The Advanced Photon Source
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Ultrafast - 2008 Agenda

Contact: Eric Landahl, APS
Eric Dufresne, APS
Old 2008 agendas
  • January 16, 2008 at noon in conference Room 432C
    • Eric Landahl's report on his visit of Spring 8
    • Update on the new possible hybrid timing modes by Kathy Harkay, ASD.
    • Initial information Short-pulse workshop in Feb 2008
  • February 21, noon - 1:00 pm, in the 432C conference room.
    1. SPX mini-workshop summary
    2. Machine study and experiment with 1+3x7 fill pattern.
    3. Watching proteins function with time-resolved X-ray crystallography (APS Network only),
      Dr. Philip Anfinrud NIH and BIOCARS
    4. Discussions
  • March 20, noon - 1:00 pm, in the 432C conference room.
    1. Announcements by Gabrielle Long of the charges for the May 9, 2008 SPX Workshop.
      She also announced a March 27-28 2008 worshop at the University of Chicago
      on Picosecond Timing, and encouraged the community to attend. P.S. All the talks have now been posted online at the web site above. Eric Dufresne wrote these notes pointing out some of the interesting talks.
    2. Machine study results by Vadim Sajaev, APS XSD
    3. Ultrafast Imaging with the new 1+3x7 fill pattern, by Jin Wang, TRR Group Leader, XSD
    4. Deadtime measurements with the 1+3x7 fill pattern, by Don Walko, XOR7, XSD
    5. Klaus Attenkofer: Update of 11ID for time-resolved science.
    6. Discussions
  • April 17, 2008 at noon-1h15 in 432C conference Room Agenda:
    1. Introduction of new people
    2. Announcements:
      SLAC Ultrafast X-Ray Summer School, June 17-20, 2008
      APS Short Pulse X-ray Workshop, May 9
    3. Laser Facilities at the Center for Nanoscale Materials, David Gosztola, ANL-CNM
  • May 15, 2008 at noon-1h15 in 432C conference Room Agenda:
    1. Introductions and Announcements
    2. Report on the May 9 Short-Pulse X-Ray Workshop, Linda Young, ANL CHM
    3. Time-Resolved Experiments at Sector 20 IDC (ANL access only), Dale Brewe, APS-XSD, Sector 20
  • June 19, 2008 at noon-1h15 (The meeting was canceled)
  • Thursday July 17, 2008 at noon in conference Room 432C
    1. Introduction and Announcements
    2. Small-angle Thomson Scattering for fs X-rays, Yuelin Li, ASD, APS.
  • Thursday August 21, 2008 at noon in conference Room 432C
    Agenda: 
Introduction and Announcements
"The APS Renewal", Murray Gibson, APS
  • Thursday September 18, 2008 at noon in conference Room 432C
    Agenda: 
Introduction and Announcements
Probing magnetization dynamics with time-resolved magnetic microscopy, David Keavney, XSD, APS.
  • Thursday October 16 18, 2008 at noon in conference Room 432C
    Agenda: 
Introduction and Announcements
"APS Detector Development in the area of pixel detectors, and discussions related to the Renewal Workshop."
Steve Ross, X-ray Science Division.
  • Thursday November 20, 2008 at noon in conference Room 432C
    Agenda: 
Introduction and Announcements:  A first year of the Ultrafast SIG, a retrospective
Connecting laser-induced spin and lattice dynamics in iron thin films
Vladimir A. Stoica, Applied Physics, University of Michigan