The 2011 ALS User Meeting begins registation begins at 07:30 on Monday, October 3, outside the Building 50 Auditorium. The meeting itself will start at 08:25 inside the Building 50 Auditorium; all plenary sessions will also be held at this location.
| Monday, October 3 | |||
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| 07:30 | Registration, Continental Breakfast Building 50 Auditorium |
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| Session Chair: David Osborn, Sandia | |||
| 08:25 | UEC Welcome, Meeting Logistics | David Osborn, Sandia | |
| 08:30 | LBNL Welcome | Horst Simon, LBNL | |
| 08:40 | ALS: Progress and Prospects | Roger Falcone, LBNL | |
| 09:10 | DOE Update | Harriet Kung, DOE | |
| 09:40 | Break | ||
| 10:00 | Plutonium Science and Diplomacy | Siegfried S. Hecker, Stanford University | |
| 10:45 | Climate Change: A Non-Partisan Analysis | Richard Muller, LBNL and UC Berkeley | |
| 11:30 | Better Drug Candidates via Protein Crystallography | Mary McGrath, Gilead Sciences | |
| 12:00 | Lunch (ALS Patio and Exhibitor Tent) DOE-UEC Meeting (6-2202) |
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| Session Chair: Brandy Toner, University of Minnesota | |||
| 13:30 | At the Limits of Semiconductor Lithography: Using the ALS Beamlines to Advance Materials and Processes for Future Microchip Fabrication | Tom Wallow, Globalfoundries | |
| 14:00 | User Services Update | Sue Bailey, LBNL | |
| 14:15 | Updates from the Experimental Systems Group | Howard Padmore, LBNL | |
| 14:35 | Safety Updates | Jim Floyd, LBNL | |
| 14:45 | UEC Open Forum | ||
| 15:15 | Break | ||
| Session Chair: Hendrik Bluhm, LBNL | |||
| 15:35 | Shining Light on Energy Conversion at Gas/Solid Interfaces | Tony McDaniel, Sandia | |
| 16:00 | Poster Slam: Student Poster Competition | ||
| 16:30 | Poster Session and Reception; Student Poster Competition | ||
| 19:30 | Conclusion of Poster Session; Buses to Downtown | ||
| Tuesday, October 4 | |||
| 08:00 | Continental Breakfast | ||
| Session Chair: Gyorgy Snell, Takeda, Inc. | |||
| 08:45 | Science: What the Public is Thinking, What Congress is Doing, How You Can Contribute | Mike Lubell, APS | |
| 09:15 | Shirley Award Talk | TBA | |
| 09:40 | Student Poster Award Talk | TBA | |
| 09:50 | Break | ||
| Session Chair: Jeff Kortright, LBNL | |||
| 10:10 | Endohedral Fullerenes: From In-Situ Synthesis to Confinement Resonances in Photoionization of Xe@C60 | David Esteves, University of Colorado, Boulder | |
| 10:35 | Unique Contrast Mechanisms Using Resonant X-Ray Scattering: The Key to Nanoscale Insight in Organic Devices | Brian Collins, North Carolina State University | |
| 11:00 | The Energy Sciences Network: Moving Data, Advancing Science | Eli Dart, LBNL ESnet | |
| 11:30 | Lunch (ALS Patio and Exhibitor Tent) | ||
| 12:45 | 2011 User Meeting Workshops | ||
| 14:45 | Break | ||
| 15:05 | 2011 User Meeting Workshops | ||
| 17:30 | Awards Dinner | ||
| 19:30 | Conclusion of Awards Dinner; Buses to Downtown | ||
| Wednesday, October 5 | |||
| 08:30 | 2011 User Meeting Workshops | ||
| Morning Break (see individual workshop agendas for times) | |||
| 12:00 | Lunch (ALS Patio) | ||
| 13:00 | 2011 User Meeting Workshops | ||
| Afternoon Break (see individual workshop agendas for times) | |||