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Today
9 a.m. – Noon
EHS 280 Laser Safety
Building 51-201
Noon
Summer Lecture Series
Beyond the Human Genome, What Next?
Dan Rokhsar, Physical Biosciences
Building 50 Auditorium
3 - 4 p.m.
Advanced Light Source/CXRO Weekly Seminar
Cold droplets = cold electrons? Imaging the electrons following
photionization of medium sized helium droplets
Darcy Peterka CSD/LBNL
Conference Room 6-2202
Tomorrow
9 – 11 a.m.
(Note time change)
EHS 20 ES&H for Supervisors
Building 51-201
9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
SSG Lecture Series
Diffusion of Nonequilibrium Quasiparticles in a Cuprate
Superconductor
Joseph Orenstein MSD/LBNL
Conference Room 6-2202
Noon
Environmental Energy Technologies Division Seminar
The Efficiency of Electricity Generation in the U.S.
After Restructuring
Catherine Wolfram, Asst. Prof. of Economics, Haas School
of Business, UCB, and the UC Energy Institute
Building 90, Room 3148
1:30 p.m.
Environmental Energy Technologies Division Seminar
EPRI's Water & Sustainability Initiative & Public/Private
Partnerships
Dr. William M. Smith, Market Driven Demand Response &
Water and Sustainability, EPRI
Building 90, Room 3148
2 - 4 p.m.
EHS 530 Fire Extinguisher
Building 48-109
4 p.m.
Physics Division Research Progress Meeting
Davide Costanzo, Matt Dobbs (LBNL) Report from the ATLAS
'First Physics' Workshop
Building 50A-5132
5:30 – 7 p.m.
Friends of Science Lecture
Breast Cancer and the Cell Microenvironment
Mina Bissell
Perseverance Hall
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Soup: TBA
Origins: TBA
Adobe Cafe: TBA
Fresh Grille: TBA
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11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
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| Speed
of Gravity—
Still Unproven
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| Jupiter's
alignment with a quasar
was the basis for an attempt to measure the speed
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Albert
Einstein may have been right that gravity travels at
the same speed as light but, contrary to a claim made
earlier this year, the theory has not yet been proven.
Stuart Samuel, a participating scientist with
the Theory Group of Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division,
says the conclusions of two scientists, widely reported
this past January, about the speed of gravity were wrong.
Full
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Real
Experiment Stars
In Hulk Movie
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wielding the Gammasphere |
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When
The Hulk roars into cinemas this Friday, it will be thanks
in part to the hard work of nuclear physicists at Berkeley
Lab. Set in San Francisco, the movie follows the enraged
outbursts of fictional Berkeley physicist Bruce Banner.
The mild-mannered boffin gets bigger, greener and a whole
lot meaner after being exposed to gamma rays, extremely
powerful radiation, from the lab's Gamma Sphere experiment.
The plot is pure fiction, but the Gamma Sphere is real.
"It is the best gamma-ray detector in the world,"
says I-Yang Lee, the real head of Berkeley's low-energy
nuclear physics program. Full
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Yesterday’s
edition of Today at Berkeley Lab contained an
error regarding the date for temporary interruption
to telephone service. All telephone repairs were completed
yesterday evening; no further interruptions are pending. |
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Newest
RHIC Results
Announced Today A
colloquium is being held today at Brookhaven National
Laboratory to announce the latest results from the Relativistic
Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a facility designed to recreate
the hot, dense conditions of the early universe. In
comparing head-on collisions between either two beams
of gold nuclei or gold nuclei and a beam of deuterons,
researchers, using the STAR detector, observed a phenomenon
called "jet quenching." This phenomenon is
predicted to occur in a quark-gluon plasma, a form of
matter believed to have existed in the first microseconds
after the universe was born. Berkeley Lab is a collaborator
on the STAR experiment at RHIC. Full
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EETD’s
Koomey Gets
One-Year Stanford Post
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Jon
Koomey, former leader of the Environmental Energy
Technology Division’s Energy End-Use Forecasting
Group has been named MAP/Ming Visiting Professor
in Energy and Environment at Stanford University
for the 2003/2004 academic year. Koomey will take
a one-year leave of absence from Berkeley Lab while
he is in this post. He will serve jointly in Stanford's
School of Engineering and School of Earth Sciences
for one academic year. The appointee is expected
to deliver a series of lectures, add course offerings
in energy for undergraduate and graduate students
across the campus, and help to recruit new permanent
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