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 …
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 …
