Notices
ALS Doctoral Fellowship Application Deadline Extended to July 31, 2008
Synchrotron radiation is now an established tool in many areas of physical and biological science. The ALS Doctoral Fellowships will allow beginning researchers to work at the frontier of synchrotron radiation research and to help advance state-of-the-art applications.
The Fellowships enable students who have passed their Ph.D. qualifying or comprehensive verbal and written exams (generally third-year students) to acquire hands-on scientific training and develop professional maturity for independent research. Applicants must be full-time, currently enrolled students in a Ph.D. program in the physical or biological sciences, pursuing thesis research based on the use of synchrotron radiation.
The fellowships are offered as one-year appointments with the possibility of renewal. Successful applicants will be compensated with a $18,000 annual stipend. Additionally, fellows will be matched with an on-site mentor (generally a beamline scientist) and have access to ALS resources, including beamtime. Fellows are expected to present their results at a meeting or as a seminar at the end of the fellowship year.
For more information see ALS Doctoral Fellowships.
Stanford-Berkeley Summer School on Synchrotron Radiation and Its Applications: August 17-22, 2008
The sixth Stanford-Berkeley summer school will provide basic lectures on the synchrotron radiation process, requisite technologies, and a broad range of scientific applications. Visits to both the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) and the Advanced Light Source (ALS) in Berkeley will be included, with opportunities to interact with the professional staff and graduate students at both facilities. The summer school will be limited to approximately forty graduate students, with a preference for those pursuing doctoral research in the physical sciences in which synchrotron radiation is expected to play a significant role. The summer school is jointly sponsored by Stanford University; the University of California at Berkeley; the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory; and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Lectures will be presented by professors and scientists from these four organizations and their user communities. The summer school will be housed on the Stanford University campus. Co-chairs of the summer school are Professors Anders Nilsson and David Attwood.
Details describing the summer school, planned lectures, housing, costs and how to apply are availalble on the school's Web site; a tentative agenda is also available. Applications should include a brief academic record, a statement describing the intended research area and how a knowledge of synchrotron radiation would enhance those studies, a list of publications (if any), and information on how to reach the applicant by email and phone through the period extending to the time of the summer school.
- Applications will be accepted beginning June 1
- Early decisions will be made beginning June 15
- Final decisions will be made by July 25
Let the ALS Know about Your Success: Working with Press Releases
Support for the ALS and other synchrotron light sources is highly dependent on communicating their innovative and forefront science. News articles in the media based on press releases issued by users' research institutions is one way to accomplish this, provided that there is some mention of synchrotron radiation in general and the ALS in particular in the press release and, we hope, the news article that results. Whenever a user's home institution prepares a press release based on research that was conducted at the ALS, it is very helpful if both the ALS and synchrotron radiation are mentioned.
All ALS users are asked to notify Lori Tamura (510-486-6172) at the ALS when they become aware of an impending press release based on their research, it would also help us in promoting users' achievements and, in the process, ours as well.