Workshop Contacts
Kathleen Gurski
BNL-OEP
Phone: 631.344.4503
Email: gurski@bnl.gov

Kathleen Nasta
User Administrator
BNL-NSLS
Phone: 631.344.7114
Email: nasta@bnl.gov

HBCU Workshop

Agenda


Wednesday, July 18th (NSLS User Administration Office, Room 2-101)
1:00 – 6:00 pm Check in

Thursday, July 19th (NSLS Seminar Room, Room 2-125)
7:30 – 8:30 am Breakfast
8:30 – 9:00 am Welcome
Sam Aronson, BNL Director
Mike Holland, DOE Area Office Manager
Shirley Kendall, Diversity Office
9:00 – 9:15 am Introduction to the NSLS
Chi-Chang Kao, NSLS Chairman
9:15 – 9:30 am Introduction to NSLS-II
Steve Dierker, Associate Lab Director for Light Sources & NSLS-II Project Director
9:30 – 10:00 am Introduction to the Machine
Boris Podobedov
10:00 – 10:30 am Break
10:30 – 11:30 am Synchrotron beamlines and techniques
Scattering (Elaine DiMasi)
Spectroscopy (Paul Northrup)
Imaging (Lisa Miller)
11:30 – 12:00 pm Remote beamline access demo
Scott Bronson, Jen Clodius
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 – 3:30 pm Professors’ introduction and research (10 min each)
3:30 – 4:00 pm Break
4:00 – 6:00 pm Meet with mentors & focused tours
6:00 – 8:00 pm Dinner (Brookhaven Center)

Friday, July 20th (NSLS Seminar Room, Room 2-125)
8:00 – 8:30 am Breakfast
8:00 – 10:00 am Professors’ proposed research presentations
10:00 – 12:00 pm NSF Videoconference (Physics Room 111)
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch (NSLS Conference Room A)
1:00 – 1:30 pm Remote beamline access training
Scott Bronson, Jen Clodius
1:30 – 2:00 pm Writing a beamtime proposal (PASS Template)
Ron Pindak, Kathy Nasta
2:00 – 4:00 pm Formulate beamtime proposal
4:00 – 5:00 pm Closeout