Agenda

This year's meeting featured joint plenary sessions with the Molecular Foundry on Thursday. The ALS portion of the meeting took place in the Building 50 Auditiorium; all talks marked with an asterisk (*) were held in Building 66.

The PowerPoint slides for individual presentations, where available, are linked to the talk titles.

Thursday, October 4

  07:30 Registration : : Coffee : : Continental Breakfast : :
Building 50 Auditorium
  07:15 Shuttle bus service from Berkeley City Club
Welcome Session
Chair: Tony van Buuren, UEC Chair
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

 

08:05 Welcome
Graham Fleming, Deputy Director, Berkeley Lab
Users' Executive Commitees: ALS and Molecular Foundry (MF)
 
The ALS and the Molecular Foundry: Progress and Prospects
  08.20 The ALS
Roger Falcone, ALS Division Director
  08.55 The Molecular Foundry*
Carolyn Bertozzi, MF Division Director
 

 

09:30 News from DOE
Patricia Dehmer, Associate Director, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, DOE

 

10:00 Science on the Washington Landscape: Opportunities and Obstacles*
Michael Lubell, Director of Public Affairs, American Physical Society, and CCNY Professor of Physics
  10:20 Coffee Break
Keynote Science at the ALS and the Molecular Foundry
Session Chair: Hendrik Ohldag, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation laboratory
  10:45 The Molecular Basis of Eukaryotic Transcription (Abstract)
Roger Kornberg, Stanford University
  11:25 DNA:  Not Merely the Secret of Life* (Abstract)
Nadrian Seeman, New York University
  12:15 User Support Building Groundbreaking Ceremony
All invited
  12:30 Working Discussions : : Vendor Exhibits with Lunch: : ALS Patio
Joint ALS-MF Science Highlights
Session Chair: Clemens Heske, University of Nevada, las Vegas
  13:45 Grand Challenges for Basic Energy Sciences
Graham Fleming, Berkeley Lab
  14:25 Bio-Inspired Low-Temperature, Kinetically Controlled Nanofabrication of Semiconductor and Ferroelectric Thin Films and Nanoparticles for Energy Applications* (Abstract)
Dan Morse, University of California, Santa Barbara

End of Joint ALS-MF Joint Plenary Session



ALS Updates
Session Chair: Simon Morton, Berkeley Lab

  15:05 ALS Operations
David Robin
  15:35 ALS User Affairs
Janos Kirz
  16:00 Shuttle/Walk to Molecular Foundry
Poster set-up
  16:30 Poster Session : : Reception : : Visits to MF Labs : : Student Poster Competition
  18:30 Vendor Exhibits : : BBQ Buffet Dinner : : Awards
  20:45 Shuttles to Berkeley City Club, BART, and downtown Berkelely

Friday, October 5

  07:45 Registration : : Coffee : : Continental Breakfast
Building 50 Auditorium
  08:00 Shuttle bus service from Berkeley City Club
ALS User Business and Town Hall Meeting
Session Chair: Amanda hudson, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  08:30 ALS UEC Business
Tony van Buuren, LLNL
  09:00 Town Hall Meeting
Tony van Buuren, LLNL
ALS Science Highlights
Session Chairs: Jinghua Guo, Berkeley Lab and Alessandra Lanzara Berkeley Lab/University of California, Berkeley
  09:30 Photoemission Studies of Correlated Oxide Heterostructures
Ramamoorthy Ramesh, UC Berkeley
  09:50 Femtosecond X-Ray Studies of Complex Solids
Andrea Cavalleri, Oxford University
  10:10 Coffee Break
Award Winner Presentations
Session Chair: Franz Himpsel, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  10:25 Shirley Award Winner
  10:55 Halbach Award Winner
  11:10 Student Poster Award Winner
Remembering Gary Krebs
Session Chair: Janos Kirz, Berkeley Lab
  11:25 Gary Krebs, Our Colleague and Friend
Various Speakers
  11:45 Concluding Remarks
Tony van Buuren
  12:00 Berkeley Lab Guest House Groundbreaking
  12:15 Working Discussions : : Vendor Exhibits with Lunch: : ALS Patio
  13:00 Workshops
See the Workshops Web page for detailed information about the 12 workshops to be held Friday afternoon (13:00 p.m. to 16:30 p.m.) and Saturday (8:30 a.m. to 16:30 p.m.).
  14:20 Break
  14:30 Workshops resume
  16:30 Workshops end
  17:30 Reception for Vendors : : ALS Patio
  20:00 Shuttles to Berkeley City Club, BART, and downtown Berkelely

Saturday, October 6

  08:00 Shuttle service from the Berkeley City Club
  08:30 Workshops
See the Workshops Web page for detailed information about the 12 workshops to be held Friday afternoon (13:00 p.m. to 16:30 p.m.) and Saturday (8:30 a.m. to 16:30 p.m.).
  10:00 Break
  10:15 Workshops resume
  12:00 Lunch
  13:00 Workshops resume
  14:20 Break
  14:30 Workshops resume
  16:30 Workshops end