2005 Calendar: Months Passed

January 2005


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January 5

ESD Colloquium
1:00 pm
Building 90-2063
Speaker: Dr. Yongtian Tom He, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

"Cr(VI) reduction and immobilization by Hanford sediment minerals under high pH and high ionic strength conditions"

 
January 7

ESD Colloquium
11:00 am
Building 90-2063
Speaker: Yongman Kim, University of Southern California

"In-situ studies of the thermal evolution of the structure and sorption properties of a Mg-AI-CO3 layered double hydroxide"

 
January 14

ESD Colloquium
11:00 am
Building 90-2063
Speaker: Tad W. Patzek, University of California, Berkeley

"Sustainability of the Corn-Ethanol Biofuel Cycle"

January 17-21

Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference
Grand Plaza Parkroyal Hotel, Singapore

 
January 24-27

Third International Conference on the Remediation of Contaminated Sediments
New Orleans, Louisiana

 
30 January - 3 February

LabAutomation2005
Organized by Association for Laboratory Automation
San Jose, CA
Contact Info:  office@labautomation.org
   
February 2005


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 30 January - 3 February

LabAutomation2005
Organized by Association for Laboratory Automation
San Jose, CA
Contact Info:  office@labautomation.org
February 11

ESD Colloquium
11am
90-2063
"The Enhanced Geothermal System at Soultz-sous-Forets (France) - The Role of Hot Brines-Rockk Interactions on the Evolution of Reservoir Properties"
Speaker: Laurent Andre, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland

 
February 9-12

Advances in Genome Biology & Technology
Organized by GCORP
Venue: Marco Island Resort & Golf Club, Marco Island, FL
Contact Info:  info@agbt.org

 
February 17-21

AAAS Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.

 
February 22 Howard Ochman, Ph.D., The Evolution of Defective Genes and Genomes
Hosted by Pilar Francino, Life Sciences and Genomics Division
Berkeley Lab, Building 66 Auditorium, 4 p.m
March 2005


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March 4

ESD Colloquium
"X-rays by Land and by Air: Application of Synchrotron X-ray Analysis to Two Distinct Environmental Investigations"
Speaker: Peter Nico, Chemistry Department - California State University Stanislaus
11am
Location: 90-1099

 

March 7-8

 

ESD Division Review Presentation Dry Runs

 

March 14-17

 

15th Annual West Coast Conference on Soil, Sediment and Water
Marriott Mission Valley Hotel, San Diego, California

 

March 15

 

ESD Division Review Poster Session Dry Run

 

March 19-20 World Congress on Microarray Technology
Organized by World Microarray Congress & Canadian Gene Expression Consortium, Venue: Westin Bayshore Resort and Marina, Vancouver
March 20-23

ASM BioDefense Research Meeting
Baltimore, Maryland
Tel 202-942-9248
Email: meetingsinfo@asmusa.org

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 24, 2005
March 29

ESD colloquium
"The use of directed and controlled crystallization processes from supersaturated solutions to seal soil and rock formations and to immobilize contaminants"
Speaker: Gerald Ziegenbalg, Institute of Technical Chemistry, Freiberg, Germany

2PM
90-2063

 
April 2005


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April 6-7

ESD Division Review


April 10-13

Biofilms 2005, Microbial adhesions to surfaces: Mechanisms and prevention
Key Bridge, Marriott Hotel
Arlington, VA

 
April 12

The California Colloquium on Water

The Influence of ENSO Phase on Floods & Sediment Transport in California Coastal Streams

Presented by: Edmund Andrews
Hydrologist & Chief of River Mechanics Project
U.S. Geological Survey


5:30pm - 7:00pm
105 North Gate Hall

All are invited to meet the speaker at a reception at the Water Resources Center Archives, 4:45pm - 5:30pm.
Light refreshments will be served.

 
April 13

Interdisciplinary Instrumentation Colloquium

"The ATLAS Pixel Detector"

Speaker: Kevin Einsweiler
Physics Division, LBNL

4:00 PM (refreshments at 3:45)
LBNL, Building 50 Auditorium

 

May 2005


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May 4
Interdisciplinary Instrumentation Colloquium

"Biological Large Scale Integration"

Speaker: Stephen Quake
Dept. of Bioengineering, Stanford University

4:00 PM (refreshments at 3:45)
LBNL, Building 50 Auditorium
May 4

ESD Seminar
11 a.m.
90 room 3075

"Transcription Profile Analysis of Maize Root Cap"

Speaker: Shibo Zhang, Ph.D.

Shibo is a candidate for a postdoctoral position with Gary Andersen from ESD and Dr. David Ackerly, Department of Integrative Biology at UC. This position is in response to a recently awarded grant entitled, "An Annual Grassland Mesocosm Exploration of Scaling from Genomes to Ecosystem Function" with P.I. Mary Firestone and co-PIs Ackerly, Arkin, Andersen, and Torn.

 

May 6

ESD Colloqium
11a.m.
90-2063

"Microbial Sulfate Reduction in Geochemical Environments"

Speaker: Dr. Qusheng Jin, University of California Berkeley

 
May 10 The California Colloquium on Water
5:30pm - 7:00pm
105 North Gate Hall, UCB

"The Continuing Battle to Restore the San Joaquin River"

Speaker: Hamilton Candee, Senior Attorney & Co-Director, Western Water Project

All are invited to meet the speaker at a reception at the Water Resources Center Archives, 4:45pm - 5:30pm.
Light refreshments will be served.

 
May 10

Paul A. Witherspoon Distiguished Seminar Series
11a.m.
Building 50 Auditorium

"Methane Hydrates in Quaternary Climate Change: The Clathrate Gun Hypothesis"

Speaker: James Kennet, Department of Geological Sciences, University of California Santa Barbara

 
July 2005


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July 13

Seminar

"Examples of Properties, Behaviors, and Consequences of Natural Nanomaterials in the Environment"

Speaker: Prof. Michael F. Hochella, Jr.,
Professor of Geochemistry and Mineralogy,Virginia Tech

Time: 1 pm
Location: LBNL Bldg 62 Rm 203

Contact: Ben Gilbert, Earth Sciences Division. BGilbert@lbl.gov

July 15

ESD Colloquium

Time: 2pm
Location: 90-3148.

"Yucca Mountain Repository: A Technical Progress Report"

Speaker: Robert J. Budnitz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
July 20 Interdisciplinary Instrumentation Colloquium

"One-Dimensional Nanostructures as Subwavelength Optical Elements for Photonics Integration"

Speaker: Peidong Yang - Dept. of Chemistry, UC Berkeley and Materials Sciences Division, LBNL

Time: 4:00 PM (refreshments at 3:45)
Place: LBNL, Building 50 Auditorium


Presentations (pdf files), dates of future colloquia, and access information are posted at http://InstrumentationColloquium.LBL.gov

 

July 23-28

IUMS 2005: Microbes in a Changing World
San Francisco, CA

Tel 202-942-9248
Email: meetingsinfo@asmusa.org

 
August 2005


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August 10

ESD Modeling Forum
11 a.m.
B90-2063
Michael Kowalsky will lead a discussion on: Joint Inversion of Ground-Penetrating Radar and Thermal-Hydrological Measurements


August 14-19

The Joint International Symposia for Subsurface Microbiology (ISSM 2005) and Environmental Biogeochemistry (ISEB XVII)
Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Abstracts Due: March 1, 2005
Notification of Acceptance: May 2, 2005

 

August 21-25

 Society for Industrial Microbiology.  Annual Meeting and Exhibition 2005
Chicago Downtown Marriott
Chicago, IL
The annual meeting of the Society for Industrial Microbiology consists of a pre-meeting workshop, symposia, roundtables, poster papers, exhibits, award presentations and social programs.
   
September 2005


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 September 7

ESD Modeling Forum
11AM in 90-2063

Yu-Shu Wu will be leading a discussion on: Modeling Fracture-Matrix Interaction in Fractured Reservoirs
September 14

ESD Colloquium

"Recent results in the modelling of approximation errors in inverse problems"

Prof. Jari Kaipio
Computational Physics Dept. Head
University of Kuopio
Kuopio, Finland

11:00 am
90-2063 Conference Room

 
September 16

ESD Colloquium

"Field Distribution and Pressure in Low-Permeability Rocks of the Rocky Mountain Basins"

Speaker: Phil Nelson, USGS, Denver

12 p.m.
Building 90-1099

 
September 21

Interdisciplinary Instrumentation Colloquium

Molecular Electron Microscopy – Applications and Challenges

Speaker: Ken Downing
Life Sciences Division, LBNL

4:00 PM sharp (refreshments at 3:45)
LBNL, Building 50 Auditorium
October 2005


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 October 21

Computational Hydrology Research Area Seminar

11-Noon
Room 90-2063

MULTISCALE FINITE-VOLUME METHOD FOR MULTIPHASE SUBSURFACE FLOW

Speaker: Ivan Lunati, Institute of Fluid Dynamics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland