The 2023 Berkeley Lab Research SLAM was held on Thursday, September 21st, at Berkeley Lab's Building 50 Auditorium. Two SLAM alumni co-hosted the culminating live event, Revathi Jambunathan, Research Scientist at the Applied Math & Computational Research Division, and Bashir Mohammed, Senior Staff AI Architect at Intel and SIAM Policy Fellow. Twelve finalists took the stage to communicate their science in a clear and concise three minutes to impress the panel of esteemed judges.  

First place and People’s Choice went to Anne Villacastin from the Biosciences Area. Second place went to Bernard Field of the Energy Sciences Area. Third place went to Yuan Gao of the Energy Technologies Area. 

Anne, Bernard and Yuan will advance to the regional Bay Area Research SLAM on October 5 to compete against the finalists from Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Sandia National Labs, and SLAC National Lab.