2026 User Meeting Posters
Stay tuned for poster details for the 2026 User Meeting!
The 2026 Bay Area Joint Users’ Meeting will be cohosted by SSRL and LCLS and take place at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory September 20–25.
For more information:
- View agendas from previous years on the past years page.
- Visit the Bay Area Light Sources Joint Users’ Meeting main website.
2025 Student Poster Awards
Congratulations to our 2025 Poster Award Winners:
- 1st place: Sophie Hanson, “Mapping Hemolymph Flow Channels in Scorpion Tails: Morphological Insights from High-Resolution X-Ray Imaging”
- 2nd place: Jana Pilatova, “Microscopic algae as new emerging models for studies of organic biocrystallization and vision”
- 3rd place: Omolara Bakare, “Spin-Orbital Conversion in Resonantly Excited Magnetization”

Student Poster Competition: Neville Smith Student Poster Award
Neville Smith was the Scientific Director for the ALS from 1994 to 2006. He was known not only for his scientific expertise, particularly in photoemission spectroscopy, but also for his wicked wit. As a great supporter of young scientists, his contribution is acknowledged by the naming of the Student Poster Award in his honor, beginning in 2014.