Tuesday: SLAC talk on using X-rays to create nanoscale holograms

In the visual spectrum of light, lasers can be used to project three-dimensional objects as three-dimensional images, or holograms. The same is apparently true for X-ray lasers.

Taisia Gorkhover, a Panofsky fellow at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park and a fan of X-ray images since she broke her finger at age 7, will give a talk on Tuesday, June 6, on her use of SLAC’s X-ray laser to create holograms of nanoscale objects.

Her presentation will include “the world’s first” 3D holograms of viruses and atomic clusters, according to SLAC.

The talk is set for 7:30 p.m. in the Panofsky Auditorium at 2575 Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park. Admission is free and seating is first come, first served. Click here for a live stream of the talk.

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