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2026 Bay Area Light Sources Joint Users’ Meeting

September 20-25, 2026 | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | Menlo Park, California

This year’s meeting will, for the first time, bring together the user communities from all three light sources—the Advanced Light Source, the Linac Coherent Light Source, the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource—for a week of scientific exchange, new collaborations, and forward-looking discussion.

Registration is now closed for the 2026 meeting. Please check back next year for the 2027 meeting.

Visit the main website for the Bay Area Light Sources Joint Users’ Meeting.

Group photo of people in front of a marina. — Advanced Light Source (ALS) User Meeting group photo, at the DoubleTree Hotel Berkeley Marina, 08/12/2025. (Credit: Robinson Kuntz/Berkeley Lab).

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