Workshops

Following Thursday and Friday morning's general session portion of the ALS Users' Meeting, time has been set aside on Friday (October 21) afternoon and all day Saturday (October 22) for the eleven workshops detailed below. Agendas for each workshop will be posted as soon as speakers are confirmed. For additional information about individual workshops, please contact the respective workshop organizers(s).

*When registering, please indicate which workshop you plan to attend so we can provide sufficient resources and refreshments for participants.

2005 ALS Users' Meeting Workshops

• An Introduction to Synchrotron Experimental Techniques
  (New! added September 15) Michelle Weinberger
  

• Forefront AMO Science: Clusters, Ions, Dressed States...
  John Bozek and Nora Berrah
  

• Frontiers of Synchrotron-Based X-Ray Microdiffraction
  Nobumichi Tamura and B.W. Batterman
  

• New Visions in Bandmapping
  Eli Rotenberg, Alexei Fedorov, and Ken Goldberg
  

• Macromolecular Crystallography I: Advanced Experimental Techniques for Getting the Best Data from Difficult Samples
  Christine Trame
  

• Macromolecular Crystallography II: New Strategies for Data Processing with Automated Software Tools
  James Holton
  

• Novel Approaches to Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy:  Scanning Transmission X-Ray Microscopy and Ambient-Pressure X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
  Hendrik Bluhm, Mary Gilles, Simon Mun, and Tolek Tyliszczak
  

• Soft and Hard X-Ray Tomography at the ALS
  Alastair MacDowell and Gerry McDermott
  

• Soft X-Ray Photon-In and Photon-Out Spectroscopy: New Frontiers
  Jinghua Guo and Zahid Hasan
  

• THz Science and Technology Network: Opportunities and Organization
  Michael C. Martin
  

• Ultrafast X-Ray Science at the ALS
  Bob Schoenlein and Peter Fischer
  

• XANES  and EXAFS Spectroscopy of Materials and Biological Samples: Expanding the Range of Applications at Beamline 9.3.1
  Robert Szilagyi and Heinz Frei