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Please check back soon for the 2025 User Meeting agenda. Note: There will not be a virtual option this year. 

The 2024 ALS User Meeting took place August 12–14 in hybrid mode (in-person and virtual options). Read about the User Meeting highlights and see the agenda below.

Monday, August 12 (plenary session) 
8:00 am Registration & Morning Refreshments—Bldg 50 Auditorium
Session Chair: Quentin Williams
8:30 am UEC Welcome, Meeting Logistics Quentin Williams, UEC Chair, UC Santa Cruz
8:35 am LBNL Welcome Jeff Neaton, Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences, LBNL
8:45 am ALS Director’s Update Dimitri Argyriou, ALS Director, LBNL
9:15 am ALS-U Update David Robin, ALS-U Project Director, LBNL
9:45 am DOE Update Andrew Schwartz, Acting Associate Director, Basic Energy Sciences, DOE
10:15 am Break
10:35 am Future Evolution of the ALS Science Program Andreas Scholl, ALS Science Deputy, LBNL
Ashley White, ALS Strategy Deputy, LBNL
11:10 am Shirley Award Talk:

Probing the Multiphase Chemistry of Aerosols using Synchrotron Radiation

 Kevin Wilson, LBNL
12:05 pm Poster Slam
12:35 pm Lunch, Poster Session, and Exhibitor Fair—Building 7W (tensile structure next to the ALS)
view poster list
Return to Building 50 Auditorium
Session Chair: Wendy Gu
2:05 pm Plenary Talk:

The Molecular Observation Network (MONet): Enabling Molecular and Microscale Mechanistic Understanding of Soil Organic Matter Processes

 Emily Graham, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
2:45 pm Plenary Talk:

Human Noroviruses – Role of Conformational Plasticity Entry and Antibody Neutralization

 B.V. Venkatar Prasad, Baylor College of Medicine
3:25 pm Break
3:45 pm Plenary Talk:

Use of Synchrotron X-Ray Computed Tomography and X-Ray Diffraction to Study Electrochemical Hydrogen Technologies

 Iryna Zenyuk, UC Irvine
4:25 pm Plenary Talk:

Probing Complex Chemistry at the Molecular Level with Vibrational Spectroscopy and X-Ray Tools

 Musa Ahmed, LBNL
5:05 pm Reception—Building 7W
7:00 pm Conclusion Day 1
Tuesday, August 13 (Career Talks & WORKSHOPS)
8:45 am Registration & Morning Refreshments—Building 50 Auditorium
Session Chair: Shan Wu
9:15 am Award Winner Announcements
9:30 am Early Career Award Talk:

Chemical Imaging of Atmospheric Particles

 Swarup China, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
10:00 am Student Poster Award Talk To be announced
10:20 am Early Career Panel Discussion

What questions do you have for our panelists? Enter them in advance here. Like someone else’s question? Give it a thumbs up to move it up in the rankings!

 Mikayla Barry
Thomas J. Ferron
Devin Grabner
Natalie M. LarsonView: Career Panelist Bios
11:15 am UEC Town Hall
11:40 am Lunch and Exhibitor Fair—Building 7W
1:00 pm Half-Day Workshops and Tutorials

  • Light Sources 101 (Tutorial) in Building 15-Room 253 **starts at noon**
  • Microtomography Data Processing: Some Basics, Some New Stuff (Tutorial) in Building 6-Room 2202
  • Coherent X-Ray Science: The New Wave (Workshop + Tutorial) in Building 67-Room 3111
5:30 pm Awards Dinner—Building 7W
7:00 pm Conclusion Day 2
Wednesday, August 14 (WORKSHOPS)
8:00 am Day 3 morning and afternoon refreshments will be served in the workshop/tutorial rooms. Lunch will be served in Building 7W.
8:30 am Workshops
Half-Day Workshops (8:30 am–12:30 pm)
  • Correlative Microscopy: Experiment, Processing, and Data Management (Joint ALS–Molecular Foundry Workshop) in Building 50 Auditorium
Full-Day Workshops (8:30 am—5:00 pm)
  • Making Nanostructures Visible via ALS–Foundry Collaborations (Joint ALS–Molecular Foundry Workshop + Tutorial) in Building 15-Room 253
  • SYSTER—A Program to Support Earth and Environmental Science Applications of Scanning Transmission X-Ray Microscopy, Spectromicroscopy, and Ptychography (Tutorial – remote participation only) – Zoom link
  • BioSAXS (Workshop + Tutorial) in Building 6-Room 2202
  • Exploring Novel Spin Configurations and Functionalities for New Paradigms in Information Technology (Workshop) in Building 33-Room 106
5:00 pm Conclusion Day 3