AET News: AET All-Hands Meeting Today at 2 p.m.

INFORMATION FOR AET EMPLOYEES

From the Associate Laboratory Director’s Desk

Dear colleagues,

Please join us for the AET All-Hands Meeting, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. today in the 362 Auditorium or on Teams. On the agenda are a celebration of our accomplishments and a look at AET’s potential future impact with sponsors and ongoing importance to the Laboratory mission:

  • AET at one year — growth and success
  • Our opportunities at a changing Argonne — Aurora and APS-U
  • Launchpad program — applications for Cohort 8 open soon
  • Office moves — schedule and how to stay safe
  • DEIA — focusing on accessibility and moving toward an AET Council for FY24

If your schedule allows, please join your colleagues for refreshments before the meeting, starting at 1:45 p.m. I look forward to seeing you there.

Best regards,

Seth
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Seth Darling
Interim Associate Laboratory Director
Advanced Energy Technologies


AET In-Person Town Hall

Wednesday, May 10 at 1:30 p.m.

Location: Building 362 Auditorium

The AET leadership team will host quarterly open discussion town halls and promote an opportunity for safe and open communication between employees and leadership to foster connection, create community, and facilitate engagement.  

Your feedback and questions are welcome and will be addressed during the townhall. Please come prepared with questions.

If you are not comfortable with asking questions during the meeting, you can email your questions beforehand to aetinfo@anl.gov or on InsideAET by selecting the Feedback button. Questions submitted via the Feedback button can be anonymous; you may leave the "From" field blank. 


You’re invited: Open House Science Communication Training

Thursday, April 20 at 12 p.m.

Are you staffing the Open House on May 20? Would you like to learn how to be more effective in communicating about Argonne research and technology to kids and adults? Sign up for an optional Open House science communication training.

The Educational Programs and Communication and Public Affairs teams have joined forces to offer optional, in-person science communication training specifically geared to an environment like the Open House (or a STEM fair). The training will take place over the lunch hour in Building 240, Room 1416. There are three options to best fit your schedule: 

The interactive training is geared to those supporting a tabletop activity or tour at the Open House, but is open to anyone helping with the event. The same content will be covered in each training.

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Reserving Hybrid Work Spaces

Hoteling spaces available in Building 362

Need a work space in Building 362? You can reserve workspaces by Outlook.Workspaces available are B201, B233A and B233B.

Instructions: 

  • Create new meeting
  • Access the Room Finder by clicking within the Location field
  • Choose All Reservable Workspaces from the Building dropdown and Workspaces from the Type dropdown
  • Select the space (#362-B201, #362-B233A or #362-B233B)

Signs with instructions on how to reserve the space will be available at each location. 


FMPS Lunch and Learn: Supplier Invoice Process Modifications for Tech Reps Lunch and Learn

 

Please join one of the following dates to learn about the automation of the supplier invoice process. In this one hour session, we will discuss the implemented changes and how this new automated process impacts the exception reporting of goods (invoices) associated to receipting. We will also walk through the certification process associated to service invoices.

Click on one of the options above to add to your Outlook calendar. Your selection will direct you to a Box folder to download the invite.

If you are unable to join the live webinar, an OnDemand version will be available soon after in the FMPS Learning Library.

Postdoc Program Info Session for Supervisors and Mentors

Wednesday, April 26 at 11 a.m.

Speaker: Tina Henne, Early Career Development Lead

This seminar and discussion will focus on procedures for development, mentoring and support for postdocs, supervisors and mentors. This session is ideal for staff new to the postdoc supervisor or mentor role and for experienced supervisors and mentors who want a refresher!

The material presented will mirror the New Postdoc Welcome Session, offered bimonthly by the Postdoc Program Office and the Postdoctoral Society of Argonne.

Topics include:

  • Overview of postdoc career goals, career outcomes and career planning.
  • Initial Development Discussions and the ANL-698 Form.
  • Connecting with a mentor.
  • Annual Development Discussions and the ANL-699 Form

This session will be held virtually on Teams. Please register to receive a calendar invitation.

REGISTER

SEMINARS

Materials Science Hybrid Colloquium: Surprises in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Revealed by Interlayer Charge Transport

Thursday, April 20 at 11 a.m. Building 241, Conference Room A323

Speaker: Laszlo Forro, Stavropoulos Center for Complex Quantum Matter University of Notre Dame

The ascending strategy for functionalizing layered Van der Waals materials is the manipulation of the coupling between atomic sheets to create novel tunable electronic states with exploitable properties. The responsible interactions can be sensitively tested by the interlayer charge transport, which has remained largely unexplored due to associated experimental challenges. By employing focused ion beam (FIB) microfabrication we accomplished a detailed study of the resistivity anisotropy in monocrystalline, bulk Transition
Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) — like 1T-TaS2 and 2H-NbS2. These measurements have revealed number of surprises, which will be reported.

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Learn How to Connect With Companies and Get Funding Through DOE’s HPC4EI Program

Friday, April 21 at 10 a.m. Building 240, 1501

Looking to connect with companies and apply high-performance computing (HPC) to your research? Please plan to attend this seminar on Friday, April 21 from 10-11 a.m. in Building 240, Room 1501 or via Zoom.

Join Megan Clifford, associate laboratory director for Science and Technology Partnerships and Outreach, Sibendu Som, AI Applications Initiative director, David Martin, Industry Partnerships and Outreach manager, and others as they explain how to: 

  • Participate and get funding from U.S. Department of Energy’s High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) program
  • Find meaningful industry connections
  • Work with the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility 
  • Take advantage of the connections and resources in the Science and Technology Partnerships and Outreach (S&TPO) directorate

Agenda includes:

  • Welcome – Megan Clifford
  • Overview of HPC4EI program – Sibendu Som, David Martin, Santanu Chaudhuri
  • Perspectives – Lorenzo Nocivelli (Dow), Eliu Huerta (Total Energies), Debolina Dasgupta (3M), Noah Paulson (EPRI)
  • How S&TPO staff can connect you to companies – Paulina Rychenkova

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