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Memory in a Glassy Landscape

Out-of-equilibrium systems preserve memories of their formation and training history in a variety of ways allowing for an innovative classification of material and dynamics. I will discuss one case where a cyclically sheared suspension of particles or a charge-density-wave solid...

Sidney Nagel, Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor

The James Franck Institute, The Enrico Fermi Institute, and the Department of Physics, The University of Chicago

Date Monday, January 23, 2023  · 3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.  PT
Location Virtual event
Sidney Nagel, Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor, The James Franck Institute, The Enrico Fermi Institute, and the Department of Physics, The University of Chicago
Jan23

Ask Me Anything: The SLAC-Stanford-DOE Relationship, and the Role of Stanford’s Vice President for SLAC

The Department of Energy operates sixteen of its seventeen national laboratories under the government-owned, contractor-operated (GOCO) model. Under this model, Stanford holds the contract for the operation of SLAC, and is responsible for overseeing the performance of the laboratory and...

Dr. Stephen Streiffer

Stanford University

Date Monday, December 12, 2022  · 3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.  PT
Location in-person (location: Redwood Rooms A/B) and on zoom
Dr. Stephen Streiffer, Stanford University
Dec12

Opening the Infrared Treasure Chest with JWST

The James Webb Space Telescope was launched on Dec. 25, 2021, and commissioning was completed in early July 2022. With its 6.5 m golden eye, and cameras and spectrometers covering 0.6 to 28 µm, Webb is already producing magnificent images...

John Mather

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Date Monday, November 14, 2022  · 3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.  PT
Location Virtual event
John Mather, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Nov14

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Survey (DESI) and Beyond

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is mapping the sky with a 5000-fiber robotic focal plane and 10 optical spectrographs. I will describe the challenges in construction, installation, commissioning, operations, and data reduction. The 13 million galaxies mapped in the...

David Schlegel

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Date Monday, November 7, 2022  · 3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.  PT
Location SLAC Redwood Rooms C/D and on zoom
David Schlegel, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Nov7

Making Fluids and Solids from Microwave Photons

In this talk I will discuss recent results from a collaboration between the Simon & Schuster labs, where we have developed techniques for assembling quantum matter from strongly interacting microwave photons. Beginning with a description of the platform - an...

Jon Simon

Stanford University, Physics and Applied Physics

Date Monday, October 31, 2022  · 3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.  PT
Location Redwood Roms C/D and on zoom
Jon Simon, Stanford University, Physics and Applied Physics
Oct31

Mythbusting Knowledge Transfer - New Paradigms in Research, Education, and Publishing Through Shared Science Gateways

Around 2008 our peer reviewers held these beliefs to be true: "No one will use computational research-based app to analyze or guide experiments. No one will use such apps in education. Such apps are not publications!" Today we measure how...

Gerhard Klimeck

Purdue University

Date Monday, October 24, 2022  · 3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.  PT
Location Redwood Rooms C/D and on zoom
Gerhard Klimeck, Purdue University
Oct24

Advancing Electromagnetics for Energy Applications

Electromagnetic fields represent a fundamental aspect of nature and serve as the primary carrier of energy. New abilities to control electromagnetic fields, as enabled for example by the developments of metamaterials and nanophotonic structures, can therefore have profound implications for...

Shanhui Fan

Stanford University

Date Monday, October 17, 2022  · 3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.  PT
Location Redwood Rooms C/D and on zoom
Shanhui Fan, Stanford University
Oct17

First Dark Matter Search Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment

The nature and origin of dark matter are among the most compelling mysteries of contemporary science. There is strong evidence for dark matter from its role in shaping the galaxies and galaxy clusters that we observe in the universe. For...

Maria Elena Monzani, Tomasz Biesiadzinski, and Alden Fan

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Date Monday, August 1, 2022  · 3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.  PT
Location Virtual event
Maria Elena Monzani, Tomasz Biesiadzinski, and Alden Fan, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Aug1

Spins, Bits, and Flips: Essentials for High-Density Magnetic Random-Access Memory

The magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ), a device comprised of two ferromagnetic electrodes with a thin (~1nm) insulating tunnel barrier in between, was first proposed in a Ph.D. thesis by Michel Jullière in 1975 and reached widespread commercialization nearly 30 years...

Dr. Tiffany S. Santos

Western Digital Corporation; 2022 IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer

Date Monday, June 6, 2022  · 3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.  PT
Location Virtual event
Dr. Tiffany S. Santos, Western Digital Corporation; 2022 IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer
Jun6