March 28, 2023 / Berkeley Lab News Center ~ President Biden has named Darleane Hoffman – a pioneering nuclear chemist who joined Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division in 1984 as a faculty senior scientist – a recipient of the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award, one of the oldest and most prestigious science and technology honors bestowed byRead More
ATAP researchers elected to leadership positions in APS Divisions of Plasma Physics and Physics of Beams
December 20, 2022 / Berkeley Lab Physical Sciences News ~ Three researchers in Berkeley Lab’s Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics (ATAP) Division have been elected to Executive Committee positions in the American Physical Society (APS). Cameron Geddes and Soren Prestemon will serve Chair-Line positions (serving their first year as Vice-Chair, the second year as Chair-Elect,Read More
NSD Theory Group researchers receive DOE funding awards for topical theory collaborations in nuclear physics
December 12, 2022 / Berkeley Lab Physical Sciences News ~ Researchers in Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Theory Group, part of the Nuclear Science Division (NSD), have received DOE funding support for topical theory collaborations in nuclear physics. Theory Group researchers will be involved in all of the five project teams chosen to receive awards as partRead More
2022 ACM Gordon Bell Prize awarded to ATAP’s Jean-Luc Vay and collaborators for advancing particle accelerator design
November 30, 2022 / Berkeley Lab Physical Sciences News A research team led by Jean-Luc Vay, a senior scientist and the head of Berkeley Lab’s Accelerator Modeling Program (AMP) in the Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics (ATAP) Division, and their international collaborators were honored with the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) 2022 Gordon Bell PrizeRead More
Two LBNL Accelerator R&D projects to be supported by DOE Nuclear Physics
November 18, 2022 / Berkeley Lab Physical Sciences News ~ Daniel Xie of the Nuclear Science Division and Ji Qiang of the ATAP Division have each been awarded funding by the DOE Office of Nuclear Physics to lead accelerator R&D projects. Qiang will lead a multi-lab effort on accelerator modeling, while Xie’s award will supportRead More