Today at Berkeley Lab: August 9, 2007

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Today

9:30 a.m
Advanced Light Source (ALS)
Study of magnetization dynamics in the nanoscale using time-resolved x-ray microscopy
Xiaowei Yu, Stanford University
Bldg. 6-2202 Conf Room

10 a.m.
Advanced Light Source (ALS)
Orbital Hierarchy Inversion and Magnetic Transition in Mn Doped Sr3Ru2O7
Muhammad Hossain, University of British Columbia
Bldg. 6-2202 Conf Room

11 a.m.
Materials Sciences Division
Development of bioanaytical tools using nano- and microtechnology
Dr. Woong Kim, Molecular Foundry
Bldg. 67-3111

1:30 p.m.
Environment, Health and Safety
EHS346-Chemical Mgmt System Web Application Training
Bldg. 90-0026

4 p.m.
Physics Division
Looking for Dark Energy using the SDSS and Other Massive Sky Surveys
Robert Nichol, ICG, Portsmouth
Bldg. 50A-5132

Tomorrow

10 a.m.
Environment, Health and Safety
EHS10-Intro to EH&S
Bldg. 70A-3377

11 a.m.
Advanced Light Source (ALS)
High Magnetic Anisotropy Materials - From Bulk through Multilayers to Nano-scaled Particles
Prof. Takao Suzuki, Fellow of IEEE, Vice president Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya, Japan/Adjunct professor
Bldg. 6-2202 Conf Room

Noon
Yoga Club
Yoga with Naomi Hartwig
Bldg. 70-191

Noon
Dance Club
Practice
Bldg. 51 - Bevatron

Breakfast: Lorraine Omlet with Bacon, Swiss and Onions with Hash Browns
Tomorrow's Breakfast: Breakfast Muffaletta
Carvery: Tri Tip Served with Roasted Potatoes and Vegetables
Pizza: Barbecued Chicken with Roasted Corn and Smoked Mozzarella
Deli: Chicken club prestini
Wild Greens: Chinese Chicken Salad
Fresh Grill: Classic Gyro Sandwich served with Fried Potatoes

B'fast:	6:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Lunch:	11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Full menu

Ridgeway

New Facilities Division
Director Announced

Jennifer Ridgeway, who has a 25-year career in facilities management in the private sector, has been named Berkeley Lab’s new Facilities Division Director. Effective Sept. 4, she will succeed Sandy Merola, who has been serving as interim director of the Facilities Division since October, 2006. Ridgeway’s passion for facilities management was evident yesterday afternoon when she was introduced to the Facilities Division at an all-hands meeting in the cafeteria. Read about the Lab’s newest division director here.

CSEE students pose with Lab mentor
Al Ghiorso

CSEE High School Students
Present Talks Friday

The Center for Science and Engineering Education's High School Student Research Participation Program will be presenting its student research talks tomorrow in the 50 Auditorium from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thirty students, representing 18 high schools, will speak on the work they did this summer. Though most of the high school students are supported by Lab divisions, this year for the first time the Siemens Foundation supported the CSEE program, making it possible to bring in additional students. All Lab employees are welcome.

New Issue of S@BL Now On-Line

Quantum effects that speed photosynthesis, burning choices to avoid the disasters of global warming, how to safely nanowire a living cell, the wild stuff of Comet Wild 2, FabLab Batteries, chemical-free bioremediation, and the first of a three-part series on the NMR/MRI research of Alex Pines and his Pinenuts are what’s in the mix of stories in the newest edition of Science@Berkeley Lab. Read it all here.

Gadgil, second from right, and Darfur stove volunteers

Berkeley Scientists Work
Scrap Metal for Darfur
By Pascal Pinck

In the last 70 years, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California have smashed molecules, analyzed cosmic rays and used supercomputers to simulate the earth's climate. Now, scientists there have created a device that, though it can be built out of scrap metal, has the potential to alleviate suffering for some of the 2.2 million displaced people in Sudan's troubled Darfur region. That's where Dr. Ashok Gadgil comes in. Full story.

Rosenfeld, Akbari
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On Energy Conservation
By Heather Ishimaru





Rosenfeld


Akbari

It seems obvious now, but there was a time when no one thought we'd have to figure out ways to conserve energy. But then the 1970's oil embargo hit and along with disco and bad hair, energy conservation was upon us. One of the fathers of conservation was, and is, a Berkeley physicist whose work is the foundation of what we take for granted today. Art Rosenfeld is the unassuming 80-something superhero of energy conservation and now, by extension, global warming prevention. Full story and video here.

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