All About SLAC: What Goes On In the World's Longest Building

Neil Calder, SLAC Communications Director

This lecture is available for online viewing.

24 February 2004

Ever wonder what goes on behind SLAC's doors? Here is your chance to find out what SLAC is all about: the research, the facilities, and the people that make this world-class research institute what it is today.

About the speaker:
Neil Calder is originally from Scotland, where he learned early in life a deep fear of physics. He embarked on a career as an English literature lecturer. Luck lead him to work at CERN, the European physics lab in Geneva, where he was amazed to find he could understand everything that was happening at the lab until people starting talking in math. Now fascinated by particle physics, Neil has given many talks on the basic ideas and excitement of this field.