Dula Parkinson is the program lead for diffraction and imaging at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Berkeley Lab.
The NERSC@50 seminar series continues on June 17 with Dula Parkinson, the Program Lead for Diffraction and Imaging at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a proud NERSC user since 2010. The seminar, in honor of NERSC’s 50th anniversary, will take place at 1:30 p.m. PDT on Zoom.
The Advanced Light Source and other upgraded accelerators produce brighter X-ray beams that support new science and faster experiments, which can produce massive amounts of data. Parkinson will discuss the ways in which the ALS and NERSC have collaborated to produce powerful, intuitive computing tools, with an emphasis on the Superfacility model and its impact on ALS science from the deep earth to deep space.
After completing a PhD in physical chemistry at UC Berkeley in 2006, Parkinson was a postdoctoral fellow with Carolyn Larabell, using soft X-ray nano-tomography to collect 3D images of single cells. In 2010, he became a beamline scientist at the ALS, leading the Hard X-ray micro-tomography program at Beamline 8.3.2, working with ALS users to image a variety of samples. Since then, he has been involved in efforts to connect experimental and computational facilities and provide users with access to powerful computing and data management resources through intuitive interfaces.
NERSC@50 seminars are held remotely on Zoom and open to Berkeley Lab staff, NERSC users, and the public.
About NERSC and Berkeley Lab
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is the mission computing facility for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, the nation’s single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences.
Located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), NERSC serves 11,000 scientists at national laboratories and universities researching a wide range of problems in climate, fusion energy, materials sciences, physics, chemistry, computational biology, and other disciplines. An average of 2,000 peer-reviewed science results a year rely on NERSC resources and expertise, which has also supported the work of seven Nobel Prize-winning scientists and teams.
NERSC is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility.
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