24th Annual SSRL Users’ Conference
October 16-17, 1997

Agenda

 

Thursday, October 16

Location: SLAC Auditorium

8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast

Session 1: Introductory Remarks (Chair: David McKay)

9:00 Welcome - D. McKay (Stanford U.)
9:05 SLAC Director’s Report - B. Richter
9:20 SSRL Director’s Report - K. Hodgson
10:00 SSRLUO Report - D. Shuh (LBNL)
10:15 Report from Washington -P. Dehmer (U.S. Dept. of Energy)

10:30

 Coffee Break

Session II: Current Capabilities and Future Opportunities at SSRL (Chair: John Bargar)

10:50 What you can do with SPEAR3 - S. Brennan (SSRL)
11:15 Future Directions for Synchrotron Radiation in the Biological Sciences - E. Westbrook (ANL)
11:40 Industrial Impact of Synchrotron Radiation: Fact or Fiction? - J. Stohr (IBM)

12:05

 Lunch

1:30

 Applications, Opportunities and Challenges for Synchrotron Research in Molecular Environmental Science- S. Traina (Ohio State U.)
1:55 Science with the Linac Coherent Light Source- J. Arthur (SSRL)

2:20

 Afternoon Break

Session III: SSRL Specific Reports (Chair: David Shuh)

2:40

 SPEAR Status - J. Corbett (SSRL)
3:00 SPEAR3 Technical Discussion - R. Boyce (SSRL)
3:20 Beamline Improvements Associated with SPEAR3 - T. Rabedeau (SSRL)
3:35 LCLS Technical Discussion - M. Cornacchia (SSRL)
3:55 Panel Discussion to Address Proposed Upgrades
4:15 Poster Session w/ outdoor cocktail reception

6:30

 Users’ Banquet at the Holiday Inn, Palo Alto

 

 

 

Friday, October 17
8:00 Continental Breakfast

 
Location: SLAC Auditorium
Session IV: Material Science Developments
(Chair: Apurva Mehta)

8:30 Phase Transitions in Ordered Inorganic/Organic Composites Studied by Real Time X-ray Diffraction - S. Tolbert (UCLA)
9:00 Evidence for an Ordered Oxide in Thermally Grown SiO2 on Silicon - A. Munkolm (APS)
9:30 Electronic and Structural Properties of Colossal Magnetoresistive (CMR) Oxides - P. Villella (U. of Colorado)
9:55 Structure of Ti-bearing Oxide Melts Using High-Temperature, High-Resolution XANES Spectroscopy - F. Farges (U. de Marne-la-Vallee)

10:20 Coffee Break

Session VI : Environmental Science Developments
(Chair: Gordon Brown)
10:40 Time-Resolved Studies of Environmental Processes Using XAFS Spectroscopy - S. Fendorf (U. of Idaho)
11:10 Working From the Inside: X-rays as Probes of Metal Speciation in Plants - D. Salt (Rutgers U.)
11:40 Actinide Chemistry Under Highly Alkaline Solution Conditions - D. Clark (LANL)

 

 

 Location: Training Center
Session V: Biology & Protein Crystallography Developments
Part I (Chair: Britt Hedman)

9:00 EXAFS Characterization of a Reactive Protein Intermediate: the High Valent Dinuclear Iron Site of Intermediate X in Ribonucleotide Reductase- P. Riggs-Gelasco (MIT)
9:30 Photoactive Yellow Protein: A Biological Light Receptor Up Close and In Action - U. Genick (Scripps)
10:00 Determining the Structure of the Calcium Cofactor in Oxygen-Evolving Photosystem II by Using Strontium EXAFS - R. Cinco (LBNL)

10:25 Coffee Break


Part II (Chair: Peter Kuhn )

10:40 The Structure, Particle Transformation, and Low-Resolution Crystallography of a dsDNA Lambdoid Bacteriophage - W. Wikoff (Scripps)
11:10 Crystal Structure of Human Topoisomerase I DNA Complex - M. Redinbo (U. of Washington)
11:40 Crystal Structure of the 1296 Residue Botulinum Neurotoxin and Implications in Toxicity - B. Lacy (UC-Berkeley)

12:10 Lunch

Location: SLAC Auditorium
Session VII: Instrumentation
(Chair: Piero Pianetta)

1:20 The New High Resolution and Flux VUV Branch Line for Photoemission on Beamline 5 - M. Rowen (SSRL)
1:40 The SSRL Beamline Instrument Control System - Status & Overview - M. George (SSRL)
2:00 X-ray Fluorescence with High-Resolution Superconducting Tunnel Junction X-ray Detectors: S. Friedrich (LLNL)
2:20 Studying Cyclical Phenomena Using the DXP-4T Digital X-Ray Spectrometer: W. Warburton (X-ray Instrumentation Associates)

End of Program