Skip to main content

ALS

Home / Archives for ireichel

The ALS Releases New Version of Strategic Plan

The Advanced Light Source’s five-year strategic plan is now available, presenting our vision to be a premier synchrotron facility through team innovation and advanced technologies. Developed collaboratively with staff, partners, and users, the plan charts our course to deliver world-class capabilities with ALS-U and beyond, building on 2023 User Meeting science visioning workshops. Read more »

Summer 2024 Shutdown Recap

The ALS is back in user operation after more than two months of shutdown. By now, more than 80% of the Accumulator Ring (AR) has been installed, as well as both of its radio frequency (RF) cavities. A number of other tasks were also completed. Read more »

Mel Sibony Receives 2024 Tim Renner User Services Award

In celebration of his work, the ALS Users’ Executive Committee presented Mel Sibony with the 2024 Tim Renner User Services Award “for outstanding support of the ALS user community through the development and maintenance of the 4D software system and database and computer hardware at the ALS.”
Read more »

ATLAS Masterclass Visits the ALS

In late April, the Berkeley Lab Physics Division hosted an ATLAS masterclass for high school students where they could learn about high energy and particle physics and analyze real data from the ATLAS detector at the LHC at CERN. For on-site participants, the day included a tour of the ALS. Read more »

September Call for 2023 and 2024 Publications

All publications resulting from work done in whole, or in part, at the ALS must be recorded by the User Office for the Department of Energy (DOE). Please help ensure our records are complete by reporting your ALS publications, especially those published in 2023 and 2024. Read more »

Researchers from NASA Ames Visit the ALS

On May 7, a team from NASA Ames Research Center visited Berkeley Lab. Dimitri Argyriou and Ashley White gave them a tour of the ALS, where they learned about heat shield work in support of the Artemis II crewed lunar flyby mission and other space-related research at the ALS. Read more »

2024 #LightSourceSelfieDay

To celebrate the 20th birthday of Lightsources.org, people working at synchrotron light sources were invited to post a selfie at a light source on social media on May 20th with the hashtag #LightSourceSelfieDay. A number of people from the ALS joined in. Read more »

Vote: ALS Users’ Association Charter Change

The UEC is recommending establishing an ALS Early Career Award, to be presented for the first time at the upcoming User Meeting, to recognize significant scientific contributions from early-career investigators who have performed original and independent research at the ALS. To institute this award, a change must be made to the users’ association charter. Read more »

Winter 2024 Shutdown Recap

The ALS is back in user operation after more than two months of shutdown. Major achievements include the mechanical installation for the new booster bend power supplies and the two power supplies for the accumulator ring radio frequency system. Read more »