National Postdoc Appreciation Week 2016
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab had its first National Postdoc Appreciation Week, and it has been widely embraced both by postdocs and senior scientists ! Over the week of Sept 19-23, many events across the lab and across divisions brought scientists together over coffee, science slams or dinner at sunset. Among …
ALS/Molecular Foundry SLAM #NPAW2016
On Tuesday, September 20, the first ever Science Slam took place as a joint event between the Berkeley Lab Postdoc Association, the Advanced Light Source and the Molecular Foundry. The Science Slam format requires speakers to explain their research to an audience of non-experts. The speakers are limited to 3 minutes with a 1 slide maximum …
Advanced Postdoc Foundry science SLAM
All the ALS and Molecular Foundry postdocs are invited to celebrate the National Postdoc Appreciation Week on Tuesday, September 20th at 12pm in building 15-253. Food will be served, and postdocs across division will get a chance to meet each other. There will be a science slam, where selected postdocs …
BLPA Series X : Saul Perlmutter
We had the honor to introduce Saul Perlmutter today, respected colleague and Nobel Prize laureate. He gave a us a series of advice and sincere feelings about science nowadays. A few of his thoughts : To learn science is like to learn how to sail a boat On science setbacks …
BLPA Career series #1 : interviewing in the industry
We were delighted to welcome Michel Foure, former division director at the lab and interview coach. The auditorium was full of young scientists ready to make their next step ! The pictures of the event are here.
Bowling night
First Bowling night among LBNL postdocs at the Albany Bowl. The postdoc got a chance to show their mastery of the conservation of momentum laws. The contenders were heavily defeated by Jana, with the quite remarkable score of 179. Well done !
WD&E Fall 16 cohort for undergraduate research interns
We are looking for a few post-docs who might like to present about their career and/or research efforts to the Fall 2016 cohort of Workforce Development & Education undergraduate research interns at Berkeley Lab. The interns are either community college or 4-year university students, and some are recent university graduates …
Tilden hike – August 2016
On August 14th, 2016, it was field trip for postdocs at Berkeley Lab, climbing up an extra mile to reach Tilden Park. They started at the Little Farm, for biology, then headed up to Wildcat Peak, for astronomical observations. Then they walked to inspiration point, to solve a few theoretical …
Berkeley Lab postdocs at the SF Marathon
Lydia Terborg (EETD), Mauro Del Ben (CRD) and Sanshiro Mizuno (Nuclear Sciences) successfully completed the San Francisco Marathon held on July 31st. The fundraiser helped collect over $500 that will be donated to the Berkeley Lab Foundation to help the Berkeley Lab Postdoc Association. Online donations to the association (they …