Category: Social activities

We are organizing the thanksgiving edition of the monthly meet & greet on Thursday, November 16th, 2017 at 4pm in the LBNL cafeteria (building 54.) Please join us to enjoy light refreshment and thanksgiving food. Open to all, no registration required.

With high rents in the bay area, sure postdocs can buy no house, but at least they can get avocado and have a good time! Postdocs at Berkeley Lab always love to talk about how they handle the infinitely large and the infinitely small, and fear no pun.  

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Thank you all for coming to the first BLPA Pub Night! You made it a great success. Link to all photos!