Interdisciplinary Instrumentation Colloquium

Wednesdays at 4:00 PM sharp at LBNL in the Building 50 Auditorium

We try to maintain a biweekly schedule, but other events frequently cause schedule shifts. Actual dates are listed below.

Motivation

Front-line science builds on new ideas, but also relies on breakthrough instrumentation. Many activities in the Berkeley scientific community are directed towards developing advanced measurement techniques and instrumentation. Despite very disparate goals, some of these efforts share common problems and could benefit from sharing experience and expertise. As a first step in establishing a forum for information exchange and interdisciplinary collaboration in instrumentation research and development we are launching a bi-weekly Interdisciplinary Instrumentation Colloquium. The initial series of talks will be introductions for non-experts. We encourage participation from LBNL, UC Berkeley, and the Space Sciences Laboratory.

Announcements

Next Colloquium:

Awaiting volunteer organizers, the Interdisciplinary Instrumentation Colloquium is currently on hold.

Past Presentations

(files in pdf format)

29-November-2006

   Towards an Autonomous Ocean Carbon Observatory (9.5 MB) by James K. Bishop, Earth Sciences Division, LBNL

15-November-2006

   Large-Scale Bolometer Arrays and Readout for Next-Generation CMB Experiments (2.1 MB) by Helmuth Spieler, Physics Division, LBNL

18-October-2006

   Dark Matter, Neutrinos and Nonproliferation: Advanced Detectors for Nuclear Security and their Relevance for Fundamental Physics (8.4 MB) by Adam Bernstein, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

04-October-2006

   New Semiconductor Materials for High Efficiency Solar Cells (2.8 MB) by Wladek Walukiewicz, Materials Sciences Division, LBNL

20-September-2006

   25 Years of Scanning Probe Microscopes: How Instrumental Developments Revolutionized Surface Science and Nanotechnology (9.2 MB) by D. Frank Ogletree, Molecular Foundry and Materials Sciences Division, LBNL

06-September-2006

   Generation of Femtosecond X-Ray Pulses from the Advanced Light Source (7.3 MB) by Robert W. Schoenlein, Materials Sciences Division, LBNL

23-August-2006

   The Microsystems Laboratory - an Inside Look at Silicon Device Microfabrication at LBNL (18.6 MB) by Nick Palaio, Engineering Division, LBNL

26-July-2006

   Superconducting Insertion Devices for the Next Generation of Synchrotron Radiation Sources (3.7 MB) by Soren Prestemon, Engineering Division, LBNL

12-July-2006

   One Picture is Worth ... Solid State Imaging Detectors (3.5 MB) by Peter Denes, Engineering Division, LBNL

28-June-2006

   Shaping the Future of Electron Microscopy: the TEAM Microscope (28 MB) by Christian Kisielowski, National Center for Electron Microscopy, LBNL

31-May-2006

   Using Optical Metrology to Reconstruct Mechanical Sound Recordings (file of talk not available) by Carl Haber, Physics Division, LBNL

03-May-2006

   Time Projection Chamber (TPC) R&D (11.3 MB) by Mike Ronan, Physics Division, LBNL

19-Apr-2006

   How to Build Your Own Silicon Detector (11.3 MB) by Maurice Garcia-Sciveres, Physics Division, LBNL

05-Apr-2006

   Electronics in the Polar Ice - The Engineering Challenges of the IceCube Optical Modules (8.2MB) by John Joseph, Engineering Division, LBNL

15-Mar-2006

   Compton Telescopes for High Energy Astrophysics (4.3 MB) by Steven Boggs, Physics Dept. and Space Sciences Laboratory, UCB

01-Mar-2006

   Specific Heat Measurements of Films and Tiny Crystals Using Si-micromachined Nano-calorimeters (4.9 MB) by Frances Hellman, Physics Dept., UCB and Materials Sciences Division, LBNL

15-Feb-2006

   Semiconductor Radiation Detector Materials - Fact versus Fiction (7.2 MB) by Eugene Haller, Materials Sciences Division, LBNL and Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, UCB

01-Feb-2006

   Cancer "genomics" - Technological opportunities in cancer biology and management (7.0 MB) by Joe W. Gray, Life Sciences Division, LBNL and UCSF Cancer Center

02-Nov-2005

   How to Design an Integrated Circuit (5.4 MB) by Peter Denes, Engineering Division, LBNL (If your browser doesn't display this file, try downloading it.)

19-Oct-2005

   The Allen Telescope Array: A New Telescope For SETI and Radio Astronomy (13.7 MB) by Dave DeBoer, UC Berkeley Radio Astronomy Lab and the SETI Institute

05-Oct-2005

   3D Silicon Detectors (15.3 MB) by Sherwood Parker, Physics Department, University of Hawaii

21-Sep-2005

   Molecular Electron Microscopy - Applications and Challenges (slides not available) by Ken Downing, Life Sciences Division, LBNL

7-Sep-2005

   Is Anybody Out There? Instrumentation for SETI (7.3MB) by Dan Werthimer, Space Sciences Lab, UC Berkeley

24-Aug-2005

   Who needs better nuclear detector materials and how do we find them? (5.5 MB) by Stephen E. Derenzo, Life Sciences Division, LBNL

20-Jul-2005

   One-Dimensional Nanostructures as Subwavelength Optical Elements for Photonics Integration (5.4 MB) by Peidong Yang, Dept. of Chemistry, UC Berkeley and Materials Sciences Division, LBNL

29-Jun-2005

   The STAR Detector at RHIC (7.4 MB) by Jim Thomas, Nuclear Science Division, LBNL

15-Jun-2005

   From Quarks to Quasars - Advanced Scientific CCDs (23.6 MB) by Stephen Holland, Engineering Division, LBNL

18-May-2005

   The Superconducting QUantum Interference Device: Principles and Applications (16.2 MB) by John Clarke, Physics Department, UC Berkeley and Materials Sciences Division, LBNL

4-May-2005

   Biological Large Scale Integration (slides not available) by Stephen Quake, Dept. of Bioengineering, Stanford University

13-Apr-2005

   The ATLAS Pixel Detector (3.6 MB) by Kevin Einsweiler, Physics Division, LBNL

30-Mar-2005

   Superfluid Gyroscopes - Why and How (2.6 MB) by Richard Packard, Physics Department, UC Berkeley

9-Mar-2005

   Light Fantastic: The Science and Instrumentation of the Advanced Light Source by Howard Padmore, Advanced Light Source, LBNL

   Part 1: Beams (34.5 MB)

   Part 2: Experiments (13.4 MB)

   Part 2: Detectors (10.9 MB)

23-Feb-2005

   Bolometers and the Big Bang (24.2 MB) by Adrian T. Lee, Physics Dept, UC Berkeley and Physics Division, LBNL

9-Feb-2005

   Introduction to first Colloquium

   Nuclear Medical Imaging (9.1 MB) by W.W. Moses, Life Sciences Division, LBNL