Scientific Interest Groups
Self-organizing groups that offer forums for discussion among users and beamline staff who are interested in advancing synchrotron research in a particular area.
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Catalysis
Contact: Randall Winans, APS
rewinans@anl.gov
The Catalysis group meets at noon on the second Tuesday of each month in the LOM 433 conference room.
High Pressure
Contact:
Michael Lerche, HP-CAT
lerche@aps.anl.gov
The High-Pressure group promotes awareness of the high-pressure research activities and associated facilities at the APS and elsewhere. The group meets monthly on one Thursday at 3:00 pm in the LOM 434 conference room.
Liquid and Soft-Matter Surface Scattering
Contact: Ivan Kuzmenko
kuzmenko@aps.anl.gov
Contact: Binhua Lin
lin@cars.uchicago.edu
The Liquid and Soft-Matter Surface Scattering group promotes awareness of the facilities for this research at the APS and elsewhere. The group meets on the third Monday of each month at 12:00 pm in the LOM 434 conference room. A schedule is provided on the group's web site.
Powder Diffraction
Contact: Brian Toby, APS
brian.toby@anl.gov
Contact: Peter Lee, APS
pllee@aps.anl.gov
This group is currently inactive, but will resume meeting monthly in the future.
Small Angle Scattering
Contact: Pete Jemian, APS
jemian@aps.anl.gov
This group meets monthly (first Tuesday at noon, LOM 438 conference room) and maintains a email distribution list to promote awareness of the small-angle scattering facilities at the APS, Intense Pulsed Neutron Source, and elsewhere on the Argonne campus and to foster communications among the various research groups.
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Surface & Interface Scattering
Contact: Paul Zschack
zschack@anl.gov
The Surface & Interface Scattering Group meets monthly to promote awareness of surface and interface scattering science and facilities at the APS. This focus group meets for lunch on the third Tuesday of each month in the LOM 438 conference room. All interested parties are welcome to attend.
Tomography
Contact: Robert Winarski, CNM
winarski@anl.gov
Contact: Francesco De Carlo, APS
decarlo@aps.anl.gov
The microtomography special interest group of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory has been created to promote awareness of the microtomography facilities at the APS and to foster communications between the various research groups. Through this group, we believe we can build a strong user community for microtomography at the APS. The web site includes a list of microtomography beamlines.
Ultrafast
Contact: Eric Dufresne, APS
dufresne@aps.anl.gov
XAFS
Contact: Robert Gordon
ragordon@sfu.ca
The XAFS group meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month to discuss x-ray absorption fine-structure and related spectroscopies. The lunch-time meetings feature talks on recent scientific results as well as discussion on advances in technique, analysis, education and instrumentation. To receive announcements, please subscribe to the Mailing List on http://www.xafs.org/APSXAFS
X-ray Microscopy & Imaging
Contact: Qun Shen (APS)
qshen@aps.anl.gov
Weekly presentations will be held on Tuesdays, at about 2:20 pm, in LOM 431, Room C010, following regular XMI group meetings. The topics of these presentations will cover research and developments in all areas of x-ray microscopy and imaging, including user scientific highlights, techinical project reports, novel ideas in methodology, and new developments in the literature. All interested are welcome to attend.