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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
