In This Issue The 2008 ALS Users’ Meeting: A 15th Anniversary Celebration Dirac Charge Dynamics in Graphene by Infrared Spectroscopy Facility Feature: Watching Electrons Do Chemistry in Liquids UEC Corner: Thank You for a Wonderful Users’ Meeting; Vote Now Deborah Smith Moves Over to the User Services Office CXRO Scientists Star at Nanochip Symposium Cross-CuttingRead More Read more »

In This Issue Director’s Update: Looking to the Future—A Renewed ALS Strategic Plan Isotope and Temperature Effects in Liquid Water Probed by Soft X Rays Characterization of Selective Binding of Alkali Cations with Carboxylate UEC Corner: 2008 Users’ Meeting; Washington DC Visit; Become a UEC Member Submit Your Publications as Soon as Possible! Operations BulletinRead More Read more »

  In This Issue Influence of Domain Wall Pinning on the Dynamic Behavior of Magnetic Vortices Photons on Demand: A New Bunch-Kicking Mode at the ALS XRM 2008 a Rousing Success CXRO Scientist and ALS User Anne Sakdinawat Wins 2008 Werner Meyer-Ilse Award UEC Corner: 2008 Users’ Meeting; the UEC Needs New Members Compass StudentsRead More Read more »

In This Issue Polaron Coherence Condensation in Layered Colossal Resistive Manganites Electric-Field Control of Local Ferromagnetism with a Magnetoelectric Multiferroic The Completion of XM-2 Heralds a New Era in Biological Imaging at the ALS French Students Spend Summer at ALS Beamlines ALS Users’ Meeting Info Update Operations Bulletin Board ALS Doctoral Fellowship Application Deadline ExtendedRead More Read more »

In This Issue Director’s Update: High Praise for the ALS in BES Triennial Review Report Slow Dynamics of Orbital Domains in a Manganite Looking at Transistor Gate Oxide Formation In Real Time Facilities Feature: A Swiss Army Knife with a 4-Micron Blade UEC Corner: Users’ Meeting Approaches; Contact Your Local Representative 2008 ALS Users’ Meeting:Read More Read more »

In This Issue Director’s Update: The ALS Moves Forward Solving the Unsolvable: The Nanostructure of Gold at 1.1 Å Resolution A Key Enzyme to the Potency of an Anticancer Agent ALS Detector Development Update Daniel Chemla Remembered BIW08 Brings Beam Diagnostics and Instrumentation Community Together Report on NUFO Annual Meeting: April 24–25, 2008 Call forRead More Read more »

In This Issue Electronic Structure of Cobalt Nanocrystals Suspended in Liquid The Iron Spin Transition in the Earth’s Lower Mantle Structure of Synaptic Connectors Solved Status of the User Support Building and Berkeley Lab Guest House Projects UEC Corner: Users’ Meeting Update New Pressure Record Set at the ALS Operations Bulletin Board Memorial Service forRead More Read more »

In This Issue In Memoriam: Daniel Chemla Director’s Update: The BES Review Committee Comes to the ALS Substrate-Induced Band-Gap Opening in Epitaxial Graphene The ALS X-Ray Streak Camera: Bringing the Ultrafast and the Ultrasmall into Focus Formation of Metallic Copper Nanoparticles at the Soil-Root Interface MERLIN Beamline Receives First Light Paulo Monteiro Wins KAUST GlobalRead More Read more »

In This Issue Director’s Update: SAC Meeting, the Budget, BES Review, and Beyond The Biological Implications of the PP2A Crystal Structure Important Top-Off Progress UEC Corner: Introducing the 2008 Committee SAC Year-End Review and BES Dry Run News Links How cagey electrons keep hydrated Researchers uncover key trigger for potent cancer-fighting marine product First lookRead More Read more »

Contents Diamondoid monolayers as monochromatic electron source A first look at yeast fatty acid synthase UEC Corner: The votes are in! ALS scientists honored ALSNews survey results Call for general user proposals: Due January 15, 2008 The 2006 ALS Activity Report is now available ALSNews holiday schedule News Links Brightening science’s future University of ColoradoRead More Read more »