Please find below the final agenda for the 2018 ALS User Meeting.
| TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2 | ||
| 7:45 am | Registration, Morning Refreshments—Building 50 Auditorium | |
| Session Chair: Will Chueh | ||
| 8:30 am | UEC Welcome, Meeting Logistics | Will Chueh, UEC Chair, Stanford |
| 8:35 am | LBNL Welcome | Jeff Neaton, ESA, LBNL |
| 8:45 am | ALS Director’s Update | Steve Kevan, ALS, LBNL |
| 9:15 am | DOE Update | Harriet Kung, DOE Office of Science |
| 9:45 am | UEC Town Hall | Will Chueh, Stanford |
| 10:10 am | Break | |
| 10:30 am | NSLS-II and Future Trends in Synchrotron Science | John Hill, NSLS-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| 11:05 am | Shirley Award Talk: Studying Biomineralization with X-Rays | Pupa Gilbert, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| 11:55 am | Protein Crystallography at the ALS | Paul Adams, MBIB, LBNL |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch and Exhibitors—ALS Patio and Exhibitor Tent | |
| Session Chair: Jennifer Ciezak-Jenkins | ||
| 1:40 pm | Designing Highly Conductive Plastics with the Help of Microtomography | Megan Beers, TE Connectivity |
| 2:05 pm | The Early Days and Construction of the ALS | Jay Marx, Caltech/LIGO |
| 2:30 pm | Evolving Science at the ALS | Zahid Hussain, MSD, LBNL |
| 3:05 pm | Break | |
| 3:25 pm | XFEL Imaging of Protein Dynamics | John Spence, Arizona State University |
| 3:50 pm | ARPES on Correlated Systems | Alessandra Lanzara, UC Berkeley/MSD, LBNL |
| 4:15 pm | Poster Slam! | Dula Parkinson, ALS, LBNL |
| 4:45 pm | Poster Session, Student Poster Competition, and Reception—ALS Patio and Exhibitor Tent. List of poster titles and presenters | |
| 6:45 pm | Conclusion Day 1 | |
| WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 | ||
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| 8:00 am | Registration, Morning Refreshments—ALS Patio and Exhibitor Tent | |
| 8:30 am | Workshops & Tutorials | |
| 10:00 am | Break | |
| 10:20 am | Workshops & Tutorials | |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch and Exhibitors—ALS Patio and Exhibitor Tent | |
| 1:30 pm | Workshops & Tutorials | |
| 3:00 pm | Break | |
| 3:20 pm | Workshops & Tutorials | |
| 5:00 pm | Gather for Evening Session—Building 50 Auditorium | |
| Session Chair: Alex Frano | ||
| 5:15 pm | Student Poster Award Talk | TBA |
| 5:30 pm | ALS-U Project Update | Dave Robin, ALS-U, LBNL |
| 5:50 pm | ALS-U Updated Beamlines for Future Science | Andreas Scholl, ALS, LBNL |
| 6:15 pm | Awards Dinner—ALS Patio and Exhibitor Tent | |
| 8:00 pm | Conclusion Day 2 | |
| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4 | ||
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| 8:00 am | Registration, Morning Refreshments—ALS Patio | |
| 8:30 am | Workshops & Tutorials | |
| 10:00 am | Break | |
| 10:20 am | Workshops & Tutorials | |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch—ALS Patio | |
| 1:30 pm | Workshops & Tutorials | |
| 3:00 pm | Break | |
| 3:20 pm | Workshops & Tutorials | |
| 5:00 pm | Conclusion Day 3 | |