Wednesday, September 13 – Friday, September 15
This fall will mark the 30th anniversary of ALS first light, and with new opportunities on the horizon prompted by the ALS Upgrade (ALS-U), the ALS is embarking on a strategic visioning exercise to define the evolution of our science portfolio into the 2030s and where investments will be needed to realize our vision.
The output from four science visioning workshops, detailed below, will form a critical part of the visioning exercise, helping to identify future priority science areas for the ALS and emerging research goals. These workshops will take the place of the typical User Meeting workshops for this year.
Charge: Each workshop is charged, within its area of science, to:
- Identify key scientific challenges and priority long-term research opportunities that the ALS’s capabilities could evolve to address 10 years from today.
- Delineate key enabling synchrotron or related capabilities needed to realize these research opportunities.
- Articulate the most critical partnerships and which new partnerships or collaboration modalities would have the most potential for impact.
Participants: A diverse group of people from every career stage will be included in the visioning workshops (Wednesday–Friday). However, limited seating is available for in-person participation. Some parts of the workshop will be broadcast over Zoom, so virtual participation is also available.
Agenda: Workshops will run all day Wednesday, September 13, and Thursday, September 14. Workshops will conclude with report-outs on the morning of Friday, September 15.
Biosciences
Organizing Committee: Greg Hura, co-chair (MBIB, LBNL), Andrej Sali, co-chair (UCSF), Marc Allaire (MBIB, LBNL), Diane Bryant (ALS, LBNL), Scott Fraser (Univ. Southern Calif.), Lisa Miller (NSLS-II, Brookhaven), Ritimukta Sarangi (SSRL, SLAC)
Location: 33-106
Zoom link – Updated 9:20 am on September 14
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Condensed Matter & Quantum Materials
Organizing Committee: Aaron Bostwick, co-chair (ALS, LBNL), Ming Yi, co-chair (Rice), Alex Frañó (UC San Diego), Mingda Li (MIT), Hendrik Ohldag (ALS, LBNL), Chris Palmstrøm (UC Santa Barbara), Sujoy Roy (ALS, LBNL), Feng Wang (UC Berkeley/LBNL)
Location: 59-3101
Zoom link
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Earth & Environmental Sciences
Organizing Committee: Martin Kunz, co-chair (ALS, LBNL), Tamas Varga, co-chair (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Harold Barnard (ALS, LBNL), Michelle Devoe (UC Berkeley), Hoi-Ying Holman (MBIB, LBNL), Harry Lisabeth (LBNL), Matthew Marcus (ALS, LBNL), Hope Michelsen (CU-Boulder), Brandy Toner (Univ. Minnesota)
Location: 15-253
Zoom link
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Energy Sciences
Moni Blum, co-chair (ALS, LBNL), Will Chueh, co-chair (Stanford), Greg Su, co-chair (ALS, LBNL), Dean DeLongchamp (NIST), Alex Hexemer (ALS, LBNL), Whitney Loo (Univ. Wisconsin), Karthish Manithram (Caltech), Wanli Yang (ALS, LBNL), Iryna Zenyuk (UC Irvine)
Location: 91-310
Zoom link
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