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Today
10:30
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CBP Seminar
Amplification of Ultrashort Laser Pulses in Plasma; Characterization
of Laser-Accelerated Proton Beams
Matthias Dreher and Malte Kaluza, Max Planck Institute
Bldg. 71-264
11
a.m.
Earth Sciences Division Seminar
Critically Stressed Fractures and Faults and Fluid Flow:
From the Strength of the Intraplate Lithosphere to the Frictional
Strength of the San Andreas Fault
Mark Zorback, Stanford University
Bldg. 50 Auditorium
1
p.m.
Scientific Computing Seminar
Finite Difference Method for Electronic Structure Calculations
Jean-Luc Fattebert, Center for Applied Scientific Computing,
LLNL
Bldg. 50A-5132
Monday
4 p.m.
Structural & Quantitative Biology Seminar
Copper-Zinc Superoxide Dismutase and ALS
Joan S. Valentine, UCLA
Lewis Hall, campus
5:30 p.m.
Friends of Science Lecture
Sequencing to Understand Life Big and Small
Eddy Rubin, Director, Genomics Division
Perseverance Hall
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Origins: Beef Chow Mein
Fresh Grille: Fish & Chips
Menutainment: Viva La Burrito! Chicken
or Pork
Dinner: Pesto Sundried Tomato Crusted
Salmon or Roasted Chicken
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6:30
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11
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| Dinner: |
5
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Tom Cahill at Ground Zero in New York |
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Study
Extends Analysis
Of 9/11 Air Quality
A
new study of World Trade Center air samples analyzed
in large part at the Advanced Light Source puts forth
a model for how the debris pile acted like a chemical
factory, cooking together the components of the buildings
and their contents to give off gases of toxic metals,
acids, and organics. The study also confirms preliminary
reports on the size, composition, and origin of the
pollutants ejected after the towers' collapse. ALS Beamline
10.3.1 user Tom Cahill of UC Davis presented the findings
at a recent meeting of the American Chemical Society
in New York City. Full
story.
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| Dialogue
With Senior
Lab Managers Today
The
second in a series of conversations between laboratory
employees and Berkeley Lab senior management will
be held today at noon in the Genomics Building
(84), room 3118. Lab Director Charles Shank
and Deputy Director for Operations Sally Benson
will be on hand to bring people up-to-date on
current issues as well as answer questions from
the audience. Attendees are invited to bring brown
bag lunches during the one-hour discussion. |
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Atkinson |
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Departing
UC Chief
Praises DOE Labs
In his final
message to the University of California-managed
Department of Energy laboratories, retiring UC
President Richard Atkinson congratulates them
on their “tremendous accomplishments”
during his eight-year tenue. Writing in the latest
issue of LabUpdate, a newsletter compilation
of Berkeley, Livermore and Los Alamos news, Atkinson
praises lab employees and friends for creating
labs that are “outstanding in their technical
quality and critical in their importance to the
nation.” Read Issue 9 here. |
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| Campus
Land Use Plan
Subject of Monday Event
UC
Berkeley is drafting its Long Range Development Plan
(LRDP) that will help shape the look, feel and academic
direction of the campus for the next 15 years. It has
invited the public to examine the 2020 plan between
5 and 9 p.m. Monday at the Clark Kerr campus, 2601 Warring
St. The plan is scheduled to be completed and available
for review this spring. The public is invited to send
written or e-mailed comments about the conceptual plan
and the scope of the plan's environmental impact report
from now until Sept. 29. Send written comments to Jennifer
Lawrence, Capital Projects, 19336 University Ave., Suite
300, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1382, and e-mails
to [email protected].
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Part
of Lawrence Road
To Close for Paving
Lawrence
Road between buildings 37 and 35 will be reduced to
a single lane today in preparation for paving. Tomorrow,
a longer stretch of Lawrence Road, from the "Big
C" switching station to the Firehouse, will be
closed while paving is in progress. Detours will be
marked. Also, on Monday, Lawrence Road between Buildings
31 and 48 will be reduced to one lane while workers
install a new guardrail. The project will take about
four days to complete. |
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Delay Looms For U.S. Life Sciences Funding
A
dispute between the White House and the Senate involving
overtime pay regulations looks as if it might delay
funding for the National Institutes of Health. Funding
for the National Science Foundation may also be delayed
by substantial differences between versions of appropriation
bills already passed by the House and the Senate’s
marked up version. To date, the House has passed its
versions of all 13 appropriations bills while the Senate
has passed only five. The Scientist reports the
latest on life sciences funding here. |
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