Aina Cohen receives 2019 Farrel Lytle Award (September 2019)
- Xinru Wang receives 2019 Klein Award for research on cell signaling in enzymes
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TED Talk by William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes (Jump to 7:00 for SSRL portion).
