Plenary session will be held in the Building 051 Kavli Auditorium, with live streaming in the Building 053 Trinity Conference Room and lobby
Program:
7:45 am Welcome, Session Moderators: Nicholas Hartley, LCLS UEC Vice Chair; Jim Evans, SSRL UEC Vice Chair
7:50 am LCLS Young Investigator Talk: Taran Driver (LCLS/Stanford PULSE Institute): Tracking Electrons on Attosecond Timescales at the LCLS
8:20 am LCLS Young Investigator Talk: Silvia Pandolfi (Sorbonne Université): Phase transition kinetics at the nanosecond timescales in shock-compressed matter
8:50 am LCLS Users' Recognition Award: Diling Zhu (LCLS/Science Research and Development Division)
9:00 am Break
9:30 am SSRL William & Diane Spicer Young Investigator Award to be presented to Angel Tonatiuh Garcia Esparza (SLAC/LBNL), followed by his talk: Operando X-ray Spectroscopy of Atomically Thin 2D Energy Materials
10:00 am SSRL Melvin Klein Scientific Development Award to be presented to Ashley James (U Saskatchewan), followed by her talk: Molecular Fate of Organometallic Mercury in Brain
10:30 am SSRL Farrel Lytle Award to be presented to Jim Sebek (SLAC/SSRL)
10:40 am Joe Wong Outstanding Poster Awards:
- Jenna Vesey, Ramapo College of New Jersey: Separating Single-particle XFEL Data by Machine Learning
- Mukul Sonker, Arizona State University: Time-Resolved Structure Elucidation Enabled by 3D-Printed Droplet Microfluidics for Reduced Sample Consumption during Serial Femtosecond Crystallography
- Alfred Zong, UC Berkeley/Stanford University: Spin-shear Coupling in 2D Antiferromagnets: Amplified Oscillators and Dynamical Criticality
10:40 am BIO XFEL Outstanding Poster Awards:
- Moritz Kretschmar, LBNL: Time-resolved Structural Measurements on Trimeric Photosystem I from Thermosynechococcus vestitus
- Ryan Lamb, University of Michigan: Toolkit for Time-Resolved X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy: Using Polarized Spectroscopy and Multiple Atomic Perspectives to Explore Photochemical Dynamics of Model 3d Transition Metal Complexes
- Wenxin Li, Yale University: Role of Fe Intercalation on Antiferromagnet FexNbS2
- Lizzie Paulus, Stanford University: Does Manganese Control Organic Carbon Stability on a Hawaiian Grassland Gradient
- Doris Mai, California Institute of Technology: Multi-crystal Data Reduction in a Bayesian Framework
10:45 am Fundamentals at SSRL & LCLS Early Career Speaker Award to be presented to:
- Monty Cosby, SLAC: Structurally informed in situ X-ray diffraction beamline experiments enabled by real time Rietveld analysis
- Priyanka Muhunthan, Stanford University: Examining the Structure of Supercritical CO2 from X-ray Raman Spectroscopy, Small Angle X-ray Scattering, and Atomistic Simulations
- Honorable Mention: Avery Hanna, SLAC: Maximizing FEL coherence with Hermite-Gaussian modes-based machine learning
- Check out the Fundamentals YouTube channel with a growing library of introductory video content about experimental capabilities at SSRL & LCLS. https://www.youtube.com/@fundamentalsatssrlandlcls8668
10:50 am LCLS Young Investigator Award: Taran Driver, LCLS/Stanford PULSE Institute
10:55 am Town Hall Discussion with UEC Chairs and User Facility Directors
12:00 pm Lunch Break