Alex Frañó, the vice chair of the Users’ Executive Committee (UEC) for 2019, reports on the most recent UEC meeting, discusses a letter of support for light source facilities, and announces a new communication tool for users. Read more »
April 2019 Message from the UEC
Fanny Rodolakis, the chair of the Users’ Executive Committee (UEC) for 2019, reports on the most recent UEC meeting and calls for speaker suggestions for this year’s User Meeting. Read more »
March 2019 Message from the UEC
Fanny Rodolakis, the chair of the Users’ Executive Committee (UEC) for 2019, reports on the most recent UEC meeting and calls for workshop and tutorial suggestions for this year’s User Meeting. Read more »
February 2019 Message from the UEC
Fanny Rodolakis, the chair of the Users’ Executive Committee (UEC) for 2019, reports on the most recent UEC meeting and calls for speaker suggestions for this year’s User Meeting. Read more »
UEC Chair Fanny Rodolakis
Fanny Rodolakis, the chair of the Users’ Executive Committee (UEC) for 2019, gives a preview of the UEC’s plans for the year, including the User Meeting. The UEC encourages users to submit general feedback and suggest speakers for this year’s User Meeting. Read more »
New UEC Members for 2019
Welcome to the new Users’ Executive Committee members for 2019! Emma Anquillare (Student Representative, Boston University and Berkeley Lab), Clemens Heske (UNLV and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Johanna Nelson Weker (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), and Antoine Wojdyla (ALS-U) will be joining the UEC in January. Read more »
UEC Update from the 2018 User Meeting
Contact: Will Chueh, UEC Chair One of the main goals of the Users’ Executive Committee (UEC) this year was to act on the feedback received from participants in last year’s User Meeting. This year’s meeting chairs, Jennifer Ciezak-Jenkins, Alex Frañó, and Michael Jacobs, and the rest of the UEC worked hard to enhance the annualRead More Read more »
Bob Gassaway Receives 2018 Tim Renner User Services Award
Bob Gassaway was awarded the 2018 Tim Renner User Services Award for his longstanding commitment to simultaneously supporting the ALS user community and advancing electrical safety at the ALS. Gassaway is an electronics engineering technologist who has been at Berkeley Lab for 30 years. Read more »
2018 ALS User Meeting Highlights
Past, present, and future converged at the 2018 ALS User Meeting, where attendees celebrated the 25th anniversary of first light and CD-1 approval of the ALS Upgrade project. Planned with the next generation of users in mind, this year’s meeting emphasized tutorials on a wide variety of ALS techniques for both new and seasoned users. 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 »
