Sentences with phrase «berkeley lab director»

The three - story, nearly 40,000 square - foot, building cost $ 59 million will house approximately 100 researchers and was named after former Berkeley Lab Director Steven Chu, who went on to become U.S. Energy Secretary.

DOE Under Secretary Orr (second from right) tours Berkeley Lab's JCAP facility with Berkeley Lab Director Paul Alivisatos (rt.) and JCAP Director Harry Atwater (cntr).

«The Presidential Early Career Awards are an important way for the President of the United States to recognize the central role that outstanding scientists and engineers play in advancing the Nation's goals, tackling grand challenges, and contributing to the American economy,» said Berkeley Lab Director Paul Alivisatos.

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«The results from BOSS provide a solid foundation for even more precise future BAO measurements, such as those we expect from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI),» says Natalie Roe, Physics Division director at Berkeley Lab.

Scientific director Jacob Corn leads the flagship lab of the Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley.

Armed with his first big discovery, Allison won a full professorship at the University of California, Berkeley, where he became co-chair of the department of molecular and cell biology and director of the cancer research lab.

Neo Martinez, director of the non-profit Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab in Berkeley, California, says that Sahasrabudhe and Motter's ideas are exciting, but the conservatism of conservation means that they won't be relied on in isolation, at least not right away.

David Prendergast, a Facility Director at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, a U.S. Department of Energy National User Facility for Nanoscale Science Research, helped the Texas A&M team design and interpret their calculations, which were experimentally verified in part by Fakra using Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source along with structural data collected at Argonne National Lab's Advanced Photon Source.

«If you look at this in a broad sense, about 5 percent of our total global energy consumption is spent on electronics,» said co-senior author Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Berkeley Lab's Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Technologies and a UC Berkeley professor of materials science and engineering and of physics.

The lab could theoretically do the same work on many smaller computers, perhaps relying on a «cloud» of laptops belonging to their birding volunteers, according to David Anderson, director of the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) at the University of California, Berkeley.

«By working through each step so carefully, these researchers demonstrated a level of performance and efficiency that people did not think was possible at this point,» said Berkeley Lab chemist Frances Houle, JCAP deputy director for Science and Research Integration, who was not part of the study.

And JCAP was arguably the hub closest to Chu's heart: He had strongly promoted research into artificial photosynthesis during his tenure as director of Berkeley Lab, from 2004 to 2008.

As part of National Science Foundation - funded research, Rachel Greenstadt, PhD, an associate professor in the College of Computing & Informatics and director of the lab; Vaibhav Garg, PhD, a former postdoctoral researcher at PSAL, Rebekah Overdorf a doctoral researcher in the lab; and their associate Sadia Afroz from the University of California — Berkeley; broke down several years - worth of conversations between members of four cybercrime forums that were anonymously made public a few years ago.

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«Charlie was a cornerstone of the Space Sciences Laboratory for almost 50 years,» said Stuart Bale, director of the lab and a UC Berkeley professor of physics.

«The notifications will not be fast initially — not fast enough for early warning — but it puts into place the technology to deliver the alerts and we can then work toward making them faster and faster as we improve our real - time detection system within MyShake,» said project leader Richard Allen, a UC Berkeley professor of earth and planetary sciences and director of the seismology lab.

«Here we're cultivating an entire community of microbes to access enzymes that we couldn't get from isolates,» said study principal investigator Steve Singer, senior scientist in Berkeley Lab's Biological Systems and Engineering Division and director of Microbial and Enzyme Discovery at JBEI.

Brodie, deputy director of Berkeley Lab's Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, and his group used what they knew about the lifestyles of these soil bacteria to develop specialized microbial growth media to cultivate hundreds of different bacterial species.

«We look forward to enhancing our own laser capabilities at Berkeley Lab while working with our partners to strengthen the nation's laser R&D efforts,» says James Symons, associate laboratory director for physical sciences.

«There's a lot of work that's been done already, and Berkeley Lab has been a key developer for the vision of where things need to go,» said Wim Leemans, director of the BELLA Center and the Lab's Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics Division.

«It's a new way of looking at the nucleus where we don't have to chemically treat the cell,» said Carolyn Larabell, director of the National Center for X-ray Tomography (NCXT), a joint program of Berkeley Lab and UC San Francisco (UCSF).

Added James Symons, Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences: «This is a project with potentially transformational impact that is really enabled by having cross-disciplinary scientific expertise ⎯ in soil biology, soil physics, soil chemistry, geophysics, nuclear physics ⎯ all in one location at Berkeley Lab.»

The new facility will be used by JCAP to research artificial photosynthesis and its role in generating an alternative solar - based fuel source, according to Heinz Frei, acting director of the northern division of the center, which is split between the Berkeley lab and the California Institute of Technology.

Berkeley Lab's Grant Logan is Director of the HIFSVNL, and Livermore's John Barnard, currently based at Berkeley Lab, and Ron Davidson of PPPL are Deputy Directors.

Berkeley Lab has tapped Peter Fiske to be the director of its Water - Energy Resilience Institute, a new position that underscores the Lab's commitment to developing solutions for the challenges associated with the interdependence of water and energy systems.

As it currently stands, clear insight into what is happening with this funding can only be obtained through extraordinary efforts such as reports produced by Bruce Fuller, professor of education and public policy at UC Berkeley, on the Los Angeles Unified School District and Marguerite Roza, director of the Edunomics Lab and a research professor at Georgetown University, on eight California school districts.

«It's very, very obvious,» says Dena Beard, executive director of The Lab, an experimental gallery in San Francisco, and a former curator at the Berkeley Art Museum.

Let's pick things up with two specific appointments by President - elect Obama which have implications for U.S. - China energy relations — one being the 1997 Nobel Prize Laureate Dr. Steve Chu of Lawrence Berkeley Labs (LBL) as the new Secretary of Energy, and the other being Dr. John Holdren, physicist and energy technology policy professor at Harvard and Director of the Woods Hole Research Center (whom yours truly had the pleasure of meeting in the copy room as a policy intern there way back in 2003) as the White House science & technology adviser.

Through NGEE - Tropics, we plan to dramatically reduce this uncertainty to improve future climate projections,» says Jeff Chambers, an ecologist in Berkeley Lab's Earth Sciences Division and the Principal Investigator and Project Director of NGEE - Tropics.

More than a dozen other scientists in Berkeley Lab's Earth Sciences and Computational Research divisions are involved in NGEE - Tropics, including Lara Kueppers, the Deputy Project Director.

«What I've been working on in my lab for years is to combine the intelligence of the [human] worker with the strength of the robot,» Homayoon Kazerooni, director of the Berkeley Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory, told Digital Trends.