Laboratory Directed Research & Development

LDRD Highlights

FY23 Important Dates

  • FY24 call for proposals
    Q2 2023
  • FY24 proposals due
    May 2, 2023
  • FY24 proposal presentations
    June 2023

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LDRD Contacts

Elise Poirier

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epoirier@slac.stanford.edu

SLAC LDRD News

Stronger materials could bloom with new images of plastic flow
A versatile set of detector building blocks prepares SLAC researchers for a challenging future of X-ray science
AI learns physics to optimize particle accelerator performance
New machine learning tool diagnoses electron beams in an efficient, non-invasive way
A new machine learning method streamlines particle accelerator operations
Scientists discover how proteins form crystals that tile a microbe’s shell
SLAC scientists invent a way to see attosecond electron motions with an X-ray laser
Scientists make first high-res movies of proteins forming crystals in a living cell
In brief: A new collider concept would take quantum theories to an extreme

Recent Publications

X-ray & Ultrafast Sciences
X-ray Sciences
Chemical & Molecular Sciences
Chemical and Molecular Sciences
Materials Science
Materials Science
Physics of the Universe & Instrumentation
Particle Physics and Cosmology
Data Analytics & Machine Learning
Plasma and Fusion Energy Science
Accelerator S&T
X-ray Sciences

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Program Status

Ongoing Projects

FY23 mid-year reports are due May 1, 2023
 

FY24 Proposal Cycle

FY24 LDRD call for proposals Q2 FY23