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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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January 27, 2025, at 2.00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
  • Safety Discussion (Aaron Potash)

Science Talk: “Improved Stability in Relativistic Plasma Simulations Using a Novel Pseudospectral Particle-in-Cell Formulation.” (Olga Shapoval)

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