2022 User Meeting Agenda

The agenda for the 2022 ALS User Meeting is below. All times are Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), and all sessions will be held on Zoom.

MonDAY, AUGUST 15
	Recording Session Chair: Ming Yi, Rice University
8:00 am	Users’ Executive Committee Welcome	Ming Yi, ALS UEC Chair, Rice University
8:10 am	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Welcome	Jeff Neaton, Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences, LBNL
8:20 am	ALS: Progress and Prospects	Steve Kevan, ALS Director, LBNL
9:00 am	Department of Energy Update	Linda Horton, Associate Director of Science for Basic Energy Sciences, DOE
9:30 am	Break (15 minutes)
9:45 am	UEC Award Announcements and Town Hall	Ming Yi, ALS UEC Chair, Rice University
10:00 am	Shirley Award Talk: Bridging operando soft x-ray spectroscopy and energy, catalysis, and chemical science	Jinghua Guo, Senior Scientist, ALS
10:30 am	Break (15 minutes)
	Recording Session Chair: Hope Michelsen, University of Colorado Boulder
10:45 am	Keynote Talk: In situ observations of a Co(0001) model catalyst during Fischer-Tropsch synthesis	Irene Groot, Associate Professor, Leiden University
11:15 am	Keynote Talk: Unveiling the kinetics of materials for sustainability by synchrotron x-ray nano-tomography and multimodal characterizations	Karen Chen-Wiegart, Assistant Professor, Stony Brook / Brookhaven National Lab
11:45 am	Student Poster Competition / Poster Slam	Emcee: Dula Parkinson, Photon Science Operations Deputy, ALS
12:15 pm	Break (15 minutes)
12:30 pm	Poster Session Gather.Town link List of Student Poster Competition entries List of General Poster Session participants
2:00 pm	Zoom link Career Path Panel Click to submit questions to panel	Tom Hogan, Applications Scientist, Quantum Design Terry McAfee, Senior Scientific Engineering Associate, ALS Edbert Sie, Optical Systems Scientist, Meta Francesca Toma, Staff Scientist, Berkeley Lab
3:00 pm	Conclusion Day 1

TUESDAY, AUGUST 16
	Recording Session Chair: Yu He, Yale University
8:30 am	Users’ Executive Committee Morning Welcome	Ming Yi, ALS UEC Chair, Rice University
8:40 am	Keynote Talk: Imaging electronic information of quantum materials by photoemission spectromicroscopy with machine-learning-based analysis	Hideaki Iwasawa, Principal Researcher, Hiroshima Lightsource, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology
9:10 am	Keynote Talk: Unveiling the dynamic behavior of catalysts through in situ microscopy and operando spectroscopy	Beatriz Roldán Cuenya, Director, Interface Science Department, Fritz Haber Institute
9:40 am	Break (20 minutes)
10:00 am	ALS Upgrade Project	Dave Robin, ALS-U Project Director, LBNL and Elaine DiMasi, ALS-U Beamlines and Optical Systems Lead, LBNL
10:30 am	Beamline Plan Update	Andreas Scholl, ALS Science Deputy
11:00 am	Special Celebration Session	TBA
11:30 am	Poster Awards Presentation
11:45 am	Conclusion of Plenary Session
Workshops & Tutorials – View Descriptions, Agendas, and Zoom Links Afternoon Only Light Sources 101 Tutorial Day 1 of 2 (12:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.) SIBYLS BioSAXS Day 1 of 2 (1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.) Elevate Your microCT Data Processing and Visualization (1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
4:00 pm	Conclusion Day 2

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17
Workshops & Tutorials – View Descriptions, Agendas, and Zoom Links Morning Only Light Sources 101 Tutorial Day 2 of 2 (8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.) Instrumentation and Computation for the Upgraded ALS (9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.) Afternoon Only Multigrain X-Ray Diffraction (1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.) Nanoscale Probing of Complex Soft Interfaces (1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.) All Day SIBYLS BioSAXS Day 2 of 2 (9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.) Run Your Own DFT Calculations to Have a Better Understanding of XAS and RIXS Experiments (9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.) A New Frontier in Spin-Resolved ARPES (9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.) Deciphering Dynamic Chemical and Magnetic Processes by Time-Resolved Scanning Transmission X-Ray Microscopy (9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.) Exploring Complex Electronic and Magnetic Ordering Phenomena Using Coherent Soft X-Ray Scattering (9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.) Adding Dimensions to Soft X-Ray RIXS: Energy and Quantum Materials (9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.)

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17

Workshops & Tutorials – View Descriptions, Agendas, and Zoom Links

Morning Only

Light Sources 101 Tutorial Day 2 of 2 (8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)
Instrumentation and Computation for the Upgraded ALS (9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)

Afternoon Only

Multigrain X-Ray Diffraction (1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
Nanoscale Probing of Complex Soft Interfaces (1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)

All Day

SIBYLS BioSAXS Day 2 of 2 (9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.)
Run Your Own DFT Calculations to Have a Better Understanding of XAS and RIXS Experiments (9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
A New Frontier in Spin-Resolved ARPES (9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
Deciphering Dynamic Chemical and Magnetic Processes by Time-Resolved Scanning Transmission X-Ray Microscopy (9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
Exploring Complex Electronic and Magnetic Ordering Phenomena Using Coherent Soft X-Ray Scattering (9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
Adding Dimensions to Soft X-Ray RIXS: Energy and Quantum Materials (9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.)

2022 User Meeting Agenda

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