Lunsford, left, De Jager, and Thornock

EH&S Staffer Lauded
For Planning SC Event

Nikki De Jager, with the Lab's Environment, Health and Safety Division (Security and Emergency Operations Group), received a certificate of appreciation from the DOE's Office of Science (SC), signed by its director, Ray Orbach, in recognition of her efforts in planning and supporting an SC-wide Safeguards and Security Directors workshop held here earlier this week. She was cited for her "enthusiasm, follow-through, and personal attention to every detail and professional integrity, which ensured a highly successful workshop." Mark Thornock, with the Office of Science, and EH&S's Dan Lunsford, presented De Jager with the award.

NERSC Staff to Speak
At Cyber Security Event

Steve Lau and Scott Campbell of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) will speak at the 2005 DOE Cyber Security Group Training conference in Denver. Lau and Campbell, with the Networking, Security, Servers and Workstations Group, will discuss "Host and User Level Security, Once Again the Battleground" on April 20. Go here for more information.

Lecture on Computing
In Washington Office

Bethel

Wes Bethel, leader of the Computing Science Division's Visualization Group, will discuss "Finding the Unknown in a Sea of Data: Leveraging Human Intuition with Scientific Visual Data Analysis" next Thursday at 9 a.m. in the Lab's Washington D.C. Projects Office. His talk is part of a series on modern computing and the challenge of handling and interpreting large amounts of data. For directions to the office, go here.

Bush Requests Almost
Flat R&D Funding

"The budget is not flat, but pretty close," Office of Science and Technology Policy Director John Marburger said Tuesday at a White House briefing on the FY 2006 Research and Development (R&D) budget request. Under the Administration's proposal, total federal R&D funding would increase by 1 percent or $733 million, which Marburger said "maintains that strength, we are not going backward." The proposal also stipulates that non-defense R&D spending would increase .75 percent over this year's budget. Go here to read an analysis of the proposed budget by the American Institute of Physics' online bulletin, FYI.