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DESCRIPTION:\nHOT TECHNOLOGY, COOL SCIENCE\n\nGreat innovations start with bold ideas. 
 Learn how Berkeley Lab scientists are devising practical solutions to 
 everything from global warming to how you get to work.\n\nJoin a roundtable 
 conversation moderated by KTVU Channel 2's Jon Fowler. Five Berkeley Lab 
 Scientists will discuss how technologies they have developed are improving 
 the world.\n\nPreserving History, One Recording at a Time\n\nMany fragile 
 and broken sound recordings are at risk of receding into history, never to 
 be heard again: Jack London’s voice, Native American languages, blues 
 songs. Physicist Carl Haber led a team that invented a way to digitally 
 reconstruct old recordings using methods developed for high-energy physics 
 experiments. The technology, in use at the U.S. Library of Congress, 
 optically maps the grooves in shellac records, wax cylinders, and other 
 outdated media. Archivists estimate that many of the millions of recordings 
 in the world’s sound archives could benefit from the 
 technology.\n\nComing Soon: Battery-Powered Commute\n\nThe commute of the 
 future might not include a stop at the gas station, thanks to chemical 
 engineer Nitash Balsara. He invented a breakthrough polymer that could lead 
 to safe and long-lasting rechargeable batteries. Solid-state batteries 
 containing Balsara’s polymer electrolyte are expected to meet the energy 
 density goal established by the Department of Energy for electric vehicles 
 — the highest hurdle for battery technology. Batteries made with the new 
 material are also inherently safe because they lack liquids and flammable 
 components. \n\nCool Your Roof, Cool the World \n\nWhat can you do fight 
 global warming? Paint your roof white, then spread the word. Energy 
 efficiency expert Hashem Akbari has helped to pioneer the development of 
 cool roofing materials, which reflect sunlight, lower surface temperature, 
 and slash cooling costs. Think globally: if all the world’s roofs and 
 pavement used cool materials, the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions 
 would be equivalent to taking the world’s 600 million cars off the road 
 for 18 years. Akbari is also a world-renowned expert on urban heat islands 
 and their impact on energy use. \n\nPhyloChip: A DNA Probe that Sniffs out 
 All Manner of Microbes\n\nWant to know what bacteria or other pathogens may 
 be lurking in the air or water? Over the past 11 years, Todd DeSantis has 
 steered the computational design and analysis efforts for the PhyloChip, an 
 inexpensive, DNA-based test to detect and quantify all known types of 
 microorganisms. The PhyloChip has drastically increased the ability of 
 medical and environmental scientists to monitor infections, manage natural 
 resources and discover microbes helpful in biofuel production. It has been 
 used everywhere from beaches in Marin to hospitals to test for anthrax. 
 DeSantis is a software developer in the Molecular Microbial Ecology Group 
 in Berkeley Lab’s Earth Sciences Division.\n\nGreen Computing:  
 Supercomputers for the 21st Century\n\nIndustry these days is searching not 
 only to make computers faster and more powerful, it desperately hopes to 
 make them less voracious consumers of energy. Earlier this year, Berkeley 
 Lab announced the Green Flash, a prototype of what could be a new class of 
 energy-efficient supercomputers. A breakthrough in both software and 
 computer architecture allowed Green Flash to perform climate modeling 
 computations that had previously been impossible. Katherine Yelick is the 
 Director of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center 
 (NERSC) at Berkeley Lab and a Professor of Electrical Engineering and 
 Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. NERSC is one of the world’s largest 
 facilities devoted to providing computational resources and expertise for 
 basic scientific research.\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE!\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/21/18590650.php
SUMMARY:Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Science at the Theater
LOCATION:Berkeley Repertory Theater, Rhoda Stage\n2025 Addison Street\nBerkeley, CA
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