Symposium Celebrates 60 Years of Discovery at Brookhaven Lab

Full-day event features talks on accelerators, addiction, nanoscience, climate, energy, and more

September 24, 2007

EVENT: As part of its 60th anniversary celebration, the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory is hosting a full-day symposium for employees, guests, the media, and others interested in hearing renowned scientists speak about past and current developments in fields in which Brookhaven Lab has been and continues to be a pioneer. Talks on topics ranging from nuclear and particle physics to neuroimaging, nanoscience, climate change, and energy will be followed by a celebratory reception.

WHEN: Friday, October 19, 2007 - 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

WHERE: Berkner Hall Auditorium, Brookhaven National Laboratory - on William Floyd Parkway, 1.5 miles north of Exit 68 of the Long Island Expressway, Upton, New York.

DETAILS: Home to six Nobel Prize-winning discoveries, Brookhaven Lab is a multidisciplinary research institution featuring world-class programs in many of today's top fields in science. This symposium, hosted by Laboratory Director Sam Aronson, will celebrate our past and offer a glimpse of the future through the eyes of those on the front lines of discovery.

Introduction
Sam Aronson, Director, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)

Accelerator Design and Instrumentation
Robert Palmer, Senior Physicist, BNL
Veljko Radeka, Division Head, Instrumentation Division, BNL

Basic Energy Sciences
Martin Blume, Senior Physicist Emeritus, BNL, and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, American Physical Society
Seamus Davis, Professor of Physics, Cornell University, and BNL

Nuclear and Particle Physics
William Zajc, Professor of Physics, Columbia University
Nicholas Samios, Director, RIKEN BNL Research Center, BNL

Life Sciences
Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health
Wayne Hendrickson, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University

Computational Science
David Keyes, Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics, Columbia University

Climate Change
Stephen Schwartz, Senior Chemist, BNL, and Chief Scientist, DOE Atmospheric Science Program

Energy
Dan Nocera, W.M. Keck Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

More information about Brookhaven's 60th anniversary and a more detailed program for this science symposium can be found on the Lab's 60th anniversary web site: http://www.bnl.gov/60th/. We ask that reporters interested in attending please contact one of the Brookhaven Lab Media & Communications representatives listed above.

These talks will also be webcast live from Brookhaven Lab and archived on the Brookhaven Lab web site. To view the webcast live, go to http://www.bnl.gov/video starting at 9 a.m. (Eastern Time) on Friday, October 19, 2007.

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