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)