2019 SSRL/LCLS Users' Meeting

The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) and the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) hosted a joint users' meeting at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratroy on September 24-27, 2019. This annual 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. 

New:  Meet-and-greet sessions to share your ideas and suggestions with representatives of the LCLS and SSRL Users' Executive Committees.

Vote:  Cast your ballot before Sept. 27th to elect user representatives to the LCLS and the SSRL Users' Executive Committees (UEC).              Important Note: LCLS voting period will be extended to October 11th.

The September 26th plenary session included SLAC, DOE, LCLS, and SSRL updates as well as a townhall discussion with facility directors, invited talks, awards, poster blitz, Poster Session and reception -- including presentation of the Joe Wong Outstanding Poster Awards.

Award Presentations & Talks: 

• William E. and Diane M. Spicer Young Investigator Award was presented to Hans-Georg Steinrück (SLAC/SSRL)
• Melvin P. Klein Scientific Development Award was presented to Xinru Wang (University of Arizona/Brown University)
• LCLS Young Investigator Award was presented to Matteo Mitrano (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Farrel W. Lytle Award was presented to Aina Cohen (SLAC/SSRL/Structural Molecular Biology Division)

Congratulations to the 2019 Joe Wong Outstanding Poster Award Winners:

• Advances in structure and property determination or high-throughput materials discovery using XFELs. Elyse Schriber, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 
• Time-resolved dynamics of the electrically-triggered phase transition in VO2 probed using MeV-UED. Aditya Sood, Stanford University
• 8-Hydroxyquinolines in the treatment of cancer: A key role for copper in their mechanism of action. Kelly Summers, University of Saskatchewan

Invited Speakers:  

• Stosh Kozimor (LANL):  Coordination Chemistry of Actinides
• Philippe Wernet (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin):  LCLS-II for Chemical Science

The conference will feature several focused workshops on Sept. 24, Sept. 25, and Sept. 27:

• Materials Science X-ray Diffraction Opportunities
• Metals in Structural Biology
• Ultrafast Electron Diffraction (UED)
• LCLS-II Early Science & LCLS Science Campaigns
• Automated Analysis and Control for X-ray Science Experiments
• Multi-Scale Structural Biology
• MXAN:  Three Dimensional Structures for Metal Sites in Condensed Phases and in Catalysts
• CryoEM of Macromolecular Machines
• Current and Future Opportunities in Time-Resolved X-ray Science:  Materials and Interface
  • Materials Phenomena
  • Ultrafast Electron and Molecular Dynamics at Interfaces
• Recent Advances in the X-ray Spectroscopy of the Actinides
• Development and Challenges in X-ray Spectroscopies and Ultrafast Dynamics:  Experiment and Theory
• Data-Reduction Pipeline for LCLS-II

Program Organizers:

• Roseanne Sension (U Michigan, LCLS UEC Vice Chair)
• Tim Stemmler (Wayne State U, SSRL UEC Vice Chair)
• Sergio Carbajo (SLAC LCLS)
• Makoto Hashimoto (SLAC SSRL)
• Cathy Knotts (SSRL User Administration Manager)
• Leilani Conradson (LCLS User Administration Manager)

The joint annual users' meeting will be held at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA.

We welcome your input and look forward to seeing you at the next joint SSRL/LCLS users' conference September 30-October 2, 2020!