SLAC Colloquium

Feb. 4 SLAC Colloquium: Earthquake and Environmental Risks Related to ‘Fracking’

On Monday, Feb. 4, Stanford geophysics Professor Mark Zoback will speak at a SLAC Colloquium on earthquake and environmental risks associated with shale gas development

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on February 2, 2013

NASA research scientist talks about life on Mars on Nov. 19 in Menlo Park

The Nov. 19 SLAC Colloquium will feature NASA research scientist Chris McKay, who will discuss the current status of the search for organics in Martian

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on November 14, 2012

Exploits of real life James Bond explored at SLAC Colloquium on Sept. 6

Bruce Held, Director of the Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence will present The Real James Bond: Sidney Reilly and the Origins of Modern Espionage at the

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on September 4, 2012

The how and why of building the transcontinental railroad is focus of SLAC Colloquium on May 21

Richard White, the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford, will deliver the May 21 SLAC Colloquium. His talk, "Dumb Growth:  The Transcontinental Railroads as

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on May 18, 2012

SLAC Colloquium examines Wikipedia’s protest of SOPA, PIPA on May 7

On Jan. 18, many websites went dark as part of a mass protest against two proposed bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and the

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on May 4, 2012

April 30 SLAC colloquium on lithium-air batteries

Because lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are now too heavy and expensive to allow mass-market adoption of light-vehicle electrification, battery chemistries “beyond Li-ion” are now actively being

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on April 27, 2012

SLAC Colloquium focuses on brain neurons on Feb. 13

Mark Schnitzer, associate professor of biological sciences and of applied physics at Stanford, will deliver the Feb. 13 SLAC Colloquium, "Of Mice, Men, and Microscopes:

by Linda Hubbard
on February 11, 2012