User Program - Before you come
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 Administrative Information
Questions regarding GM/CA beamlines should be addressed to Ms. Sheila
Trznadel at strznadel@anl.gov
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Shipping Information
Shipping address for our beamlines is:
Sheila Trznadel
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 S. Cass Ave.
GM/CA @ APS, Bldg 436D
Argonne IL 60439
USA
To avoid delays, it is advisable to send the dewars few
days earlier than the beamtime start date. We will refill the dewars upon their arrival. You must plan for delivery to the beamline between
Monday and Friday! There are no deliveries to the beamlines on weekends.
On Saturdays only the deliveries may be accepted by the APS
Guesthouse, but users must call them first
to confirm their shipment. For returning user dewars, please send Sheila Trznadel
(strznadel@anl.gov)
your address, phone, and FedEx account number and she will have them sent back. If you have questions, please contact Sheila Trznadel at
strznadel@anl.gov
or (630)252-0662.
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Accomodation
The only on-site accomodation is at Argonne Guest House, http://www.anlgh.org/
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Training
As soon as your application is approved for the beamtime, please take some
time to visit the “User Information” Pull-down menu on the APS
home page at http://www.aps.anl.gov/
It is a good source and most of your questions will be answered there.
Before you can access any beamline at APS, you will need to complete
mandated training requirements. Please visit APS web site for general
training information at http://www.aps.anl.gov/Users/Become_A_User/When_You_Arrive/Complete_orientation.htm
or contact user office at http://www.aps.anl.gov/About/Visiting/Directions/index.htm
630-252-9090, or apsuser@aps.anl.gov
Sector specific training, administered by GM/CA @ APS, will be completed as
soon as you complete the APS general training and will arrive at sector 23.
Untrained personnel is not allowed to be at the beamline alone and
will not have access to the station. Sector specific training will
be given only once, so please make sure entire group is present.
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Safety
At least a week before you arrive at APS, submit your Experimental Safety
Assessment form to APS. Visit http://www.aps.anl.gov/Safety_and_Training/Experiment_Safety_Approval_Form/index.html
for detailed information and instructions.
Environmental, Safety & Health Plan
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License and user agreements - User agreement
Before you are able to conduct experiments at APS, you must have User
Agreement. Visit http://www.aps.anl.gov/Users/Become_A_User/Before_You_Arrive/Arrange_for_access.htm
for details. GM/CA @ APS will provide crystallographic and other software. It is
your responsibility to make sure that Your home institution has appropriate
licenses for using the software.
At the end of your visit, your host will conduct informal “end of
experiment” interview. Please plan about 30 minutes for it. In you
publications, please acknowledge the beamline by a following sentence: GM/CA @ APS has been funded in whole or in part with Federal
funds from the National Cancer Institute (Y1-CO-1020) and the National
Institute of General Medical Science (Y1-GM-1104). Use of the Advanced Photon
Source was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences,
Office of Science, under contract No. W-31-109-ENG-38.
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GM/CA @ APS Location
GM/CA beamlines are located in Sector 23 of APS (LOM 436D). For more information,
please follow links below http://www.aps.anl.gov/Beamlines/.
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Backup Disks Information
Do not forget to bring with you portable disks for backing up your data. You
need to plan disks space in the amount of 500GB or more. Supported media and
disk formats are described here. Your data
will be saved at the GM/CA storage arrays for two weeks only solely to
make sure the backup to portable disks is complete and undamaged.
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Automounter Templates
If you are planning to use automounter, you would need to bring with you
and upload into the JBluIce data acquisition program a Microsoft Excel
spreadsheet file describing your samples. The spreadsheet templates and the
instructions on their filling are avalible through the
Facilities ->
Automounter requirements page.
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