The 2018 Klaus Halbach Award for Innovative Instrumentation at the ALS was presented at the annual User Meeting to the COSMIC ptychography team “for the development of the microscopy endstation at the COSMIC beamline, featuring an ultra-stable x-ray microscope, computational methods for data reconstruction, and a high-speed data acquisition system.” Read more »
Zahid Hussain and Ashley White to Be Honored by Professional Societies
Zahid Hussain, recently retired deputy for the former ALS Scientific Support Group, will receive the American Physical Society’s Joseph F. Keithley Award for Advances in Measurement Science in Spring 2019. Ashley White, ALS communications director, will be presented the Materials Research Society’s Woody White Service Award at the Fall 2018 meeting.
Celebrating “A New Light for Berkeley Lab”
At the end of September 2018, nearly 250 staff and affiliates from across Berkeley Lab gathered to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the ALS and the recent achievement of CD-1 for the ALS Upgrade (ALS-U) project, as well as learn more about the future science that will be enabled by ALS-U. Read more »
ALS-U Project Receives CD-1 Approval
The ALS Upgrade (ALS-U) project has received federal approval (CD-1) to proceed with preliminary design, planning, and R&D work. This major upgrade will boost the brightness and coherent flux of ALS soft x-ray beams at least a hundredfold, enabling transformative science that cannot be performed on any existing or planned light source in the world. Read more »
Mike Martin and Hendrik Ohldag Named 2018 APS Fellows
Two ALS scientists have been named Fellows of the American Physical Society. Mike Martin, a senior scientist and operations lead for the Photon Science Group is recognized “for the advancement of synchrotron infrared spectroscopy including the development of synchrotron infrared nanospectroscopy and 3D FTIR tomography.” Hendrik Ohldag, a staff scientist who joined the ALS earlier this month, is recognized “for contributions to unique insight into complex magnetic materials with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution using novel x-ray techniques.” Read more »
Final Registration Reminder for the ALS User Meeting, October 2-4
Online registration for this year’s User Meeting closes Thursday, September 27. This year’s event features an exciting new format designed especially with students and early career scientists in mind. We will also celebrate the ALS’s 25th anniversary with retrospective talks about how the ALS was built and how our science has evolved over time. Read more »
ALS in the News (September 2018)
ALS Introduces New Organizational Structure for Science
The ALS has recently reorganized its scientific structure. The newly formed Photon Science Group will encompass science, operations, and development related to beamlines. A separate Science Council and groups organized around cross-cutting science thrusts will advise ALS management on strategy, launch new initiatives, and form collaborations. Read more »
ALS in the News (August 2018)
- Powerful beams of infrared light could probe cells, diagnose diseases
- Director’s Achievement Awards announced
- High-performance computing enables record-breaking ptychographic imaging at the ALS
- Oxygen release and oxygen redox
- Purdue students tour ALS
- Facebook Live event features science at the Advanced Light Source
- 2018 Berkeley Lab Physics Photowalk winners announced
Register Today for the ALS User Meeting, October 2-4
The User Meeting early registration deadline of September 16 is fast approaching. This year’s event features an exciting new format designed especially with students and early career scientists in mind. We will also celebrate the ALS’s 25th anniversary with retrospective talks about how the ALS was built and how our science has evolved over time. Read more »
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