The Berkeley Lab Postdoc Association is an organization run by and for about 1000 postdocs and early career scientists working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. We organize many activities to strengthen our ties to the Lab, to each other and to the (Berkeley) Bay Area. Our goal is to facilitate social interactions, scientific exchanges, seminars and general orientation.
 
Category: <span>Seminars</span>

Series X : Paul Alivisatos

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 …

forum@MSD

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 …

Series X : Mina Bissell

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 …

Uncharted 2016

Berkeley Lab got a chance to bring some science to Uncharted, with Ruimin Qiao talking about how her research shines a light on batteries, and Sinead Griffin (@sineatrix) on how size doesn’t matter in science. The event was held October 14-15th in Berkeley, bringing together renown columnists and social activists. …

Careers at College

Tom Donnelly, head of the department of physics at Harvey Mudd College came to Berkeley Lab to give a presentation about careers at college, and explained the difference between university and colleges to an audience of postdocs. He later on engaged with the participants around lunch, and visited the Advanced …