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Updated November 16, 2005		  

Agenda

Slides of presentations, where available, are in Portable Document Format (PDF).

Thursday, October 20
  7:30-8:30 a.m. Registration : : Coffee : : Continental Breakfast
  8:00 a.m. Shuttle bus service from Hotel Durant to Building 50 Auditorium

Welcome Session and General Updates
Session Chair: Greg Denbeaux, University at Albany
  8:30 a.m. Welcome
Steven Chu, Berkeley Lab
  8:35 a.m. ALS Update (PDF)
Janos Kirz, Berkeley Lab
  9:20 a.m. Washington Update (PDF)
Mike Lubell, American Physical Society
  9:35 a.m. Perspectives from Washington (PDF)
Pat Dehmer, DOE
  10:15 a.m. Break

Facility Update and Town Hall Meeting
Session Chair: Ed Westbrook, Molecular Biology Consortium

  10:30 a.m. ALS Accelerator Update (PDF)
Neville Smith and Christoph Steier, Berkeley Lab
  11:05 a.m. New Guidelines for Guest Processing at the ALS
Gary Krebs, Berkeley Lab
  11:15 a.m. Town Hall Meeting
Greg Denbeaux, Chair UEC
  12:00 p.m. Lunch : : Vendor Exhibits
ALS Patio and Exhibitors' Tent

Keynote Addresses
Session Chair: Clemens Heske, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

  1:15 p.m. The Molecular Foundry (PDF)
Jeffrey Bokor, Berkeley Lab
  1:55 p.m. Photoemission Study of Complex Materials
Z.-X. Shen, Stanford University
  2:35 p.m. Ultrafast X-Ray Science at the ALS: Recent Results and Future Plans
Robert Schoenlein, Berkeley Lab
  3:15 p.m. Break

ALS Science Highlights
Session Chair: Tony van Buuren, LLNL
  3:35 p.m. Synchrotron Photoionization Mass Spectrometry for Investigation of Combustion Chemistry (PDF)
Nils Hansen, Sandia National Laboratories
  3:55 p.m. The Metallic Groundstate of Colossal Magnetoresistive Layered Manganites
Norman Mannella, Berkeley Lab/SLAC
  4:15 p.m. Structure of SARS Coronavirus Spike Receptor-Binding Domain Complexed with Receptor (PDF)
Fang Li, Harvard Medical School

Poster Session :: Student Poster Competition :: Reception for Exhibitors
  4:30 p.m. ALS Patio, Exhibitors' Tent, and Building 7
  7:00 p.m Shuttle bus service to Hotel Durant, BART, and downtown Berkeley.

Public Science Lecture

  7:15 p.m. The Magic of Magnetism: From Physical Attraction to Spin Doctors (.ram file)
Joachim Stöhr, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
(Building 50 Auditorium)
  8:30 p.m. Shuttle bus service to Hotel Durant, BART, and downtown Berkeley.

 

Friday, October 21
  7:30-8:30 a.m. Registration : : Coffee : : Continental Breakfast
  8:00 a.m. Shuttle bus service from Hotel Durant to Building 50 Auditorium

ALS Science Highlights
Session Chair: Dennis Lindle, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

  8:30 a.m. Recent Breakthroughs at the ALS and Future Opportunities in Pump-Probe Experiments for AMO Physics
François Wuilleumier, Université Paris-Sud
  9:00 a.m. In Situ Probing by Resonant Soft X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy (PDF)
Joseph Nordgren, Uppsala University
  9:30 a.m. Synchrotron-Based Solutions to Solving Complex Biomolecular Structures
James Berger, Berkeley Lab
  10:00 a.m. Break

ALS Science Highlights
Session Chair: Corie Ralston, Berkeley Lab
  10:20 a.m. Fast Resonant Switching of Magnetic Vortex Cores
Bartel Van Waeyenberge, Ghent University
  10:40 a.m. Negative Ion Inner-shell Photodetachment and Excitation: Multi-Auger Decay and High Charge Formation (PDF)
Nora Berrah, Western Michigan University
  11:00 a.m. Temperature-Dependent Anti-Stokes-like RIXS Feature in Quasi-One Dimensional BaV0.98Ti0.02S3 (PDF)
Timothy Learmonth, Boston University
  11:15 a.m. Understanding and Controlling the Metal Impurity Nanodefects that Limit Solar Cell Performance
(Email speaker for slides)
Tonio Buonassisi, UC Berkeley/Berkeley Lab
  11:40 a.m. Closing Remarks
  12:00 p.m. Lunch : : Vendor Exhibits
ALS Patio and Exhibitors' Tent

Workshops
  1:15 p.m. See the Workshops Web page for detailed information about the twelve workshops to be held Friday afternoon (1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.) and Saturday (8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.).
Note: Mid-afternoon breaks will be held near workshop locations at the Building 50 Auditorium, ALS patio, and 90-2063.

Reception : : Awards Banquet : : BBQ Buffet Dinner

  5:00 p.m. ALS Patio and Exhibitors' Tent
  7:30 p.m Shuttle bus service to Hotel Durant, BART, and downtown Berkeley.

 

Saturday, October 22
  7:30-8:30 a.m. Registration : : Coffee : : Continental Breakfast
  8:00 a.m. Shuttle bus service from Hotel Durant to Building 50 Auditorium, ALS patio, and Building 90.

Workshops
  8:30 a.m. See the Workshops Web page for detailed information about the twelve workshops to be held Friday afternoon (1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.) and Saturday (8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.).
Note: Coffee breaks in the morning and afternoon sessions will be held near workshop locations at the Building 50 Auditorium, ALS patio, and 90-2603. Lunch will be on the ALS patio for all attendees; shuttle bus service will be available between the ALS and Building 90 before and after lunch.