Light Sources 101

Abstract

This tutorial is tailored for students, post-docs, and anyone who wants to know how to take advantage of everything the ALS has to offer to further their research . It provides a broad overview of the science one can perform at the ALS with an emphasis on photoemission (XPS, PES, ARPES), spectroscopy (XAS, XES, RIXS), scattering (RSXS, RSoXS, crystallography, XPCS), imaging (STXM, PEEM, tomography). Each topic will include a general introduction to the technique(s) and examples of applications highlighting the capabilities of the ALS beamlines.

This year, our traditional session covering the logistic of the general user proposal system will be extended to include tips and best practices on how to successfully craft a scientific proposal, as well as a panel discussion with beamline scientists and reviewers to provide more guidance about how the process works behind the scenes.

This is the place to ask all the questions you have about a particular technique and how to successfully apply it to your scientific project!

Agenda

Thursday August 12th, 2021:

8:30 AM Welcome from the director
Steve Kevan, LBNL

8:40 AM Virtual Tour
Ina Reichel, LBNL

8:55 AM The machine
Simon Leemann, LBNL

9:10 AM Angle Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy
Chris Jozwiak, LBNL

9:30 AM Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy
Ethan Crumlin, LBNL

9:50 AM Flash talks:
Pinar Aydogan Gokturk, LBNL
Jin Qian, LBNL
Sae Hee Ryu , LBNL
Jinwoong Hwang, LBNL

10:05 AM Q & A

10:15 AM Break

10:30 AM Soft X-ray photon-in-photon-out core-level spectroscopy: XAS & RIXS
Wanli Yang, LBNL

10:50 AM Flash talks:
Feipeng Yang, LBNL
Yang Ha, LBNL

11:00 AM 3D imaging with microCT
Dula Parkinson, LBNL

11:20 AM Flash talks:
Alec Ho, UCB
Jesus Rivera, LLNL

11:30 AM XPEEM: Micro-spectroscopy, Spectro-microscopy and Dichroism Imaging
Rajesh Chopdekar

11:50 AM Flash talks:
Cayla Stifler, UWM
Maggie Xiao, UCLA

12:00 PM Q & A

12:35 PM Conclusion day 1

Friday August 13th, 2021:

8:30 AM X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
Sophie Morley, LBNL

8:50 AM Flash talks:
Ahmad Ikhwan Us Saleheen, LBNL
Margaret McCarter, LBNL

9:00 AM Resonant X-ray Scattering
Padraic Shafer, LBNL

9:20 AM Flash talks:
Jay Paudel , Temple University
Spencer Doyle, Harvard

9:30 PM Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy
Hendrik Ohldag, LBNL

9:50 AM Flash talks:
Vanessa Schoeppler
Thomas Feggeler, LBNL

10:00 AM Q & A

10:15 AM Break

10:30 AM How to get beamtime and become an ALS user?
Andrea Jones

10:50 AM Keys to writing a winning research proposal
Christine Hartmann

11:10 AM Introduce panelists and explain panel discussion

11:15 AM Panel discussion:
Sarah Tolbert - Proposal Study Panel (PSP) chair
Jessica McChesney - PSP member
Hope Michelson - PSP & UEC member
Jay Nix - Beamline Director for the Molecular Biology Consortium
Andreas Scholl - ALS Deputy for Science
Chenhui Zhu - Staff Scientist (7.3.3)

12:00 PM Conclusion Day 2