The ALS Users’ Executive Committee invites nominations from everyone – including students, postdocs, PIs, and staff – for the 2018 ALS User Meeting Awards. Consider preparing a nomination for a deserving colleague or group of individuals for one of the three awards. In addition to the award plaque, there will be a cash prize associated with each award. Read more »
Users’ Executive Committee (UEC) Update
The UEC has elected Fanny Rodolakis (APS, Argonne National Laboratory) as vice chair. She will serve as UEC chair in 2019. Planning for the User Meeting, to be held October 2–4, is now in full swing, and the UEC is pleased to announce a new, full-day tutorial session on October 4 geared towards introducing new users and young scientists to a broad range of ALS techniques. Read more »
Save the Date: 2018 ALS User Meeting to be Held October 2–4
This year’s ALS User Meeting, which celebrates 25 years of light at the ALS, will feature special keynotes focused on the ALS’s past, present, and future. UEC members Jennifer Ciezak-Jenkins, Alex Frañó, and Michael Jacobs are also revamping the format to include a new “tutorial day” featuring introductory and advanced sessions. Stay tuned for more details! Read more »
Dmitriy Voronov Receives Klaus Halbach Award
The 2017 Klaus Halbach Award for Innovative Instrumentation at the ALS was recently awarded to ALS Staff Scientist Dmitriy Voronov “for pioneering work in the area of advanced x-ray gratings.” The research that led up to Voronov’s award began about 10 years ago when he started at the ALS in the Experimental Systems Group with Howard Padmore. Read more »
Natalie Larson Awarded Neville Smith Student Poster Prize
Natalie Larson, a current ALS doctoral fellow from UC Santa Barbara, won the first prize Neville B. Smith Student Poster Award at the 2017 ALS User Meeting. Larson’s winning poster featured the first two big in situ experiments she performed at Beamline 8.3.2. Read more »
Congratulations to the “Science as Art” Competition Winners
The ALS Science as Art Competition debuted at this year’s User Meeting. Congratulations to the winners (clockwise, from top left): Bill Kenney (ALS), Photography, User Meeting Vote for “ALS Dome through Crane”; Mark Elsegood (Loughborough Univ.), Photography, Online Vote for “Eerie Green Glow”; Chris Jozwiak (ALS), User Meeting Vote for “Space: The Final ARPES Frontier”; and Jay Wason (Yale), Art, Online Vote for “Horizon.” Read more »
Sue Bailey Receives Tim Renner User Services Award
This year’s Tim Renner User Services Award for Outstanding Support to the ALS User Community was awarded to ALS User Services Group Leader Sue Bailey “for her leadership in developing the ALS User Portal—ALSHub—and its associated software suite.” Read more »
2017 ALS User Meeting Highlights
The annual ALS User Meeting convened October 2–4, bringing together 400 users to share insights from their own research and hear updates about the facility and colleagues’ research. The event, co-chaired by Users’ Executive Committee (UEC) members Francesca Toma and Monika Blum, comprised plenary sessions as well as 13 focused workshops. Read more »
User Meeting Live Tweeting!
The “official” hashtag of the ALS User Meeting is #ALSUserMtg. If you’re attending, the ALS invites you to use the hashtag to share photos of your experience: post your poster, your sunset selfies, or your favorite speaker(s). Report on the latest science news, meetups with colleagues, or give your review of the food! If you can’t make it to the meeting this year, you can follow what’s happening on Twitter, #ALSUserMtg, from October 2-4, 2017. Read more »
Carolyn Larabell to Receive Shirley Award at ALS User Meeting
Carolyn Larabell, Director of the National Center for X-Ray Tomography (NCXT), centered around ALS Beamline 2.1, has been selected by the ALS Users’ Executive Committee to receive the 2017 David A. Shirley Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement at the ALS. Read more »
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