Tech Talk – Tesla
Friday, May 14th, 12:00 PM, Virtual Tech Talk with Tesla’s Dr. Jessie Ku (Product Manager) spoke about her experience at Tesla and Boston Consulting Group and career opportunities in Tesla.
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Virtual Tech Talk – Facebook
Friday, March 19th, 12:00 PM, Virtual Tech Talk with Facebook’s Dr. Protonu Basu (Research Scientist and former LBL postdoc) spoke about his experience and career opportunities in Facebook.
Postdoc-to-Postdoc – Science Pitch
On Friday, September 18th, Maria Żurek, a postdoc in the Nuclear Science Division, let a Postdoc-to-Postdoc brown bag about best practices for an elevator pitch for specialist and general audiences. You can find the presentation slides here.
Postdoc-to-Postdoc Science Policy
On Friday, June 5th, BLPA hosted the Postdoc-to-Postdoc brown bag with Kathy Shield, a co-founder of the Science Policy Group at Berkeley. Here you can find the slides.
LINC Seminar about Quantum Computing
On Wednesday October 23rd, Dr. Jeffrey Welser, a Vice President in IBM Research, presented a seminar: The Future of Computing: Bits + Neurons + Qbits. The seminar covered new challenges and opportunities for innovation at every level from materials to devices to systems of quantum computing and AI. More than …
Postdoc to Postdoc: Creating Personal Webpage
On Friday, October 4th, Ludovico Bianchi from the Computational Research Division lead a brown bag: yournamehere.com; A Busy Scientist’s Guide to Creating a Personal Webpage. The talk provided an outline of the steps needed to create a personal webpage from a scientist’s perspective, starting from a brief introduction on key concepts of web development aimed to shed …
Zymergen Site Visit
On May 14th, the Lab-Industry Network Connection (LINC) organized the first company site visit to directly experience their working culture. A group of 20 postdocs from LBNL had the honor to visit the Zymergen headquarters. Our host Silas Carleton, senior recruiter at Zymergen, welcomed us and kicked off the visit …
LINC Launch March 27th
Thank you all for giving our newest program LINC, Lab-Industry Networking Connection, such a warm welcome last Wednesday March 27th! We had a great afternoon where five industry leaders joined us to discuss about their science and career paths. Our distinguished panelists had very diverse backgrounds and shared with us …