ALS-United is an opportunity to meet the people collaborating at the Advanced Light Source and the ALS Upgrade Project. Hear firsthand how team science enables the cutting-edge research of today and builds the facility of the future. This month, we spoke with Changchun Sun (Staff Scientists/Engineer) and Jonah Weber (Electronics Engineer). Read more »
Bowen Zheng and Mary Lopez Honored for Volunteering
On April 23rd, the Community Relations and the A-LIFT teams at Berkeley Lab held a volunteer appreciation event to honor outstanding volunteers. Bowen Zheng was honored for volunteering at with other Lab volunteers the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano, at the Solano Stroll, and on his own with Meals on Wheels. Mary Lopez was honored for volunteering with the Lab at several events, including the Cinco de Mayo Festival, Berkeley Juneteenth Festival, and SF Pride Parade. Read more »
ALS-United: Thomas Gaucher, Raul Mascote, and Adrian Williams
ALS-United is an opportunity to meet the people collaborating at the Advanced Light Source and the ALS Upgrade Project. Hear firsthand how team science enables the cutting-edge research of today and builds the facility of the future. This month, we spoke with Thomas Gaucher (Manufacturing Engineer), Raul Mascombe (Engineering Technical Associate), and Adrian Williams (Engineering Technical Associate). Read more »
Local Disorder Impacts a Quantum Material’s Electronic States
Machine learning tools and experiments at the ALS enabled the identification of defect-rich regions in single-crystalline Co3Sn2S2 that link to how surface electrons move. Atom-level understanding of how the surface electronic properties of a magnetic semimetal can be tuned could guide its use in advanced technologies like spintronics and catalysis. Read more »
2026 Winter Shutdown Recap
The 2026 winter shutdown started on January 2, and the ALS returned to user operations on Tuesday, February 3. It was the shortest shutdown the ALS has had since 2018; as a result, the current user run will be the longest one since 2018. One big accomplishment of the recent shutdown was the installation of the “golden bellows” connecting the accumulator ring vacuum with the rest of the ALS vacuum system. Read more »
February 2026 Message from the UEC Chair
Welcome from the 2026 ALS Users’ Executive Committee (UEC)! As the group dedicated to representing the voice of the ALS user community, our primary role is to bridge the gap between your scientific needs and the operational realities of ALS management. Read more for the outlook on the year and be sure to suggest user meeting speakers and workshops. Read more »
How Zinc Alters Mineral Structure in Early Arthritis
Using high-resolution x-ray techniques, researchers from UCSF, the ALS, and SSRL uncovered structural evidence that zinc subtly alters bone mineral in vulnerable joint regions, revealing early changes that may explain how arthritis begins and progresses. Read more »
Shan Wu, 2026 Users’ Executive Committee Chair
Shan Wu first came to the ALS as a postdoc at UC Berkeley/Berkeley Lab. Working on quantum phenomena as an assistant professor at Santa Clara University, she uses the ALS as well as other user facilities. She treasures the connections at the ALS which inspired her to join the UEC. Read more »
Berkeley Lab Hosts Agentic AI for User Facilities Workshop
Berkeley Lab hosted a workshop on Agentic AI for User Facilities with about 100 registered participants from user facilities across the US national lab complex and European light sources. The two main goals of the workshop were to identify cross-facility patterns, gaps, and design principles for agentic AI at DOE user facilities, and ground agentic AI in domain realities and identify domain-specific constraints, opportunities, and readiness. Read more »
200 Scouts Visit the ALS
Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division hosted another Nuclear Science Day for Scouts. The day’s activities included ALS tours for the scouts. This year a record number of about 200 scouts attended. Read more »
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