An Introduction to Doing Research at the ALS
Andrew Doran (LBNL)
The Advanced Light Source and similar facilities around the globe are home to experimental apparatus that tens of thousands of researchers wait more than six months to access through a highly competitive proposal process. Why do people travel so far and wait so long to do their research here? What unique insights do synchrotron techniques provide in answering today's most relevant scientific questions that are unavailable by any other means?
This workshop will feature a series of educational talks given by experts in the wide variety of techniques available at the ALS and is intended for anyone interested in learning more scientific fundamentals of the alphabet soup of acronyms we use here. From NEXAFS to PX, from RIXS to SAXS, learn both what they mean and why leading researchers flock to the ALS to take advantage of these techniques to answer questions in fields as diverse as materials science, gas phase chemistry, biology, environmental science, physics, mechanical engineering, and more.
This workshop will take place on Friday afternoon, October 16, in 6-1105.
1:15 p.m. |
Welcome |
Andrew Doran |
1:30 p.m. |
NEXAFS and PEEM Imaging |
Andreas Scholl |
2:05 p.m. |
X-Ray Photoemission Spectroscopy |
Aaron Bostwick |
2:40 p.m. |
Soft X-Ray Tomography of Hydrated Biological Samples |
Christian Knoechel |
3:15 p.m |
Break |
Mr. Coffee |
3:30 p.m. |
Photon-in/Photon-out Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy: XAS, XES, and RIXS |
Jinghua Guo |
4:05 p.m. |
X-Ray Micro Diffraction |
Kai Chen |
4:40 p.m. |
Chemical Crystallography |
Simon Teat |