This year’s ALS User Meeting brought a new energy of inspiration and envisioning of a future to come, with old traditions as well as new insights into using machine learning in experimentation. Read more »
Dula Parkinson Receives the 2025 Tim Renner User Services Award
In celebration of Dula Parkinson’s work, the ALS Users’ Executive Committee presented him with the 2025 Tim Renner User Services Award for his commitment to providing outstanding support at the ALS and helping users succeed in their research. Read more »
Martin Kunz, Nobumichi Tamura, and Simon Teat Receive 2025 Shirley Award
The ALS Users’ Executive Committee recognized beamline scientists Nobumichi Tamura, Martin Kunz, and Simon Teat as the 2025 Shirley Award recipients. At the recent User Meeting, they presented a talk on their development of the Sector 12 hard x-ray diffraction program and the cold cases they’ve been able to solve. Read more »
Greg Hura, SIBYLS Team Receive Halbach Award
Greg Hura and the Structurally Integrated BiologY for the Life Sciences (SIBYLS) team received the 2025 Klaus Halbach Award for Innovative Instrumentation at the recent 2025 User Meeting “for their pioneering work in developing the time-resolved, high-throughput, small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) technique at Beamline 12.3.1.” Read more »
Guiliang Xu to Receive 2025 Early Career Award
Guiliang Xu is the 2025 winner of the Early Career Award. The Users’ Executive Committee recognizes his work on synchrotron-based characterization of battery materials. Read more »
2025 User Meeting Registration is Open
August 11–13, 2025: Join us in person at the DoubleTree at Berkeley Marina for the Advanced Light Source User Meeting. Register by July 28 to take part in talks, poster slams, hands-on workshops, tutorials, and an exhibitor fair with refreshments. Read more »
Suggest Speakers and Workshops for the 2025 User Meeting
The 2025 ALS User Meeting will take place August 11-13. We want to hear from you! Help shape this year’s program by submitting nominations for plenary speakers and proposing workshops and tutorials by April 4. Read more »
COSMIC Scattering Team Receives 2024 Klaus Halbach Instrumentation Award
The 2024 Klaus Halbach Award for Innovative Instrumentation at the ALS was presented at the annual User Meeting to the COSMIC Scattering Team “for the development of x-ray imaging and x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy instrumentation for investigating the spatiotemporal dynamics of functional magnetic and quantum materials at ALS Beamline 7.0.1.1.” Read more »
Mel Sibony Receives 2024 Tim Renner User Services Award
In celebration of his work, the ALS Users’ Executive Committee presented Mel Sibony with the 2024 Tim Renner User Services Award “for outstanding support of the ALS user community through the development and maintenance of the 4D software system and database and computer hardware at the ALS.”
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2024 User Meeting Highlights
Another successful ALS User Meeting was held August 12–14, bringing the ALS user community together under the sunny summer skies of Berkeley, California. Over 300 participants enjoyed an engaging program organized by the Users’ Executive Committee (UEC), led by User Meeting organizers Wendy Gu, Devin Grabner, Monsuru Ramoni, and Shan Wu. Read more »
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