APS User News-at-a-Glance

Year-End Index 2008

Issue 46 (02.11.08)

MESSAGE FROM MURRAY
-- Funding Issues, Schedule, and Steps Forward
SCIENCE NEWS
1. Featured Beamlines: Four New Crystallography Stations at LS-CAT, Powder Diffraction at the New 11-BM-B, and Mail-In Crystallography at SGX-CAT
2. Short Course on Small-Angle Scattering Offered June 28-July 2, 2008
USER MATTERS
3. Users Week 2008: Workshops, Events Announced
4. Nominations Invited by March 28 for the 2008 Franklin Young Investigator Award
5. Avoid International Shipping Panic: Use a Customs Agent
FACILITY NEWS
6. Proposal Deadline is March 7 for Run 2008-2
PEOPLE NEWS
7. Michael Borland, Al Macrander named American Physical Society Fellows
BRIEFLY NOTED
-- Grill closing times changed

Issue 47 (06.04.08)

MESSAGE FROM MURRAY
-- Renewing and Upgrading the Advanced Photon Source: A Real Opportunity for User Engagement
SCIENCE NEWS
1. Beamline 30-ID Open to General Users for Inelastic X-ray Scattering
2. BioCARS Beamline 14-ID Offers Picosecond Time Resolution, Ultra-bright Beam for Protein Crystallography
3. Annual Report and Science Highlights Available
USER MATTERS
4. Convenient New Option Unveiled: Remote Training
5. New Steering Committee Members Elected
6. Users Week Draws 650 Attendees, Features Three Facilities
FACILITY NEWS
7. Advanced Imaging Beamline Under Consideration, Input Invited
8. Partner User Proposals Summarized, New Proposals Invited for July 11, October 31
9. Cross-cut Review Set for November 5-6, 2008
PEOPLE NEWS
10. Thomas Gog Leads Inelastic and X-ray Nuclear Resonant Scattering (IXN) Group
11. Qun Shen Moving to NSLS-II
12. Personnel Changes in User Office
BRIEFLY NOTED
-- Proposal deadline approaches--July 11
-- Neutron, X-ray School application deadline June 26
-- XAFS School application deadline June 16
-- Info provided on proposal preparation for soft x-ray experiments at the LCLS; proposals due September 2008
-- Dynamic Compression Workshop, June 23-24

Issue 48 (08.12.08)

MESSAGE FROM MURRAY
SCIENCE NEWS
1. First Light Successfully Delivered to New Coherent X-ray Diffraction Microscope at 2-ID-B
USER MATTERS
2. Renewal Plan Update: Timeline, Web Resources, and Ways You Can Participate
FACILITY NEWS
3. APS Holds First Geological, Environmental, and Planetary Science Cross-cut Review
4. September 17 PUC and APSUO Steering Committee Meetings Focus on Renewal
5. Emergency Supplemental Funding Enables a Regular Schedule for 2008-3 Run
PEOPLE NEWS
6. Gabrielle Long Steps Down as Division Director of XSD
BRIEFLY NOTED
-- DOE Light Sources Coordinate Workshop Scheduling
-- BioCARS Hosts Workshop on Time-resolved Macromolecular Crystallography, November 20–22, 2008
-- ChemMatCARS Hosts Workshop on Advanced Crystallography, December 3-5, 2008
-- User Meeting Photo Sampler Posted: A Good Time Was Had by All!

Issue 49 (10.03.08)

MESSAGE FROM MURRAY
SCIENCE NEWS
1. Update on APS Renewal
2. Featured Beamline: GSECARS Beamline 13-BM-C Offers On-the-Fly Scanning with 200 Hz Imaging for X-ray Scattering in Geosciences
3. Science & Research Highlights
USER MATTERS
4. Laser Safety
5. Ultrafast Special Interest Group
6. Fellowship Applications Due Oct. 6, Nov. 3
FACILITY NEWS
7. Search Committee Formed for X-ray Science Division Director at APS
PEOPLE NEWS
8. Meet the Scientific Advisory Committee
BRIEFLY NOTED
--No Smoking Policy Reminder
--Save the Date: Users Week 2009
--Synchrotron Environmental Science Conference

Issue 50 (12.02.08)

MESSAGE FROM MURRAY
SCIENCE NEWS
1. APS Renewal: Next Steps
2. Science & Research Highlights
USER MATTERS
3. Nominations Sought for the Ninth APS Compton Award
4. User Meeting Planning Begins
5. Educational Background Info Now Required for Registration
6. The APS Publications Database: A Comprehensive Record of APS Research--With Your Help
7. Successful National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering Held at Argonne and Oak Ridge
FACILITY NEWS
8. Holiday Closing Schedule for Argonne National Laboratory
9. Search Continues for APS X-ray Science Division Director
10. Scientific User Facilities Directorate Renamed
BRIEFLY NOTED
--New Espresso Bar Opens in Building 401

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