Since the construction of the 2-ID beamline, the µ-XRD community has been very productive and has made significant technical and scientific contributions at 2-ID.

APS user Kirsten Jensen (U. Copenhagen) given the European Powder Diffraction Conference Award for Young Scientists.

Haidan Wen of the APS received a DOE Early Career Award, which bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers during the crucial early career years.

An internal review of first-generation personnel safety systems at the APS resulted in an upgrade path for the 44 beamlines utilizing the generation 1 systems.

The impressive variety of world-leading techniques performed at the APS coupled with the facility’s diverse user-base naturally leads to a demand for a variety of different software tools.

The upgrade of APS liquid nitrogen distribution system (LNDS) is almost complete, making it more robust than it has ever been and further improving the availability of x-rays to APS users.

What are user agreements? How do they affect users? What are the differences between the types of agreements? How are agreements administered? This information will help answer those questions.

These Director’s Corners are usually an opportunity to share good news (and there is plenty of that; see Stuart Henderson’s APS Upgrade report for news on BESAC prioritization of the Upgrade). But this time I would like to concentrate on safety, because nothing – nothing – is more important than the safety of our users, resident users, and staff.

Ray Conley, Optics Fabrication Section Leader in the Optics (OPT) Group of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) X-ray Science Division at Argonne is one of four recipients of a 2015 “R&D 100 Award” for development of the binary pseudo-random calibration tool, which “provides the highest resolution ever achieved, 1.5 nanometers, and is used to characterize all advanced imaging systems from interferometers to electron microscopes, according to the award citation.

Researchers using the X-ray Science Division 34-ID-E beamline at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne Advanced Photon Source (APS) are exploring the use of X-rays as a key path to integrated computational materials engineering.

Scientific solutions to global issues increasingly rely on the powerful facilities, tools and expertise located on national laboratory campuses.

Daniel Haskel of the X-ray Science Division (XSD) of the Argonne Advanced Photon Source has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society upon the recommendation of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics.

The ASM Henry Marion Howe Medal for 2015A has been awarded to the paper “In Situ Characterization of Twin Nucleation in Pure Ti Using 3D-XRD” published in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A by a group of researchers that includes one current and one former APS staff member as well as a former APS visiting scientist. 

Jana Šmilauerová, a student at the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, and a student user of the ChemMatCARS x-ray beamline at the Argonne Advanced Photon Source

The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) spotlighted the work of a group of Argonne researchers who utilized two x-ray beamlines at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Photon Source in applying high pressure techniques to a new area of materials science research.

The x-ray electron-free laser is the perfect example of new technology and old perceptions converging on that narrow boundary between science and science fiction.

Yanglai Cho, a principal member of the small, dedicated team that brought the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Photon Source (APS) to Argonne, and one of the principal designers of this revolutionary synchrotron x-ray light source, passed away on June 14, 2015, of complications from pneumonia. He was 82 years of age.

Nearly 100 participants gathered at Fermilab to participate in the Midwest Launch of the Accelerator Stewardship Test Facility Pilot Program.

The 2015 Award for Excellence in Beamline Science at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) was awarded on May 11, 2015, to Daniel Haskel, Group Leader of the Argonne X-ray Science Division Magnetic Materials Group.