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Three SCGSR Awardees to Conduct Research at the ALS

The Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program will provide Michelle Devoe (UC Berkeley), Abraham Lewis Levitan (MIT), and Dayne Yoshiki Sasaki (UC Davis) with supplemental awards to conduct research at the ALS in areas that address scientific challenges central to the Office of Science mission. Read more »

Kenneth Goldberg Named 2022 Optica Fellow

Kenneth Goldberg, a staff scientist at the ALS and with the ALS-U Project, has been elected a 2022 Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA). His recognition is “for seminal contributions to the development of x-ray optics for applications requiring coherent light.” Read more »

Six SCGSR Awardees to Conduct Research at the ALS

The Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program will provide Quinn Carvalho (Oregon State), Collin Foster (UIUC), Suzanne Mulligan (UNLV), Nicholas Russo (Boston Univ.), Buck Scougale (Univ. Wyoming), and Lauren Vallez (Stanford) with supplemental awards to conduct research at the ALS in areas that address scientific challenges central to the Office of Science mission. Read more »

APS and R&D 100 Awards Recognize Wanli Yang

Congratulations to ALS senior scientist Wanli Yang, who was recently elected a fellow of the American Physical Society and was part of a Berkeley Lab team led by Wei Tong that received a 2021 R&D 100 Award for a novel cathode material for next-generation lithium-ion batteries. Read more »

2021 Berkeley Lab Director’s Award Laureates

Congratulations to Photon Science Development Lead Howard Padmore, Mechanical Technician Monroe Thomas, Photon Science Operations Group Lead Mike Martin, and the Center for X-Ray Optics, who will be honored with Berkeley Lab Director’s Awards. Tune in to the award ceremony on November 18 at 12:00 p.m. PT. Read more »

2021 User Meeting Highlights

The Advanced Light Source (ALS) held its annual user meeting August 10–13, 2021, co-chaired by Users’ Executive Committee (UEC) members Alex Frano and Hope Michelsen. A benefit of the virtual platform was the increased number of people who could attend; almost 400 attendees on six different continents joined the plenary sessions. Read more »

Machine-Learning Team Receives 2021 Halbach Award

This year’s Halbach Award for Innovative Instrumentation at the ALS went to a team of accelerator physicists and computer scientists who were able to use machine-learning techniques to solve a problem that has plagued third-generation light sources for a long time: fluctuations in beam size due to the motion of insertion devices. Read more »

2021 Renner Award winner Andrea “Andi” Jones

At this year’s ALS User Meeting, Andrea “Andi” Jones, proposal coordinator in the User Services Office, was honored with the 2021 Tim Renner User Services Award. The ALS Users’ Executive Committee selected Jones for “her dedication and commitment in supporting the User Office that have allowed efficient proposal reviews and beamtime allocations during the pandemic.” Read more »

David Prendergast Wins 2021 Shirley Award

David Prendergast, an internationally recognized computational scientist whose first-principles calculations of x-ray spectra have helped with the interpretation of countless experiments done at the ALS, has been awarded the 2021 Shirley Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement by the ALS Users’ Executive Committee. Read more »