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Improved Stability In Relativistic Plasma Simulations Using Novel Particle-In-Cell Formulation

Olga Shapoval, research scientist in the ATAP's Advanced Modeling Program at Berkeley Lab. Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab

ATAP Hosts High School STEM Day

ATAP Deputy Division Director, Operations, Asmita Patel (far left), joins students participating in High Schools STEM Day. Photo: Berkeley Lab

New Magnets for LHC Upgrade Successfully Pass Halfway Mark

The Berkeley Lab niobium-tin magnet assembly team for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider Accelerator Upgrade Project. (l-r) Daniel Cheng, Juan Rodriguez, Paolo Ferracin, Jennifer Doyle, Simone Johnson, Laura Garcia Fajardo, Jonathan Hekmat, Matthew Reynolds, Mike Solis, Joshua Herrera, and Bob Memmo. Photo Credit: Andy Lin, Berkeley Lab

World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser Gets Major Energy Boost

Berkeley Lab Engineering Division team member contributing to the LCLS-II high-energy upgrade. (l-r) Diego Arbelaez, Michael Hallock, Philip Mallon, Kyle McCombs, Maya Kota, and Kelly Hanzel. Daniel Bruch/SLAC

Hitoshi Murayama elected to leadership role in the APS Division of Particles & Fields

Hitoshi Murayama speaks at the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) Town Hall Meeting at Berkeley Lab in February 2023. Photo credit: Paul Mueller, Berkeley Lab

New DESI Results Weigh In On Gravity

DESI observes the sky from the Mayall Telescope, shown here during the 2023 Geminid meteor shower. Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks

Berkeley Lab celebrates 2024 Dark Matter Day at the Lawrence Hall of Science and the Chabot Space and Science Center

Dan Kodroff, Taurean Zhang, Yue Wang, and Bahareh Ardestani hosted Berkeley Lab’s Dark Matter Day event at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, CA, on October 31. Photo credit: Michelle Z. Rodriguez, Lawrence Hall of Science

DESI 3D Map of the Universe named one of Time Magazine's 'Best Inventions of 2024'

DESI has made the largest 3D map of our universe to date. Earth is at the center of this thin slice of the full map. In the magnified section, it is easy to see the underlying structure of matter in our universe. Credit: Claire Lamman/DESI collaboration; custom colormap package by cmastro

'Up-dimensioning' Improves Synthetic Grain Microstructure Evaluation

Ian Pong (left), a staff scientist in ATAP's Superconducting Magnet Program, and Kevin Gillespie, a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, discuss the "up-dimensioning" method. Photo Credit: Berkeley Lab

High-Efficiency Beam Shaping Enhances Laser Precision

BELLA Center Postdoctoral Scholar Deepak Sapkota (left) and Deputy Director Jeroen van Tilborg observe non-linear blue light generated using the beam-shaped flat-top beam for uniform broadening. Photo Credit: Matthew Fullmer, Berkeley Lab

Stepan Bulanov elected 2024 APS Fellow

Stepan Bulanov (Karen Russell, Berkeley Lab)

2024 Berkeley Lab Director’s Awards honor PSA staff members

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