The 2012 ALS User Meeting was held Monday, October 8 through Wednesday, October 10. Some of the plenary talks were streamed, and with the speaker’s permission, are linked and posted below.
| Monday, October 8 | |||
| 07:30 | Registration, Continental Breakfast Building 50 Auditorium |
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| Session Chair: Brandy Toner, University of Minnesota | |||
| 08:25 | UEC Welcome, Meeting Logistics | Brandy Toner, University of Minnesota | |
| 08:30 | LBNL Welcome | Horst Simon, LBNL | |
| 08:40 | ALS: Progress and Prospects | Roger Falcone, LBNL | |
| 09:10 | Basic Energy Sciences Update | Harriet Kung, DOE | |
| 09:40 | Break | ||
| Session Chair: Peter Nico, LBNL | |||
| 10:00 | Keynote Science on the Hill: Building Support One Member of Congress at a Time |
Don Medley, LBNL | |
| 10:30 | Keynote Bad Presentation Bingo: The Game You Don’t Want to Win! |
Monica Metzler, Illinois Science Council | |
| 11:15 | Keynote What’s Next for Metal Organic Frameworks? |
Omar Yaghi, Molecular Foundry, LBNL | |
| 12:00 | Lunch ALS Patio and Exhibitor Tent DOE-UEC Meeting (6-2202) |
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| Session Chair: David Osborn, Sandia | |||
| 13:30 | Science Highlight Mapping the Amorphous-to-Crystalline Transitions in CaCO3 Biominerals, with 20-nm Resolution |
Pupa Gilbert, University of Wisconsin | |
| 13:55 | User Services Update | Sue Bailey, LBNL | |
| 14:10 | Accelerator Status and Plans | David Robin, LBNL | |
| 14:30 | Safety Updates | Jim Floyd, LBNL | |
| 14:40 | UEC Town Hall | Brandy Toner, UEC | |
| 15:05 | Break | ||
| Session Chair: Hendrik Bluhm, LBNL | |||
| 15:15 | UEC Town Hall Wrap-Up | ||
| 15:20 | Science Highlight
Hidden Symmetries in Magnetic Domains |
Steve Kevan, LBNL | |
| 15:45 | Poster Slam: Student Poster Competition | Hendrik Bluhm, LBNL | |
| 16:15 | Keynote
Materials, Components, Interfaces, Devices, and Systems for Solar Fuels Generation |
Nate Lewis, Caltech | |
| 17:00 | Poster Session, Student Poster Competition, and Reception. ALS Patio and Exhibitors’ Tent. | ||
| 19:30 | Conclusion of Poster Session; Buses to Downtown | ||
| Tuesday, October 9 | |||
| 08:00 | Continental Breakfast, Registration Building 50 Auditorium |
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| Session Chair: Yves Idzerda, University of Montana | |||
| 08:30 | Shirley Award Talk | TBA | |
| 09:15 | Student Poster Award Talk | TBA | |
| 09:45 | Break | ||
| Session Chair: Chris Cappa, UC Davis | |||
| 10:00 | Science Highlight
Probing the Structure and Properties of Structural Materials—Both Engineering and Biological—At Multiple Length-Scales |
Robert (Rob) Ritchie, LBNL and UC Berkeley | |
| 10:25 | Science Highlight
Key Electronic States in Lithium-Ion Battery Materials |
Wanli Yang, LBNL | |
| 10:50 | Science Highlight
Exploring Structural and Functional Aspects of Plant Water Transport with X-Ray Microtomography |
Andrew McElrone, UC Davis | |
| 11:15 | Science Highlight
Nineteen Years of Photoemission at Beamline 7 |
Eli Rotenberg, LBNL | |
| 11:40 | Berkeley Lab Director Address | Paul Alivisatos, LBNL | |
| 12:00 | Lunch ALS Patio and Exhibitor Tent |
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| 13:30 | 2012 User Meeting Workshops | ||
| 15:15 | Break | ||
| 15:30 | 2012 User Meeting Workshops | ||
| 17:00 | Awards Dinner | ||
| 19:30 | Conclusion of Awards Dinner; Buses to Downtown | ||
| Wednesday, October 10 | |||
| 08:00 | Registration, Continental Breakfast ALS Patio and Exhibitor Tent |
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| 08:30 | 2012 User Meeting Workshops | ||
| Morning Break (see individual workshop agendas for times) | |||
| 12:00 | Lunch ALS Patio |
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| 13:00 | 2012 User Meeting Workshops | ||
| Afternoon Break (see individual workshop agendas for times) | |||