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 …
The Advanced Light Source, Berkeley Lab’s synchrotron, is currently under scheduled maintenance, and the core of the facility is accessible, thanks to the absence of harmful radiations when not in operation. All photos are here. A series of Berkeley lab postdocs and young researchers were allowed to tour the inside …
This a follow-up of the Open Access event we had at the lab (the pictures of the event are here.), and a continuation of our previous article : Open Access publishing at Berkeley Lab. Here is the supporting material (from the speakers at the event): Open Access impact on scientific …
For the lastest BLPA seminar : Series X, We were pleased to host Paul Alivisatos, Vice-Chancellor for research at University of California, Berkeley, and former director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ! Here are the pictures of the events, and some of units of wisdom : “I have learned to …
The forum@MSD series is a new format we’re experimenting in collaboration with the Material Science Division at Berkeley Lab, where we bring a top scientist to introduce a scientific subject, and we let two or three postdocs presenting their research. The forum is aimed at cultivating collaboration across MSD among …
The Berkeley Lab postdocs were delighted to be given a tour of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute by its director David Eisenbud! All the pictures are available here. We’ve learned many things about how Mathematical science works, and the many differences in how it is conducted. Most postdocs come here …
We had the great honor to welcome Mina Bissell for the Series X seminar (the pictures are available here.) She fought all her life to get her research accepted, but also smashing gender barriers. She’s always been a great advocate of the postdocs. Trust yourself, you only have one life …
We are now offering orientation to postdocs on a monthly basis, in collaboration with the human resources at the lab. We essentially give an overview of the science at the lab and the life in Berkeley. The presentation is available here.
