If only I, too, had eight arms!
If only I, too, had eight arms!
The Advanced Light Source upgrade project has received the Critical Decision 3, the very last step before we start building the facility – a $590M project for the US Department of Energy.
This is a great news for the facility, which will become the brightest soft x-ray light source in the world. I have worked on this project over the last five years, designing and simulating the new feature beamlines and developing new technologies to ensure optimal performance.Berkeley Lab news center: Advanced Light Source Upgrade Approved to Start Construction“Wavefront Preservation in Soft X-Ray Beamlines for the Advanced Light Source Upgrade.”
Antoine Wojdyla & Kenneth A. Goldberg
Synchrotron Radiation News, 34(6), 21–26 (2021).
https://doi.org/10.1080/08940886.2021.2022398
I had a great time at Penn State University, where I was positively impressed by the facilities and the people!
I mainly visited the Material Research Institute and the department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, where they are developing x-ray adaptive optics for space application together with NASA, for the Lynx project.Thanks Susan Trolier-McKinstry for hosting me!
We were pleased, as Berkeley Lab Global Employee Resource Group co-chairs, to invite and co-organize with Angela Saini at Berkeley Lab on November 9th, 2022.
More details about the event:
global.lbl.gov/events/idea-speakers-series-angela-saini
I discover the beautiful fluid motion videos from Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi of the Fluid-Structure Interaction Lab at UAmherst:
These images and videos just show us how much information can be gained from a random signal (the marbled incoming flow) when it is coherent (linear flow) preserve correlation in space and time.
Continue readingAlain Aspect just received an amply deserved Nobel prize in Physics – adding one drawing to my collection of Nobel Prize drawings
I recall bumping on him at the cafeteria at Ecole Polytechnique back in the days, and asking him questions which he often dismissed in two sentences…
Incidentally, the last time I went there in December 2019 to visit my friend Franck Delmotte (Director of study at Institute of Optics Graduate School), he was just besides us.Hello everyone!
I have a new website to talk more specifically about our work on adaptive optics for coherent beamlines (the DREAM beam project.)It seems that US science may get a 50% boost very soon… If it happens, I am pretty sure amazing things will come out of it, given all the cool research I see happening these days.
–formerly COMPETES (House) and USICA (Senate)
–https://www.energy.gov/articles/statement-secretary-granholm-congressional-passage-chips-and-science-act–$300M for BES Science Facilities
Tucked into the $369B for climate in the Democrats' new spending bill:
-$133M for DOE lab infrastructure
-$304M for high energy physics
-$280M for fusion
-$217M for nuclear physics
-$164M for supercomputing
-$295M for basic science user facilities
-$158M for isotope R&D pic.twitter.com/erLtDK7SPi— FYI Science Policy (@FYIscipolicy) July 28, 2022
Science magazine: U.S. Senate calls for hefty research spending in 2023
I recently traveled to Argonne National Lab to meet with colleagues from the XSD-OPT team at the Advanced Photon Source.