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New Open Access Requirements

To comply with DOE’s Public Access Plan, Berkeley Lab must ensure that open-access versions of publications co-authored by Lab employees are included in DOE’s open-access system. If you co-author work with a Lab scientist, please note that the scientist may ask you for an open-access version of the manuscript. We request that you cooperate with our scientists in a timely fashion and provide manuscripts to satisfy this DOE requirement when asked. ... Read more »

2017 ALS User Meeting Award Nominations Due July 14

Nominations for the 2017 ALS User Meeting awards will open soon and are due on July 14. Consider preparing a nomination for a deserving colleague or group of individuals for one of the three awards. In addition to the award plaque, there will be a cash prize associated with each award. ... Read more »

ALS Doctoral Fellowship Applications Due June 30

ALS Doctoral Fellowships allow early-career researchers to spend a year in residence at Berkeley Lab working at the frontier of synchrotron radiation research and helping advance state-of-the-art techniques and applications. Starting in 2017, a new fellowship track has been created to leverage the complementary capabilities of the ALS and Molecular Foundry. Applications are due June 30. ... Read more »

ALS User Forum Returns on Thursdays

The User Forum, also known as “Cookie Time,” has returned to the ALS. Every other Thursday at 3 p.m., ALS users and staff are invited to mix and mingle in the downstairs lobby over cookies and coffee. The ALS operating schedule lists specific dates for the events. ... Read more »

ALS Workshop Brings Together Theory and Experiment

On April 13 the ALS convened a workshop entitled “Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy: Theory and Experiment, Hand-in-Hand.” The event brought together soft x-ray experimentalists and materials theorists to discuss potential collaborations and areas of soft x-ray spectroscopy that would benefit from more robust theory. ... Read more »

7th International Conferences on Hard X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

The International Conferences on Hard X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy will be held September 11-15, 2017 in Berkeley, CA. They will bring together researchers from a wide variety of fields, from fundamental condensed matter and atomic and molecular physics to more applied surface and interface studies of catalysis, energy and IT device- and process- development, and environmental research. The abstract deadline is June 15, 2017. ... Read more »

Call for Abstracts: Novel Trends in Synchrotron and FEL-Based Analysis

Abstracts are requested for the AVS 64th International Symposium and Exhibition, to be held October 29 – November 3, 2017 in Tampa, Florida. The Novel Trends in Synchrotron and FEL-Based Analysis session will provide a forum for communicating the most recent achievements in surface and interface research using SR and FEL radiation from IR to hard x-rays. The abstract deadline is May 1, 2017. ... Read more »

UEC Update from March 2017 Meeting

The ALS Users’ Executive Committee met in mid-March. Topics of discussion included this year’s User Meeting and possible combined projects with the Molecular Foundry UEC. Users should mark their calendars for the next User Forum, to be held June 1 at 3:30 p.m. User Forums are an opportunity for users to learn about UEC activities and to bring up questions and concerns. ... Read more »

New ALS Scheduler Tool to Access Beamline Schedules

As part of the ongoing effort to provide users and staff improved tools to track their proposals, safety, and beam time, the ALS has rolled out the ALS Scheduler. For cycle 2017-1 and future cycles, ALS beamline schedules will be displayed through this new software tool designed to provide centralized access to all beamline schedules. ... Read more »