2018 NSLS-II and CFN Users' Meeting

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

Meeting Agenda

Sunday, 20 May

16:00 → 19:00 Early Registration

16:00 → 19:00 Exhibitor Set Up (optional)

16:00 → 19:00 Poster Set Up (optional)

Monday, 21 May

07:00 → 17:00 Registration Office opens (All attendees must check in before attending any event)

07:30 → 14:00 Exhibitor Set up

09:00 → 17:00 Workshops

09:00 Bringing Big Science into the Classroom

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13:00 Hands-On Data Acquisition and Analysis Tutorial

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10:30 → 19:00 Posters (Available for Viewing)

13:00 → 14:00 NSLS-II and CFN Facility Tours (Exhibitors and Meeting Participants)

15:00 → 17:00 Exhibitor Fair

17:00 → 19:00 Exhibitor Reception

17:00 → 17:05 Registration Office Closes

Tuesday, 22 May

07:00 → 17:00 Registration Office Opens (All attendees much check in before attending any event)

08:00 → 17:00 Exhibitor Session

08:00 → 17:00 Posters (Available for Viewing)

08:30 → 12:00 Official Plenary Session: Session Chair: Mark Dean, Brookhaven National Laboratory

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

08:30 Welcome

Speaker: Doon Gibbs (Director, Brookhaven National Laboratory)

08:40 Introduction

Speaker: Mark Dean (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

08:45 Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences Report

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

09:25 NSLS-II

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

09:55 CFN

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

10:25 Morning Break

10:25 Photo Session

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

10:25 Poster Session and Judging

09:30 → 12:00 BNL Exhibitor Networking Session and Presentations (Open to all BNL)

11:30 → 13:00 Joint UEC Lunch with Andrew Schwartz, BES

11:30 → 13:00 Lunch (Included)

12:55 → 18:30 Workshops

13:00 Characterization of Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems: Advanced Spectroscopy, Microscopy and Diffraction Techniques

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13:00 Emerging Nanomaterials and Nanostructures for Plasmonics and Nanophotonics Applications

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13:00 High-throughput and Data-driven Approaches Guiding Smart Operando Experiments

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13:00 Soils for a Sustainable Future

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15:00 → 16:00 NSLS-II Tours: Diffraction / Scattering and Structural Bio Beamlines

17:00 → 17:05 Registration Office Closes

18:30 → 18:40 Buses Depart for Banquet at Giorgios

19:00 → 22:00 Users' Meeting Annual Banquet

Wednesday, 23 May

08:00 → 14:00 Exhibitor Session

08:00 → 14:00 Registration Office Opens (All attendees much check in before attending any event)

08:25 → 11:30 Scientific Plenary Session - Session Chair: Don DiMarzio, Northrop Grumman

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

08:25 Welcome

08:30 Tailoring Light with Metamaterials and Plasmonics

Speaker: Andrea Alù (City University of New York)

09:10 The Materials Physics of Complex Oxide Heterostructures

Speaker: Charles Ahn (Yale University)

09:50 Morning Break

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

Speaker: Umit Ozkan (Ohio State University)

10:45 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 Poster Session Awards

11:20 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 → 13:00 BNL Exhibitor Networking Session (Open to all BNL)¶

11:30 → 13:00 Lunch Break

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11:30 → 13:00 Posters Available for Viewing

12:00 → 12:30 Exhibitor Raffle Prizes Awarded

13:00 → 19:00 Workshops

13:00 Nanoscale Phenomena in Quantum Materials

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13:00 One-stop BNL Characterization Toolbox for the Rational Design of Clean Fuel Catalysts

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13:00 Synchrotron Infrared Spectroscopy on Materials in Extreme Environments

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14:00 → 14:05 Registration Office Closes

15:00 → 16:00 NSLS-II Tours: Imaging and Spectroscopy Beamlines