The operating schedule for the 2024-1 cycle has been posted. The next long shutdown will begin in January 2024 and is expected to last 12 weeks. The most up-to-date information on the current schedule and future outlook can always be found on the Operating Schedule web page. Read more »
ALS Staff Honored with 2023 Berkeley Lab Director’s Awards
Several ALS staff were recognized by Berkeley Lab Director Mike Witherell at the annual Director’s Awards ceremony on November 8. They include Ashley White, Antoine Wojdyla, Kristin Carrillo, Celena Loredo, Alyssa Brand, and Tracy Mattox. Read more »
2023 Highly Cited Researchers
Clarivate recognizes the true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science™. Congratulations to Jinghua Guo, Sung-Kwan Mo, and Wanli Yang! Read more »
2023 Summer Shutdown Recap
The ALS is back in user operations after a 12-week summer shutdown. Most of the shutdown work centered around ALS-U tasks, including installing a full arc sector of the accumulator ring. Read more »
Slavo Nemsak Receives 2023 Klaus Halbach Instrumentation Award
The ALS Users’ Executive Committee awarded the 2023 Klaus Halbach Award for Innovative Instrumentation to Slavo Nemsak for “the development of the state-of-the-art combined scattering and spectroscopy setup at ALS Beamline 11.0.2.” Read more »
September Call for 2022 and 2023 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 2022 and 2023. Read more »
Howard Padmore Elected AAAS Fellow
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced their 2022 Fellows, including the ALS’s Howard Padmore who was recognized “for distinguished seminal contributions to the technology and scientific application of synchrotron light sources.” Read more »
Winter 2023 Shutdown
The winter 2023 shutdown was relatively short. It started just after the holiday shutdown, and user operations resumed on February 16, delivering on the ALS commitment to minimize shutdown length as much as possible. Read more »
Sujoy Roy Named Secretary/Treasurer of APS Topical Group
The American Physical Society (APS) Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications (GMAG) has elected ALS Staff Scientist and Scattering Program Lead Sujoy Roy as their secretary/treasurer. He will assume the role at the 2023 March Meeting.
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Valeriy Yashchuk Elected SPIE Fellow
ALS Senior Staff Scientist and Metrology Program Lead Valeriy Yashchuk has been named a 2023 Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. Fellows are members of distinction who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging. Read more »