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Lipi Gupta
Science Engagement Engineer, NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lipi attended CUWiP as an undergraduate student herself, and fondly remembers the tour at Brookhaven National Lab. Lipi has experience organizing large meetings with rich scientific agendas, for hundreds of participants. She works regularly to make scientific computing more accessible and values inclusion efforts that make scientific pursuits inclusive to all. Lipi will act as the Co-Chair of the conference, representing Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
Oskar Hallatschek
Physics Professor, UC Berkeley
Having earned his degrees in Germany and Switzerland, Oskar moved to the US for his postdoctoral studies. Later, he established his initial research group at the Max Planck Society in Germany. Since 2013, he has been a part of the Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Oskar will act as the Co-Chair of the conference, representing UC Berkeley.
Rebecca Hartman-Baker
User Engagement Group Lead, NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Rebecca majored in Physics as an undergraduate but never had a chance to attend CUWiP events (because they didn’t exist at that time). She has extensive experience organizing large scientific meetings through her decades of conference committee service, chairing the Student Cluster Competition at SC19, and her role leading a group that regularly organizes large-scale user meetings and trainings. Her service work focuses on inclusion in STEM, and she is the co-chair of the Computing Sciences mentorship program at the Lab, a member of Women in High-Performance computing organization, and a Director on the board of Griffin Technology Academies, serving a diverse, low-income Bay Area community.
Hendrik Ohldag
Staff Scientist, Advanced Light Source
As a member of the NorCal CUWiP consortium as well as the treasurer of the APS Far West Section I am very interested in making the NorCal CUWiP a success. Inviting interested students to Berkeley and having them experience LBNL as well as UC Berkeley campus can be a valuable experience for early college students in STEM because of the (not only) scientifically diverse community at the laboratory.
Hai Ah Nam
NERSC-10 Project Director, NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hai Ah’s scientific career spans four Department of Energy national laboratories (LLNL, ORNL, LANL, LBNL), where she contributed to work in low-energy nuclear physics, computational physics, and high performance computing. She has previously helped to organize the APS Southeastern Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (SCUWP) in 2012 (UTK/ORNL) and the 2018 LANL Summer Physics Camp for Women of Northern New Mexico. Hai Ah has been featured on the APS Across the Spectrum Playing Cards and is an active advocate for women in STEM.
Lisa Claus
HPC Performance Engineer, NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lisa completed her PhD in Germany where she always noticed a lack of support for underrepresented groups and possibilities to explore career pathways. Since coming to the US, Lisa is passionate about supporting outreach activities. Lisa mentors a variety of students and postdocs at LBNL and through organizations like Women in HPC or Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). Lisa is highly involved in the Early Career Employee Resource Group, Women's Support and Empowerment Council (WSEC) and UC Women in Tech at LBNL. In addition, she has experience organizing events through the biannual just in time mentoring program at LBNL that brings together 90 employees for group mentoring sessions.
Eve Schoen
Graduate Student, U.C. Berkeley
Eve is a PhD student in the physics department cosmology group at Berkeley. She is a mentor for the Society of Women in Physical Sciences (SWPS) and is committed to campus events to promote diversity and enhance inclusion. She attended CUWiP as an undergraduate at Yale in 2020 and participated in her undergraduate UWiP chapter.
Teresa Calarco
Sr Business Manager, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Teresa supports MSD Division Office, finance and business processes, buildings, safety. Active in LBNL’s IDEA efforts, she currently chairs the MSD IDEA Committee, was prior co-chair of the in Women's Support and Empowerment Council (WSEC) Networking committee and recently transitioned from the co-chair of LBNL’s APS-IDEA committee (American Physics Society). She is an advisor with the California Life Science’s FAST incubator program.
Michelle Dong
Undergraduate Student, U. C. Berkeley
Michelle is an undergraduate student majoring in Physics and Math at Cal, researching Mathematical Physics and High Energy Theory. She is currently the Co-President of Society of Physics Students (SPS) at Berkeley, Event and Media Coordinator of Society of Women in Physical Sciences (SWPS), Board Member of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Scholars Student Advisory, and APS Undergraduate Student Ambassador. She has endeavored to increase the representation of the underrepresented groups, hold events promoting equity and inclusion, and enhance cohesiveness of the communities of women and underrepresented groups in physical sciences together with SWPS and SPS. She attended her first CUWIP in 2024 at Stanford/SLAC.
Kristin Beck
Staff Scientist, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Physics Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Kristi is a staff scientist in the LLNL Quantum Coherent Device Physics Group and the director of the Livermore Center for Quantum Science. Her research interests span the quantum computing stack, from device hardware and gate design to testbed architecture. Her current research portfolio includes testing novel control hardware and working with optimal control generation for superconducting transmons; and designing, modeling and testing 3D printed traps for trapped ions. She has been active within CUWiP for several years, most recently representing LLNL on the NorCal Consortium and serving on the Local Organizing Committee for CUWiP ‘24 at UC Merced. She attended her first CUWiP as an undergraduate in 2009 at Yale.
Ina Reichel
Senior Scientific Engineering Associate, Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics Division
Ina does science communication and education outreach for both her home division and for the Advanced Light Source. She is currently the chair of Berkeley Lab’s Women’s Support and Empowerment Council (WSEC), the Lab’s ERG focussed on women.
Maurice Garcia-Sciveres
Senior scientist, Physics Division
Maurice has worked on Fermilab’s CDF and CERN’s ATLAS collider experiments, and on the TESSERACT dark matter search. In 2013 he co-founded the CERN RD53 collaboration to develop pixel detector readout chips for the present ATLAS and CMS experiment upgrades, and has served as co-spokesperson since. Since 2018 he has been PI for the LBNL Quantum Information Science Enabled Discovery (QuantISED) program, and since 2021 PI for the “Co-Design and Integration of Nano-Sensors on CMOS” project at LBNL. He has mentored over 40 undergraduate interns on these projets over the last 20 years.