Program

The joint Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) and Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) users meeting 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.

The program will include several focused workshops as well as plenary sessions on the mornings of September 26 and 27. Registration opens at 7:30 am each day in SUSB 053 lobby.

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Metals in Structural Biology (S. Bowman/HWI, A. Cohen/SLAC SSRL) (all day)

Falling Walls Lab (3 PM, followed by reception)

SLAC Public Lecture:  Cryo Electron Microscopy (W. Chiu) (7:30 PM)

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Morning Plenary Session

• Welcome - Chi-Chang Kao, SLAC Director
• Invited Talks
  • Advancing Technology through Measurement Science: the Materials Genome Initiative 2.0 - Eric K. Lin, Materials Research,  NIST Material Measurement Laboratory
  • Materials and Ultrafast Chemistry - David Reis, Stanford PULSE Institute and SIMES
• Group Photo - meet on the SUSB entrance steps at 10:25 am
• Awards Presentations and Talks
  • LCLS Young Investigator Award to be presented to Taisia Gorkhover, PULSE Institute, Stanford University
  • William E. and Diane M. Spicer Young Investigator Award to be presented to Ming Yi, Rice University: The hidden world of high temperature superconductors
  • Melvin P. Klein Scientific Development Award to be presented to Chuntian Cao, Stanford University: Shedding x-ray light on the formation and structure of the solid electrolyte interpahse on silicon electrodes for Li-on batteries
  • Farrel W. Lytle Award to be presented to Graham George, University of Saskatchewan
• User Science Poster Blitz

Afternoon Workshops

​Catalysis by Single Metal Atoms: What is all the fuss about? (S. Bare, A. Hoffman, A. Boubnov/SLAC SSRL)

High-Pressure Materials, Energy, and Environmental Sciences using SSRL and LCLS (Y. Lin/SLAC, H. Cynn/LLNL, Y. Lee/Yonsei)

LCLS-II Early Science (P. Walter, A. Aquila, G. Dakovski, D. Zhu, M. Minitti, D. Fritz, B. Schoenlein/SLAC LCLS)

Machine Learning for X-ray Science:  From machine optimization to experimental planning (C. Tassone, L. Schelhas, D. Ratner, R. Coffee/SLAC)

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Morning Plenary Session

• DOE BES Update from Harriet Kung
• LCLS Update - Mike Dunne
• SSRL Update - Kelly Gaffney
• Town Hall Discussion with UEC and User Facility Directors (M. Dunne, K. Gaffney)
• Invited Talks
  • Junko Yano, LBNL
  • Peter Weber, Brown University

Afternoon Workshops*

LCLS-II Early Science (P. Walter, A. Aquila, G. Dakovski, D. Zhu, M. Minitti, D. Fritz, B. Schoenlein/SLAC LCLS)

Machine Learning for X-ray Science:  From machine optimization to experimental planning (C. Tassone, L. Schelhas, D. Ratner, R. Coffee/SLAC)

Tips to Communicate your Science

Ultrafast Electron Diffraction (UED) (A. Lindenberg, X. Wang, S. Glenzer, T. Wolf/Stanford/SLAC)

Evening Activities

User Science Poster Session and Reception

Presentation of the Joe Wong Outstanding Poster Awards

Friday, September 28, 2018

Workshops

Advancing Informational Gain from Synchrotron Techniques in Subsurface Science (K. Boye, J.Bargar/SLAC SSRL, C. Dewey/Stanford, T. Kneafsey/LBNL) (all day)

Computational Workflows for X-ray Science (C. Sweeney, H. Krishnan, J. Sethian, C. Yoon) (AM)

Defects and Interfaces in Batteries Probed by Synchrotron X-ray Techniques (F. Lin/Virginia Tech, A.  Singer/Cornell, Y. Liu/SLAC SSRL) (all day)

Dynamic-Phenomena Revealed by Non-Linear Optical Spectroscopy: from IR to X-ray (L. Chen, D. Reis) (PM)

Gas Phase Chemistry from Femto- to Attosecond Physics (P. Weber, J. Cryan) (AM)

LCLS-II Data Reduction and Data Systems (C. O'Grady, J. Thayer, A. Perazzo/SLAC) (PM)

Recent Developments in Sample Delivery and Demonstrations of Common Techniques (Bill Bauer/HWI, Mark Hunter/SLAC, Bruce Doak/Max Planck Institute (all day)

Ultrafast Electron Diffraction (UED) (A. Lindenberg, X. Wang, S. Glenzer, T. Wolf/Stanford/SLAC) (AM)

User-Focused Beam Line Control and Monitoring for X-ray Science (C. Sweeney, P. Fuoss, D. Flath/SLAC) (PM)

*Note:  Cryo Electron Microscopy Workshop to be rescheduled at a later date.