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 Synopsis

NSFCHEMBIO Workshop

The U.S. neutron users’ community is eagerly anticipating the commissioning and operation of beam lines at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), currently under construction at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Many opportunities exist for wonderful scientific advances with neutron scattering and spectroscopic investigations by chemists and by biologists working at the chemistry-biology interface. However, the number of active neutron users among these communities is currently small, and the communities as a whole have had little opportunity to communicate their interests and needs. A series of talks on scientific grand challenges and the role neutrons can play are planned in areas such as:

• catalysis;
• compounds with exotic magnetic and electronic properties;
• materials for energy production and storage;
• structure and dynamics in liquids, glasses, complex fluids;
• molecular behavior under confinement/near interfaces; and
• complex self-assembled materials of molecular and macromolecular components, studied at multiple length scales.

The goals of this workshop are to:

• inform the chemistry and chem-bio communities of opportunities—instrumentation and supporting facilities—currently planned for the SNS;
• solicit the community’s ideas on the needs for instrumentation, for detector development, for sample environment development (addressed by the overlapping workshop, SENSE), for time-resolved neutron scattering, for deuteration facilities for both low- and high molecular compounds, for data analysis suites that integrate modeling and simulation and for educational efforts in designing, executing and analyzing scattering experiments; and
• identify the tools needed and outline a path to realization via the formation of concept teams to develop science cases and funding proposals for instrumentation, sample environments, supporting lab facilities and best practices for education of new users in the chemistry and chem-bio communities.

NSFCHEMBIO Program Committee

• Shenda Baker, Harvey-Mudd College, Cochair
• John Larese, University of Tennessee, Cochair
  
• Paul Butler, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  
• W. Ross Ellington, Florida State University
  
• Wayne Goodman, Texas A&M University
  
• Martha Greenblatt, Rutgers University
• Joanna Krueger, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
  
• Jyotsana Lal, Argonne National Laboratory
  
• Lee Magid, University of Tennessee and Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences
  
• James Martin, North Carolina State University
  
• Dean Myles, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  
• Doug Tobias, University of California at Irvine
  
• John Turner, University of Tennessee

NSFCHEMBIO Contacts

• Technical information: Lee Magid, 865-974-4228
• Local arrangements: Janet Patten, 850-644-9651

SENSE Workshop

Abstracts (41KB PDF)

A growing number of scientists are using neutron scattering techniques, and their research increasingly calls for more advanced sample environments (temperature, magnetic field, pressure, chemical environment, etc.). Challenging research areas include in situ studies of catalysis, self-assembling nanostructures, pressure-induced phase transitions, dynamic mechanical stress, and high-field studies of magnetic excitations and structures. SENSE is an action-oriented workshop devoted to exploring the science drivers impacting sample environment issues, and developing a roadmap to address these needs:

• leading scientists from several communities speak about hot research topics with strong sample environment implications,
• instrumentation experts give a worldwide overview of sample environment capabilities,
• discussion panels establish benchmarks for new sample environment development (all attendees encouraged to participate),
• funding opportunities and new program initiatives announced, and
• poster sessions and tours of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.

SENSE Program Committee

• Jack Crow, Cochair, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State Univ.
• Paul Sokol, Cochair, Pennsylvania State University
  
• Chris Benmore, Argonne National Laboratory
  
• Peter Liaw, University of Tennessee
  
• Mathias Lösche, Johns Hopkins University
  
• John Parise,  SUNY Stony Brook
  
• Thomas Proffen, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  
• Thomas Russell, University of Massachusetts
  
• Ivan Schuller, University of California at San Diego
  
• Barbara Wyslouzil, Worcester Polytechnic

SENSE Contacts

• Technical information: Lou Santodonato, (865) 574-0336
• Local contact: Janet Patten, (850) 644-9651

 Confirmed Speakers and Draft Agendas

NSFCHEMBIO Confirmed Speakers

• Shenda Baker, Harvey Mudd College
• David Baxter, Indiana University
• Luc Daemon, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Joanna Krueger, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
• Tonya Kuhl, University of California, Davis
• John Larese, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Dean Myles, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Dermot O'Hare, Oxford
• John Root, Chalk River, Canada
• Doug Tobias, University of California, Irvine
• John Tompkinson, ISIS, UK
• Frans Trouw, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Joe Zwanzinger, Indiana University
  

Download the most recent draft agenda (for both workshops), 9-19-03 (PDF 32KB)

SENSE Confirmed Speakers

• Zoe Bowden, ISIS, UK
• Don Brown, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Takeshi Egami, University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Linda Horton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• John Katsaras, Chalk River, Canada
• Trudy Kriven, University of Illinois
• Ben Larson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Dongqi Li, Argonne National Laboratory
• Jarek Majewski, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  
• Michael Meissner, HMI, Germany
• Paul Miceli, University of Missouri
• Peter Pershan, Harvard
• Tom Russell, University of Massachusetts
• Ivan Schuller, University of California, San Diego
• John Turner, University of Tennessee
• Stephen White, University of California, Irvine
• Barbara Wyslouzil, WPI
  

Also, every major U.S. neutron user facility will be represented at a special discussion panel:

• High Flux Isotope Reactor: Greg Smith
• Intense Pulsed Neutron Source: Ray Teller
• Los Alamos Neutron Science Center: Alan Hurd
• National Institute of Standards and Technology: Jeff Lynn
• Spallation Neutron Source: Thom Mason

Download the most recent draft agenda (for both workshops), 9-4-03 (PDF 108 KB)

 Registration Information

Registration is available online at https://public.ornl.gov/jins/. The same fee registers you for both workshops. As part of your conference registration fee, each registrant will be provided with snacks and lunch during each day of the conference, and dinner and reception on Wednesday night, and tour of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. A summary of poster presentations will also be distributed. For planning purposes please indicate which workshop in which you are most interested. 

Scholarships are available for faculty, graduate, and selected undergraduate students at U.S. colleges and universities. Members of underrepresented groups in the sciences are encouraged to apply.

 Poster Session

Poster Abstracts (86KB PDF)

A poster session is scheduled on Wednesday evening, September 24, at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Scholarship recipients may wish to display their research at the poster session. To be considered for this session, please send a 200-word abstract describing the research, along with the names of all of the authors and their affiliations to ekkebusae@sns.gov. Posters should be no larger than 3 feet high by 6 feet long. They can be attached by push pins, which will be supplied by conference organizers. You will be notified by September 1 of the abstract’s acceptance. Abstracts will be available for all conference attendees in a handout at the conference. 

 Instructions for Presenters

Presenters are strongly encouraged to submit their presentations in Powerpoint format before their arrival in Tallahassee; anyone using other software or other presentation formats, such as viewgraphs or 35-mm slides, needs to contact Janet Patten via patten@magnet.fsu.edu as soon as possible. This submission will allow the conference center staff to help you avoid confusion at the conference by checking the presentation on the software to be used at the conferences. Also, a limited number of copies of each presentation will be distributed on the day of each presentation; copies will be made only of presentations received by September 19. The Powerpoint presentations should be submitted to Kathy Hedick via e-mail at hedick@magnet.fsu.edu by Sept. 18; she will confirm with all submitters whether we make copies of all presentations, 2 slides per page, no color. We will post all the talks on our web site during the conference; the talks will also be posted in such a manner so that they can be easily downloaded by participants. 

 Hotel Reservations

Holiday Inn Select
310 W. Tennessee Street
Tallahassee, FL 32301
(850) 222-9555
(850) 224-8410 fax
www.hitallahassee.com

The workshop room rate for a king or double is $59. Block rates have been extended to September 8. Please ask for rooms under "neutron workshops" and make reservations before September 8 to get the $59 rate. The on site contact is Karen Lambert (histallkaren@aol.com). Complimentary airport shuttle service is provided. When you arrive at the airport, please call the hotel using the courtesy phone by the baggage claim area to have the shuttle pick you up. The hotel is located in downtown Tallahassee and near the FSU campus. Check-in time is 3:00 p.m. and check out time is 12 noon.

Wingate Inn
2516 Lakeshore Drive
(behind Days Inn by the corner of North Monroe just south of I-10)
Tallahassee, FL 32303
Phone: (850) 553-4400
Fax: (850) 553-4410

A block of rooms have been reserved for the workshops at $69/night. Block rates have been extended to September 8. Please ask for rooms under "neutron workshops" and make reservations before September 8 to get the $69 rate. The on site contact is Jason Dugan. Complimentary airport and office shuttle service available 7:00 a.m. through 11:00 p.m. daily. Please schedule transportation needs in advance when possible. Complimentary daily deluxe 36+ item continental breakfast, Happy Hour Monday through Thursday, fitness room with whirlpool, swimming pool, local calls and long-distance access, and 24-hour, self-service business center which includes high-speed Internet access, fax, copier, and printer. Free in-room amenities include microwave, refrigerator, coffeemaker, hairdryer, iron, ironing board, safe, cordless phone, and high-speed Internet access, two-line speakerphone with data port, voice mail, and conference call capabilities.

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