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Stress Test for Remote Operations at CHESS
On July 31st, all seven CHESS beamlines scheduled for user operation in fall were being fully operated by remote connection - all at the same time - sometimes with 2 people connecting simultaneously to one machine.
ACA Workshop Highlights Practical Application of Small Angle
Richard Gillillan, CHESS Staff Scientist, conducted a SAXS workshop at the ACA conference late last month. Organized by former CHESS postdoc Jesse Hopkins, and now staff scientist at the Advanced Photon Source, students learned about this useful technique and its applications from the people that have written the book on Small Angle X-Ray Scattering.
MSN-C receives renewal of funding for second year
The Materials Solutions Network at CHESS (MSN-C) has received a renewal of funding from the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) for its second year of operation.
Richard Gillilan describes capabilities of BioSAXS at the 70th Annual ACA meeting
“If there’s one thing I want everybody to remember, it’s this one statement: Anything a biomolecule does changes its volume.”
Development of new bunch pattern at CHESS for dynamics studies
The recent upgrade of the storage ring has positioned CHESS as a synchrotron facility that is well-suited for in situ studies of materials dynamics with sub-microsecond temporal resolution.
Unsupervised Learning of Dislocation Motion
Rather than analyze diffraction data with a physics-based X-ray model to try to extract structural information chosen a priori, a team comprised of researchers from CHEXS, Cornell, and NIST used the unsupervised learning technique, locally linear embedding (LLE), to condense X-ray data down to critical microstructural (dislocation configuration) evolution information.
Survey of CHESS Beamtime Proposal Reviewers
The fairness of the proposal review and beamtime allocation process is crucial to CHESS.
We polled our proposal reviewers recently to assess their view of the CHESS proposal review process.
PREM Student Highlight: Diego Soto
With summer programs moved online due to COVID-19 - the PREM (Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials) students from Puerto Rico, who would normally be visiting CHESS this summer, are instead attending online lectures and interacting with other students through Zoom. This program is supported by the NSF-PREM CiE2M – the Center for Interfacial Electrochemistry of Energy Materials – a partnership of The University of Puerto Rico, Rio PiedrasCampus (UPRRP), Universidad Metropolitana (UMET) and Universidad del Turabo (UT), and CHESS.