Monthly hybrid meetings bring together the entire Division for discussion of the issues of the day, including brief safety and IDEA presentations, and conclude with a scientific talk.  

2024

November 13, 2024, at 2.00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials

Science Talk: “BELLA 10 GeV electron acceleration and plans towards staging for future colliders.” (Alex Picksley)

Q&A

 

October 28, 2024, at 2.00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
  • Safety discussion – B58 Cryostat Hoist For SSTF Probe (Aaron Potash)

Science Talk: “ML-Powered FPGA-based Real-Time Quantum State Discrimination Enabling Mid-circuit Measurements.” (Yilun Xu)

Q&A

 

September 23, 2024, at 2.00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
  • IDEA discussion – Mentoring Opportunities at LBNL (Paolo Ferracin)
  • Safety discussion – Learning from the Superconducting Magnet Program Experimental Success (Aaron Potash)

Science Talk: “Superconducting Magnets for ECR Ion Sources and High Rigidity Spectrometer at FRIB.” (Tengming Shen)

Q&A

 

August 26, 2024, at 2.00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
  • Safety discussion – Wildfire: Actions to take at LBNL (Aaron Potash)
  • Communications – August 2024 issue of ATAP News (Asmita Patel and Carl Williams)

Science Talk: “Production and detection of muons using electron beams from a Laser-Plasma Accelerator” (Davide Terzani)

Q&A

 

July 29, 2024, at 2.30 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
  • Safety Discussion – Multi-Lab Safety Week 2024: Review and Award Winners (Pat Thomas)
  • Communications – June 2024 issue of ATAP News (Carl Williams)

Science Talk: “Harnessing Acclerator Technology for Quantim Defect Engineering and Qubit Control” (Wei Liu)

Q&A

 

May 29, 2024, at 2.00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
  • Safety Discussion – Multi-Lab Safety Week Schedule (Aaron Potash)
  • Communications – Recent Social Media Posts and Communication Focus (Asmita Patel)

Science Talk: “WarpX applications to Fusion Science” (Remi Lehe)

Q&A

 

April 24, 2024, at 2:00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
  • Safety Discussion – The Case of the Liquid Helium Dewar: The Second Shocking (Aaron Potash)
  • Communications – New ATAP Website is Live and the April 2024 issue of ATAP News (Asmita Patel and Carl Williams)

Science Talk: “Developing a reliable test bed for laser plasma accelerator
driven compact light sources”  (Sam Barber)

Q&A

 

March 26, 2024, at 2:00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
  • Safety Discussion – Multi-Lab Safety Week: June 11-13, 2024 (Aaron Potash)

Science Talk: “Beam Profile Monitor Designs for ALS-U”  (Changchun Sun)

 

February 26, 2024, at 2:00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
  • Welcome and Announcements (Asmita Patel, Cameron Geddes)
  • Labwide culture survey (Adi Greif)
  • Safety Discussion – The Case of the Energetic Coffee Grinder: NRTL Review and Other Electrical Considerations to Look Out For  (Aaron Potash)
  • IDEA Discussion – Recognizing and Addressing Implicit Bias (Jon Legaux)
  • Communications – February 2024 issue of ATAP News (Asmita Patel)

Science Talk: “Superconducting magnets for future particle accelerators: a new path through the Uni-layer concept” (Jose Luis Rudeiros Fernandez)

 

January 30, 2024, at 2:00 PM Pacific Time 
Introductory Materials
  • Welcome and Announcements  (Asmita Patel, Cameron Geddes)
  • Safety Discussion – ISM and Lessons Learned from Recent Electrical Safety Incident (Pat Thomas)
  • IDEA Discussion – Wellness Resources (Anastasia Palmer)

Science Talk: “Simulations of Linear Lepton Colliders with WarpX ”  (Arianna Formenti)

2023

November 6, 2023, at 2:00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
  • Welcome and Announcements  (Asmita Patel, Cameron Geddes)
  • Safety Discussion – An update about the Multi-Lab Safety Week (Pat Thomas)
  • IDEA Discussion – Study of Uncertainty Words in Publications (Thorsten Hellert)

Science Talk: “Distributed Processor for FPGA Based Superconducting Qubit Control Using QubiC.”  (Neelay Fruitwala)

 

September 27, 2023, at 2:30 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
  • Welcome and Announcements  (Asmita Patel, Cameron Geddes)
  • Safety Discussion – Microlearning: Organizational Drift (James Newman)
  • IDEA Discussion – Bullying and resource available at LBNL (Arun Persaud)

Science Talk: “Transforming nondestructive evaluation using monoenergetic pulsed photon beams from compact laser plasma accelerators.” (Qiang Chen)

 

August 28, 2023, at 2:00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
  • Welcome and Announcements  (Asmita Patel, Cameron Geddes)
  • Safety Discussion – B2 Grass Fire Incident (James Nunez)
  • IDEA Discussion  – On-Boarding Checklist Overview (Wes Tabler)

Science Talk: “Spin-Photon Qubit Synthesis and Characterization with Beams and Plasmas.” (Kaushalya Jhuria)

 

July 24, 2023, at 2:00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
  • Welcome and Announcements  (Asmita Patel, Cameron Geddes)
  • Safety Discussion – 7 Guiding Principles of ISM and Multi-Lab Safety Week: October 2-6, 2023 (Pat Thomas)
  • IDEA Discussion – National Women of Color Community Forum, Veterans ERG Movie Screening, and Parental Leave Resources at LBNL on the IDAM website (Ina Reichel)

Science Talk: “Commissioning of hydrodynamic optical-field-ionized plasma channels on BELLA PW.” (Alex Picksley)

 

May 24, 2023, at 2:30 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
  • Welcome and Announcements  (Asmita Patel, Cameron Geddes)
  • Safety Discussion – Ergonomics is for You (Pat Thomas)
  • IDEA Discussion – Mental Health at the Workplace (Christian Messe)

Science Talk: “Recent VHF electron gun developments after APEX and LCLS-II injector.” (Tianhuan Luo)

 

April 24, 2023, at 2:00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
  • Welcome and Announcements  (Asmita Patel, Cameron Geddes)
  • Safety Discussion – Manual Material Handling Tips (Pat Thomas)
  • IDEA Discussion – Career Development (Michele Pixa)
  • Recruitment Process – Best Practices (Rasool Yousufzai)

Science Talk: “Commissioning simulations as a tool of error analysis in the design of the Advanced Light Source Upgrade.” (Thorsten Hellert)

 

March 27, 2023, at 2:00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
  • Welcome and Announcements  (Asmita Patel, Cameron Geddes)
  • Safety Discussion – Recent Slips & Falls in Physical Sciences (Pat Thomas)
  • IDEA Discussion – Microaggression & Being an Upstander Training (Jon Legaux)

Science Talk: “Compact Multi-beam Radio-Frequency Linear Ion Accelerators for Material Processing” (Qing Ji)

 

February 27, 2023, at 2:00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
  • Welcome and Announcements  (Asmita Patel, Cameron Geddes)
  • Safety Discussion – Fire Extinguisher Q&A (Pat Thomas and Amie Krigbaum)
  • IDEA Discussion – WSEC Microaggressions Survey: Results from a 2019 survey conducted by the WSEC Policy Committee (Ina Reichel)

Science Talk: “Diagnostics for Superconducting Magnets” (Maxim Martchevskii)

 

January 30, 2023, at 2:00 PM Pacific Time
Introductory Materials
  • Welcome and Announcements  (Asmita Patel, Cameron Geddes)
  • IDEA Discussion – Why Pronouns Matter (Carl Schroeder)
  • Safety Discussion – Importance of Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) and Electrical Safety For Research  (Pat Thomas, Katherine Johnson and Ari Harding)

Science Talk: “Exascale Modeling for Particle Accelerators” (Axel Huebl)

2022

November 14, 2022
Introductory Materials
  • Welcome and Announcements  (Asmita Patel, Cameron Geddes)
  • Safety Discussion – Multilab Safety Week 2022 (Patricia Thomas)
  • IDEA Discussion – Accessibility in presenting research (Michele Pixa)

Science Talk: “Advanced high power laser technologies for accelerators and broad applications” (Tong Zhou)

September 19, 2022
Introductory Materials
  • Welcome and Announcements  (Asmita Patel, Cameron Geddes)
  • Safety Discussion – Slips, Trips and Falls (Patricia Thomas)
  • IDEA Discussion – Being an Upstander (Joe Chew)

Science Talk: “Machine learning-based controls for accelerators, lasers, and other dynamic systems: application to coherent laser beam combination in BACI” (Dan Wang)

 

August 8, 2022
Introductory Materials
  • Welcome and Announcements  (Asmita Patel, Cameron Geddes)
  • Safety Discussion – Electrical Safety Lessons Learned (Patricia Thomas)
  • IDEA Discussion – Maternal Bias and Parental Leave (Michele Pixa)

Science Talk: “Recent machine learning applications at the ALS” (Simon Leemann)

 

June 21, 2022
Introductory Materials
  • Welcome and Announcements  (Asmita Patel, Cameron Geddes)
  • Safety Discussion – COVID Update (Patricia Thomas)
  • IDEA Discussion – What are ERGs? (Ina Reichel)

Science Talk: “Superconducting magnets for proton therapy gantries” (Lucas Brouwer)

 

May 2, 2022
Introductory Materials
  • Welcome and Announcements  (Asmita Patel, Cameron Geddes)
  • Safety Discussion – What to Do with Waste (Patricia Thomas)
  • IDEA Discussion – Notes on the presentation: “An Inconvenient Truth: Where, And Why are we Losing Women Enroute to Science Careers?” Presentation by Márcia Barbosa, iPAC, May 2021 (Changchun Sun)

Science Talk: “An all-digital associated particle imaging system for the 3D determination of isotopic compositions” (Arun Persaud)

 

March 28, 2022
Introductory Materials
  • Welcome and Announcements  (Asmita Patel, Cameron Geddes)
  • Safety Discussion – Presentation on COVID’s evolving state and Lab’s calibrated response to the pandemic (Patricia Thomas)
  • IDEA Discussion – Notes on “Puncturing Stereotypes And Their Impact On Identity” Talk by Prof. C. Steele on September 15th, 2021 (Stefano De Santis)

Science Talk: “A new platform for ultra‑high dose rate radiobiological research using the BELLA PW laser proton beamline”  (Lieselotte Obst-Huebl)

 

February 14, 2022
Introductory Materials
  • Welcome and Announcements  (Asmita Patel, Cameron Geddes)
  • Safety Discussion – Face Coverings (Patricia Thomas)
  • IDEA Discussion – How to be a better ally (Ina Reichel)

Science Talk:  “Nonlinear Integrable Beam Optics: Tools for Modeling and Understanding a New Concept in Accelerator Design” (Chad Mitchell)