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IEEE Women in Engineering

Santa Clara Valley Section



Tour of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)

Date: Saturday, June 28th, 2003
Time: 10AM
Location: 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025
(see this site for directions)
RSVP: If you have already RSVP-ed, please confirm that you will be attending by sending Wendy Wong an email. Since we need the information about the group, please in your email include your name and address as well as your preferred e-mail address.
If you have not RSVP-ed yet and would like to register, please send Wendy the information specified above.
Before tour:
  • Bring your ID
    In order to enter the facility and join the tour, all visitors need a picture ID such as driver's licence or passport.
  • Carpool
    Parking at SLAC is limited, so please carpool
  • Checking-in
    Please arrive slightly before 10AM, and check with the attendant at the Front Gate on where to park and to learn the tour’s starting place. This tour is identified as "IEEE Women's Chapter."
  • Meeting place
    Our Tour Guide will meet us in the “tour meeting room” where we will receive a brief orientation of the SLAC after which we'll proceed on a bus tour of the site
    • Announcement: SVC WIE will be hosting an one and a half hour tour of the Stanford University’s "Stanford Linear Accelerator Center" (SLAC) on June 28th, 2003 at 10:00AM!

    Background:
    SLAC was founded in 1962 as a US national laboratory. Today, SLAC's has around 1300 employees, of which approximately 150 hold doctorate degrees in physics. In addition, over 2500 international scientists participate in SLAC’s research programs.

    SLAC is located on 426 acres of Stanford University. It is three miles west of the main University campus. The main entrance is on the Sand Hill Road, just east of Interstate 280.

    Laboratory mission:
    SLAC is dedicated to performing world-class research in high-energy physics and synchrotron radiation programs that include:
  • Providing accelerators, detector instrumentation, people and support for national and international research programs
  • Advancing the state of the art of accelerators and related devices through the development of more effective sources of high energy particles and synchrotron radiation, in addition to new techniques for scientific exploration
  • Contributions to the education of the next generation of scientists and engineers and to the scientific awareness of the public

    More about the facility:
  • All SLAC’s fixed target experiments are carried out within its two mile facility
  • Storage rings are used at SLAC for particle physics and colliding beam research
  • SLAC also holds a linear collider that is used for particle beam research
  • SLAC is will soon have a "Next Linear Collider" (NLC), which will enable its researchers to generate a myriad of exotic, new particles by colliding two extremely high-energy electrons. This research will yield answers to questions about the behavior of the matter and the origins of the universe.