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7:30 a.m.
EHS
Red Wing Shoemobile
Cafeteria Parking Lot
9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m
EHS
Onsite Chair Massages
Bldg. 26-115
9 a.m.
EHS 156
Building Managers Orientation
Bldg. 48-109
9:30 a.m.
Advanced Light Source (ALS)
Studying Molecular Structure and Dynamics through
the COLTRIMS 'Microscope'
Timur Osipov, ALS
Bldg. 6-2202 Conf. Room
1:30 p.m.
Materials Sciences Dept.
Self-assembly and Surface Analysis of Tiny Electronic
and Medical devices
Professor David Gracias, Johns Hopkins University
Bldg. 66 Auditorium
2 p.m.
Advanced Light Source (ALS)
Spin-Dependent Tunneling in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions:
Role of Evanescent and Resonant States
Evgeny Tsymbal, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Bldg. 6-2202 Conf. Room
5:15 p.m.
Yoga Club
Yoga with Inna Belogolovsky
Bldg. 70-191
Tomorrow
9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m
EHS
Onsite Chair Massages
Bldg. 937-104
Noon
Yoga Club
Yoga with Naomi Hartwig
Bldg. 70-191
2 p.m.
UC Berkeley
Nanowire Research at Lund University: From Self-assembly to Quantum Devices
Prof. Lars Samuelson, Lund University
390 Hearst Memorial Mining Building |
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Morning Editions: Pancakes with Sausage and Eggs
Tomorrow's
Breakfast: Biscuits and Gravy with 2 Eggs
Market
Carvery: 1/2 lb. Prime Rib with Baked Potato and Salad.
The
Fresh Grille: Chicken Patty Sandwich with Fruit and Fruit
Menutainment: Sweet and Sour Chicken Over Rice
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Cal Day, Chu Lecture
Set for Saturday
UC Berkeley will be hosting its annual Cal Day open house on campus this Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Berkeley Lab will participate with an historic exhibit, a lecture by Director Steve Chu, and the opportunity to sign up for a tour of the Advanced Light Source. The Lab’s exhibit will be located in the courtyard between Latimer and Pimental, on the venerable site where Lawrence’s early Radiation Laboratory once stood. Director Chu’s lecture is entitled “Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at 75: Addressing the World Energy Crisis.” His lecture takes place from 11 a.m. to noon in 1 Pimentel Hall. For more on Cal Day, go here.
Lab Better Prepared
If Earthquake Hits
Thanks to the coordinated efforts of more than two dozen members of Berkeley Lab's Emergency Response Team, the Laboratory recovered effectively from a major earthquake that struck this week. Of course, it was only a simulation, but the training session, under the leadership of operations center manager (EH&S Division Director) Howard Hatayama, was invaluable in developing the communications and actions necessary to assist the Lab and its employees in the event of a disaster, like the one that struck San Francisco in 1906. The exercise, "Berkeley Alert III," took place Tuesday in the Lab's Fire House and in similar centers in the city and on campus. Go here for another photo from the session.
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Illness Compensation Office
In Livermore Provides Data
An
office has been established in Livermore to receive
applications for compensation from current and former
employees of Department of Energy facilities who
claim to have sustained an illness as a result of
historical exposures. Berkeley Lab employees are
among those covered by the Energy Employees Occupational
Illness Compensation Act. Information, criteria
and eligibility for benefits can be obtained from
the Compensation Resource Center, 2600 Kitty Hawk
Road, Suite 101, Livermore, 1-866-606-6302. Go here for more information on the program.
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Seaborg Colleague Wahl,
Plutonium Pioneer, Dies
Arthur Wahl, a member of the team of nuclear chemists at UC Berkeley that discovered element 94, later named Plutonium, died March 6, 2006, of Parkinson's disease and pneumonia. He was 88. The famous research team of which he was a part was led by Glenn T. Seaborg and, in addition to Wahl, included Joseph Kennedy, Ed McMillan, and Emilio Segre. Wahl and Kennedy were working on isolating element 94 in February 1941, when Kennedy left to go home and Wahl stayed at the lab and succeeded in isolating plutonium for the first time. He had proven that plutonium was a new and separate element, but since it was the middle of the night, he went home with the secret to himself. Wahl used the discovery of plutonium as his dissertation topic and received his Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1942. Full story here.
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Former AFRD Employee
Goldberg Passes Away
David Goldberg, who joined the Lab as a physicist in 1980 and retired in 1997, died Sunday April 2 after a brief battle with cancer. Goldberg had worked in the Accelerator and Fusion Research Division where he was an expert in electromagnetic devices for control of charged particle beams. His work contributed to the success of the ALS and the PEP-II B-Factory at SLAC, and his interest in teaching has left a body of work that still educates accelerator physicists around the world. Goldberg was also a lover of music and would play piano and sing at work gatherings, and since retirement he loved to sing in the Walnut Creek Festival Opera.
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