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