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Today
4 p.m.
SEMINAR
Structural and Quantitative Biology Protein Unfolding in
the Cell, Andreas Matouschek, Northwestern U.
100 Lewis Hall, Campus
4:30 p.m
COLLOQUIUM
Department of Physics
Nonlinear Optical Physics, Robert W. Boyd, M. Parker
Givens Professor of Optics, University of Rochester
1 Le Conte Hall, Campus
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Soup: Garden Vegetable
Origins: NE Pot Roast
Adobe Cafe: Casserole
Fresh Grille: Chicken Snwich
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6:30
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11
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Still
Time to Weigh In
On Dinner Service
It’s
not too late to register your opinion on possible provision
of dinner service at the Berkeley Lab cafeteria. Go here
to fill out a brief questionnaire. |
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Chinese
Academy, Lab
Sign Cooperation Pact
Berkeley
Lab Director Charles Shank and Bai Chunli, Vice President
of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (left) signed an Agreement of
Cooperation recently that will facilitate exchanges in science and
technology. Under the arrangement, three top scientists from the
Academy will spend up to three months each year at Berkeley Lab
over a two-year period. They will attend training courses, give
lectures, participate in collaborative research, and gain management
experience. The visiting scientists will bring their valuable expertise
to Lab projects while taking back with them broadened skills in
academic leadership.
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New
Software Tracks
Packages Dock-to-Desk |
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Tim
Montoya bar-scans
a package |
Tracking
the hundreds of packages arriving daily at Berkeley Lab
just got easier. As of today, employees who are waiting
for packages can link to a dynamic intranet page and view
the dock-to-desk (or lab bench) routing status of their
shipments. The new automated iBOX tracking system deployed
this week by the Receiving and Transportation departments
utilizes barcoding to scan and follow a package from the
time it arrives at Building 69 until it reaches the waiting
employee. A tutorial on the system can be found here.
Connect to the iBOX tracking site here. |
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| How
To Sidestep A
Two-Pronged Vampire
By
Peter Wayner
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Ian
Woofenden and Matt Buchman . . . share a similar quest: to
avoid wasting power in a way that most Americans unwittingly
do every day. Both men have taken aim at the basic transformer,
the power converter that allows electronic devices that commonly
operate on 5 volts or 12 volts to run on 120 volts, the standard
in most American homes. Alan K. Meier, a scientist
at Berkeley Lab, said that transformers can waste one to three
watts each. The amounts seem tiny, but they add up to as much
as a "staggering 5 percent" of a home's power consumption,
depending on how many electronic devices there are. Computers,
televisions and other devices may be turned off for most of
the day, but the black boxes run unless the device is unplugged.
Full
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Japanese
Supercomputer
A Wake-up Call to U.S.
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Horst
Simon, director of Berkeley Lab's Computational Research
Division and NERSC Center Division, will be a keynote
speaker in June at the International Supercomputing Conference
in Heidelberg. Simon, interviewed about High Performance
Computing Strategies in the U.S. for Spektrum der Wissenschaft,
the German version of Scientific American, blamed
a "culture of delays" for the U.S. falling behind
the Japanese in supercomputer power. The interview, translated
from the original German, is in this week's edition of
the electronic newsletter Supercomputing Online.
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Say Cal
Department in Decline
By
Keay Davidson
The academic quality and reputation of UC Berkeley's "crown
jewel" physics department have declined and need "immediate
and significant" action to halt the damage, a confidential
report says. The report was prepared at the university's request
by a six-member team of highly regarded outside physicists
who visited the department in March. (Among those mentioned
is former Berkeley Lab scientist Seamus Davis, who
left last year for a post at Cornell University). Full
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