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2012 Real-Time Conference Berkeley, CA, USA

Late May or early June 2012

Sergio ZimmermannLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

RT 2010, May 28, 2010

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Bay Area

Google Map

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Berkeley/Emeryville

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UC Berkeley and LBNL

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Conference: UC Campus

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• Planning at University of California, Berkeley– Oldest UC Campus, 1868– 300 graduate/undergraduate courses– 65 Nobel Laureates have been university faculty, alumni

or researchers. – Alumni includes founders and leaders of: Apple, Intel,

Google, MySpace, Adobe, Qualcomm and Sun Microsystems.

– Ernerst Lawrence, founder of LBNL, was a professor at UCB

– Co-manages LBNL, LLNL and LANL

• Date: late May or early June 2012• The University has several auditoriums and meeting

rooms

Conference: UC Campus

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Ge Workshop 2010

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Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab.

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• Beginnings traced to the Radiation Lab of UC, founded by Lawrence, 1931.

• In 1940, 184” Cyclotron constructed on the “hill”.• 14 scientific divisions, 76 buildings• ~4000 University of California employees and ~3000

participating guests.• Elements discovered at LBNL: astatine, neptunium,

plutonium, curium, americium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium, lawrencium, dubnium and seaborgium.

• 11 Nobel prizes• Steve Chu, present US Secretary of Energy, was

LBNL director.

Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab.

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LBNL: Building 71, HILAC

Albert Ghiorso’s periodic table

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Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab.

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Berkeley

• Population: ~100k• Incorporated: 1878 • Restaurants: 70+• Hotels: 23+• Public transportation:

BART, AC Transist, Amtrak,

• Average temp., June:– High: 21C– Low: 12C

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San Francisco

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The Bay

R.Stokstad, Y.D.Chen

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You are all invited to join us in the 2012 Real Time Conference, Berkeley, CA