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New ALS Scheduler Tool to Access Beamline Schedules

As part of the ongoing effort to provide users and staff improved tools to track their proposals, safety, and beam time, the ALS has rolled out the ALS Scheduler. For cycle 2017-1 and future cycles, ALS beamline schedules will be displayed through this new software tool designed to provide centralized access to all beamline schedules. Read more »

Near-Edge X-Ray Refraction Fine Structure Microscopy

Soft x-ray ptychography was used to measure the absorption and refraction of x-rays through pristine reference materials as a basis for decomposing spatially resolved spectra from a heterogeneous sample, thereby quantifying the composition at high resolution. The novel method provided a nearly five-fold improvement in spatial resolution on resonance. Read more »

ALS in the News (Jan 2017)

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Workshop Focuses on the Unique Science Enabled by ALS-U

Visiting scientists met Jan. 18-20 at Berkeley Lab for a workshop that collected input on the range of new science that will be enabled by the planned upgrade of the Lab’s Advanced Light Source. The upgrade project, known as ALS-U, will boost the brightness, focus, and other properties of the light beams produced at the ALS. Read more »

March 2017 Call for General User Proposals

The User Office is accepting new General User Proposals (GUPs) from scientists who wish to conduct research at the ALS in the August-December 2017 cycle. The deadline for submission is March 1, 2017. Read more »

ALS Staff Honored by American Physical Society

Accelerator Operations and Development Deputy Christoph Steier has been named an APS Fellow. Science Deputy Steve Kevan and Senior Scientist Eli Rotenberg received the Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics, and Detector Engineering Lead Peter Denes received the Keithley Award for Advances in Measurement Science. Read more »

ALS Launches New Website

The ALS Communications Group has launched a new ALS website. Features include a searchable beamline directory, staff profiles, and tagging system that makes it easy to find science highlights and news articles on similar topics of interest. Read more »

ALS-U Takes Center Stage at User Meeting

The ALS upgrade project (ALS-U) was a focus of this year’s User Meeting, beginning with Laboratory Director Mike Witherell’s announcement that ALS-U has received mission need approval, the first critical milestone in the DOE approval process. Several talks and workshops focused on the engineering aspects of the upgrade and science opportunities it will enable. Read more »

David Robin Named ALS-U Project Director; Fernando Sannibale Becomes ALS Division Deputy for Accelerator Operations and Development

David Robin of the Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics Division (ATAP) has been named project director of the Advanced Light Source Upgrade (ALS-U). Fernando Sannibale, presently the principal investigator of the Advanced Photoinjector Experiment at LBNL, will take Robin’s place as leader of the ongoing ALS Accelerator Physics program in ATAP and will also serve as the ALS Division Deputy for Accelerator Operations and Development. Read more »