Barletta		Gough

Barletta on Contract
Task; Gough Appointed

At the request of the University of California’s Office of the President, Berkeley Lab’s Bill Barletta, Director of the Accelerator and Fusion Research Division, has accepted a temporary assignment to assist in the upcoming management contract competition for the Lab. In the interim, Lab Director Charles Shank has appointed Rick Gough as Acting Division Director of AFRD. Gough will also oversee the Lab’s Office of Homeland Security. Read Shank’s announcement memo here.

Maritz Sold; No Change
In Lab Travel Process

Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) has received regulatory approval to acquire Maritz Corporate Travel (MCT). There will be no changes to the agency staff handling Berkeley Lab reservations, and the phone numbers remain the same. However, effective today, Lab employees will begin to see and hear the CWT brand as they interface with the contracted agency. E-mail communication will now originate from "@carlson.com." Logos on all materials, both printed and electronic, are being converted to reflect the CWT brand over the next few weeks. For questions, call the Travel Office at x4500.

Lab Staff to Give Talks
On Peta-Scalable Codes

Osni Marques and Tony Drummond of the Scientific Computing Group and Kathy Yelick of the Future Technologies Group in the Computational Research Division are among the speakers at a workshop today and tomorrow on "New Methods for Developing Peta-Scalable Codes" being held at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. The workshop, co-sponsored by the Department of Energy, will focus on languages and frameworks for developing codes that will efficiently utilize thousands of processors.

Facilities Quarterly
Seeks Reader Input

The Facilities Department would like to know what you think about its newsletter, Facilities Quarterly. The January/April 2004 issue is now on-line here, and the quarterly’s web site includes a link to a simple readership survey. The current issue includes stories on various facilities projects, including the Molecular Foundry construction, Site-wide Water Project, and the Bevatron EPB hall, plus features on facilities safety “fashions” and the Rosas’ Christmas.

		Digital cylinder scan

Physicists Find Method
To Improve Audio
By the Associated Press

Two physicists have discovered a way to digitally map old, archived audio recordings and reconstruct the sound. Four years after hearing a radio report on the challenge of preserving aging audio recordings, particle physicist Carl Haber's newfound method of rescuing the classics is music to archivists' ears. Haber and a fellow Berkeley Lab physicist Vitaliy Fadeyev have found a way to digitally map the grooves in warped or damaged shellac records and wax cylinders — and play them back using a sort of virtual needle. To do so, they use the same optical scanning method — powered by a microscope and computer technology — that physicists employ for measuring the journeys of subatomic particles. Full story.

Latest Issue of ‘Beat’
Has Warming Package

SOLO probe

Technique Plucks Genes
From Pathogen Genomes
By Robert Sanders