Berkeley Lab hosted a workshop on Agentic AI for User Facilities with about 100 registered participants from user facilities across the US national lab complex and European light sources. The two main goals of the workshop were to identify cross-facility patterns, gaps, and design principles for agentic AI at DOE user facilities, and ground agentic AI in domain realities and identify domain-specific constraints, opportunities, and readiness. Read more »
Berkeley Lab and SLAC Host Hard X-Ray Photoemission Conference
Earlier this month, Berkeley Lab and SLAC hosted the 7th International Conference on Hard X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (HAXPES). This biennial meeting has grown from a small workshop held at ESRF in 2003 with about 50 participants, to a truly international event, which this year attracted 150 participants from 20 countries. 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 »



