2018 NSLS-II and CFN Users' Meeting

May 20, 2018, 4:00 AM → May 23, 2018, 7:00 PM US/Eastern

Meeting Agenda

Sunday, May 20

4:00 PM → 7:00 PM Early Registration

4:00 PM → 7:00 PM Exhibitor Set Up (optional)

4:00 PM → 7:00 PM Poster Set Up (optional)

Monday, May 21

7:00 AM → 5:00 PM Registration Office opens (All attendees must check in before attending any event)

7:30 AM → 2:00 PM Exhibitor Set up

9:00 AM → 5:00 PM Workshops

9:00 AM Bringing Big Science into the Classroom

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1:00 PM Hands-On Data Acquisition and Analysis Tutorial

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10:30 AM → 7:00 PM Posters (Available for Viewing)

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM NSLS-II and CFN Facility Tours (Exhibitors and Meeting Participants)

3:00 PM → 5:00 PM Exhibitor Fair

5:00 PM → 7:00 PM Exhibitor Reception

5:00 PM → 5:05 PM Registration Office Closes

Tuesday, May 22

7:00 AM → 5:00 PM Registration Office Opens (All attendees much check in before attending any event)

8:00 AM → 5:00 PM Exhibitor Session

8:00 AM → 5:00 PM Posters (Available for Viewing)

8:30 AM → 12:00 PM Official Plenary Session: Session Chair: Mark Dean, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Plenary Sessions are Open to All, Free of charge - Registration is Required

8:30 AM Welcome

Speaker: Doon Gibbs (Director, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

8:40 AM Introduction

Speaker: Mark Dean (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

8:45 AM Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences Report

Speaker: Andrew R. Schwartz (Senior Technical Advisor for Energy Frontier Research Centers, U. S. Department of Energy)

9:25 AM NSLS-II

Speaker: John Hill (NSLS-II Director, Deputy ALD for Energy and Photon Sciences Directorate)

9:55 AM CFN

Speaker: Charles Black (Director, Center for Functional Nanomaterials)

10:25 AM Morning Break

10:25 AM Photo Session

DOE and BNL Management, NSLS-II and CFN User Executive Committee Members, Users' Meeting Planning Committee

10:25 AM Poster Session and Judging

9:30 AM → 12:00 PM BNL Exhibitor Networking Session and Presentations (Open to all BNL)

11:30 AM → 1:00 PM Joint UEC Lunch with Andrew Schwartz, BES

11:30 AM → 1:00 PM Lunch (Included)

12:55 PM → 6:30 PM Workshops

1:00 PM Characterization of Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems: Advanced Spectroscopy, Microscopy and Diffraction Techniques

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1:00 PM Emerging Nanomaterials and Nanostructures for Plasmonics and Nanophotonics Applications

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1:00 PM High-throughput and Data-driven Approaches Guiding Smart Operando Experiments

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1:00 PM Soils for a Sustainable Future

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3:00 PM → 4:00 PM NSLS-II Tours: Diffraction / Scattering and Structural Bio Beamlines

5:00 PM → 5:05 PM Registration Office Closes

6:30 PM → 6:40 PM Buses Depart for Banquet at Giorgios

7:00 PM → 10:00 PM Users' Meeting Annual Banquet

Wednesday, May 23

8:00 AM → 2:00 PM Exhibitor Session

8:00 AM → 2:00 PM Registration Office Opens (All attendees much check in before attending any event)

8:25 AM → 11:30 AM Scientific Plenary Session - Session Chair: Don DiMarzio, Northrop Grumman

Plenary Sessions are Open to All, Free of charge - Registration is Required

8:25 AM Welcome

8:30 AM Tailoring Light with Metamaterials and Plasmonics

Speaker: Andrea Alù (City University of New York)

9:10 AM The Materials Physics of Complex Oxide Heterostructures

Speaker: Charles Ahn (Yale University)

9:50 AM Morning Break

10:05 AM X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy in Heterogeneous Catalysis and Electro-catalysis Studies

Speaker: Umit Ozkan (Ohio State University)

10:45 AM Baumert Award Presentation

Speaker: Maxwell Terban, Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart (Award presented by Qun Shen, Deputy Director for Science, NSLS-II)

11:05 AM Poster Session Awards

11:20 AM Introduction of the 2018-2019 New UEC Members

Speakers: Don DiMarzio (Northrup Grumman, CFN UEC Chair), Jen Bohon (Case Western University, NSLS-II UEC Chair)

11:30 AM → 1:00 PM BNL Exhibitor Networking Session (Open to all BNL)¶

11:30 AM → 1:00 PM Lunch Break

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11:30 AM → 1:00 PM Posters Available for Viewing

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM Exhibitor Raffle Prizes Awarded

1:00 PM → 7:00 PM Workshops

1:00 PM Nanoscale Phenomena in Quantum Materials

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1:00 PM One-stop BNL Characterization Toolbox for the Rational Design of Clean Fuel Catalysts

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1:00 PM Synchrotron Infrared Spectroscopy on Materials in Extreme Environments

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2:00 PM → 2:05 PM Registration Office Closes

3:00 PM → 4:00 PM NSLS-II Tours: Imaging and Spectroscopy Beamlines