Cultural Lunch with Fadji Maina – Niger
On February 22, Fadji Maina, a postdoc in Energy Geosciences Division, told us about her beautiful home country in the talk “Niger, where the savannah meets the desert”.
Category: Social activities
“Dip-In Break” Meet&Greet – July 2018
They July edition of the BLPA Meet&Greet involved several chip dips. They were enjoyed in Lab cafeteria patio.
Postdoc meet & greet – Thanksgiving 2017
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.
Postdoc Avocadro party
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.
NPA Annual Meeting 2017
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 …
Young researchers visit the inside of the ALS
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 …
Visit of MSRI
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 …