DOE's Bodman Visits
Lab, Speaks to Staff

Bodman

Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman will spend the afternoon at Berkeley Lab on Thursday. While here, he'll receive some historical background on the Lab and tour the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, the Advanced Light Source, and the Molecular Foundry construction site. He'll also get updates on the SuperNova Acceleration Probe (SNAP), and energy and biology research. Employees are invited to attend an all-hands meeting with Bodman from 2:45 to 3:30 p.m. in the Building 50 Auditorium. A question- and-answer session will be included.

Expert Helps Beijing
Building Win Award

Huang
Xu

A building in Beijing, that Joe Huang, with the Lab's Environmental Energy Technologies Division, helped design has received a "Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design" gold rating from the U.S. Green Building Council. Huang was the principal technical advisor for the schematic design of the Agenda 21 Demonstration office building. Huang and Peng Xu, also with EETD, are implementing a plan to monitor the energy performance of the building.

Murayama

Lab physicist Hitoshi Murayama will deliver the last Summer Lecture of the season with a talk on Albert Einstein's classic equation, E=mc², on Wednesday. "Even after 100 years, this fascinating theory Einstein developed is still evolving, as we understand more of where energy and mass come from and how they shape the universe, including dark matter and dark energy," says Murayama of his topic. The event takes place in the Building 50 Auditorium at noon.

Turn-Away Crowd Can
Hear Director Today

Lab Director Steve Chu will present a talk on "The Energy Crisis and What Lawrence Berkeley Lab Can Do About It" today at noon in the Building 50 Auditorium. This special lecture is being held to accommodate the employees who were turned away from Chu's June 22 Summer Lecture because the auditorium was filled to capacity.

Lab Linksters Can Join
DOE Golf Challenge

This year's annual Department of Energy Golf Challenge will be held Monday, Sept. 12 at the Contra Costa Country Club. The tournament is held to foster relations within the Bay Area DOE community, and includes participants from Berkeley, Livermore, and Sandia Labs, as well as the Stanford Linear Accelerator and Bechtel Engineering. It is open to all employees, their family, and guests.   The tournament fee is $105. Contact Nick Palaio (x7177) to register.