Photon Science Seminar Series

SLAC’s Photon Science Seminar Series brings together scientists from SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Photon Science and Accelerator directorates, including researchers from the Center for Sustainable Energy through Catalysis and two joint SLAC-Stanford institutes: the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences and the Pulse Institute for Ultrafast Energy Science.

The seminar series’ main goals are to stimulate scientific exchange within the photon science community at SLAC, and to make people aware of both the science that’s underway using the SSRL and LCLS machines and the capabilities they offer.

Speakers are invited by these representatives: Giacomo Coslovich, LCLS, Adi Natan, Photon Science, James Cryan, PULSE, Mianzhen Mo, and Makoto Hashimoto.

Archive of Photon Science Seminar Series

 
Date Seminar Title
Photon Science Seminar: "Emergent science at edge of physics and artificial intelligence," Yasaman Bahri, Google Deepmind
Photon Science Seminar: "Time-resolved structural biology approaches to visualise photoreceptor proteins at work," Martin Weik, Institut de Biologie Structurale
Photon Science Seminar: "Visualizing photoinduced electron transfer during photocatalysis via ultrafast x-ray spectroscopy," Amy Cordones-Hahn, SLAC
Photon Science Seminar: "Destruction during diffraction: radiation damage in macromolecular structure determination," Elspeth Garman, Oxford University
Photon Science Seminar: "Towards Ultrafast, Energy-Efficient, Intelligent X-ray Detectors, Angelo Dragone, SLAC
Photon Science Seminar: "Discovery of a New Critical Point in Water that Explains its Strangeness," Anders Nilsson, Stockholm University/SLAC
Photon Science Seminar: "Disorder-driven decoherence in solid-state attosecond dynamics," David Purschke, University of Rochester
Photon Science Seminar: "P450s, Photons, and Pixels: Mapping Enzyme Dynamics Across Space, Time, and Data," Alec Follmer, UC Davis
Photon Science Seminar: "How well do we really understand the matter side of light-matter interactions?" Joseph Subotnik, Princeton University
Bonus Photon Science Seminar: "Transient changes of x-ray optical constants of XFEL generated warm dense matter," Nina Rohringer, DESY
 
Attending a Lecture

The lectures take place every Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. in SLAC’s Building 901 Redtail Hawk conference room. Every presentation will be preceded by 15 minutes of informal discussion over cookies and coffee, and will be followed by time for anyone in the audience to share recent results or exciting experimental techniques.

If you do not have a SLAC badge, please contact Kaitlyn Layaoen. She will notify SLAC Security that you are attending a lecture and send you directions to the conference room.

SLAC is located at 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA. 94025. Please visit our Maps and Directions page for driving directions to the laboratory.

If you have specific questions or concerns about attending a lecture, please contact Mia Song.

Recorded Lectures

Access recorded events from previous lectures.

Nominating Speakers for the Photon Science Seminars

If you are interested to help the committee in developing the program for the seminar series, you can submit nominations for Photon Science Seminar Speakers through this online form. You will need to use your Stanford credentials to log into the form.