Thursday, Sept 28
The Plenary Session will be held in the SUSB 053 Panofsky Auditorium and adjacent conference rooms/patio. We plan to have a live stream of plenary session talks for users and staff who are not able to attend the users' conference.
Program:
7:30 am Registration (in SUSB 053 lobby)
PLENARY SESSION 1
8:25 am Welcome and Introductions by Session Moderator - Christoph Bostedt, Argonne National Laboratory (LCLS UEC Vice Chair)
8:30 am Welcome and SLAC Update - SLAC Director Chi Chang Kao
8:45 am LCLS Update - Mike Dunne, LCLS Director
9:20 am SSRL Update - Kelly Gaffney, SSRL Director
9:55 am Society for Science at User Research Facilities (SSURF) Update - Susan White-DePace, SSURF Chief Operations Officer / Argonne National Laboratory User Programs Manager
10:15 am Break - Vendor Exhibits (SUSB Panofsky Lobby & Trinity Conference Room)
PLENARY SESSION 2
10:35 am Introductions by Session Moderator - Dave Bushnell, Stanford University (SSRL UEC Vice Chair)
10:40 am DOE Office of Science Basic Energy Sciences (BES) Update - Linda Horton, Director, BES Materials Science and Engineering Division
11:30 am Poster Blitz Moderator - Ray Sierra
12-1 pm Lunch Break (option to sign up and pre-pay for lunch when you register with seating on patio)(alternatively, lunch on your own -- can be purchased at Starbucks, SLAC Cafe, Quadrus Cafe, etc.)
12-1 pm Vendor Exhibits (SUSB Panofsky Lobby & Trinity Conference Room)
PLENARY SESSION 3
1:00 pm Introductions by Session Moderator - Blaine Mooers, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center (SSRL UEC Chair)
1:05 pm Farrel Lytle Award - Matthew Latimer honored for 20 years of beam line and instrumentation design, operation and scientific support
1:15 pm William E. and Diane M. Spicer Young Investigator Award - Kathryn Hastie, The Scripps Research Institute: Structural basis for antibody-mediated neutralization of Lassa virus
1:45 pm Melvin P. Klein Scientific Development Award - Suhas Kumar, Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Using a synchrotron to understand nanoelectronics and design futuristic computers
2:15 pm Users Discussion with Facility Directors: Mike Dunne (LCLS) & Kelly Gaffney (SSRL) - Session Moderator - Richard Sandberg, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LCLS UEC Chair)
3:00 pm GROUP PHOTO please gather in front of SUSB
3:10 pm Break - Vendor Exhibits (SUSB Panofsky Lobby & Trinity Conference Room)
PLENARY SESSION 4
3:25 pm Introductions by Session Moderator - Richard Sandberg, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LCLS UEC Chair)
3:30 pm High resolution x-ray spectroscopic studies of intermediates in biological methane oxidation - Serena DeBeer, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion
4:00 pm Serial Femtosecond Crystallography: Past, Present, and Future - Henry Chapman, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
4:30 pm Creating and Probing Extreme States of Matter at the LCLS - Malcolm McMahon, University of Edinburgh
POSTER SESSION & RECEPTION
5:00 pm Poster Session & Reception (SUSB 053 Patio)
7:00 pm Joe Wong Outstanding User Poster Session Award Presentations (SUSB 053 Patio)