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ALS Provides Immersive Experience for Summer Interns

High school and undergraduate students don’t usually get a lot of real-world programming and hardware development experience, especially not with things like neural networks and synchrotron light source beamline components. Eighteen students got thrown into the deep end with these topics during their internships at the ALS. Read more »

A New Twist in Soft X-Ray Beams

Visible-light beams with orbital angular momentum (OAM) have been used in applications ranging from communications and imaging to particle manipulation. Now, researchers have generated high-quality OAM beams in the soft x-ray regime, with intriguing possibilities for future use at high-coherence, diffraction-limited light sources. Read more »

ALS Tips Hat to 10 Years of Top-Off

In February, the ALS marked the 10th anniversary of one of the biggest upgrades in its history: the transition to “top-off mode,” which took place on February 11, 2009. To celebrate, the ALS community gathered for ring-shaped pastries (i.e., donuts) and coffee (topping off allowed). Brief remarks were given by Steve Kevan and Dave Robin. Read more »

Forum Reinforces ALS Links to Water-Energy Nexus

About 80 Berkeley Lab scientists gathered at the ALS last week for an “ALS Water-Energy Outreach Forum” to discuss the challenges and opportunities arising from a growing focus on the nexus between water and energy—two resources essential to human populations—and to explore how the ALS can help address key questions in the field. Read more »

ALS Hosts 6th International Diffraction-Limited Storage Ring Workshop

Approximately 160 scientists from synchrotron facilities all over the world gathered at Berkeley Lab last fall for the 6th International Diffraction-Limited Storage Ring Workshop. Event participants discussed both the technical challenges and new research opportunities at next-generation x-ray facilities enabled by multibend achromat lattices. Read more »

ALSNews Reaches the Big 4-0-0!

Congratulations to ALSNews for reaching Volume 400! In 24 years, the ALSNews distribution list has grown from a few hundred subscribers to over 6300 in 49 countries. It has gone through 4 designs and 8 managing editors. Here we provide a short survey for your feedback and describe a bit about how it all began. Read more »

COSMIC Ptychography Team Receives 2018 Klaus Halbach Award

The 2018 Klaus Halbach Award for Innovative Instrumentation at the ALS was presented at the annual User Meeting to the COSMIC ptychography team “for the development of the microscopy endstation at the COSMIC beamline, featuring an ultra-stable x-ray microscope, computational methods for data reconstruction, and a high-speed data acquisition system.” Read more »

Celebrating “A New Light for Berkeley Lab”

At the end of September 2018, nearly 250 staff and affiliates from across Berkeley Lab gathered to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the ALS and the recent achievement of CD-1 for the ALS Upgrade (ALS-U) project, as well as learn more about the future science that will be enabled by ALS-U. Read more »

Bob Gassaway Receives 2018 Tim Renner User Services Award

Bob Gassaway was awarded the 2018 Tim Renner User Services Award for his longstanding commitment to simultaneously supporting the ALS user community and advancing electrical safety at the ALS. Gassaway is an electronics engineering technologist who has been at Berkeley Lab for 30 years. Read more »