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Today
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Student Presentations
CSEE
Summer Research Program
50 Auditorium
10:30
a.m
Center for Beam Physics Seminar
Energy Recovery at the Linear Collider: Novel Uses for
the Spent Beams
71-264
Monday
No events scheduled.
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Market Carvery: Southwestern Tri Tip,
Spanish Rice & Veggies
Fresh Grille: Atlantic Salmon, Blackened
Tomato Sauce
Menutainment:
Viva La Burrito! Chicken or Pork
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6:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. |
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High
School Students
Report Progress Today
Over
the past six weeks, Berkeley Lab has provided
39 talented high school students from the San
Francisco Bay Area with summer work experiences
in science, computing sciences, technology and
related areas. Today from 9 a.m. to noon and 1:30
to 4:30 p.m. in the Building 50 Auditorium, those
students will conclude with brief presentations
on their activities before friends, family and
school administrators. Lab employees are invited
to see and hear the closing talks in the High
School Student Research Participation Program,
sponsored by the Lab’s Center for Science
and Engineering Education.
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Chemical
Engineer Wins
Top Institute Prize
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Iglesia
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Berkeley
Lab chemical scientist Enrique Iglesia has
been named winner of the 2003 R.H. Wilhelm Award
by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
The award, which recognizes an individual’s
significant and new contribution in chemical reaction
engineering, is sponsored by ExxonMobil Research
& Engineering Company. Iglesia, who is also
a chemical engineering professor at Cal, is widely
recognized for his work on the basic processes involved
in the synthesis of inorganic structures and in
their function as heterogeneous catalysts for reactions
used in refining, energy conversion, petrochemical
synthesis, and environmental protection. He is the
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Keasling
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Physical
Biosciences Adds
Synthetic Biology Unit
Physical
Biosciences Division Director Graham Fleming
has announced the formation of the Department
of Synthetic Biology, headed by faculty scientist
Jay Keasling. Fleming said the department
will integrate a wealth of new data and experimental
advances in biology, engineering and nanoscience
to develop organisms and biologically-inspired
systems. Applications may include converting plentiful,
renewable resources into energy; replacing environmentally
unfriendly chemical syntheses; seeking out and
destroying pathogens; and remediating recalcitrant
environmental contaminants.
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Fastest
Canadian Computer
Focuses on Astrophysics
A
$900,000 supercomputer at the University of Toronto
-- the fastest computer in Canada -- is heating
up astrophysics research in Canada and burning its
way up the list of the world's fastest computers.
The new computer, part of the Department of Astronomy
and Astrophysics and the Canadian Institute for
Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), was ranked as the
fastest computer in Canada and the 38th fastest
in the world in the latest list,
compiled by the Universities of Mannheim and Tennessee
and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing
Center at Berkeley Lab. (NERSC is No. 5 on
the list). Full
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Anti-terror
Research Not Under Lock, Key
By
Ian Hoffman
In
a bow to scientists, the Bush administration is
allowing most anti-terror research to remain free
and open -- for now. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham
declared in a recent memo that "unless a legal
basis exists to control such research (either by
classification or some other means), it shall not
be controlled." That leaves scientists uncertain
about whether they may publish their research or
when they may collaborate with scientists and students
who are not U.S. citizens or do not hold a U.S.
security clearance. "It's one of those things
like pornography: You know it when you see it. But
that doesn't really help somebody," said Bill
Barletta of Berkeley Lab. " As far as I
can tell from the homeland-security point of view,
there are no rules." Full
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