2022 SSRL/LCLS Users' Meeting

Join us virtually for the 2022 SSRL/LCLS Users' Meeting

Every year, thousands of scientists from universities, laboratories, and private companies around the world use our cutting-edge research facilities. Their discoveries benefit a wide range of fields, including materials and energy sciences, chemistry, biology, medicine, environmental science, engineering, astronomy, and physics. 

This annual meeting is a unique opportunity to gather together the lightsource community in a single scientific event that includes numerous presentations in the plenary, poster, and parallel sessions. Participants can learn about current/future facility capabilities and the latest user research and discuss science with colleagues from academia, research laboratories, and industry worldwide.

Come join us for the opportunity to join the following sessions for scientific exchange, discussions, and awards: plenary sessions, keynote talks, award presentations, scientific workshops, poster sessions, townhall discussions, and breakout sessions.

Young Investigator Awards and Presentations:

SSRL William E. and Diane M. Spicer Young Investigator Award

SSRL Melvin P. Klein Scientific Development Award

SSRL Farrel W. Lytle Award

LCLS Young Investigator Award

Monday, Sep 26

• Early Science qRIXS (AM)
• Fundamentals at SSRL and LCLS - I & II (AM/PM)
  
• Integrative Structural Biology – X-ray and CryoEM Techniques (AM)
• Ultrafast Structural Dynamics of Isolated Molecules (AM)
  
• Computational Methods in the Structural Sciences (PM)
• Current and Future Opportunities and Challenges for Gas Phase Sample Delivery (PM)
• Time Resolved Photoemission using the Momentum Microscope at LCLS-II (PM)

Tuesday, Sep 27

• Plenary Session - Facility/DOE BES Updates (AM)
  
• Frontier In-Situ/Operando Techniques and Research for Solid-Phase MeV-UED (Tues PM / Wed PM)
  
• Separations in Water (Water Treatment, Critical Materials) (PM)
• Writing more compelling bioscience proposals for LCLS

Wednesday, Sep 28

• Plenary Session - Synergy at SLAC (AM)
  
• Advancing Biological and Environmental Science at SSRL: From Structure and Function to Metal and Nutrient Cycling (PM)
• Applications for Small-Molecule Serial Femtosecond Diffraction in Materials Science and Chemistry (PM)

Wednesday, Sep 28 continued

• Frontier In-Situ/Operando Techniques and Research for Solid-Phase MeV-UED (Tues PM / Wed PM)
  
• Synergy at SLAC: Cooperative Science Utilizing the LCLS and SSRL (PM)
• Mix-and-Inject Serial Crystallography at XFELS and Synchrotrons (PM)

Thursday, Sep 29

• Plenary Session - Award Presentations (AM)
• Data Analysis at LCLS (PM)
• High Repetition Rate Early Science at ChemRIXS (PM)

Friday, Sep 30

• Ab Initio XANES and Multiplet Calculations:  Tutorial and Applications (AM)
• MEC Science (AM/PM)
• Metals in Structural Biology I & II (AM/PM)
• Time-Resolved Resonant Inelastic Hard X-ray Scattering as a Probe of Quantum Materials (AM)
• New Opportunities for Quantum Materials Research at SSRL ARPES Beam Line (PM)
• Science Communication (PM)
• TMO: First results and High Repetition Rate Early Science (PM)
  

As one of 17 Department of Energy national labs, SLAC pushes the frontiers of human knowledge and drives discoveries that benefit humankind. We invent the tools that make those discoveries possible and share them with scientists all over the world.

SSRL provides extremely bright X-rays for a wide range of experiments that probe matter down to the scale of atoms and molecules. These studies target advances in energy production, human health, environmental cleanup, nanotechnology, novel materials and information technology, among other areas.

LCLS produces ultrafast pulses of X-ray laser light a billion times brighter than any previous X-ray source, allowing researchers to freeze the motions of atoms and molecules and string those images together to make stop-motion movies.

SLAC is operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. 
The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.