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)