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 »
Updates & Announcements
Save the Date: 2023 User Meeting & Visioning Workshops
The 2023 ALS User Meeting & Visioning Workshops will be held as a hybrid event September 11–15, 2023. The User Meeting, chaired by Yu He, Wendy Gu, and Devin Grabner, will take place Monday and Tuesday. The second half of the week will offer users, staff, and invited guests the opportunity to shape the facility’s future through visioning workshops. Read more »
LBNL Cafeteria Has Closed; Other Food Options Are Available
The Berkeley Lab cafeteria has closed to make way for a new welcome center, which will be constructed over the next few years and feature a new cafeteria. In the interim, food trucks, local food delivery, and other options are available. Read more »
March 1 Deadline for General User Proposals
The User Office is accepting new General User Proposals (GUPs) from scientists who wish to conduct research at the ALS in the 2023-2 (August–December) cycle. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2023. Applicants are reminded that they may request joint access to the Molecular Foundry, a nanoscience user facility at Berkeley Lab, to support their ALS activities. Read more »
New UEC Members for 2023
Welcome to Aidan Coffey, Whitney Loo, Alexander Baker, Tamas Varga, Leonid Sheps, Sophie Morley, and Devin Grabner. Thank you to Rourav Basak, Yingge Du, Stephanie Gilbert Corder, Eric Meshot, Hope Michelsen, Matthijs van Spronsen, and Johanna Nelson Weker for your service. Read more »
2022 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, Zahid Hussain, Sung-Kwan Mo, and Wanli Yang! Read more »
Spring 2023 ALS Doctoral & Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications Open
ALS Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships allow 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. The next application cycle closes December 9, 2022. Read more »
Vote for Your 2023 UEC Representatives
The Advanced Light Source Users’ Executive Committee (UEC) invites you to participate in the election of six new UEC members to represent the ALS community. The new members will take office for a three-year term beginning January 1, 2023. View candidate statements and submit your votes by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, December 1. Read more »
ALS Staff Honored with 2022 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 10. They include Steve Kevan, Jonathan Slack (as part of the Infant Warmer Team), and the ALS Structural Biology Beamline Team. Read more »
Daniela Leitner Elected APS Fellow
ALS-U’s Daniela Leitner has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society for seminal contributions to a better understanding of ECR (electron-cyclotron-resonance) sources and pioneering the development of the fully superconducting ECR source VENUS, which remains the ECR community technology standard for high beam intensities. Read more »
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