Category: DOE & National Labs

The Lab’s Yang Zhou is quoted in a DOE story on atmospheric rivers and disastrous weather. Predicting the impact of an atmospheric river — which can carry the same amount of water vapor as water flowing through the mouth of the Amazon River — presents a challenge as it is difficult to model. https://www.energy.gov/science/articles/flooding-sky-navigating-science-atmospheric-rivers

Berkeley, Fermi, and Brookhaven national labs are partners in an effort to build powerful magnets for an upgrade of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, the largest particle collider on the planet. The research represents a new use for niobium-tin, a superconducting material. https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2020/03/18/3-national-labs-achieve-record-magnetic-field-for-accelerator-focusing-magnet/

Building on multiple research efforts across the U.S., some 70 representatives from national labs, government agencies, and universities gathered in New York City Feb. 5 and 6 for the first Quantum Internet Blueprint Workshop to discuss building a nationwide entangled quantum Internet. https://www.es.net/news-and-publications/esnet-news/2020/quantum-internet-workshop-begins-mapping-the-future-of-quantum-communications/

More than 40 staff from the Lab’s Computing Sciences Area participated in the Exascale Computing Project’s (ECP) 4th annual meeting in Houston, Texas. ECP is a multi-agency effort in the Department of Energy designed to ensure that the U.S. maintains leadership in high-performance computing. https://cs.lbl.gov/news-media/news/2020/ecp-year-4-annual-meeting-showcases-projects-momentum-and-milestones/

The InnovationXLab Biomanufacturing Summit today and Wednesday includes discussions of topics across the biomanufacturing landscape — synthetic biology, bioenergy, bioplastics, materials, foods, agriculture, and bio-based therapeutics. Lab staff can watch via streaming.lbl.gov. https://sites.google.com/lbl.gov/streaming?pli=1

Experts and investors from the biomanufacturing field will convene at the DOE InnovationXlab Jan. 28 and 29, hosted by Berkeley Lab. The event — which includes talks and a tech showcase — brings together scientists and innovators for an exchange of ideas on pushing the frontiers of biomanufacturing. 

DOE Office of Science Director Chris Fall will testify before the U.S. House of Representative’s Subcommittee on Energy on Wednesday, Jan. 15, at 11 a.m. Pacific Time. His presentation on frontiers in energy research and discovery will be livestreamed. https://science.house.gov/hearings/the-department-of-energys-office-of-science-exploring-the-next-frontiers-in-energy-research-and-scientific-discovery?utm_medium=email&utm_source=FYI&dm_i=1ZJN,6OGTG,E29DCF,QN0LS,1

Full-time, career, non-postdoc Lab researchers who received Ph.D.’s no earlier than Jan. 1, 2009, are eligible for DOE Early Career Research Program funding. Director Witherell hosts a talk and networking event on Dec. 6, 9:30 to 11 a.m., in Bldg. 15-253. http://ecrp.lbl.gov/