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Today
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Traffic Safety Displays
Cafeteria Lobby
Noon
Environmental Energy Technologies Seminars
Electrically Conductive Polymers for Energy Conversion
Gao Liu, Electricochemical Technologies Group, AETD
90-3148
4 p.m.
Life Sciences Seminar
Mechanisms of Estrogen Action in Brain: Implications for
Memory Function and Prevention of Degenerative Disease
Roberta Diaz Brinton, University of Southern California
66 Auditorium
Tomorrow
Noon
LBNL Emergency Amateur Radio Group
48-109
Noon
Computer Protection Brown Bag
A First Look at Windows Server 2003 Security
Jason Judkins, Lawrence Livermore
50B-4205
3 p.m.
ALS/CXRO Seminar
Characterization of Efficiency-Limiting Defects in Silicon-Based
Solar Cell Materials Using Synchrotron Radiation X-ray Techniques
Tonio Buonassisi, Materials Sciences
6-2202
3 p.m.
Physical Biosciences Seminar
Alternative Role for Alternative Splicing: Gene Regulation
by Functional Coupling of Alternative Splicing and Nonsence-Mediated
mRNA Decay
Steven Brenner, Physical Biosciences
Calvin Seminar Room, campus
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Soup: Red Lentil
Origins: Tuna Casserole
Adobe Cafe: Taco Salad
Fresh Grille: Reuben Sndwch
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Lab’s
Kumar Gets Top
Energy Service Award The
Association of Energy Engineers has announced that Berkeley
Lab’s Satish Kumar, of the Environmental
Energy Technologies Division, will receive the AEE Energy
Service Professional of the Year award. Kumar was honored
for his work in developing the International Performance
Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP), which
provides an overview of current best practice techniques
available for measuring and verifying energy savings
resulting from the implementation of energy and water
conservation measures in existing buildings as well
as new construction. For more about IPMVP, sponsored
by the Department of Energy, go here.
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| California
Ranked No. 1
In Small Tech Firms
When
it comes to sheer volume of small tech companies, California
towers over the rest of the nation. The state is home to three
times the number businesses that deal in MEMS and microsystems
than second-ranked Massachusetts, and twice as many in nanotechnology,
according to a Small Times magazine analysis. "From
the pure asset perspective, California blows everyone away,"
said Mark Modzelewski, executive director of the NanoBusiness
Alliance. Berkeley Lab’s work with Intel and startup
Nanomix are mentioned. Full
story. |
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| Latest
‘LabUpdate’
Notes Regents’ Reports
The
University of California’s sixth issue of "LabUpdate,"
a newsletter that hightlights activities involving its three
Department of Energy laboratories, includes reports from last
week’s UC Board of Regents meeting. It summaries a discussion
with National Nuclear Security Administration Administrator
Linton Brooks on competing the Los Alamos contract, and it
references an annual report on all three labs by President’s
Council Chairman William Friend. Read a pdf file of the newsletter
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| Theme
for Traffic Safety
Month: Slow Down
As
the brochures and cafeteria displays will remind employees,
no speed above 25 miles per hour -- and some cases,
10 and 15 miles per hour in designated areas -- is permitted
for bikes or automobiles at Berkeley Lab. This is one
of the reminders being given to drivers this week at
the Lab as part of National Traffic Safety Month. In
any given day, more than 2,000 vehicles travel to and
around this 200-acre site, making for busy roadways
traversed everywhere by pedestrian walkways. The two
biggest violations are running stop signs and exceeding
posted speeds, especially on downgrades. Learn more
at the noontime exhibit on traffic safety today and
tomorrow in the cafeteria lobby. |
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Retirement
Planning Talk
On Investments Thursday
Fidelity
Investments will be presenting a workshop Thursday
for Berkeley Lab employees on "Creating an
Investment Strategy." The noon talk in the
Building 50 Auditorium is part of Fidelity’s
workplace retirement planning series designed to
help University of California Retirement Program
members focus on their post-employment futures. |
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| Numbers
Show More
Physics Grad Students
First-year
Physics graduate students are on the rise at U.S. universities,
a new American Institute of Physics study shows. The number
of first-year physics/astronomy students for the year 2000
(2,697) was some 5 percent higher than the recent low in 1997.
In 2002 numbers about to be published, there are 15 percent
more first-year grad students than in 1997. In 2000 figures,
foreign students (52%) outnumber U.S. students (48%), Chinese
students (25%) make up the largest single international component,
and women constitute 19% of the first-year physics grad students,
29% in astronomy. |
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