December 2, 2025, at 2.00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
- Welcome and Announcements (Cameron Geddes and Asmita Patel)
- Stewardship and Core Value Discussion: Service as a Core Value (Nandana Menon)
- Safety discussion: Lessons Learned Incident – Ensure Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools in Technical Documentation and Research Outputs (Aaron Potash)
Science Talk: “Optimizing secondary X-ray light sources in laser plasma experiments at the BELLA Center” (Aodhan McIlvenny)
Q&A
October 27, 2025, at 2.00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
- Welcome and Announcements (Cameron Geddes and Asmita Patel)
- Stewardship and Core Value Discussion (Jean Luc Vay)
- Safety discussion: Wildfires and earthquakes (Aaron Potash)
Science Talk: “Progress in Low and High Temperature Superconducting Magnet Technology for Future colliders” (Paolo Ferracin)
Q&A
September 22, 2025, at 2.00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
- Welcome and Announcements (Cameron Geddes and Asmita Patel)
- Stewardship and Core Value Discussion: Safety as a core value (Asmita Patel)
- Safety discussion: Electrical Safety in Research (Ari Harding)
Science Talk: “Diagnosing an In-Vacuum Undulator in the ALS Storage Ring,” (Drew Bertwistle)
Q&A
August 25, 2025, at 2.00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
- Welcome and Announcements (Cameron Geddes and Asmita Patel)
- Service: A Stewardship/Core Value discussion – (Arun Persaud)
- Slips, Trips and Falls – (Aaron Potash and Melanie Alexandre)
Science Talk: “Using neutrons to map the composition of planetary surfaces in 3D“. (Mauricio Ayllon Unzueta)
Q&A
July 28, 2025, at 2.00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
- Welcome and Announcements (Cameron Geddes and Asmita Patel)
- Collaboration: A Stewardship/Core Value discussion – (Stephanie Chan Shum)
- BELLA Facility Control Room update – (Aaron Potash)
Science Talk: “Machine learning-based pointing stabilization of a 1 Hz high-power laser at BELLA” (Dan Wang)
Q&A
May 27, 2025, at 2.00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
- Welcome and Announcements (Cameron Geddes and Asmita Patel)
- Safety During Emergencies Event – 2025 Multi-Lab Safety Week (Ayla Quesada)
- Seminar speakers and schedule – 2025 Multi-Lab Safety Week (Aaron Potash)
- Innovation: A Stewardship/Core Value discussion – (Alex Picksley)
Science Talk: “Electromagnetic properties of the beam position monitors and other diagnostic components in ALS U” (Tianhuan Luo)
Q&A
April 28, 2025, at 2.00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
- Welcome and Announcements (Cameron Geddes and Asmita Patel)
- Real ID Implementation and Impact (Viviana Oropeza & Blair Edwards)
- Innovation: A Stewardship/Core Value discussion – (Marika D’Addazio)
Science Talk: “Developing specialized text embedding models for accelerator physics” (Thorsten Hellert)
Q&A
March 10, 2025, at 2.00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
- Welcome and Announcements (Cameron Geddes and Asmita Patel)
- Appreciation: A Stewardship/Core Value discussion – (Frank Rosado)
- ORCiD ID and Publications (Geoff Hamm)
- Importance of Laser Protective Eyewear (Chetanya Jain)
Science Talk: “Enhanced Nuclear Isomer Production using ultrashort electron bunches from Laser-Plasma Accelerators” (Robert Jacob)
Q&A
February 24, 2025, at 2.00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
- Welcome and Announcements (Cameron Geddes and Asmita Patel)
- Trust – A Stewardship value (Ian Pong)
- Multi-Lab Safety Week (Aaron Potash)
- Communications (Carl Williams)
Science Talk: “Associated Particle Imaging: A Multifaceted Approach to Carbon Sequestration, Lunar Rock Analysis, and Nuclear Cross Section Research” (Arun Persaud)
Q&A
January 27, 2025, at 2.00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
- Welcome and Announcements (Cameron Geddes and Asmita Patel)
- Workplace civility and Stewardship Values (Chris Georgiou)
- Safety Discussion (Aaron Potash)
- Communications (Carl Williams)
Science Talk: “Improved Stability in Relativistic Plasma Simulations Using a Novel Pseudospectral Particle-in-Cell Formulation.” (Olga Shapoval)
Q&A