Program

The activities scheduled over this multi-day event provide many opportunities to interact with colleagues and discuss current/future capabilities and science.  In addition to the plenary session activities on September 28, several parallel workshops are being planned on September 27 and 29.

Registration at 7:30 am each day in SUSB 053 lobby.

Wednesday, September 27th Workshops:

Morning Sessions

• First Experiments for LCLS-II: From Early Science to the PRP
• Additive Manufacturing
• Probing Structure and Chemistry of Surfaces using Hard X-ray Methods
• New Tools for Macromolecular Structure Determination at Physiological Temperatures

Afternoon Sessions

• Accelerator Performance Developments
• Feature Extraction for LCLS-II
• Ultrasensitive Electronic Structure Detection in (Bio)Chemistry and Catalysis

Thursday, September 28th Plenary Session: 

• Welcome and Updates from SLAC, LCLS, SSRL and DOE BES (live stream of plenary session talks)
  • Open Q&A Discussion with User Facility Directors
• Invited Talks
  • Henry Chapman, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
  • Serena DeBeer, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion
  • Malcom McMahon, University of Edinburgh
  • Susan White-DePace, Society for Science at User Research Facilities (SSURF)
• Young Investgator Talks and Award Presentations
  • LCLS Young Investigator Award
    • Kasper Kjaer, PULSE Institute at SLAC and Stanford University/Lund University/Technical University of Denmark: Mapping molecular excited state electronic and structural dynamics with the LCLS
  • SSRL William E. and Diane M. Spicer Young Investigator Award
    • Kathryn Hastie, The Scripps Research Institute:  Structural basis for antibody-mediated neutralization of Lassa virus
  • SSRL Melvin P. Klein Scientific Development Award
    • Suhas Kumar, Hewlett Packard Enterprise:  Using a synchrotron to understand nanoelectronics and design futuristic computers
  • SSRL Farrel Lytle Award
    • Matthew Latimer, SSRL
  • Joe Wong Outstanding User Science Poster Award Winners
• 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
• User Science 'Blitz', Poster Session and Reception
• Exhibitors of accelerator and lightsource-related equipment, supplies or services

Friday, September 29th Workshops:

Morning Sessions

• Computational Workflows for X-Ray Science with Machine Learning
• Detectors for Photon Science
• Chemical Dynamics

Afternoon Sessions

• Advanced X-ray Spectroscopies:  Connecting Theoretical Simulations and Experiment
• Coherent Diffractive Imaging at LCLS
• Hands-on Data Analysis Workshop for LCLS
• Scientific Opportunities using Ultrafast Electron Diffraction (UED)