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Two CRD Researchers Receive 2021 Early Career Awards
Robert Saye, a scientist in CRD’s Mathematics group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and Ariful Azad, an affiliate scientist in CRD’s Performance and Algorithms Research group and assistant professor of intelligent systems engineering at Indiana University, have each received 2021 Early Career Research Program awards from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Read More »
Damian Rouson: Head of the CLaSS
Meet Damian Rouson, head of CRD’s Computer Languages & Systems Software (CLaSS) group. Although his career at the Lab is only about a month old, Rouson’s history with Berkeley Lab goes back nearly 20 years. In fact, he credits interactions at Berkeley Lab for inspiring him to write a popular programming book and start a successful consulting business. Read More »
CIGAR 'Smokes Out' Attacks on Solar Electrical Power Equipment
While the need for security in the power grid is clear, cybersecurity has typically been “bolted on” in a piecemeal fashion after the fact, rather than designed in from the outset. Enter the Cybersecurity via Inverter-Grid Automatic Reconfiguration (CIGAR) project, a recently completed Berkeley Lab effort aimed at providing security protections for emerging power systems. Read More »
Welcome Monica Hernandez, Quantum Communications Lead
Monica Hernandez has joined Berkeley Lab in the newly created role of quantum communications lead. Hernandez has traveled extensively and is an advocate for space travel, research, and exploration in her spare time. She sits in CRD's Quantum Information Science and Technology group. Read More »
Limit global warming to 1.5°C and halve the land ice contribution to sea level this century
A new study predicts that sea-level rise could be halved this century (from today to 2100) if we meet the Paris Agreement target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. This work combines nearly 900 simulations, including some of Berkeley Lab Computational Scientist Dan Martin's BISICLES models of Antarctic ice sheets. Read More »
Autonomous Discovery Workshop Attracts Worldwide Interest
A virtual workshop on autonomous discovery in science and engineering sponsored by Berkeley Lab’s Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA) attracted hundreds of scientists from around the world, reflecting the growing interest in this emerging field. Read More »
From Drawing Board to Community: A Decade in the Life of Nyx
A coding project born out of the Computing Sciences Area has helped advance the field of cosmology and ready it for the age of exascale computing. Read More »
C3 Student Researcher Honored by Forbes Magazine
Sarafina Nance, a graduate student currently working in CRD's Computational Cosmology Center, has been recognized by Forbes magazine as one of 30 Inspirational Women. Read More »
Amid the Pandemic, Virtual CS Postdoc Symposium Provides Training and Connections
Last month, 20 postdoctoral fellows from across the Computing Sciences Area presented their work in exascale computing, computational science, machine learning, quantum computing, data management and analysis, and much more at Berkeley Lab's Computing Sciences 2021 Postdoc Symposium. Read More »
Autonomous Discovery: What’s Next in Data Collection for Experimental Research
In this Q&A, CAMERA's Marcus Noack discusses autonomous discovery, an emerging data acquisition approach and a related virtual workshop for users from multiple research areas. Read More »
Dani Ushizima Named One of ’25 Women in Science in Latin America’
Daniela Ushizima, a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division, is among 25 female scientists from Latin America recently honored by 3M for innovative research. Read More »
Computational Biosciences Group Expands its Reach
Kris Bouchard was named Group Lead on February 1 after serving in an acting capacity for the past two years. Read More »
New CRD Group Enhances Berkeley Lab QIS Research
QuIST consolidates multiple quantum hardware development efforts - and quantum algorithm demonstrations on that hardware - at Berkeley Lab. Read More »
AI for More Efficient Flying Qubits
A Berkeley Lab team led by CRD post-doctoral researcher Mekenna Metcalf is using artificial intelligence techniques to boost the efficiency of a key process that enables qubits to "fly" across optical network fiber. Read More »
Three CRD Researchers Elected AAAS Fellows
CRD's Bert de Jong, Esmond Ng, and Jon Owens are 2020 AAAS Fellows. This lifetime honor, which follows a nomination and review process, recognizes scientists, engineers, and innovators for their distinguished achievements toward the advancement or applications of science. Read More »
Machine Learning Software Enhances Molecular Dynamics Modeling
CRD researchers shared in the ACM Gordon Bell Prize awarded at SC20 in November. Their team's winning research introduces a new machine-learning-based software package for molecular dynamics modeling. Read More »
Computing Sciences’ Deb Agarwal and Kathy Yelick Receive Director’s Awards
Deb Agarwal, head of the Data Science and Technology Department in the Computational Research Division, and Kathy Yelick, former Associate Lab Director for Computing Sciences, will be presented with the Berkeley Lab Citation at 3 p.m. on Thursday, November 12. Read More »
CRD/NERSC-led Paper a Gordon Bell Finalist at SC20
This work demonstrates advances made to the BerkeleyGW code that enables large-scale, excited-state calculations to run in minutes on current HPC systems. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Goes Virtual at SC20
As they have for nearly three decades, Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Area staff from the Computational Research Division, ESnet, and NERSC will share their expertise with the global HPC community at SC20. Read More »
QCE20 Best Paper Includes CRD Quantum Expertise
A team of researchers that includes CRD's Costin Iancu was honored with a best paper award at the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering. Read More »
Summer Students Tackle COVID-19
As a part of the Computational Research Division’s summer student program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, four graduate students from the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) researched a method to allow doctors and researchers to use valuable health information in the battle against COVID-19 while also preserving patient privacy in electronic records. Read More »
CRD’s Deb Agarwal Named to Committee to Help Shape California State Water Data Structure
Deb Agarwal, head of the Data Science and Technology Department in Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division, is one of 11 members named to the inaugural steering committee of the California Water Data Consortium. Read More »
CRD's Ushizima to Discuss Using ML Algorithms to Screen Lung Images for COVID-19
On Friday, Oct. 16, Berkeley Lab scientist Daniela Ushizima will discuss early results of using computer vision algorithms to scan medical images of lungs and automatically identify lesions that could indicate COVID-19 at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Academic Data Science Association. Read More »
Berkeley Lab AI Autonomously Steers Data Acquisition at Neutron Scattering Facility in France
A self-learning algorithm developed by the CAMERA group at Berkeley Lab has enabled researchers at the Institut Laue-Langevin to for the first time run an autonomous data analysis during a neutron scattering experiment. Read More »
IDAES Honored with R&D100 Award
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Institute for the Design of Advanced Energy Systems (IDAES) is the winner of a prestigious 2020 R&D 100 award, which recognizes the developers of the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace in the last year. Read More »