ALSNews Vol. 218, March 19, 2003
ALSNews is a biweekly electronic newsletter to keep users and other interested parties informed about developments at the Advanced Light Source, a national user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California. To be placed on the mailing list, send your name and complete internet address to ALSNews@lbl.gov. We welcome suggestions for topics and content.
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Table of Contents
- Publication Citations Needed by March 24
- Changes in Publication Submission Form Online
- WIRMS 2003 Announcement
- SRI 2003 Update
- Apply Now for 2003-2004 Doctoral Fellowships
- Who's in Town: A Sampling of ALS Users
- Operations Update
1. PUBLICATION CITATIONS NEEDED BY MARCH 24
(Contact: alsuser@lbl.gov)
If you have recently published any ALS-related work in a scientific journal or conference proceedings, or completed a Ph.D. thesis or received a patent based on work done at the ALS, please let us know by March 24 so that your work can be reported to the DOE as well as cited in the 2002 ALS Activity Report. Simply go to the User Services Online Forms Web page at http://alsusweb.lbl.gov/. Note that this page has recently been updated (see Item 2 below). Be sure to first use the "Search for Publications" option, to see if your publications have been previously entered into our database by a collaborator. If you see any errors in the database publications, please let the User Services Office know and they will correct them. Then, please use the "Submit Publication Listings" option and enter the information requested. Your timely response will be greatly appreciated, as it is imperative that we accurately report the number of ALS-related publications to the DOE and that we include them in our annual Activity Report.
2. CHANGES IN PUBLICATION SUBMISSION FORM
ONLINE
(Contact: jptroutman@lbl.gov)
Users entering new publications into the ALS publications database via the ALS User Services Online Forms Web page (http://alsusweb.lbl.gov/) will notice a few changes that respond to new DOE requirements and that we hope make the process more user friendly and accurate as well. Contact information now need only be entered once per session. Information about the funding source of the work is now required. Conference presentations should be submitted only if included in published conference proceedings (abstract books do not qualify). Published conference proceedings include those published either online, as a book, or in a journal; in the latter two cases, be sure to select "conference proceedings" as the type of publication, rather than "book" or "journal."
Once the general information has been submitted, a second page will appear that is tailored to the type of publication selected. You can toggle between the first and second pages of the form without losing data by using either the "Submit General Info..." and "Update General Info..." buttons at the bottom of these pages or the "Forward" and "Back" buttons on your browser. When you are done entering the publication information on the second page, clicking the "Submit this Publication" button returns you to the General Information page, which can then be modified as needed for the next publication to be entered. If required information has not been entered, a page will appear listing what fields still need to be filled in to complete the submission process.
3. WIRMS 2003 ANNOUNCEMENT
(Contact: MCMartin@lbl.gov)
The International Workshop on Infrared Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Accelerator Based Sources (WIRMS 2003) will be held on July 8-11, 2003, at Granlibakken Conference Center, Lake Tahoe, California. This is the fourth in a series of international workshops focused on the exciting scientific opportunities offered by using synchrotrons and free-electron lasers as high-brightness infrared sources. The workshop will cover new developments in all aspects of the science, technology, and use of synchrotrons and free-electron lasers for infrared microscopy and spectroscopy. The deadline for submission of abstracts is April 1, 2003. For more information, please visit http://infrared.als.lbl.gov/WIRMS/.
4. SRI 2003 UPDATE
(Contact: sri03@lbl.gov)
Planning is well under way for the Eighth International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation (SRI 2003) to be held August 25-29, 2003, in San Francisco, California. Over 650 abstracts covering a wide range of topics including new developments in synchrotron radiation sources, free-electron lasers, beamline instrumentation, and experimental techniques were submitted before the March 17 deadline. The conference, sponsored by the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory and the Advanced Light Source at Berkeley Lab, will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, a cultural hub in downtown San Francisco that features the nearby Museum of Modern Art, fine dining, theaters, and shopping. Accommodations have been reserved at nearby hotels at reduced conference rates, and meeting attendees are urged to reserve as soon as their travel plans are complete to ensure the discounted rate.
The main SRI 2003 Web page at http://www.sri2003.lbl.gov/ has additional information, including a description of the meeting site; a preliminary program; online registration; accommodation, travel, and visa tips; tourist links; and a companion sightseeing program.
5. APPLY NOW FOR 2003-2004 DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
(Contact: KGreen@lbl.gov)
The ALS is offering several doctoral fellowships in residence for the 2003-2004 academic year. Through these fellowships, qualified graduate students will gain hands-on experience in the use of synchrotron radiation by performing a major part of their thesis work at the ALS. Applicants must be full-time Ph.D. students pursuing synchrotron-radiation-based research in the physical or biological sciences and have passed all qualifying or comprehensive verbal and written examinations. Individuals from underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. The deadline for applying is May 1, 2003.
The fellowships include a one-year appointment (with the possibility of renewal) and a $15,000 annual stipend. Fellows will be matched with an on-site mentor (generally a beamline scientist) and have access to ALS resources, including beam time. Fellows are expected to present their results at a meeting or as a seminar at the end of the fellowship year. More detailed information, along with links to frequently asked questions and the application form, can be found at http://www-als.lbl.gov/als/fellowships/.
6. WHO'S IN TOWN: A SAMPLING OF ALS USERS
Following are some of the experimenters who will be collecting data during the next two weeks at the ALS. (The ALS will be running in two-bunch mode through March 23 and will be shut down for planned maintenance and installations starting March 31.)
Beamline 1.4.3
Hoi-Ying Holman (Berkeley Lab)
Beamline 4.0.2
Reinhard Doerner (Univ. of Frankfurt, Germany)
Stephen Cramer (Univ. of California, Davis)
Beamline 5.3.2
Adam Hitchcock (McMaster Univ., Canada)
Harald Ade (North Carolina State Univ.)
Gary Mitchell (The Dow Chemical Company)
Beamline 7.0.1
James Allen (Univ. of Michigan)
M. Zahid Hasan (Princeton Univ.)
Beamline 7.3.1.1
Z.Q. Qiu (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Mahesh Samant (IBM Almaden Research Center)
Sebastien Raoux (Applied Materials, Inc.)
Beamline 7.3.3
Ersan Ustundag (California Institute of Technology)
Beamline 8.0.1
Dennis Lindle (Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Beamline 9.3.2
Suntharampillai Thevuthasan (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Beamline 10.0.1
Yoshiro Azuma (Photon Factory, Japan)
Beamline 10.3.1
Eleanor Blakeley (Berkeley Lab)
Beamline 10.3.2
Daniel Grolimund (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland)
7. OPERATIONS UPDATE
(Contact: Lampo@lbl.gov)
For the user run of March 4 - 10, the beam reliability (time delivered/time scheduled) was 99.9%. Of the scheduled beam, 90.4% was delivered to completion without interruption. For the user run of March 12 - 16 (two-bunch mode), the beam reliability was 92.3%. Of the scheduled beam, 85.9% was delivered to completion without interruption. During the two-bunch run there were complications with the Sector 8 superbend cryocooling system, which was switched to liquid cryocooling. The system will continue in this mode until the planned installation and maintenance shutdown starting at 8:00 A.M. on Monday, March 31, 2002. User operations will resume at 8:00 A.M. on Wednesday, April 31, 2002.
Long-term and weekly operations schedules are available on the Web (http://www-als.lbl.gov/als/schedules/index.html). Requests for special operations use of the "scrubbing" shift should be sent to Bruce Samuelson (ALS-CR@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. A Web page showing the ring status in real time can be found at http://www-als.lbl.gov/als/status/.
ALSNews is a biweekly electronic newsletter to keep users informed about developments at the Advanced Light Source, a national user facility located at Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California. To be placed on the mailing list, send your email address to ALSNews@lbl.gov. We welcome suggestions for topics and content. Submissions are due the Friday before the issue date.
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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.