Wednesday, May 8 @ 12 noon, USB 15-253

Flipping Out over Topological Insulators
Chris Jozwiak, Scientific Support Group, Beamline 7.0

Playing "Chase the Electron" with Oxides from Chromium to Plutonium
Stefan G. Minasian, Chemical Sciences Division, Beamline 11.0

Imaging the Chemistry of (Microbial) LIfe
Hoi-Ying Holman, Earth Sciences Division, Beamline 5.4 [Berkeley Synchrotron Infrared Structral Biology Program (BSISB)]

Friday, February 22 @ 12 noon, USB 15-253

Towards perfect diffraction gratings with x-rays
Dmitriy Voronov, Experimental Systems Group, Beamline 6.3.2
(Read more and watch a video about this work.)

Ice: Slippery when dirty?
Hendrik Bluhm, Chemical Sciences Group, Beamline 11.0.2

Connecting ALS Users To Our Friendly, Neighborhood, Supercomputer
Justin Blair, Experimental Systems Group,  Beamline 8.3.2

Tuesday, May 15 @ 12 noon in USB 15-253

Spinning Spins: Which Direction Will They Point To?
Peter Fischer, Center for X-Ray Optics; Beamline 6.1.2

Molecular Mechanisms of Chaperonins: What Happens When Proteins Need a Time-Out
Corie Ralston, Berkeley Center for Structural Biology; Beamline 8.2.1 & 8.2.2

Using the ALS to Study Extraterrestrial Materials
Scott Sandford, NASA-Ames Research Center; Beamline 5.3.2.2

Tuesday, March 20 @ 12 noon, in USB 15-253 

Criegee Intermediates: Unlocking the Black Box of Atmospheric and Autoignition Chemistry
David Osborn, Sandia; Beamline 9.0.2

Taking a Hard Look at Soft X-Ray Scattering
Cheng Weng, ALS; Beamline 11.0.1.2

Matter: Warm and Dense
Roger Falcone, ALS

Atoms Behind Bars
Alfred Mueller, Giessen University; Beamline 10.0.1

Wavelength Specific Reflections: A New EUV Zoneplate Microscope at the ALS
Ken Goldberg, Center for X-Ray Optics; Beamline 11.3.2

Computers for Lenses: Computational Magnetic Imaging
Josh Turner, LCLS/SLAC; Beamline 12.0.2.2

Stardust: The search for organics
Hans Bechtle, Infrared Beamlines 1.4 and 5.4

What's new about high-Tc?
Ruihua He, Beamlines 10.0.1 and 8.0.1

Biology!

Gerry McDermott, National Center for X-Ray Tomography

Multilayer thin films: From Earth to space
Regina Soufli, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Molecular aspects of carbon sequestration: What synchrotron work can tell us
Glenn Waychunas, Earth Sciences Division, Beamlines 12.2.2 and 7.3.3

Is all soot created equal?
Mary Gilles, Chemical Sciences Division, Beamline 11.0.2

Doesn't a magnetic pencil sound like a great idea?
Hendrik Ohldag, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory/ALS

Fossils: Discerning fact from fiction in multi-million-year-old materials
Elizabeth Boatman, Beamline 10.3.2

Nanofocusing on Beamline 5.3.1
Daniel Merthe, Beamline 5.3.1

Having a ball in the wild world of fullerenes
Christine Beavers, Beamline 11.3.1

Nanoclimates: Watching electron clouds move
Nils Huse, Chemical Sciences, Beamlines 6.0.1/6.0.2

Stitching x rays
Stefano Marchesini, Beamline 9.0

Magnetic fridge: The clean technology refrigerator of the future
Sujoy Roy, Beamline 12.2.2

My favorite superpower: Magnified 3D x-ray vision
Dula Parkinson, Beamline 2.1

Interfaces under ambient conditions: From aerosols to minerals
Hendrik Bluhm, Beamline 11.0.2

How green cement can reduce global warming
Paulo Monteiro, U.C. Berkeley; multiple beamlines

Small angle x-ray scattering on very small patterns with very BIG impact
Alexander Hexemer; Beamline 7.3.3

The SASTBX: Shapes and Curves
Peter Zwart, Beamline 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3

Probing combustion and environmental chemistry with VUV radiation
Musa Ahmed, Beamline 9.0

X-ray spectroscopy under ambient conditions
Ferenc Borodnics, Beamlines 7.0.1, 9.3.2, 11.0.2

Photoelectron spectroscopy in energy-related research
Zhi Liu, Beamline 9.3.2

Metal-oxide clusters as photocatalysts for water splitting
Jinghua Guo, Beamline 7.0.1

Lithium-ion battery research and ideas to develop new energy-research user communities at the ALS
Martin Kunz, Beamline 12.3.2

Investigating molecular structures for gas sequestraion using small-molecule crystallography
Simon Teat, Beamline 11.3.1