As a member of the business administration team, Andrea Taylor is involved in many processes across the ALS—work that draws on her previous roles in hospitality. She has also lent her musical talents to our User Meetings, so be sure to check out the music videos. Read more »
Spring 2023 ALS Doctoral & Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications Open
ALS Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships allow researchers to spend a year in residence at Berkeley Lab working at the frontier of synchrotron radiation research and helping advance state-of-the-art techniques and applications. The next application cycle closes December 9, 2022. Read more »
Vote for Your 2023 UEC Representatives
The Advanced Light Source Users’ Executive Committee (UEC) invites you to participate in the election of six new UEC members to represent the ALS community. The new members will take office for a three-year term beginning January 1, 2023. View candidate statements and submit your votes by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, December 1. Read more »
Azzuliani Supangat, 2022 LAAAMP Fellow
A professor at the Universiti Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Supangat is interested in organic semiconductors. She and her student, Syaza Hisamuddin, are spending two months at the ALS working with Staff Scientist Chenhui Zhu. Read more »
UEC Nominations Due October 28
The Advanced Light Source Users’ Executive Committee (UEC) invites nominations for its upcoming election for five new UEC members (2023–2025 term). Nominations will be accepted through Friday, October 28, 2022. Membership in the ALS UEC shall be open to those users, including students, who are interested in research at the ALS. Read more »
Tracy Mattox, User Services Group Leader
The new user services group leader is coming to the ALS from our neighboring user facility, the Molecular Foundry, where she has been supporting and collaborating with users for 15 years. Outside of the lab, she is a track and field coach, yoga instructor, and children’s book author. Read more »
Beamline 7.3.3 SAXS/WAXS User Forum
We invite you to a user forum on October 11 (12:00–1:00 p.m.) to discuss the closure of the 7.3.3 SAXS/WAXS beamline three years from now, necessitated by the parameters of the upgraded ALS source, and the plans for developing an upgraded beamline at a new source point to better suit the needs of the community. Find more details and submit questions on our Events page. Read more »
August 2022 Message from the UEC
Ming Yi, UEC chair, celebrates a successful User Meeting. This year’s virtual meeting has inspired new ideas for ways to bring science to more people in the future. She encourages the user community to get involved by submitting feedback or even joining the UEC. Keep an eye out for the call for new member nominations. Read more »
Valeriy Yashchuk Receives 2022 Klaus Halbach Award
Valeriy Yashchuk aims to make the binary pseudo-random calibration tool (BPR) the internationally recognized standard for thorough characterization of a broad spectrum of topography measuring tools. Others might find it daunting to convince scientists around the world to agree on one standard, but Yashchuk is accustomed to roadblocks, and finding creative solutions to them. The ALS Users’ Executive Committee recognized Yashchuk, program lead for metrology, for developing this critical technology. Read more »
Steve Kevan Says, “See You Soon!”
After announcing his impending retirement earlier this year, ALS Director Steve Kevan has worked to ensure a smooth transition to the interim ALS management team. He shares his vision of the collaborative future of the ALS and his goal to return as a user before saying not a farewell, but a “see you soon!” Read more »
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