HEPL/Kipac Seminars
HEPL and KIPAC jointly conduct a seminar program featuring presentations by world- renowned scientists. Seminars are scheduled at least once a month and last about one hour.
- Location: Physics/Astrophysics Conference Rooms #102/103
- Refreshments: 4:00-4:15 pm
- Presentation: 4:15-5:30 pm
- (Unless otherwise noted)
Seminar Calendar
Nov17
Theoretical Aastrophysics, Caltech
"Calculating Accurate Waveforms for LIGO and LISA Data Analysis"
- Refreshments: 1:00-1:15 pm
- Presentation: 1:15-2:30 pm
Aug5
Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Rome, Italy
"Fundamental Physics from Black Holes, Neutron Stars and Gamma-Ray Bursts"
Fostering Collaborative Research in Physics & Engineering
HEPL, founded in 1947 as Stanford's first Independent Laboratory, provides facilities and administrative structure enabling faculty to do research that spans across the boundaries of a single department or school—for example: physics & engineering or physics & biology/medicine. The Independent Laboratory concept, in many ways unique to Stanford, facilitates world-class research and teaching. The icons above represent 15 research programs currently administered by HEPL. Click on any icon for more information about that program. For more information about HEPL research, see the Research page.
News in Brief
November 2, 2009
Fermi Telescope Celebrates First Year's Results with Cosmic Reflection Concert at Kennedy Center
The 2009 Fermi International Science Symposium will be held in Washington, D.C. , Nov. 2-5, 2009, looking back on the first year of spectacular results from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly known as GLAST). An extraordinary highlight of this symposium will be a live public concert on Nov. 2nd at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. This concert, produced and sponsored by Pierre Schwob, founder and CEO of Classical Archives in Palo Alto, Ca., will feature two works by composer Nolan Gasser (Stanford Ph.D. in Musicology, 2001)—GLAST Prelude, Op.12, for brass quintet and the World Premiere of Cosmic Reflection: A Narrated Symphony, Op.15.
September, 2009
Peter Michelson succeeds Blas Cabrera as HEPL Director
As of September 1, 2009, physics professor Peter Michelson has taken over at the helm of HEPL, succeeding physics professor Blas Cabrera as the lab's director. Professor Michelson becomes the tenth director of the lab, which was founded in 1951 and later named after physicist/engineer William W. Hansen. A brief ceremony was held in the Physics/Astrophysics building on August 24, 2009, both to thank Professor Cabrera for his excellent stewardship of the lab over the past three years and to welcome Professor Michelson as the new director.
August 14, 2009
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Prominently Featured in August 14, 2009 Issue of AAAS Science
The cover story of the August 14, 2009 issue of the American Association for the AAAS journal, Science, is a research article about the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Ferm-LAT) detection of 16 gamma-ray pulsars, as pictured in the cover artwork, shown at left. In addition, this issue of Science contains two research reports and an Astronomy Perspective article about the prolific results of the Fermi-LAT telescope since it was placed in orbit just over a year ago.
