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Steve Rossi, Shutdown this Summer

The ALS is preparing for an extended shutdown that begins on June 13 and will extend until August 11 when user operations resume. This shutdown will be one of the busiest and most significant we have had since the Top-Off installation in 2008. The most critical activity, and that which dictate the extended length ofRead More Read more »

June 1, 2011

    Multilayer thin films: From Earth to spaceRegina Soufli, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory       Molecular aspects of carbon sequestration: What synchrotron work can tell usGlenn Waychunas, Earth Sciences Division, Beamlines 12.2.2 and 7.3.3       Is all soot created equal?Mary Gilles, Chemical Sciences Division, Beamline 11.0.2 Read more »

Jerry Kekos, Senior Business Manager

I am responsible for the Business Management (BM) group at the ALS. Additionally I am responsible for resource and division workforce management, and I oversee human resource activities within the division. My biggest challenge is managing the ALS budget. I have the daily pleasure of working with some uniquely talented individuals, each of whom isRead More Read more »

Alan Biocca, Control Systems Group Leader

The members of the Control Systems Group design, support, and maintain the control systems for the accelerator and many of the beamlines at the ALS. The Accelerator Controls Section is headed by Alan Biocca and Chris Timossi, and the Beamline Controls Section is led by Ed Domning and Brian Smith. The Accelerator Control Section managesRead More Read more »

Sue Bailey, User Services Group Leader

As head of User Services I am responsible for the ALS User Office, the Experiment Coordination Group and the ALS Communications Group. I am available to users to discuss information about the ALS; if I cannot answer your question myself, I can identify whom you need to talk to. Please drop by my room inRead More Read more »

February 25, 2011

  Doesn’t a magnetic pencil sound like a great idea?Hendrik Ohldag, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory/ALS       Fossils: Discerning fact from fiction in multi-million-year-old materialsElizabeth Boatman, Beamline 10.3.2       Nanofocusing on Beamline 5.3.1Daniel Merthe, Beamline 5.3.1 Read more »

Roger Falcone, ALS Director

Welcome Back! I want to express my best wishes for all members of the ALS community and their families for a happy and productive new year. It will certainly be a challenging and busy time in Building 6 as we move forward with many new projects, including the construction of  new beamlines (e.g., MAESTRO inRead More Read more »

ALS Reveals New State of Matter

ALS user groups from Princeton and Stanford have been making waves this past year with several high-profile papers and extensive news coverage of their work on a new state of matter embodied by so-called “topological insulators,” materials that conduct electricity only on their surfaces. Read more »

Paul Adams, Head of the Berkeley Center for Structural Biology

As a Deputy Division Director in the Physical Biosciences Division I lead the Berkeley Center for Structural Biology (BCSB), which provides five macromolecular crystallography (MX) beamlines for a very broad user community. Two of the beamlines (8.2.1 and 8.2.2) are funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). The other three beamlines (5.0.1, 5.0.2 andRead More Read more »