Scientific Strategic Planning Workshops

Soft and Biomolecular Materials

Agenda

Location: Berkner Hall

Monday February 11th - Berkner Room B
8:15 am - 8:30 am Check in / Continental Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am Welcome from the organizers and charge to the participants
9:00 am - 9:40 am SAXS/WAXS: Wim Bras (ESRF)
9:40 am - 10:20 am Micro-, nano-beam SAXS: Jochen Gutmann (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. and Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research)
10:20 am - 10:40 am Break and Workshop Photo
10:40 am - 11:20 am Combinatorial materials science: Helmut Strey (Stony Brook Univ.)
11:20 am - 12:00 pm Soft x-ray scattering and spectroscopy: Harald Ade (North Carolina State Univ.)
12:00 pm - 12:40 pm Lunch
12:40 pm - 1:30 pm Liquid and interface scattering: Mark Schlossman (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago)
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm NSLS-II overview and beamline development process: John Hill (BNL)
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm NSLS beamline transition plan: Steve Hulbert (BNL)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Organizer recap and open presentations from participants
Monday, February 11th - Berkner Conference Rooms A,B,C,D
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm Working groups in breakout sessions:
  1. SAXS/WAXS, working group leader Ben Hsiao
  2. micro/nano SAXS, working group leader Lin Yang
  3. interface scattering, working group leader Ben Ocko
  4. soft x-ray techniques, working group leader Harald Ade
More breakouts may be added as events warrant.
Tuesday, February 12th - Berkner Room B
8:30 am - 10:30 am Working groups present summaries to the assembly, discussion.
Open to further presentations from participants.
Tuesday, February 12th - Berkner Conference Rooms A,B,C,D
10:30 am - 5:00 pm Breakouts to draft white papers