Soft X-Ray Scattering from Hard and Soft Matter

September 30, 2005
Building 66 Auditorium, Berkeley Lab

Sponsored by the Advanced Light Source and the Molecular Foundry, Berkeley Lab

 

 

 

   

Agenda

All titles in bold are linked to PDF versions of the presentations.

8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:30 am Janos Kirz
(ALS/LBNL)
Welcome, ALS Strategic Plan, more and less coherent scattering
8:40 am Jeff Bokor
(Molecular Foundry/LBNL)
View from the Molecular Foundry
8:50 am Jeff Kortright
(MSD/LBNL)
Overview, workshop goals
9:15 am Sunil Sinha
(UC San Diego, LANL)
Novel applications of soft x-ray scattering to study condensed matter
9:40 am Eric Fullerton
(Hitachi Global Storage Tech.)
Probing magnetism at the nanoscale: New physics and emerging technologies
10:05 am Coffee Break
10:25 am Peter Abbomonte
(University of Illinois, Urbanna-Champagne)
Quantum melting of the Wigner crystal in the spin ladder material Sr14-xCaxCu24O41
10:50 am Ramamoorthy Ramesh
(UCB, MSD/LBNL)
Trends in functional correlated-electron thin film systems
11:15 am Steve Kevan
(University of Oregon)
Coherent scattering, speckle, dynamics
11:40 am Discussion Magnetism & hard matter instrumentation needs
12:25 pm Box Lunch
1:00 pm Howard Padmore
(ALS/LBNL)
Update on SAXS/WAXS plans, ccd detectors
1:20 pm Gary Mitchell
(Dow Chemical)
Resonant soft x-ray scattering of polymers: Initial experiments and application to new material development
1:45 pm Harald Ade
(North Carolina State)
Resonant scattering and reflectivity: initial application and developments
2:00 pm Joe Mang
(LANL)
Thin polymer film structure using resonant soft x-ray contrast variation
2:20 pm Nitash Balsara
(UCB, MSD/LBNL)
Fluctuation and stress relaxation dynamics in a block copolymer melt
2:45 pm Refreshment Break
3:00 pm Tonya Kuhl
(UC Davis)
Jarek Majewski (LANL)
Characterization of single biological membranes at the solid-liquid interface – The role of x-ray scattering
3:25 pm Rachel Segalman
(UCB, MSD/LBNL)
Understanding the self-assembly of conducting polymers:  An opportunity to develop new thin film analysis techniques
3:50 pm Alex Hexemer
(UC Santa Barbara)
Templated self-assembly of block copolymer thin films
4:05 pm Jeff Stubbs
(U. of New Hampshire)
Phase separation within latex particles during polymerization reactions
4:20 pm Discussion Soft matter endstation needs, overall beamline requirements
5:15 pm Workshop ends--suggest no-host, informal dinner discussions

Updated October 10, 2005

 

       
     

Meeting organizers:

Harald Ade (North Carolina State University)
Jefrey Bokor (Molecular Foundry, Berkeley Lab)
Jeff Kortright (Materials Science Division, Berkeley Lab)