Seminars & Events
Past Seminars
Back to current seminars The ALS holds seminars regularly, both as part of our colloquium series and on an ad hoc basis. This page lists seminars we have hosted in the past. To receive notifications of all seminars, please email ALS-Admin@lbl.gov to request to be added to the distribution list. Winter 2022 Colloquium Series JANUARY 12Read More Read more »
April 27, 2015-Special ALS Colloquium
Special Event on Monday, April 27 @ 12 noon, USB 15-253 X-Ray Microscopy: The First 120 Years Janos Kirz, ALS Abstract Röntgen’s great discovery became an instant public sensation. Fascination with the “new kind of rays” that could reveal the structure of opaque objects swept the world in 1896. Fifty years later it was widelyRead More Read more »
February 4, 2015
Wednesday, February 4 @ 12 noon, USB 15-253 Direct Heat-to-Electricity Conversion Using Thermionics A joint presentation from two new members of Cyclotron Road, Berkeley Lab’s early-stage energy technology incubation program. Daniel Riley Jared Schwede Read more »
June 3, 2014
Tuesday, June 3 @12 noon in USB-253 Committing SINS with the ALSHans Bechtel, ALS, Beamline 5.4 From prehistoric flint blades to Chinese Jian ceramics: how the study of ancient artifacts can help create better materials for the futureNobumichi Tamura, ALS, Beamline 12.3.2 FlameRead More Read more »
April 1, 2014
Tuesday, April 1 @12 noon in USB 15-253 Direct observation of the indirect to direct band gap transition in epitaxial monolayer MoSe2 filmYi Zhang, ALS, Beamline 10.0.1 Visualizing High-Dimensional DataAnnette Greiner, NERSC Traveling with SoundMarc Allaire, PBD Read more »
November 1, 2013
Friday, November 1@ 12 noon in USB 15-253 Exposing the Trade Secrets of Ancient Roman Engineers: Nano-Structure and Material Properties of Al-tobermorite in 2000-Year-Old Seawater Harbor ConcreteMarie Jackson, UC Berkeley, Beamlines 5.3.2, 12.2.2,12.3.2 DNA Labelled with GoldGreg Hura, Physical Biosciences Division, Beamline 12.3.1 Pseudo-Single-BunchRead More Read more »
August 29, 2013
Date-Change: Thursday, August 29 @ 12 noon in USB 15-253 Under Pressure: Why Diamonds Are a Crystallographer’s Best Friend!Christine Beavers, Experimental Systems Group, Beamline 11.3.1 Single Colony Home with Great Potential and Easy Access to Nearby Carbon Sources: Soil from a Microbe’s PerspectiveEoin Brodie, Earth Sciences Division, BSISB BeamlineRead More Read more »
May 8, 2013
Wednesday, May 8 @ 12 noon, USB 15-253 Flipping Out over Topological InsulatorsChris Jozwiak, Scientific Support Group, Beamline 7.0 Playing “Chase the Electron” with Oxides from Chromium to PlutoniumStefan G. Minasian, Chemical Sciences Division, Beamline 11.0 Imaging the Chemistry of (Microbial) LIfeHoi-Ying Holman, Earth SciencesRead More Read more »
February 22, 2013
Friday, February 22 @ 12 noon, USB 15-253 Towards perfect diffraction gratings with x-raysDmitriy Voronov, Experimental Systems Group, Beamline 6.3.2(Read more and watch a video about this work.) Ice: Slippery when dirty?Hendrik Bluhm, Chemical Sciences Group, Beamline 11.0.2 Connecting ALS Users To Our Friendly, Neighborhood, SupercomputerJustin Blair, ExperimentalRead More Read more »