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 23rd (NSLS Seminar Room, Room 2-125)
8:30 am - 9:00 am Breakfast  
8:30 am - 11:00 am Pre-workshop Consortium business  
8:30 am - 11:00 am New participants check in at the Guest, User, Visitor (GUV) Center in Building 400, 1st Floor (Brookhaven Avenue)  
11:00 am - 11:20 am Welcome Sam Aronson, BNL Director
Shirley Kendall, Diversity Office
11:20 am - 11:45 am Introduction to the HBCU Consortium Eric Sheppard, HBCU Consortium Chair
11:45 am - 12:15 pm Introduction to the NSLS Chi-Chang Kao, NSLS Chairman
12:15 pm - 12:45 pm Introduction to NSLS-II Qun Shen, Director, Experimental Facilities, NSLS-II
12:45 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch  
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Introduction to the Machine Boris Podobedov
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Synchrotron Beamlines and Techniques: Scattering, Spectroscopy, and Imaging Elaine DiMasi, Bruce Ravel, Lisa Miller
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Coffee Break & Group Photo  
3:15 pm - 5:45 pm Professors' Introduction and Research (10 min each)  
6:30 pm Dinner (Blackwell's Restaurant)  
Thursday, July 24th (NSLS Seminar Room, Room 2-125)
8:30 am - 9:00 am Breakfast  
8:30 am - 10:00 am HBCU Consortium Business Summary Gabriel Gwanmesia, Delaware State University
10:00 am - 10:40 am Soft X-Ray Beamline Proposal Lewis Johnson, Florida A&M
10:40 am - 10:45 am Coffee Break  
10:45 am - 12:00 pm NSF Videoconference (Physics Videoconference Room)  
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch  
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm EPSCOR Opportunities Teleconference Tim Fitzsimmons, DOE-BES EPSCOR Program
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Writing a Beamtime Proposal Lisa Miller, Kathy Nasta
2:00 pm - 5:30 pm Meet with Beamline Scientists, Focused Tours, Proposal Writing  
6:00 pm Dinner (on your own)  
Friday, July 25th (NSLS Seminar Room, Room 2-125)
8:30 am - 9:00 am Breakfast  
9:00 am - 10:30 am Professors' Proposed Research Presentations  
10:30 am - 10:45 am Coffee Break  
10:45 am - 12:00 pm Consortium Business (future workshops, proposals, collaborations)  
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch (NSLS Conference Room A)
Optional: Friday Lunch Seminar (NSLS Seminar Room)		  
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Consortium Business (action items)  
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Closeout