Joint ALS/SSRL User Meeting Workshop
Doing Research at Synchrotrons: An Introduction
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006, 8:30 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.
Building 7, Room 211
This workshop is
geared towards students and users who are new to synchrotron radiation and its applications.
The workshop will provide introductions to the plethora of experimental
techniques available at synchrotron facilities. Each seminar will address two
basic questions:
1) Why come to a synchrotron?
What are the questions that we are trying to answer using a particular
technique, and what other non-synchrotron techniques exist, if any, to answer
the same questions?
2) How does the
experiment work? What are the techniques, samples, and equipment necessary to
address these questions?
8:45 Welcome: John Barger, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, and Andrew Doran, Advanced Light Source
9:00 An Introduction to NEXAFS Spectroscopy and its Application: Jan Lüning, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
9:30 In Situ XPS for Environmental Science and Catalysis: Hendrik Bluhm, Chemical Sciences Division, LBNL
10:00 Break
10:15 X-Ray Emission Spectroscopy: Jonathan Denlinger, Advanced Light Source, LBNL
10:45 Probing Atmospheric Aerosols with Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy: Mary Gilles, Chemical Sciences Division, LBNL
11:15 Hard X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy: John Bargar, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
11:45 Resonant and Non Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering: Uwe Bergmann, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
12:15 Lunch
1:30 X-Ray Microdiffraction: Nobumichi Tamura, Advanced Light Source, LBNL
2:00 Protein Crystallography: What's it Good For?: Corie Ralston,
2:30 Ultrafast X-Ray Scattering Techniques at Synchrotron Beamlines: Roger Falcone,
Physics Department, UC Berkeley and Director, Advanced Light Source
3:00 Break
3:15 When to Utilize Small Angle X-ray Scattering: John Pople, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory