Workshop on X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy at NSLS-II
Workshop agenda: Wednesday January 16, 2008
time |
Topic |
Speaker |
8:30-8:45 |
Welcome, purpose of the workshop |
Bruce Ravel, NIST |
8:45-9:00 |
Beamline technical overview |
Paul Northrup, BNL |
9:00-9:15 |
NSLS-II user access |
John Hill, BNL |
9:30-10:10 |
Condensed matter science |
Vincent Harris, Northeastern University |
10:15-10:55 |
Life science |
|
11:00-11:45 |
Environmental science |
Donald Sparks, University of Delaware |
12:00-12:30 |
Lunch |
|
12:45-1:25 |
Catalysis, chemical, and energy science |
Sven Schroeder, University of Manchester |
1:30-2:10 |
Geological and high pressure science |
Wendy Mao, Stanford University |
2:15 |
Group photo |
|
2:30-4:00 |
Discussion of the technical needs, capabilities, and possibilities for the damping wiggler beamline |
|
4:00-end |
Determine BAT membership, discuss modes and frequency of communication between BAT and community |
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- Science talks
- These talks will outline the needs of the various scientific communities using XAS and comment on how the exceptional flux and broad energy range of the damping wiggler source will positively impact their fields.
- Technical needs
- The session on technical needs, capabilities, and possibilities will be an open discussion of the various issues surrounding the damping wiggler beamline and will be the time to express your ideas about
- special equipment needs for specific communities
- modes of measurement (micro, bulk, slew scanning, fast scanning)
- observations from other 3rd generation sources in providing XAS to a diverse user community
- detectors, what's available, what's desired
- and anything else that is on your mind
- The session on technical needs, capabilities, and possibilities will be an open discussion of the various issues surrounding the damping wiggler beamline and will be the time to express your ideas about
- Questions for the day
What novel experiments could you perform with this high-flux source?
What instrumentation and infrastructure would you like to see at this beamline?
What other XAS capabilities and beamlines would you like to see at NSLS-II?
BAT Meeting: Thursday January 17, 2008
The newly seated members of the BAT meet from 9am - 1pm to outline and begin work on the LOI and to agree on a work-flow plan to finish the document by the due date. Time permitting, begin discussion of upgrades using MIE money.