Agenda - Users Meeting

CHESS User's Meeting

Justin Mach and Chris Budrow

Tuesday, June 4, 2019
08:00

Registration

 Physical Sciences Bldg
  Intro to the Facility (8:30-10:00) Chaired by:  John Smedley, Los Alamos National Lab (UEC Chair)  
08:30

Open - John Smedley, Los Alamos National Laboratory,  (Users’ Executive Committee Chair)

 120 PSB
08:35

Welcome & Outcome of CHESS-U - Joel Brock, Director CHESS

 120 PSB
09:05 CESR Update / Timing Structure - Jim Shanks, CLASSE 120 PSB
09:20 Overview of User Executive Committee bylaws - Todd Hufnagel, John Hopkins University  
09:30 Break; Voting for CHESS User's Exec. Committee Members and Revised Charter of the UEC Clark Atrium
  New Capabilities (9:50 - 12:00) Chaired by: Todd Hufnagel,  John Hopkins University, (UEC Vice Chair)  
10:00

CHEXS (Center for High-Energy X-ray Science) Partner Beamlines:

  • Introduction, Guebre Tessema, National Science Foundation (10 min)
  • ID4B, Q-Mapping for Quantum Materials Beamline (QM2 ) Jacob Ruff, Staff Scientist, CHESS
  • ID2A, Photon-In, Photon-Out X-Ray Spectroscopy Beamline (PIPOXS), Kenneth Finkelstein, Staff Scientist, CHESS
  • ID7A1, SAXS beamline for High Pressure Biology (HP-Bio) and MacCHESS, Richard Gillilan, Staff Scientist, CHESS
  • ID3A, Forming and Shaping Technology Beamline (FAST), Kelly Nygren, Postdoctoral Associate, CHESS
 120 PSB
11:10

MSN-C (Materials Solution Network at CHESS) Partner Beamlines:

  • Introduction, Paul Shade, Air Force Research Laboratory (10 min)
  • ID1A3, Structural Materials Beamline (SMB), Paul Shade, Air Force Research Laboratory
  • ID3B, Functional Materials Beamline (FMB), Arthur Woll, Staff Scientist, CHESS
 120 PSB
11:50

MacCHESS partner and ID7B2, Flexible Crystallography Beamline, MacCHESS/HP-Bio, D. Marian Szebenyi, Director, MacCHESS

 120 PSB
12:05 Lunch and User Discussion Clark Atrium
  Science talks (13:00-14:30) Chaired by:  John Twilley, SUNY Stony Brook, (UEC Member)  
13:00 Student Paper Prize Announcement and Photos 120 PSB
13:05 Student Paper Prize Winner - TBD 120 PSB
13:30 "Turning up the heat on dynamic proteins with multi-temperature and T-jump crystallography."  Michael Thompson, University of California at San Francisco 120 PSB
14:00 Spectroscopy.  Richard Robinson, Cornell University  
14:30 Break Clark Atrium
  Science talks (14:50-16:00) Chaired by:  Stephen Meisburger, Cornell University (UEC Member)  
14:50 Soft Matter.  Hilmar Koerner, Air Force Research Laboratory 120 PSB
15:20 "Synchrotron Characterization of Additive Manufactured Materials."  Thien Phan, NIST 120 PSB
15:50 Discussion and UEC election results 120 PSB
16:00 POSTER SLAM 120 PSB
16:10 Poster Session and Refreshments Baker Portico
16:45 Shuttle leaves for Wilson Lab Tours  
17:00 Tours begin at CHESS Wilson Lab
17:10 Shuttle leaves for Wilson Lab  
17:20 Tour of CHESS begins Wilson Lab
17:30 Shuttle leaves for Wilson Lab  
17:40 Tour of CHESS begins Wilson Lab
17:45 Shuttle begins loop of PSB - Statler Hotel - Wilson Lab; loop continues until 18:45  
18:00 Reception Statler Hotel
19:00 Dinner Statler Hotel
20:00 Poster Prize Announcement, photos Statler Hotel
20:10 After-dinner speaker:  Johnathon Lunine, David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences, Director, Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science.  "Looking for life in the solar system:  The case for Saturn's moon Enceladus" Statler Hotel Ballroom
21:00 Adjourn  
21:00 Shuttle begins loop of Statler - Best Western - ME Wilson Parking Lot