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The weekly newsletter for Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

To Pump or Not to Pump?

New Machine Learning Tool to Help Managers Make Smarter Decisions About Groundwater
Scientists involved in the research posed for group photo.

Computational scientists from CRD have teamed up with environmental scientists to develop machine learning tools to help manage precious water resources more sustainably. The aim is to improve drought resistance by allowing agencies to evaluate, in near real time, multiple future scenarios and the effects of different water management actions.

UC President Napolitano Visits Wang Hall
Janet Napolitano and Jonathan Carter looking at supercomputer
During her visit to Berkeley Lab last week, UC President Janet Napolitano was treated to behind-the-scenes looks at several user facilities. Computing Sciences' Jonathan Carter, who serves as the CS Area's deputy ALD for science, showed Napolitano around Wang Hall's machine room. During her lab visit, she also held a townhall, lunched with DOE Summer Undergradiate Lab Intern (SULI) program participants, and met with a variety of other scientists and groups.

Talks Address Timely Topics in Cyberinfrastructure

Designing, building, and maintaining advanced cyberinfrastructure to support scientific use cases can be challenging. That's why ESnet, in collaboration with the National Science Foundation, sponsors semi-weekly talks on engineering and engagement topics in cyberinfrastructure. CI Engineering Brownbag Series talks take place on Fridays at 11 a.m. Pacific time via Zoom and are open to anyone. This week's speaker will address Coldfront, an open source resource allocation management tool built for high performance computing centers. Visit the ESnet website for a schedule and call-in details.

This Week's CS Seminars

»CS Seminars Calendar

Link of the Week: It could take 118 years for female computer scientists to match publishing rates of male colleagues
woman looking at computer screen
Image by Pixabay

Underlining the findings of a National Academies of Sciences report and a complementary GAO study, a recent study found that women scientists won't likely reach publishing parity with men for many years to come. Reporting on the preprint of a study from researchers at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Science points out that some fields are projected to fare better than others. In medicine, women could reach parity as soon as 2050. Computer science, however, had the most pessimistic projection with women reaching publishing parity in 2137 if current trends remain unchanged.




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