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2001 NSLS Users' Meeting

Schedule of Events


Monday, May 21
Starts Ends Event Location
7:00 a.m. Registration Office opens Berkner Hall, Rm D
7:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Forum: Need for Advanced Detector Development for Synchrotron Radiation, D. Peter Siddons (BNL/NSLS) Berkner Hall, Rm B
9:00 a.m. Workshop: Environmental Molecular Sciences, Richard Reeder (SUNY Stony Brook) and Tony Lanzirotti (Univ. of Chicago) Chemistry, Bldg 555 - Hamilton Rm
9:00 a.m. Workshop: Synchrotron Techniques for Catalytic Studies, Jingguang Chen (Univ. of Delaware) Biology, Bldg 463 - Large Seminar Rm.
9:00 a.m. Workshop: Frontiers in Structural Biology at High-Brightness X-Ray Sources, Mike Becker and Lonny Berman (BNL) Physics, Bldg 510 - Large Seminar Rm
11:00 a.m. 12 noon Tour of the NSLS NSLS Building 725
12 noon 1:00 p.m. Lunch for Workshop Attendees At Workshop Locations
5:00 p.m. Workshops conclude At Workshop Locations
5:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Welcoming Reception Berkner Hall, Lobby
5:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Vendor & Equipment Exhibit Berkner Hall, Lobby
5:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Poster Session Berkner Hall, Rm B
8:00 p.m. Registration Office closes Berkner Hall, Rm D
Tuesday, May 22
7:30 a.m. Registration Office opens Berkner Hall, Rm D
8:00 a.m. Vendor & Equipment Exhibit opens Berkner Hall, Lobby
8:00 a.m. Poster Session opens Berkner Hall, Rm B
Simon Bare
UOP LLC
Chair, 2001 Annual Users' Meeting Planning Committee
Chair-Elect, User' Executive Committee, 2001-02
Morning Session Moderator (8:30 a.m. to 9:55 a.m.)
8:30 a.m. 8:35 a.m. Main Meeting Opening Remarks (John Marburger, BNL Director) Berkner Hall, Auditorium
8:35 a.m. 8:50 a.m. "Lab Overview," John Marburger, BNL Director Berkner Hall, Auditorium
8:50 a.m. 9:15 a.m. "The DOE Nanoscience Initiative: Rethinking Brookhaven and its Industry and University Partners," Richard Osgood, Jr., Assistant Laboratory Director for Basic Energy Sciences/BNL Berkner Hall, Auditorium
9:15 a.m. 9:40 a.m. "News and Perspectives at BES," Pat Dehmer, Assoc. Director of Science for Basic Energy Sciences/DOE (Introduction by R. Osgood) Berkner Hall, Auditorium
9:40 a.m. 9:55 a.m. "Initial Perspectives and NSLS Update," Steve Dierker, Chairman/NSLS Berkner Hall, Auditorium
9:55 a.m. 10:25 a.m. Coffee Break Berkner Hall, Lobby
10:00 a.m. 10:10 a.m. Planning Committee photo Berkner Hall, outside front
Mark Chance
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Chair, Users' Executive Committee, 2000-01
Late Morning Session Moderator (10:25 a.m. to 12:25 p.m.)
10:25 a.m. 11:10 a.m. Keynote Address: "Beyond Silicon CMOS" Jane "Xan" Alexander, Acting Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Berkner Hall, Auditorium
11:10 a.m. 11:40 a.m. "Federal Agency Partnerships for Tools for Structural Biology," Judith Vaitukaitis, Director of the National Center for Research Resources NCRR/NIH (Introduction byMark Chance) Berkner Hall, Auditorium
11:40 a.m. 12:10 a.m. "Nanoscale Science and Engineering at NSF" Thomas Weber, Director of Division of Materials Research/NSF Berkner Hall, Auditorium
12:10 a.m. 12:25 a.m. "Development of Small Gap Undulator Technology at the NSLS," Mark Chance, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Berkner Hall, Auditorium
12:25 p.m. 12:45 p.m. UEC Elections Berkner Hall, Lobby
12:45 p.m. 1:45 p.m. Lunch Berkner Hall, outdoors
Leemor Joshua-Torr
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Early Afternoon Session Moderator (1:45 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.)
1:45 p.m. 2:00 p.m. "Source Development at the NSLS," Samuel Krinsky, Deputy Chair (NSLS) Berkner Hall, Auditorium
2:00 p.m. 2:30 pm "Photoinjected Energy Recovery Linac (PERL) Upgrade for the NSLS," Ilan Ben-Zvi (NSLS/ATF) Berkner Hall, Auditorium
2:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m. "Structural Studies of Prokaryotic RNA Polymerase," Seth Darst, Rockefeller University Berkner Hall, Auditorium
3:00 p.m. 3:30 p.m. "Development and Integration of Synchrotron X-Ray Techniques into an Environmental Research Program," Doug Hunter, Savannah River Technology Center Berkner Hall, Auditorium
3:30 p.m. 3:50 p.m. Coffee Break Berkner Hall, Lobby
Daniel Fischer
National Institute of Standards & Technology
2001 Annual Users' Meeting Planning Committee
Late Afternoon Session Moderator (3:50 p.m. to 4:50 p.m.)
3:50 p.m. 4:20 p.m. "Studies of Surface Reaction Mechanisms using NEXAFS," Jingguang Chen, University of Delaware Berkner Hall, Auditorium
4:20 p.m. 4:50 p.m. "Characterization of Spectroscopically Quiet Metals: Zinc in Biological Systems," Jim Penner-Hahn, University of Michigan Berkner Hall, Auditorium
4:50 p.m. 4:55 p.m. UEC election results announced Berkner Hall, Auditorium
4.55 p.m. 5:00 p.m. Student/Post Doc Poster Contest Winners announced Berkner Hall, Auditorium
5:00 p.m. Meeting adjourned
5:00 p.m. Registration Office closes Berkner Hall, Rm D
5:00 p.m. Vendor & Equipment Exhibit closes Berkner Hall, Lobby
5:00 p.m. Poster Session closes Berkner Hall, Rm B
5:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. UEC Meeting - All UEC Members invited (including newly elected members) Bldg. 460, Directors Office Conference Rm.
6:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m. Banquet (Luau) onsite at BNL Berkner Hall, Cafeteria
Wednesday, May 23
7:30 a.m. Registration Office opens Berkner Hall, Rm D
8:30 a.m. Workshop: Advanced Methods and Tricks of EXAFS Data Modeling, Anatoly Frenkel (Univ. Illinois) Chemistry, Bldg 555, Hamilton Rm
8:45 a.m. Workshop: IR Micro-Spectroscopy: A Molecular Probe with Micron Resolution, Larry Carr (BNL/NSLS) and Lisa Miller (BNL/NSLS) NSLS, Bldg 725 - Seminar Rm
9:00 a.m. Workshop: Applications of Synchrotron Radiation in Nanoscience and Technology, Peter Johnson (BNL/Physics) and Chi-Chang Kao (BNL/NSLS) Physics, Bldg 510 - Seminar Rm
12 noon 1:00 p.m. Lunch for Workshop Attendees At Workshop Location
5:00 p.m. Workshops conclude At Workshop Location
5:00 p.m. Registration Office closes Berkner Hall, Rm D
Thursday, May 24
8:00 a.m. Registration Office opens Berkner Hall, Rm D
8:45 a.m. Workshop (hands-on portion): IR Micro-Spectroscopy: A Molecular Probe with Micron Resolution, Larry Carr (BNL/NSLS) and Lisa Miller (BNL/NSLS) NSLS, Experimental Floor
9:00 a.m. Workshop (hands-on): XAFS Data Reduction and Analysis Using WinXAS, Thorsten Ressler, (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin) Berkner Hall, Rm B
10:00 a.m. Registration Office closes Berkner Hall, Rm D
12 noon 1:00 p.m. Lunch for WinXAS Attendees Berkner Hall, Rm B
5:00 p.m. Workshops conclude