Joint SSRL/LCLS Annual Users' Meeting

Oct. 1

• Exploring an Inverse Compton Source (ICS) at SLAC.
• Integrating Synchrotron Techniques into Environmental Carbon Science
• X-ray Spectroscopy for Chemical Catalysis
• New Directions for High-Energy Density (HED) Physics at the LCLS Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) Instrument
• Toward a Modular Framework for Lightsource Experiment Simulation
• Don't Fade Away: Saving the Vivid Yellows of Matisse and Van Gogh, Jennifer Mass (Winterthur Museum) (7:30 pm, ROB/Kavli Auditorium)

Oct. 2

• AMO Instrument Update: Opportunities for New Science
• LCLS Detectors
• LCLS Data Collection, Diagnostics, Analysis & Interpretation
• MicroXAS Imaging with SSRL's New 2-5 keV Beam Line 14-3
• Synchrotron Techniques in Metal Biogeochemistry:Â Across Time and Spatial Scales.
• Photon Sciences Seminar
• Science Challenges & Opportunities for an Advanced X-ray Free-electron laser - Robert Schoenlein (LBNL)(Bldg. 51, Kavli 3rd Floor Conference Room)

Oct. 3

KEYNOTE TALKS

• Towards a Sustainable Energy Future - Arun Majumdar (Google)
• Exploring Matter in Extreme Conditions - Siegfried Glenzer (SLAC Photon Sciences)
• Science Case for Diffraction Limited Storage Ring - Oleg Shpyrko (University of California San Diego)
• Science Case for Short-Pulse Time-Resolved Studies at SSRL - Aaron Lindenberg (Stanford PULSE Institute, and Stanford Materials Science and Engineering)
• Novel Short Pulses at LCLS - Ryan Coffee (SLAC LCLS)

AWARD PRESENTATIONS & TALKS

• Spicer Young Investigator Award - Disorder, defects and charge transport in organic electronics - Jonathan Rivnay (Centre Microelectronique de Provence)
• Utilizing Non-equilibrium Polymorphism as an Avenue to High Performance Organic Semiconductors - Gaurav Giri (Stanford University/MIT)

• Oct. 4 Frontiers in Quantum Solids: Combining Soft X-rays and Ultra-fast Techniques - - Moved to Kavli Auditorium

• Oct. 4 Scientific Opportunities using High Repetition Rate X-ray Sources with 1-10 ps Bunch Length -- ROB A/B
• Oct. 4 Software for Serial Crystallography Data Analysis -- ROB C/D.
• Oct. 4 Early Career Scientist Forum -- Bldg. 40 Cypress Conference Room

SATELLITE EVENTS (Separate registration required)

• Oct. 1-2 Using X-rays to Study Cultural Heritage. Organizers: Marc Walton (The Getty Conservation Institute), Apurva Mehta (SSRL). Register at: http://ceramics.org/meetings/aacs-workshop
• Oct. 1-2Â High Power Laser Workshop: Part I-New Directions for High-Energy Density Physics at the Matter in Extreme Conditions Instrument (Joint with Users' Conference)
• Part II-Frontiers of High-Power Laser-Matter Interactions
• Organizers: Siegfried Glenzer (SIMES), Roger Falcone (LBNL), Stefan Hau-Riege (LLNL). Register at http://conf-slac.stanford.edu/hpl-2013/