| 08:00 | Registration | PSB120 |
Morning Session 8:30am - 12pm | ||
| 08:30 | Vice Provost for Research, Gary Koretzky | PSB120 & Zoom |
| 08:35 | Director Welcome & CHESS Overview - Joel Brock, Director of CHESS | PSB120 & Zoom |
| 08:55 | CESR Accelerator Update - Jim Shanks, Accelerator Scientist | PSB120 & Zoom |
| 09:20 | Center for High Energy X-ray Sciences at CHESS, CHEXS Update - Jacob Ruff, Director of CHEXS | PSB120 & Zoom |
| 09:45 | BREAK | Atrium |
| 10:00 | Materials Solutions Network at CHESS, MSN-C Update - Arthur Woll, Director of MSN-C | PSB120 & Zoom |
| 10:25 | Macromolecular Crystallography at CHESS, MacCHESS Update - Jeney Wierman, Director of MacCHESS | PSB120 & Zoom |
| 10:50 | High Magnetic Field (HMF) beamline update - Louise Debefve, CHESS Staff Scientist | PSB120 & Zoom |
| 11:05 | X-rays for Life, Environmental, Agricultural, and Plant Sciences (X-LEAP) beamline update - Louisa Smieska | PSB120 & Zoom |
| 11:20 | BREAK | Atrium |
| 11:30 | Recognition: Student Paper Prize Award and Presentation - TBD | PSB120 & Zoom |
| 12:00 | LUNCH | Not Provided |
Afternoon Session | ||
| 13:00 | "X-ray Spectroscopic Characterization of Soluble Methane Monooxygenase" - Olivia McCubbin Stepanic, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion | PSB120 & Zoom |
| 13:30 | "A deep dive into ether lipids and membrane mechanics" - Jacob Winnikoff, Postdoctoral Scholar, Harvard University Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology | PSB120 & Zoom |
| 14:00 | "Anomalous charge order in frustrated superconductors" - Stephen Wilson, Professor, Materials Department University of California, Santa Barbara | PSB120 & Zoom |
| 14:30 | BREAK | |
| 14:45 | Alice Fergerson, Princeton University | PSB120 & Zoom |
| 15:15 | "Investigating reaction pathways of condensed phase thermites using time-resolved x-ray diffraction" - Dr. Amee Polk, Research Chemical Engineer, DEVCOM CBC | PSB120 & Zoom |
| 15:45 | "Noninvasive composition analysis of ancient Roman silver coins" - Louisa Smieska, XLEAP project scientist and EASL co-chair, CHESS & Kelly Elizabeth Nygren, Ph.D., Staff Scientist, Structural Materials Lead, CHESS | PSB120 & Zoom |
| 16:15 | BREAK | |
| 16:30 | Poster Session | Virtual/Zoom |
| 17:30 | Adjourn | |
2026 CHESS User Meeting - Agenda
