LAURENT CHAPON TO LEAD ARGONNE’S ADVANCED PHOTON SOURCE: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory has named Laurent Chapon as associate laboratory director for Photon Sciences and director of the Advanced Photon Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Argonne.

APS LAUNCHES PHONE APPLICATION FOR USERS: NEW! The APS has developed a customized phone application for its users that links to the APS User Info web page as well as several key resources such as request assistance from the floor coordinator, a new platform to report end of beam time when experiments are completed, and My APS Portal – a personalized gateway to the APS, and much more.

NOTIFICATION TO USERS:  The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (SC), which is the primary sponsor of the APS, requires that a limited set of information relating to your user project/experiment be transmitted to SC at the conclusion of the current fiscal year.  A subset of this information, including your name, institutional affiliations), and project titles(s), will be publicly disseminated a part of an SC user facility user projects/experiments database on the SC website, http://science.energy.gov, after the conclusion of the fiscal year.  For proprietary projects, SC requests that the user provide a project title that is suitable for public dissemination.