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CLASSE

CLASSE stands for Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based ScienceS and Education

In the News

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Light causes atomic layers to do the twist

November 12, 2025
Using ultrafast electron diffraction, a Cornell-Stanford collaboration has captured how light triggers a twisting motion in atomically thin materials, revealing how lasers can dynamically reshape matter on trillionths-of-a-second timescales.

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Accelerator R&D

Lab Groups

Sources for High-Brightness Beams

CLASSE Graduate Students Sweep Top Honors at International SRF Conference

October 20, 2025
Cornell graduate students Nicole Verboncoeur and Jake Parsons earned 1st and 2nd Prize awards at SRF2025 in Tokyo for outstanding research in superconducting radio-frequency technology.

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Accelerator R&D

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SRF Group

Honoring Excellence: CLASSE Distinguished Service Award Winners Announced
September 12, 2025
At this year’s CLASSE Summer Picnic, the lab launched a new tradition: the CLASSE Distinguished Service Awards, created to honor the exceptional commitment, teamwork, and impact of our colleagues.
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Upcoming Events

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LEPP Theory Seminar Cynthia Yan (Harvard)

Title: Cusps in 3d gravity

Host: Wayne Weng

Department of Physics Colloquium - Bethe Lecture Series, Professor Nathan Seiberg, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study

General Physics Colloquium and Bethe Lecture Series, Professor Nathan Seiberg, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study

Fall 2025 Bethe Lecture Series - Public Lecture, Professor Nathan Seiberg, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study

Fall 2025 Bethe Lecture Series - Public Lecture, Professor Nathan Seiberg, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study

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