University of California President Mark G. Yudof has named an 11-member committee of university regents, faculty and researchers to advise him in the search for the next director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Full story>
The 2009 Berkeley Lab summer lecture series kicks off July 7 with a talk by Bob Schoenlein on ultrafast science: using lasers and X-rays to reveal the motion of atoms and electrons. The talks take place Tuesdays at noon in the Building 66 auditorium. Go here for the rest of the lineup, which underscores the Lab's leading role in cutting-edge research.
As computational scientists are confronted with increasingly massive datasets, one of the biggest challenges is having the right tools to gain insight from the data. Recently a team of DOE researchers found that VisIt may be up to the challenge. They ran VisIt using 8,000 to 32,000 processing cores to tackle datasets ranging from 500 billion to 2 trillion zones More>
The East Bay Green Corridor, which held its second annual summit on Friday in Oakland, has attracted more than $76 million in federal stimulus funds for research, job training, and other environmentally themed projects. Interim Lab Director Paul Alivisatos, representing Berkeley Lab at the summit, said “The Lab is in a very strong position to be a vocal leader on research related to green technologies.” “We’re very excited about working with the community around us.” More>
The Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator, or BELLA, which will receive $20 million in Federal stimulus funding, has the potential to drastically cut the costs of performing accelerator-based scientific experiments.
Berkeley Lab research ranges from renewable energy and advanced supercomputing to novel materials, the origins of disease – and the origins of the universe.
Berkeley Lab scientific divisions reflect the wide variety of projects undertaken at the birthplace of modern interdisciplinary science.
"Imagine! A contrivance of glasses that can make an object nine miles away appear as if it were only one mile distant!" Galileo made this claim in a job application to the Doge of Venice. Sure enough, he got the job. In 1610 Galileo announced his telescopic observations of Earth’s moon and his discovery of the moons of Jupiter, launching the first Copernican revolution. Berkeley Lab scientists are now at the forefront of another Copernican revolution, the discovery of dark energy. Not only are we not at the center of the universe, we're not even made of the same stuff as most of it. More>
