January 2019 – July 2022
An event was held Dec. 6 to honor Associate Lab Director (ALD) for Computing Sciences Kathy Yelick’s 10 years of leadership. Yelick (center) will continue to serve as a strategic advisor for the Computing Sciences Area. She steps down as ALD on Jan. 1. David Brown will serve as interim ALD. https://cs.lbl.gov/news-media/news/2019/yelick-honored-after-10-years-at-the-cs-helm/
At this week’s American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Lab scientists are involved in hundreds of presentations and poster sessions. EESA will host a booth featuring sessions on climate science, tropics and water research, and more in the exhibit hall. Click for details. https://eesa-agu19.webflow.io/
The deployment of advanced wireless technologies offers new capabilities for scientific data collection, mobile/robotic applications, and energy efficiency. Learn more about these technologies at a talk by Gerhard Fettweis (Technical University of Dresden) on Dec. 9 at 10 a.m. in Bldg. 54-130B. https://go.lbl.gov/gerhardfettweiss
Get to know the Lab’s main site better by joining the ALS Social Committee’s scavenger hunt. The first clue is in the ALS lobby. Answer that question for the next clue. Work in groups to add to the fun. The hunt takes a few hours to complete and can be done in increments. Deadline is Friday, Dec. 7. https://controls.als.lbl.gov/bcs/ALSScavengerHunt
Berkeley Lab is capping its celebration of the International Year of the Periodic Table with a contest for high school students. Those who best describe their favorite element with words and a visual component can win a Lab tour for their entire class. Deadline for entries is extended to Dec. 16. https://periodictable.lbl.gov/contest
The Joint Genome Institute 2020 annual meeting will take place in March in Oakland, preceded by the Viral EcoGenomics & Applications Symposium. Hear from JGI User Deputy Susannah Tringe on the value of attending. Register early to take advantage of discounted rates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMYiK52f2c8&feature=youtu.be
As part of the International Year of the Periodic Table, Aliyah Kovner of Berkeley Lab’s Strategic Communications team waxed poetic about bismuth, an element that has helped heal upset stomachs since 1900. Do you have an elemental poem you’d like to share? Send it to communications@lbl.gov.
The Energy Sciences Area is hosting a town hall today (Nov. 20) on polymer upcycling, from 3 to 5 p.m. in Bldg. 67-3111 (Chemla). BES has prioritized plastics upcycling as an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) topic. This meeting will focus on a possible local response to the EFRC call. https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MWw3NXFnajlwZzE3cG03M2MwbzNqM2MwYmEgbGJsLmdvdl80czRycmcxMmw2ZXFnNm5jbWMya3QwdmNnZ0Bn&tmsrc=lbl.gov_4s4rrg12l6eqg6ncmc2kt0vcgg%40group.calendar.google.com
Emergency Management is sponsoring a series of training classes for Lab employees who want to become a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) member. CERT members receive training in basic first aid, light search and rescue operations, basic fire suppression, and transporting patients.
More than 100 student teams participated in DOE’s CyberForce Competition on Nov. 16 at 10 national labs across the country. At Berkeley Lab, UC Davis performed best in a scenario that required defending a high performance computing data center from cyberattack. https://cs.lbl.gov/news-media/news/2019/uc-davis-clinches-first-place-at-regional-cyberforce-competition/