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.
Author Angela Saini in conversation with Aditi Chakravarti from the Diversity and Inclusion office at Berkeley Lab (IDEA)
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:
fluid speckle (by Modarres-Sadeghi, FSI/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
Drawing by Alain Aspect (2010)
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.
Alain Aspect at the Ecole Polytechnique cafeteria on December 17, 2019
We won the San Francisco pride… Say it Loud: Lab Wins Pride Parade Award
Hello everyone!
I have a new website to talk more specifically about our work on adaptive optics for coherent beamlines (the DREAM beam project.)
Maria Zurek (left) and I (right) with Jeff Welser (IBM VP of research, center) and the rest of the Berkeley Lab Postdoc Association in October 2019
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.
Advanced Photon Source patio (July 2022)
During the pandemic, I’ve been more and more into ambient music. Perhaps it’s the absence of lyrics, mirroring the absence of conversations due to social distancing, or simply the sheet beauty of long progression from nothing to nothing. In any cases, here are a few recommendations for your listening pleasure!
I am very happy to announce that was granted en Early Career Research Award by the US Department of Energy, to work on the DREAM beam: Diffraction-limited Radiation Enhancement with Adaptive Mirrors for x-ray coherent beamlines.
Here are some news releases:
They may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one