1. 2001 USERS' MEETING WORKSHOPS ANNOUNCED
(Contact: alsum2001@lbl.gov)

Participants at this year's ALS Users' Meeting are invited to attend any of the six workshops scheduled after the conclusion of the regular meeting program. The workshop sessions will be held Tuesday, October 16, 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. and Wednesday, October 17, 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Workshop topics include the following:

• Advanced Detectors for Synchrotron Experiments
• Future Directions in Soft X-Ray Molecular Environmental Science
• Infrared Spectromicroscopy and Future Infrared Sources
• Macromolecular Crystallography Frontiers: More Structures with Less Beamtime
• Spectroscopies of Electronic Materials: Correlated Electrons and Nanoscale Phenomena
• SRRTNet Workshop on Theory, Computation, and Synchrotron Experiments

There is no cost to attend the workshops, but all attendees must register for the ALS Users' Meeting at http://www-als.lbl.gov/als/usermtg/registration.html, where they can indicate which workshops they plan on attending. More detailed information about individual workshops, including schedules, speakers, and contact information, is available on the Workshops Web page at http://www-als.lbl.gov/als/usermtg/workshops.html.

2. LATEST COMPENDIUM ABSTRACTS NOW ONLINE
(Contact: LSTamura@lbl.gov)

The ALS Compendium Web site (http://alspubs.lbl.gov/compendium) has been updated to include abstracts received from users for calendar year 2000. The site is a comprehensive, one-stop reference tool for finding information about the research done at the ALS since 1997. Visitors to the site can perform full-text searches of the entire abstract database, "power search" the abstracts according to several user-selected parameters (such as year, beamline, author, and title), or simply browse the abstracts by subject, beamline, or author. A PDF version of the 2000 ALS Compendium of Abstracts has also been added to the site. The CD version will be distributed in conjunction with the Activity Report to ALS users in the next few weeks.

3. REPRINTS OF "TECHNIQUES OF VUV SPECTROSCOPY" AVAILABLE
(Contact: WCStolte@lbl.gov)

First published in 1967, "Techniques of Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy" by ALS user James A.R. Samson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) remains the only book of its kind. Reprinted in 2000 with a few corrections, this book is still an essential reference for spectroscopic studies in the ultraviolet region of the spectrum. Copies can be purchased from Cruithne Press, Glasgow, Great Britain; to obtain an order form, contact Wayne Stolte (WCStolte@lbl.gov) or the publisher (cruithne.press@virgin.net).

4. ALS JOB OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH UNLV
(Contact: lindle@nevada.edu)

The X-Ray Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy (XAMS) Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), is seeking two to three postdoctoral scientists to participate in VUV/soft x-ray research at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A more detailed description can be found online at http://www.unlv.edu/Research_Centers/Xray_Atomic_and_Molecular_Spectroscopy/job.html.

5. UEC CORNER: NOTES FROM THE USERS' EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
by Harald Ade
(Contact: harald_ade@ncsu.edu)

The UEC is working on a new process to facilitate the election of its members (see charter at http://www-als.lbl.gov/als/uec/charter.html). A Web site to be used both for suggestions and voting is under development. All users will soon receive a separate email including details about the election process and a request to make suggestions about suitable UEC candidates.

6. WHO'S IN TOWN: A SAMPLING OF ALS USERS

Following are some of the experimenters who will be collecting data during the next week at the ALS.

Beamline 1.4.3
T.J. Wilkinson (Berkeley Lab)
Mary Kauffman (Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory)
Felicia Hendrickson (Berkeley Lab)
Harvey Doner (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Ted Raab (Univ. of Colorado at Boulder)

Beamline 4.0.1-2
Chuck Fadley (Univ. of California, Davis, and Berkeley Lab)

Beamline 5.0.2
Derek Piper et al. (Tularik, Inc.)
Vivian Li et al. (Amgen)
Steve Bellon et al. (Vertex Pharmaceuticals)
Tzanko Doukov and Eric Schreiter (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Doug Rees et al. (California Institute of Technology)
Richard Brennan and Maria Schumacher (Oregon Health and Science University)
Hartmut Luecke et al. (Univ. of California, Irvine)

Beamline 6.3.1
Piero Pianetta (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory)

Beamline 7.0.1
Steve Kevan (Univ. of Oregon)
Joerg Schaefer (Univ. Augsburg, Germany)
Satish Myneni (Princeton Univ.)
Jeffrey Kortright (Berkeley Lab)

Beamline 7.3.1.1
Anders Nilsson (Stanford Univ., Uppsala Univ., Sweden)
Z.Q. Qiu (Univ. of California, Berkeley)

Beamline 8.0.1
Tom Callcott (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Dave Ederer (Tulane Univ.)

Beamline 9.0.2
Jinian Shu (Berkeley Lab)
Andrew Yencha (State Univ. of New York at Albany)

Beamline 9.3.1
David McKeown (Catholic Univ. of America)

Beamline 10.0.1
Howard Bryant (Univ. of New Mexico)

7. OPERATIONS UPDATE
(Contact: Lampo@lbl.gov)

For the user runs of August 1 - 6 and 7 - 12, the beam reliability (time delivered/time scheduled) was 98%. Of the scheduled beam, 91% was delivered to completion without interruption. There were no significant outages.

Long-term and weekly operations schedules are available on the Web (http://www-als.lbl.gov/als/accelinfo.html). Requests for special operations use of the "scrubbing" shift should be sent to Bruce Samuelson (BCSamuelson@lbl.gov, x4738) by 1:00 p.m. Friday. The Accelerator Status Hotline at (510) 486-6766 (ext. 6766 from Lab phones) features a recorded message giving up-to-date information on the operational status of the accelerator.

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Editors: lstamura@lbl.gov, alrobinson@lbl.gov, amgreiner@lbl.gov, ejmoxon@lbl.gov

This work was supported by the Director, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098.