The 2024 Klaus Halbach Award for Innovative Instrumentation at the ALS was presented at the annual User Meeting to the COSMIC Scattering Team “for the development of x-ray imaging and x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy instrumentation for investigating the spatiotemporal dynamics of functional magnetic and quantum materials at ALS Beamline 7.0.1.1.” Read more »
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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.”
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2024 User Meeting Highlights
Another successful ALS User Meeting was held August 12–14, bringing the ALS user community together under the sunny summer skies of Berkeley, California. Over 300 participants enjoyed an engaging program organized by the Users’ Executive Committee (UEC), led by User Meeting organizers Wendy Gu, Devin Grabner, Monsuru Ramoni, and Shan Wu. Read more »
Strategic ALS Projects Reach Key Milestones
Thanks to the hard work and dedication of multidisciplinary teams from groups across the ALS, a spate of important milestones occurred over the past month, for projects involving the new QERLIN beamline, the MERLIN beamline upgrade, and a new chamber for computer-chip metrology in Sector 12. Read more »
Swarup China to Receive 2024 Early Career Award
Swarup China is the winner of the inaugural Early Career Award. The Users’ Executive Committee recognizes his work in advancing the understanding of atmospheric aerosols and biological particles through micro-spectroscopic analyses and chemical imaging at the ALS. Read more »
Kevin Wilson to Receive 2024 Shirley Award
The ALS Users’ Executive Committee will recognize Berkeley Lab Senior Scientist Kevin Wilson as this year’s Shirley Award recipient. At the 2024 User Meeting he will present a talk on using synchrotron radiation to probe the multiphase chemistry of aerosols. Read more »
ALS Computing Group Brings Machine Learning Models to Beamtimes around the World
The ALS computing team is developing tools to help users make the most of their beamtime and eliminate bottlenecks that currently exist. They have been traveling around the world and collaborating across facilities to develop advanced data processing solutions that will yield more meaningful data. 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 »
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 »
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