Vote for your favorite speaker
This annual contest awards the best three-minute research presentation given by an LLNL postdoc. Postdocs learn to clearly explain the motivation, results, and significance of their research to a non-specialty audience and a panel of judges.
Our current panel of judges include:
- Kim Budil – Laboratory Director
- Pat Falcone – Deputy Director, Science & Technology
- Doug Rotman – Director, Laboratory Directed Research and Development
- Bill Goldstein – Former Director, LLNL
The top three finalists will be invited to compete in the Bay Area Research SLAM! with winners from LBNL, SLAC, and SNL, on Thursday, October 20 @ 3:00 PM
The ten finalists Research SLAM! 2022
Tune in to the live stream at 2:30 pm September 20 to join the action and vote for your favorite speaker.
Mariana Desireé Reale Batista
PLS/MSD
How 3D Printing Can Supercharge Your Life
Marc Jasper
COMP/CASC
Stop Wasting Time: Avoiding an El Capitan Portability Disaster
Evan Antoniuk
PLS/MSD
A Future Without Plastic Waste: Achievable Through Today's Machine Learning
Christopher Miller
PLS/MSD
From Microscale to Macroscale—Designing Better Explosives
Elisa Wasson
ENG/MED
Life By the Drop: Engineering Human Gradient Tissues Using Cell-Embedded Microbeads
Lindy Jang
ENG/MED
Invisible Organ on a Chip
Jennifer Chlebek
PLS/BBTD
Genetically Modified Organisms: A Novel Solution or the Next Biothreat?
Tiffany Halvorsen
PLS/BBTD
Switching Roles: How Toxins Will Protect Ecosystems in Our Future Bioeconomy
Aldair Gongora
ENG/MSD
Accelerating Science Using Autonomous Experimentation (AE)
Christina Kang-Yun
PLS/BBTD
Making Rare Earth Metals Not So Rare