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2002 NSLS Users' Meeting

Schedule of Events


Sunday, May 19
Starts Ends Event Location

4:00 p.m.

 All attendees must check in at Conference Desk; Registration Office opens Berkner Hall, Bldg. 488, Rm. D

7:30 p.m.

 Conference Desk and Registration Office closes Berkner Hall, Bldg. 488, Rm. D
Monday, May 20
7:00 a.m. All attendees must check in at Conference Desk and Registration Office opens Berkner Hall, Bldg. 488, Rm D
9:00 a.m. . Workshop 1: "The Environmental Sciences: Synchrotrons Providing Powerful Tools for a New Science," Douglas Hunter (Savannah River Ecology Laboratory) Biology, Bldg 463, Large Seminar Room
9:00 a.m. . Workshop 2: "X-Ray Sources for Studies of Ultrafast Processes," John Sutherland, (BNL) NSLS, Bldg.725B, Seminar Room
9:00 a.m. Workshop 3: "EXAFS Studies of Nanoscale and Nanostructured Materials," Vincent Harris, (Naval Res. Lab.) Physics, Bldg 510, Large Seminar Room
9:00 a.m. Workshop 4: "Practical Aspects of Membrane Protein Crystallography: From Overexpression to Crystallization," Larry Shapiro, (Columbia Uni.) Chemistry, Bldg. 555, Hamilton 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, Bldg. 488, Lobby
5:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Vendor & Equipment Exhibit Berkner Hall, Bldg. 488, Lobby
5:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Poster Session Berkner Hall, Bldg. 488, Rm B
8:00 p.m. Conference Desk and Registration Office closes Berkner Hall, Rm D
Tuesday, May 21
7:30 a.m. All attendees must check in at Conference Desk and Registration Office opens Berkner Hall, Bldg. 488 Rm D
8:00 a.m. Vendor & Equipment Exhibit opens Berkner Hall, Bldg. 488, Lobby
8:00 a.m. Poster Session opens Berkner Hall, Bldg. 488, Rm B
Main Meeting Agenda
Leemor Joshua-Tor
Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Chair 2002 Annual Users' Meeting Planning Committee
Chair-Elect, Users' Executive Committee, 2002-03
Morning Session Moderator (8:15 a.m. to 11:10 a.m.)
8:15 a.m. 8:25 a.m. "Welcome and BNL Overview," Dr. Satoshi Ozaki, Special Assistant to the Laboratory Director for Accelerator Projects, BNL Berkner Hall, Auditorium
8:25 a.m. 8:40 a.m. BNL BES Programs Update, Richard Osgood, Jr., Associate Laboratory Director for Basic Energy Sciences, BNL Berkner Hall, Auditorium
8:40 a.m. 8:55 a.m. "NSLS Update," Steven Dierker, NSLS Chairman Berkner Hall, Auditorium
8:55 a.m. 9:15 a.m. Remarks by Congressman Felix Grucci Berkner Hall, Auditorium
9:15 a.m. 9:20 a.m. "Introduction of Keynote Speaker," Peter Bond, Special Assistant to Director of BNL, & Physics Dept, BNL Berkner Hall, Auditorium
9:20 a.m. 10:00 a.m. Keynote Address: "Science Based Science Policy," John Marburger, Director of the Office of Science and Technology, Executive Office of the President of the United States Berkner Hall, Auditorium
10:00 a.m. 10:20 a.m. Coffee Break Berkner Hall, Lobby
10:00 a.m. 10:20 a.m. Planning Committee photo Berkner Hall, Outdoors/Indoors
10:20 a.m. 10:45 a.m. DOE BES Report, Patricia Dehmer, Associate Director of Science for Basic Energy Sciences, DOE Berkner Hall, Auditorium
10:45 a.m. 11:10 a.m. "Looking Toward the Future at NSLS," Steven Dierker, NSLS Chairman Berkner Hall, Auditorium
Simon Bare UOP, LLC
Chair, Users' Executive Committee, 2001-02
Condensed Matter Research Session Moderator (11:10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.)
11:10 a.m. 11:40 a.m. "Probing the Chemistry and Molecular Orientation in Gradient Surfaces With Soft X-rays," Jan Genzer, NCSU Berkner Hall, Auditorium
11:40 a.m. 12:05 p.m. "Resonant X-Ray Scattering: A Unique Probe of the Changing Orientational Order that Underlies the Rich Morphology of Phases Exhibited by Rod-Shaped and Banana-Shaped Liquid Crystal Molecules," Ron Pindak, NSLS/BNL Berkner Hall, Auditorium
12:05 p.m. 12:30 p.m. "In situ X-Ray Studies of Materials Processing," Karl Ludwig, Boston U. Berkner Hall, Auditorium
12:30 p.m. 12:40 p.m. UEC Charter Revision Proposal and Elections, Simon Bare Berkner Hall, Auditorium
12:40 p.m. 2:10 p.m. Lunch Berkner Hall, outdoors
Caroline Kisker
Associate Professor, SUNY, Stony Brook
Publicity Chair NSLS Annual Users' Meeting, 2001-02
Structural Biology Research and Future X-ray Applications Session Moderator (2:10 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.)
2:10 p.m. 2:30 p.m. "The Evolving Paradigm for Biomedical Research," Judith Vaitukaitis, Director of the National Center for Research Resources NCRR/NIH Berkner Hall, Auditorium
2:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m. "Ion Channel Structure and Function," Roderick MacKinnon, Rockefeller University Berkner Hall, Auditorium
3:00 p.m. 3:30 p.m. "Toward an X-Ray Free Electron Laser: History, Concepts, and Visions of Science," Joachim Stohr, SSRL Berkner Hall, Auditorium
3:30 p.m. 3:45 p.m. Coffee Break Berkner Hall, Auditorium
Mark Chance
Director, Albert Einstein Center for Synchrotron Biosciences
Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Physiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Biomedical Research Session Moderator (3:45 p.m. to 5:05 p.m.)
3:45 p.m. 4:05 p.m. "Biomedical Research Opportunities at the NIBIB," Richard Swaja, Senior Science Advisor and Acting Director, Division of Biomedical Imaging, NIH NIBIB Berkner Hall, Auditorium
4.05 p.m. 4:35 p.m. "Imaging Tissue Composition in Disease: Applications of Synchrotron Infrared Microspectroscopy to Bone disease, Alzheimer's disease, and Prion-protein Diseases," Lisa Miller, NSLS/BNL Berkner Hall, Auditorium
4:35 p.m. 5:05 p.m. "Diffraction Enhanced Imaging: Principle and Applications to Breast Cancer and Osteoarthritis Research," Zhong Zhong, NSLS/BNL Berkner Hall, Auditorium
5:05 p.m. 5:15 p.m. Announcements: UEC Election Results and Student/Post Doc Poster Contest Winners Berkner Hall, Auditorium
5:15 p.m. Main Meeting adjourned
5:15 p.m. Conference Desk and Registration Office closes Berkner Hall, Rm D
5:15 p.m. Vendor & Equipment Exhibit closes Berkner Hall, Lobby
5:15 p.m. Poster Session closes Berkner Hall, Rm B
5:15 p.m. 6:30 p.m. UEC Meeting - All UEC Members invited (including newly elected members) Berkner Hall, Rm. A
6:30 p.m. 10:00 p.m. Banquet onsite at BNL Berkner Hall, Cafeteria
Wednesday, May 22
7:30 a.m. All attendees must check in at Conference Desk and Registration Office closes Berkner Hall, Rm. D
8:30 a.m. Workshop 5: "Recent Advances in the Application of Synchrotron Radiation to Catalysis," Simon Bare, (UOP) NSLS, Bldg. 725B Seminar Rm.
8:45 a.m. Workshop 6: "Combining Synchrotron Infrared and X-Ray Micro-Spectroscopy and Imaging," Lisa Miller, (BNL) and Antonio Lanzirotti, (U. of Chicago) Chemistry, Bldg. 555, Hamilton Rm.
9:00 a.m. Workshop 7: "In Situ Studies of Materials Processing," Karl Ludwig(Boston U.) Randy Headrick, (University of Vermont) and Chi-Chang Kao, (BNL) Physics, Bldg. 510, Seminar Rm.
9:00 a.m. Workshop 8: "Advanced Detectors Development," D. Peter Siddons, (BNL) Biology Dept., Bldg. 463, Large 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. Conference Desk and Registration Office closes Berkner Hall, Rm. D