2017 SSRL/LCLS Users' Meeting
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Joint SSRL/LCLS Annual Users' Meeting at SLAC September 27-29, 2017
Thank you for making the annual SSRL/LCLS users' meeting a success. Over 400 people participated in one or more of the many events that comprise the annual users' meeting of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) and the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). This is a unique opportunity to gather together the lightsource community in a single scientific event that includes numerous presentations in plenary, poster and parallel sessions. Participants are able to learn about current/future facility capabilities and the latest user research as well as to discuss science with colleagues from academia, research laboratories, and industry worldwide.
A plenary session with facility updates, invited talks, and exhibits was held on September 28, with several focused half day workshops on September 27 and 29. The User Science Poster Session and reception on Thursday, September 28, 5-7 pm, concluded with the presentation of the Joe Wong Outstanding Poster Awards.
Congratulations to the Lytle Award and Wong Poster Award Winners:
- Matthew Latimer, SSRL, Receives 2017 Lytle Award
- Gauthier Deblonde, LBNL: Shedding Light on the Transplutonium Element (Am, Cm, Bk, Cf) Solution Chemistry Using EXAFS - Beam Line 11-2
- Izumi Ishigami, Albert Einstein College of Medicine: Crystal Structure of CO-bound Cytochrome c Oxidase Determined by Serial Femtosecond X-ray Crystallography at Room Temperature
- Ariana Peck, Stanford University: Intermolecular Correlations are Necessary to Explain Diffuse Scattering from Protein Crystals
Plenary Session Talks, Thursday, September 28 (live stream):
- Henry Chapman (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron): Serial Femtosecond Crystallography: Past, Present, and Future
- Serena DeBeer (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion): High resolution X-ray spectroscopic studies of intermediates in biological methane oxidation
- Kathryn Hastie (The Scripps Research Institute - SSRL Spicer Young Investigator Awardee): Structural basis for antibody-mediated neutralization of Lassa virus
- Kasper Kjaer (PULSE Institute at SLAC and Stanford University/Lund University/Technical University of Denmark - LCLS Young Investigator Award): Mapping molecular excited state electronic and structural dynamics with the LCLS
- Suhas Kumar (Hewlett Packard Enterprise - SSRL Klein Professional Development Awardee): Using a synchrotron to understand nanoelectronics and design futuristic computers
- Malcom McMahon (University of Edinburgh): Creating and Probing Extreme States of Matter at the LCLS
Parallel Workshops - Wednesday, September 27 & Friday, September 29:
- Accelerator Performance Developments
- Additive Manufacturing
- Feature Extraction for LCLS-II
- First Experiments for LCLS-II (with Update/Introduction to Instrumentation)
- New Tools for Macromolecular Structure Determination at Physiological Temperatures
- Probing Structure and Chemistry of Surfaces using Hard X-ray Methods
- Ultrasensitive Electronic Structure Detection in (Bio)Chemistry and Catalysis
- Advanced X-ray Spectroscopies: Connecting Theoretical Simulations and Experiment
- Coherent Diffractive Imaging at LCLS
- Computational Workflows for X-Ray Science
- Detectors for Photon Science
- Hands-on Data Analysis Workshop for LCLS
- Scientific Opportunities using Ultrafast Electron Diffraction (UED)
- Chemical Dynamics
The joint annual users' meeting was held at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Meeting Organizers:
- Christoph Bostedt (ANL, LCLS UEC Vice Chair)
- David Bushnell (Stanford, SSRL UEC Vice Chair)
- Axel Brachmann (SLAC AD)
- Sergio Carbajo (SLAC LCLS)
- Dimosthenis Sokaras (SLAC SSRL)
We look forward to seeing you at the next joint SSRL/LCLS users' conference in September 2018!