Program
(Note: Wednesday and Friday sessions of the LCLS/SSRL Users' Meeting agenda will be held concurrent with the workshops listed at the top of this program)
Wednesday, October 15
- SSRL Workshop: Advanced Topics in EXAFS Analysis and Applications
- SSRL Workshop: Crystallography Made Easy through Automation
- LCLS/SSRL Users’ Meeting: LCLS Science and Instrumentation
Thursday, October 16
Friday, October 17
- LCLS Workshop: Application of Coherent X-rays at the LCLS
- LCLS Workshop: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics with the LCLS
- LCLS/SSRL Users’ Meeting: SSRL Science and Instrumentation
Saturday, October 18
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - SSRL Workshop: Advanced Topics in EXAFS Analysis and Applications - Location: SLAC Bldg. 48 Redwood Conf. Rooms C/D - Organizers: Serena DeBeer George (SSRL/SLAC) and Corwin Booth (LBNL) |
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| 7:30 am | Registration & Refreshments in Panofsky Lobby |
| 8:30 am | Introduction to XAFS - Bruce Bunker, University of Notre Dame |
| EXAFS: Statistical Techniques and Development | |
| 9:00 am | An Introduction to Some Fundamental Aspects of EXAFS Analysis: Fourier Concepts and Random Errors - Corwin Booth, LBNL |
| 9:35 am | Advances in EXAFS Analysis with IFEFFIT and FEFF - Matthew Newville, Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources, University of Chicago |
| 10:10 am | Pair Distribution Function, Monte Carlo Modelling and Factor Analysis: New Approaches to EXAFS Analysis - André Rossberg, Institute of Radiochemistry, Forschungszentrum Rossendorf |
| 10:45 am | Break (15 min) |
| 11:00 am | Error Analysis in XAS: Which Method for Which Situation? - Emmanuel Curis, Université Paris Descartes |
| 11:35 am | Bayesian Analysis Techniques: Obtaining and Using a Priori Information for XAS Analysis - Joshua Kas, University of Washington |
| 12:10 pm | Lunch (1 hr 25 min) |
| EXAFS: Modern Applications | |
| 1:35 pm | Exploring Spin-Lattice Coupling in Multiferroic Oxides - Trevor Tyson, New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| 2:10 pm | Characterization of “Spectroscopically Challenged” Metals: Zinc in Biological Systems - James E. Penner-Hahn, University of Michigan |
| 2:45 pm | Complementary Nanoparticle Structural Analysis Using EXAFS, XANES, PDF and Simulations - Glen Waychunas, LBNL |
| 3:20 pm | Break (35 min) |
| 3:55 pm | Molecular- and Nano-scale Structure and Reactivity of Biogenic Uranium(IV) Oxide - Eleanor Schofield, SSRL/SLAC |
| 4:30 pm | Application of Dispersive EXAFS to Study Subnanosecond Materials Dynamics - Patrick Allen, LLNL |
| 5:05 pm | Panel Discussions |
| 5:30 pm | Reception in Panofsky Lobby |
| 7:00 pm | Adjourn |
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - SSRL Workshop: Crystallography Made Easy through Automation - Location: SLAC Bldg. 48 Redwood Conf. Rooms A/B - Organizers: Irimpan Mathews (SSRL/SLAC) and Edward Snell (Hauptman-Woodward Medical Institute) |
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| 7:30 am | Registration & Refreshments in Panofsky Lobby | ||
| 8:30 am | Welcome/Introduction - Aina Cohen, SSRL/SLAC | ||
| 8:35 am | Automatic and Structural Genomics - Ashley Deacon, JCSG | ||
| 9:10 am | The Basics of Crystallography and X-ray Diffraction - Joanne Yeh, University of Pittsburgh | ||
| 9:50 am | Travels through Crystallization: An Introduction to Protein Crystallization - Katherine Kantardjieff, California State University Fullerton | ||
| 10:25 am | Break (20 min) | ||
| 10:55 am | Crystallization without Getting Your Hands Dirty (High Throughput Crystallization Screening at HWI) - Joseph Luft, HWI | ||
| 11:25 am | Seeing the Light (Synchrotron Radiation, Beam Line Automation, and How to Prepare for the Experiment) - Aina Cohen, SSRL/SLAC | ||
| 12:00 pm | Lunch (1 hr) | ||
| 1:00 pm | Live Demo of Remote Data Collection - Clyde Smith, SSRL/SLAC | ||
| 1:30 pm | Data Collection and Data Processing Using Web-Ice - Ana González, SSRL/SLAC | ||
| 2:00 pm | Phasing and Refinement at SSRL - Irimpan Mathews, SSRL/SLAC | ||
| 2:30 pm | The Three R’s of a Good Structure – Resolution, Refinement, and Reality - Eddie Snell, HWI | ||
| 3:00 pm | Success Story with Beam Line Automation - Dave Bushnell, Stanford University | ||
| 3:35 pm | Break (Walk to SSRL Bldg. 120 for Hands-on Session (25 min)) | ||
| 4:00 pm | Hands-on Sessions (25 minutes each + 5 minutes to switch) A: Sample Preparation for Remote Data Collection at SSRL - Aina Cohen and Mike Hollenbeck, SSRL/SLAC B: Remote Experiment at SSRL - Ana González and Clyde Smith, SSRL/SLAC |
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| 5:00 pm | Reception in Panofsky Lobby | ||
| 7:00 pm | Adjourn | ||
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Friday, October 17, 2008 - LCLS Workshop: Application of Coherent X-rays at the LCLS - Location: Kavli Bldg. 51 Auditorium - Organizers: Aymeric Robert (LCLS/SLAC), Sébastien Boutet (LCLS/SLAC), Brian Stephenson (ANL) and Henry Chapman (DESY) |
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| 7:30 am | Registration & Refreshments in Panofsky Lobby | ||
| 8:00 am | Welcome | ||
| 8:15 am | Introduction - Gerhard Grübel, DESY | ||
| Coherent X-ray Imaging Session | |||
| 9:00 am | Potential of Coherent Diffractive Imaging for Protein-Nano-Crystallography at Future XFEL Sources - Franz Pfeiffer, Swiss Light Source | ||
| 9:30 am | Photon-material Interactions under Extreme Conditions: Expectations and Possibilities for Ultrafast Coherent Diffraction Imaging of Isolated Molecules at LCLS - Stefan Hau-Riege, LLNL | ||
| 10:00 am | Break | ||
| X-ray Correlation Spectroscopy Session | |||
| 10:30 am | XPCS at the APS: Recent Results and Future Prospects - Alec Sandy, ANL | ||
| 11:00 am | XPCS and CXI Activities at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility - Anders Madsen, ESRF | ||
| 12:00 pm | Lunch (1 hr) | ||
| Coherent X-ray Imaging Session | |||
| 1:00 pm | Protein Nanocrystals, Aerojets and Electronic Damage - John Spence, Arizona State University | ||
| 1:30 pm | New Approaches in CDI: Diverging and Partially Coherent Beams - Garth Williams, University of Melbourne | ||
| 2:00 pm | Coherent X-ray Surface Diffraction: Speckle from Single Atomic Layers of Gold - Michael Pierce, ANL | ||
| 2:30 pm | Break (30 min) | ||
| 3:00 pm | State-of-the-art XPCS and Where it May Go at LCLS - Simon Mochrie, Yale University | ||
| 3:30 pm | Split and Delay Unit for XPCS at Free Electron Lasers - Wojtek Roseker, DESY | ||
| 4:00 pm | Small Presentation Clips | ||
| 4:30 pm | Summary/Conclusion/Discussions - Ian Robinson, London Center for Nanotechnology | ||
| 5:30 pm | Closeout Discussion | ||
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Friday, October 17, 2008 - LCLS Workshop: Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics with the LCLS - Location: Kavli Bldg. 51 3rd Floor Conf. Room - Organizers: John Bozek (SLAC) and Linda Young (ANL) |
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| Theoretical Challenges: FEL Interactions with Matter (Chair: Linda Young, ANL) | |||
| 1:00 pm | Multiphoton Physics in the X-ray Domain - Robin Santra, ANL/University of Chicago | ||
| 1:30 pm | Rare Gas Clusters in Helium Nanodroplets under Intense Light Fields - Jan-Michael Rost, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems | ||
| 2:00 pm | The AMO Instrument at the LCLS in More Detail - John Bozek, LCLS/SLAC | ||
| 2:30 pm | Break (30 min) | ||
| Scientific Opportunities and Technical Challenges in FEL-driven AMO Science (Chair: John Bozek, LCLS/SLAC) | |||
| 3:00 pm | Atomic and Molecular Physics with FELS: First Results from FLASH and Perspectives towards the X-ray Regime - Joachim Ullrich, Max-Planck-Insitut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg; Max-Planck Advanced Study Group at the Center for FEL Sciences, CFEL, Hamburg | ||
| 3:30 pm | Atomic, Molecular, Cluster and Chemical Physics at the LCLS - Nora Berrah, Western Michigan University | ||
| 4:00 pm | Laser Pump/X-ray Probe Opportunities at the LCLS - Ryan Coffee, PULSE/SLAC | ||
| 4:30 pm | Discussion and User Proposal Talks | ||
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Saturday, October 18, 2008 - Joint SSRL/LCLS/ALS Workshop: Soft X-ray Beam Line for Material and Energy Science at the LCLS - Location: Kavli Bldg. 51 Auditorium - Organizers : Wei-Sheng Lee (SIMES/SLAC), Andreas Scherz (SSRL/SLAC), Dennis Nordlund (SSRL/SLAC) and Philip Heimann (ALS/LBNL) |
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| 7:30 am | Registration & Refreshments in Kavli Lobby | ||
| Session 1 — Introduction | |||
| 8:00 am | Soft X-ray Material and Energy Science Consortium - Anders Nilsson, SSRL/SLAC | ||
| 8:20 am | How does the Consortium Plug into LCLS/Application for Beam Time - Jochen Schneider, LCLS/SLAC | ||
| Session 2 — Beam Line Design, Controls and Laser Systems | |||
| 8:40 am | The Optical Design of the LCLS Soft X-ray (SXR) Instrument - Philip Heimann, ALS/LBNL | ||
| 9:00 am | Beam Line Controls and Interface to LCLS Facilities - Michael Rowen, SSRL/SLAC | ||
| 9:20 am | Optical Laser Setup: Capabilities and Beam Line Integration - Greg Hays, SSRL/SLAC | ||
| 9:40 am | Discussion | ||
| 10:30 am | Break (20 min) | ||
| Session 3 — Soft X-ray Imaging and Coherent Diffraction | |||
| 10:50 am | Soft X-ray Lensless Imaging and Resonant Imaging Endstation - Andreas Scherz, SSRL/SLAC | ||
| 11:10 am | Biomolecular Imaging with Soft X-rays and Bio-Imaging Endstation - Henry Chapman, DESY | ||
| 11:30 am | The CFEL-ASG End Station for High Resolution X-ray Imaging at LCLS - Lothar Strueder, Max-Planck Institute | ||
| 11:50 am | Discussion and User Proposal Talks | ||
| 12:40 pm | Lunch (50 min) | ||
| Session 4 — Photoelectron and X-ray Emission Spectroscopy | |||
| 1:30 pm | Ultrafast X-ray Spectroscopy of Surfaces —Wilfried Wurth, DESY | ||
| 1:50 pm | Real Time Electronic Structure Mapping of Catalytic Reactions/Instrumentation - Hiro Ogasawara, SSRL/SLAC | ||
| 2:10 pm | Momentum Resolved X-ray Scattering of Strongly Correlated Materials/Instrumentation - Wei-Sheng Lee, SIMES/SLAC | ||
| 2:30 pm | Ultrafast Spectroscopy on Clusters - Wolfgang Eberhart, BESSY | ||
| 2:50 pm | Discussion and User Proposal Talks | ||
| 3:40 pm | Break (20 min) | ||
| Session 5 — X-ray Absorption and Optical Pump – X-ray Probe | |||
| 4:00 pm | Single-Shot X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Solids/Pump-Probe Instrumentation - Yves Acremann, PULSE/SLAC | ||
| 4:20 pm | Ultrafast Structural Dynamics in Solvated Transition-metal Complexes and Oxide Materials - Robert Schoenlein, LBNL | ||
| 4:40 pm | Ultrafast X-ray Emission Spectroscopy of Warm Dense Matter - Richard Lee, LLNL | ||
| 5:00 pm | Discussion and User Proposal Talks | ||
| Session 6 — Workshop Summary | |||
| 5:50 pm | Summary/Organization of Proposal Preparation/Next Meeting Agenda | ||
| 6:30 pm | Closing Remarks | ||
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - LCLS Science & Instrumentation - Location: Panofsky Auditorium - Organizers: Wayne Lukens (LBNL), Aymeric Robert (LCLS/SLAC), Ritimukta Sarangi (SSRL/SLAC) and Linda Young (ANL) |
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| 7:30 am | Registration & Refreshments in Panofsky Lobby | ||
| LCLS Opening: (Chair: Linda Young, ANL) | |||
| 8:00 am | Welcome/Intro - Linda Young, ANL/LCLS EC | ||
| 8:15 am | LCLS Update - John Galayda, LCLS/SLAC | ||
| 8:45 am | Machine Update and Commissioning - Paul Emma, LCLS/SLAC | ||
| 9:15 am | Front End Enclosure Update - John Arthur, LCLS/SLAC | ||
| 9:45 am | LCLS Instrument Overview - Jerry Hastings, LCLS/SLAC | ||
| 10:15 am | Break (30 min) | ||
| LCLS Instruments II: (Chair: Jochen Schneider, LCLS/SLAC) | |||
| 10:45 am | AMO Instrument - John Bozek, LCLS/SLAC | ||
| 11:15 am | X-ray Pump Probe Instrument - David Fritz, LCLS/SLAC | ||
| 11:45 am | Group Photo | ||
| 12:15 pm | Lunch (1 hr) | ||
| LCLS Instruments II: (Chair: Jerry Hastings, LCLS/SLAC) | |||
| 1:15 pm | Coherent X-ray Imaging Instrument - Sebastien Boutet, LCLS/SLAC | ||
| 1:45 pm | X-ray Correlation Spectroscopy Instrument - Aymeric Robert, LCLS/SLAC | ||
| 2:15 pm | The LCLS Soft X-ray Research (SXR) Instrument - Philip Heimann, ALS/LBNL | ||
| 2:45 pm | Break (15 min) | ||
| LCLS Operations: (Chair: John Galayda, LCLS/SLAC) | |||
| 3:00 pm | User Access Policy - Jochen Schneider, LCLS/SLAC | ||
| 3:45 pm | Beyond LCLS-I - Jerry Hastings, LCLS/SLAC | ||
| 4:30 pm | LCLS Users’ Organization Meeting | ||
| 5:15 pm | Tour of LCLS FEH / NEH | ||
| 7:00 pm | Adjourn | ||
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 - Joint LCLS/SSRL Plenary Session |
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| 7:30 am | Registration & Refreshments in Panofsky Lobby | ||
| Opening Plenary Session | |||
| 8:00 am | Welcome/Introductions by Session Chair - Wayne Lukens, LBNL/SSRLUOEC | ||
| 8:05 am | SSRLUOEC Highlights - Robert Szilagyi, Montana State University, SSRLUOEC | ||
| 8:15 am | Welcome Remarks - Persis Drell, SLAC | ||
| 8:35 am | Washington Update/User Advocacy - Mike Lubell, American Physical Society | ||
| 9:00 am | DOE BES Overview - Harriett Kung, DOE BES | ||
| 9:25 am | LCLS Overview - John Galayda, LCLS/SLAC | ||
| 9:55 am | SSRL Overview - Jo Stöhr, SSRL/SLAC | ||
| 10:25 am | Vendor Exhibits & Break (15 min) | ||
| Young Investigator Science Highlights | |||
| 10:40 am | Introduction by Session Chair - Elena Slonkina, Stanford University | ||
| 10:45 am | William E. Spicer Young Investigation Award Presentation: Structure-Property Measurements to Enable Plastic Electronics - R. Joseph Kline, NIST | ||
| 11:10 am | Melvin P. Klein Award Presentation: Studying Organic Semiconductor Thin Films: Fundamental Studies for Developing Next Generation Flexible, Plastic Electronics - Ajay Virkar, Stanford University | ||
| 11:35 am | New Chapters to a Classic Textbook Problem: The Multiple CDWs of RTe3 - Robert Moore, SSRL/SLAC | ||
| 11:55 am | Botulinum Neurotoxins Hijack Host Cell Receptors - Rongsheng Jin, Burnham Institute for Medical Research | ||
| 12:15 pm | Vendor Exhibit & Lunch (1 hr 10 min: Open Mic for Poster Data Blitz) | ||
| Science Highlights | |||
| 1:25 pm | Introduction by Session Chair - Aymeric Robert, LCLS/SLAC | ||
| 1:30 pm | Multi-Edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy: A Powerful Probe into the Electronic Structure - Robert Szilagyi, Montana State University | ||
| 2:00 pm | Small-Angle X-ray and Neutron Scattering of the Neuroligin/Beta-Neurexin Complex Reveals Its Synaptic Arrangement - Davide Comoletti, UC San Diego | ||
| 2:30 pm | Towards the Architecture of the Type 2 Secretion System - Wim Hol, University of Washington | ||
| 3:00 pm | Coherent Imaging with X-ray FELs - Henry Chapman, DESY | ||
| 3:30 pm | Vendor Exhibits & Break (20 min) | ||
| 3:50 pm | Keynote Talk: Future of Photon Science at SLAC - Persis Drell, SLAC | ||
| 4:50 pm | User Science Poster Session & Reception | ||
| 7:00-9:00 pm | Dinner Presentation of Farrel W. Lytle Award Coffee, Dessert |
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Friday, October 17, 2008 SSRL Science & Instrumentation |
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| 8:00 am | Registration & Refreshments in Panofsky Lobby | ||
| Structural Molecular Biology Science Highlights | |||
| 8:30 am | Introduction by Session Chair - Serena DeBeer George, SSRL/SLAC | ||
| 8:35 am | Pushing the Limits of Macromolecular Crystallography: The Low Resolution Challenge - Axel T. Brunger, Stanford University | ||
| 9:05 am | From Antimicrobials to Cell Penetrating Peptides: Molecular ‘Hole Punchers’ and Their Mechanisms - Gerard C. L. Wong, University of Illinois | ||
| 9:35 am | EXAFS Evidence of a High Valent Iron Intermediate in Enzymatic Halogenation Reactions - Pamela Riggs-Gelasco, College of Charleston, South Carolina | ||
| 10:05 am | Presentation of Outstanding Student Poster Awards | ||
| 10:15 am | Vendor Exhibits & Break (15 min) | ||
| Materials and Environmental Science Highlights | |||
| 10:25 am | Introduction by Session Chair - John Bargar, SSRL/SLAC | ||
| 10:30 am | Suppression of Nanoparticle Growth and Phase Transformation by Surface Impurities - Bin Chen, UC Berkeley | ||
| 11:00 am | Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms of Toxic Metals Using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy - Graham George, University of Saskatchewan | ||
| 11:30 am | How to Turn Carbon into a Ferromagnet? X-rays and Protons can Give the Answer? - Hendrik Ohldag, SSRL/SLAC | ||
| 12:00 pm | Vendor Exhibit & Lunch (1 hr) | ||
| SSRL Facilities Update | |||
| 1:00 pm | Introduction by Session Chair - Clyde Smith, SSRL/SLAC | ||
| 1:05 pm | The Future of X-ray Science and SSRL's Strategy - Jo Stöhr, SSRL/SLAC | ||
| 2:05 pm | Top-off Mode, 500 mA, Accelerator Performance - James Safranek, SSRL/SLAC | ||
| 2:35 pm | BL12-2: Developments toward Micro-beam Macromolecular Crystallography Experiments - Mike Soltis, SSRL/SLAC | ||
| 2:55 pm | New Development at BL 13 for Interfacial Science - Anders Nilsson, SSRL/SLAC | ||
| 3:15 pm | BL4-2, the Fully Upgraded X-ray Scattering Facility for Structural Biology - Hiro Tsuruta, SSRL/SLAC | ||
| 3:35 pm | Break (20 min) | ||
| 4:00 pm | SSRL Users’ Organization Committee Meeting (Panofsky Auditorium) | ||
| 6:00 pm | Adjourn | ||