SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA, USA
SAVE THE DATE: October 7-10, 2015
As we begin to plan for the next users' meeting, which has been scheduled for October 7-10, 2015, we encourage you to SAVE-THE-DATE, and we welcome your ideas for workshop topics, keynote speakers and other input!
Update on Upcoming Events & Important Dates:
- April 1: Submit SSRL Macromolecular Crystallography Proposals
- April 16: Submit SSRL Macromolecular Crystallography Beam Time Requets for June-August 2015
- April 20: Submit suggestions for 2015 workshop topics, speakers
- May 5: SUBMIT NEW LCLS PROTEIN CRYSTAL SCREENING (PCS) proposals
- June 1: Submit SSRL Xray/VUV Proposals
- August 1: Submit nominations for the Spicer Young Investigatory Award
- August 10: Submit nominations for the Klein Scientific Development Award
- August 15: Submit nomiations for the Lytle Award
- October 7-10: Annual LCLS/SSRL Users' Conference & Workshops
October 7-10, 2014
Another exciting program for the Linac Coherent Lightsource (LCLS) and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) annual users' conference has concluded. The User Research Administration team, conference organizers and the LCLS and SSRL Users' Organizations thank you for participating, welcome your feedback, and encourage you to participate in future users' meetings. View photos from the 2014 event.
2014 Meeting Highlights: The activities scheduled over this multi-day event provide opportunities to learn about the latest user research results, current/future capabilities and new science opportunities as well as to interact with other scientists and vendors of light source related products and services. The plenary session keynote talks, award presentations, exhibits, user poster session and reception were held on October 9. Several parallel workshops were held October 7, 8 and 10:
- In-situ/Operando Characterization of Soft Materials (October 7)
- Progress Toward Single Particle Imaging (October 7)
- Excelsa Quartet Concert - Kavli Auditorium (October 7 12-1 pm)
- Application of LCLS in Industrial Research (October 7-8 PM only)
- Advances in Actinide Science from Synchrotron Spectroscopy (Joint SSRL/ALS Workshop) (October 8)
- In Situ Studies of Inorganic Transition-Metal Complexes (October 8)
- International Year of Crystallography - X-ray Diffraction Success Stories (ROB A/B - October 8)
- LCLS Detector Development (October 8)
- LCLS Data Collection, Diagnostics, Analysis, Interpretation (October 8)
- Plenary Session Program (October 9)
- Directors Welcome, User Facility Updates
- Reports from Washington and DOE
- Lightsource products/services EXHIBITORS (ROB)
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VOTE before 10:30 for candidates for the LCLS or SSRL Users' Executive Committees.
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Participate in the joint LCLS & SSRL users' organization discussion 12-1 pm in the ROB. Contact the UEC to suggest discussion topics.
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Lytle, Klein & Spicer Award Presentations:
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The Farrel W. Lytle Award was presented to Bart Johnson on October 9th - Congratulations Bart!
- Congratulations to Dr. Chris Pollock who has been named as the 2014 recipient of the Melvin P. Klein Scientific Development Award.
- Congratulations to Dr. Ying Diao who has been named as the 2014 recipient of the William E. and Diane M. Spicer Young Investigator Award.
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- Open access update
- Keynote Speakers: Brian Kobilka, Thomas Elsaesser, Wanli Yang
- "Poster Blitz" for Poster Session and Reception (Arrillaga Recreation Center at SLAC)
- Characterizing and Controlling Chemical Dynamics -- New Approaches to Resolving Long Standing Questions in Chemical Reactivity (October 10)
- Looking Ahead: SAM Developers Forum (October 10)
- Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering (October 10)
- Sample Delivery Systems (October 10)
- Software for Serial Crystallography (October 10)
Advance registration ended October 1st. Limited onsite registration may be available as space allows.
See previous SSRL/LCLS users' meeting programs from 2012 and 2013.
PARALLEL EVENTS (Separate Registration Required)
- October 6-8: ALS Users' Conference
- October 7-8: High Power Laser Workshop