For the National Postdoc Appreciation Week, we are organizing the Game of divisions, where each division is represented by a postdoc, who will represent his house for the control of the Iron Stool. The talks will be 3min long, and the jury will be led by lab director Mike Witherell, …
The main auditorium of Berkeley Lab was almost full to hear about Quantum Computing from Shane Caldwell, Quantum Engineer at Rigetti, a Berkeley-based Quantum Computing start-up. The company has attracted a lot of interest recently (The Quantum Computer Factory That’s Taking on Google and IBM – Wired) with its quantum …
With high rents in the bay area, sure postdocs can buy no house, but at least they can get avocado and have a good time! Postdocs at Berkeley Lab always love to talk about how they handle the infinitely large and the infinitely small, and fear no pun.
Leen Alawieh, Protonu Basu, Jarrod McClean, and Jana Voříšková were among the finishers of the San Francisco Marathon, which took place July 23. The runners used the race as a fundraiser for the Lab’s Postdoc Association, via the Berkeley Lab Foundation. McClean is leaving the Lab to continue work on …
Postdocs at Berkeley Lab were thrilled to learn about how to best prepare for interviews, and get to know all the tricks they can use to attract the attention of companies by staffing agency. The talk, part of BLPA Career Seminars series, was given by Nina Mazurova, a talent partner …
Usually, for Series X, we like to talk about things past and we invite renowned scientists to talk about their journey in science. But this time, we had a different kind of scientist — a journalist — and it was our delight to welcome Alexis Madrigal, with the photos of the …
On April 3rd, 2017, we had Catharine Adams (@scienceismetal) from UC Berkeley presenting “How to use social media to advance your research career”, where she enjoined young researcher to engage a larger audience and share their research with non-scientist. The corresponding material is available here, and you can watch a …
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was represented for the first time at the National Postdoc Association Annual Meeting that was held in San Francisco, on March 17-19th, 2017. Four postdocs, members of the Berkeley Lab Postdoc (co-chairs Tetiana Shalapska, Antoine Wojdyla, Valentine Trotter, and treasurer Hang Deng) presented the results of …
Great crowd at Berkeley Lab to hear former postdocs talk about their transition to data science through the the Insight Data Science Fellows Program: Kathy Copic is the VP of Growth at Insight Data Science, where she works on expanding Insight to new locations. Before that, she worked in Experimental …
We were thrilled to host the second event of out forum@MSD series, were we talked about novel photonic structures (the first event was about topological insulators). This event was introduced by Xiang Zhang (xlab.me.berkeley.edu), who does a lot of work around very strange and cool interactions between matter and light …
