2018 NSLS-II and CFN Users' Meeting

20 May 2018, 04:00 → 23 May 2018, 19:00 US/Eastern

Meeting Agenda

Sunday, 20 May

1 Early Registration

2 Exhibitor Set Up (optional)

3 Poster Set Up (optional)

Monday, 21 May

4 Registration Office opens (All attendees must check in before attending any event)

5 Exhibitor Set up

Workshops

6 Bringing Big Science into the Classroom

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7 Hands-On Data Acquisition and Analysis Tutorial

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8 Posters (Available for Viewing)

9 NSLS-II and CFN Facility Tours (Exhibitors and Meeting Participants)

10 Exhibitor Fair

11 Exhibitor Reception

12 Registration Office Closes

Tuesday, 22 May

13 Registration Office Opens (All attendees much check in before attending any event)

14 Exhibitor Session

15 Posters (Available for Viewing)

Official Plenary Session: Session Chair: Mark Dean, Brookhaven National Laboratory

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

16 Welcome

Speaker: Doon Gibbs (Director, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

17 Introduction

Speaker: Mark Dean (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

18 Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences Report

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

19 NSLS-II

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

20 CFN

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

21 Morning Break

22 Photo Session

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

23 Poster Session and Judging

24 BNL Exhibitor Networking Session and Presentations (Open to all BNL)

25 Joint UEC Lunch with Andrew Schwartz, BES

26 Lunch (Included)

Workshops

27 Characterization of Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems: Advanced Spectroscopy, Microscopy and Diffraction Techniques

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28 Emerging Nanomaterials and Nanostructures for Plasmonics and Nanophotonics Applications

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29 High-throughput and Data-driven Approaches Guiding Smart Operando Experiments

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30 Soils for a Sustainable Future

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31 NSLS-II Tours: Diffraction / Scattering and Structural Bio Beamlines

32 Registration Office Closes

33 Buses Depart for Banquet at Giorgios

34 Users' Meeting Annual Banquet

Wednesday, 23 May

35 Exhibitor Session

36 Registration Office Opens (All attendees much check in before attending any event)

Scientific Plenary Session - Session Chair: Don DiMarzio, Northrop Grumman

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

37 Welcome

38 Tailoring Light with Metamaterials and Plasmonics

Speaker: Andrea Alù (City University of New York)

39 The Materials Physics of Complex Oxide Heterostructures

Speaker: Charles Ahn (Yale University)

40 Morning Break

41 X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy in Heterogeneous Catalysis and Electro-catalysis Studies

Speaker: Umit Ozkan (Ohio State University)

42 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)

43 Poster Session Awards

44 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)

45 BNL Exhibitor Networking Session (Open to all BNL)¶

46 Lunch Break

(Included - ticket required)

47 Posters Available for Viewing

48 Exhibitor Raffle Prizes Awarded

Workshops

49 Nanoscale Phenomena in Quantum Materials

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50 One-stop BNL Characterization Toolbox for the Rational Design of Clean Fuel Catalysts

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51 Synchrotron Infrared Spectroscopy on Materials in Extreme Environments

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52 Registration Office Closes

53 NSLS-II Tours: Imaging and Spectroscopy Beamlines