AGENDA
Instrument Development Workshop
for Biological Imaging Experiments at LCLS

Research Office Building, Meeting Room ABCD
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Menlo Park, CA 94025

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Monday, 15 March

08:00-09:00 BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION

09:00-09:30 Welcome, overview of instrument requirements, and scope of workshop
Henry Chapman (LLNL), Janos Hajdu (Uppsala), and Keith Hodgson (SSRL)

09:30-10:30 Front-end optics Discussion leader:
Alan Wootton, LLNL

LCLS Source and Optics John Arthur, SSRL
Directed discussion

10:30-10:45 COFFEE BREAK and discussion

10:45-12:00 Particle delivery systems and orientation Discussion leader: Matthias Frank, LLNL

Mass-spec injection Carol Robinson, Cambridge
Directed discussion

12:00-13:00 WORKING LUNCH

13:00-14:00 High-energy density photon-matter interactions Discussion leader:
Dick Lee, LLNL

Overview of damage models Richard London, LLNL
Directed discussion

14:00-15:00 Detectors and diagnostics Discussion leader:
Howard Padmore, LLBL

Pixel detectors Gareth Derbyshire, CLRC
Directed discussion

15:00-15:30 COFFEE BREAK and discussion

15:30-16:30 Reconstruction computations Discussion leader:
Henry Chapman, LLNL

Reconstruction algorithms Veit Elser, Cornell
Directed discussion

16:30-17:30 Alternative methods Discussion leader:
Simone Techert, Max Planck Goettingen

Directed discussion

17:30- BARBEQUE DINNER (onsite)

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Tuesday, 16 March

08:00-09:00 BREAKFAST and discussion

8:30-9:30 Identification and prioritization of risks and efforts
Dennis Matthews, CBST

9:30-9:45 Instructions for breakout sessions

9:45-11:30 Breakout sessions - write 2-page statement of need (coffee provided)

11:30-12:00 Reconvene, report, wrap-up


END OF MEETING

This workshop is co-organized by Henry Chapman (LLNL), Janos Hajdu (University of Uppsala) and Keith Hodgson (SSRL). It is sponsored by the SSRL Structural Biology Program (NIH NCRR and DOE BER) and LCLS (DOE BES), by LLNL and by the NSF Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology.