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August 2023 Message from the UEC

UEC Chair Inna Vishik shares why this year’s User Meeting will be so special as well as some tips for making the most of the meeting. She also reminds users of town halls and other ways to understand and get involved with shaping the post-upgrade ALS. Read more »

2023 User Meeting Registration Now Open

September 11–15: Join us in Berkeley or virtually as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of first light and look ahead to the future! Registration is free this year, and all are welcome. To help us allocate space, please register early and indicate the sessions you’re interested in attending. Read more »

June 2023 Message from the UEC

UEC Chair Inna Vishik discusses the format for this year’s User Meeting, which will include tutorials, plenary and poster sessions, and workshops focused on long-term scientific visioning. She also reviews recent UEC congressional outreach and upcoming communications about ALS-U impacts. Read more »

Submit a Tutorial Proposal for the 2023 User Meeting

The Users’ Executive Committee (UEC) is soliciting tutorial proposals for the 2023 User Meeting, September 11–15, which will be the first in-person/hybrid meeting since 2019. We are so excited to return to the interactions, the vendors, the food, and the views! Tutorials will take place on the 11th, followed by the plenary and poster sessions on the 12th. The second half of the week (13th–15th) will be devoted to visioning workshops about the future of the facility, post-ALS-U. Look out for more information soon! Read more »

Save the Date: 2023 User Meeting & Visioning Workshops

The 2023 ALS User Meeting & Visioning Workshops will be held as a hybrid event September 11–15, 2023. The User Meeting, chaired by Yu He, Wendy Gu, and Devin Grabner, will take place Monday and Tuesday. The second half of the week will offer users, staff, and invited guests the opportunity to shape the facility’s future through visioning workshops. Read more »

Valeriy Yashchuk Receives 2022 Klaus Halbach Award

Valeriy Yashchuk aims to make the binary pseudo-random calibration tool (BPR) the internationally recognized standard for thorough characterization of a broad spectrum of topography measuring tools. Others might find it daunting to convince scientists around the world to agree on one standard, but Yashchuk is accustomed to roadblocks, and finding creative solutions to them. The ALS Users’ Executive Committee recognized Yashchuk, program lead for metrology, for developing this critical technology. Read more »

Kevan Anderson and the BCG Receive 2022 Renner User Services Award

At this year’s ALS User Meeting, Kevan Anderson, on behalf of the Beamline Controls Group (BCG), was honored with the 2022 Tim Renner User Services Award. The ALS Users’ Executive Committee made the selection for “broad expertise in control systems and software development, and professional judgment and decision-making, which have greatly contributed to the research and development program of the Advanced Light Source.” Read more »

2022 User Meeting Highlights

The ALS User Meeting was held August 15–17, 2022, co-chaired by UEC members Hope Michelsen, Yu He, and Rourav Basak. With Steve Kevan’s retirement and the approaching ALS-U implementation phase, the overarching theme of this year’s User Meeting was a celebration of the glorious past and anticipation of a very bright future. Read more »