InterCAT Technical Workgroup
Meeting Presentations
2012
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January 19, 2012
- Microsecond Time-Resolved SAXS at the BioCAT Beamline 18ID - Raul Barrea (BioCAT)
- Progress toward a high-power hard x-ray beam position monitoring and alignment system at the APS - Glenn Decker (ASD-DIA)
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February 16, 2012
- Recent developments using Paris-Edinburgh large volume press at the HPCAT beamline 16BM-B - Yoshio Kono (HPCAT)
- A Compact, Versatile Magnet at 7ID - Harold Gibson (XSD-TRR)
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March 15, 2012
- An Early View of the Bionanoprobe - Si Chen (XSD-MIC)
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April 19, 2012
- Design and test of a microwave taper - Bernhard Adams (XSD-TRR)
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May 17, 2012
- 2-ID-E — main stream navigation at a side branch beamline - Sophie-Charlotte Gleber (XSD-MIC)
- Using MDA Utilities for accessing data stored by saveData - Dohn Arms (AES-BC)
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June 21, 2012
- pgepics and pgpmac: LS-CAT postgresql based channel access server and MD2 interface - Keith Brister (LS-CAT)
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July 19, 2012
- No meeting.
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August 16, 2012
- Session: Macromolecular Crystallography Data Processing at CATs
- At IMCA-CAT - Kevin Battaile (IMCA-CAT)
- At LS-CAT - Joseph Brunzelle (LS-CAT)
- At GM/CA-CAT - Sudhir Pothineni (GM/CA-CAT)
- At NE-CAT - Frank Murphy (NE-CAT)
- Session: Macromolecular Crystallography Data Processing at CATs
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September 20, 2012
- quadEM: EPICS Software for High-Speed Electrometers for Beam Position Monitors - Mark Rivers (GSECARS)
- A Novel Hybrid X-Ray Focusing Scheme - Bernhard Adams (XSD-TRR)
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October 18, 2012
- Testing commercial sample-mounting loops for movement in the cold-stream - Randy Alkire (SBC)
- Characterization and Modification of a Grating Spectrometer for Time-Resolved Spectroscopy - Michael Cycon (DePaul University)
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November 15, 2012
- tomoRecon: High-speed tomography reconstruction on workstations using multi-threading - Mark Rivers (GSECARS)
- Auto-Raster: Unattended Diffraction-Based Sample Centering at GM/CA - Mark Hilgart (GM/CA)
2011
- January 20, 2011
- Status of Experiment Software Architecture - Claude Saunders (AES-SSG)
- Measurements of gas bremsstrahlung radiation in the Sector 35 diagnostic beamline - Jeffrey Dooling (ASD-AOP)
- March 17, 2011
- Using coherent X-ray diffraction to probe laser-generated strain - Eric Dufresne (XSD-TRR)
- May 26, 2011
- Improving Communication of APS Operations Information Using Social Networking Tools - John Quintana (AES-MIS)
- On-the-fly scanning: Improvements in the EPICS 'motor' and 'mca' modules - Mark Rivers (GSECARS)
- June 16, 2011
- SoftGlue: A Run-time User-configurable FPGA in EPICS - Tim Mooney (AES-SSG)
- Status of PX Beamline Controls at the Australian Light Source - Mark Clift (AS)
- July 21, 2011
- Vector Scanned Data Collection Methods at NECAT - Malcolm Capel (NECAT)
- A new, and improved, MOSTAB (monochromator stabilizer) - Bernhard Adams (XSD-TRR)
- August 18, 2011
- A Mössbauer Microscope - Esen Alp (XSD)
- Data Reduction and Quality Checks in Microchannel-Plate Tests - Matthew Wetstein (HEP)
- September 15, 2011
- Using Python for Epics Channel Access: Library and Applications - Matthew Newville (GSECARS)
- Meet the Liquid Nitrogen Distribution System - Andrew Stevens (AES-SO)
- October 20, 2011
- Recent Developments at the 20-ID-B Microprobe Station - Steve Heald (XSD-SPC)
- Periodic Variation of Stress in Sputter Deposited Si/WSi2 Multilayers - Albert Macrander (XSD-OPT)
- November 17, 2011
- Keep it Cheap: EPICS Devices for the Small Laboratory - Mark Rivers (GSECARS)
2010
- January 21, 2010
- A Flexible Video Distribution System - Lynn Ribaud (XSD-MC)
- The Efforts to Develop a sub-ns and sub-mm Resolving Area Detector - Matthew Wetstein (HEP)
- February 18, 2010
- A portable laser heating system for high pressure research - Guoyin Shen (HP-CAT)
- Beam stabilization systems development work supporting the APS Upgrade - Glenn Decker (ASD)
- March 18, 2010
- Computing infrastructure at the tomography beamline - Francesco DeCarlo (XSD-IMG)
- Using GPU for x-ray tomography data processing - Valeriy Titarenko (University of Manchester)
- X-ray lenses with continuously variable focal length - Matthieu Chollet (XSD-TRR)
- April 15, 2010
- 4,000 Spectra or 4,000,000 ROIs per Second: EPICS Support for High-Speed Digital X-ray Spectroscopy with the XIA xMap - Mark Rivers (GSECARS)
- Networking Support and 10G Upgrades for CAT Beamlines - David Leibfritz (AES-IT)
- May 20, 2010
- Refinement of the ALS Sample Mounter at NECAT - Malcolm Capel (NE-CAT)
- Thoughts on Signal Processing for Future X-ray Detectors - Tim Madden (XSD-ODG)
- June 17, 2010
- Transition of GM/CA-CAT data acquisition software from BluIce to JBluIce - Mark Hilgart (GM/CA-CAT)
- Stiffness and resolution test of the APS T8-31 vertical nanopositioning weak-link stage - Deming Shu (AES)
- July 15, 2010
- X-ray pulse isolation using synchronous beam choppers at BioCARS - Tim Graber (BioCARS)
- Deploying a PILATUS 6M for Protein Crystallography at IMCA-CAT - Lewis Muir and Joe Digilio (IMCA-CAT)
- September 16, 2010
- Single-line-command-driven user interfaces for automated data processing at SER-CAT - Zheng-Qing (Albert) Fu (SER-CAT)
- First results with integrating 2nd generation Berkeley Cartesian automounters into GM/CA-CAT beamline controls - Oleg Makarov (GM/CA-CAT)
- October 21, 2010
- Small aperture, welded, stainless-Steel insertion device vacuum chambers - Ben Stillwell and Emil Trakhtenberg (AES)
- Development of a short-pulse laser enhancement cavity for intense-laser/x-ray pump-probe experiments at 6.5 MHz - Anne Marie March (XSD)
- November 18, 2010
- Application of X-ray reflection interface microscopy to thin-film materials - Zhan Zhang (XSD)
- Time Resolved Radiography at the 7-BM Beamline - Alan Kastengren (XSD)
2009
- January 15, 2009
- Interfacing PowerPMAC with EPICS - Krzysztof Lazarski (SBC-CAT)
- Catalysis Beamline at the APS - Steve Heald (XSD)
- February 19, 2009
- On-axis Sample Visualization Techniques - Kazimierz Gofron (SBC-CAT)
- March 19, 2009
- Electronics and Signal Processing for Fast Detectors - Jean-Francois Genat (Enrico Fermi Institute - University of Chicago)
- Installation and Development of the MD2 microdiffractometer on NE-CAT undulator beam lines - Malcolm Capel (NE-CAT)
- April 16, 2009
- High Flux Double Undulator Beamline for Time Dependent Scattering Experiments - Tim Graber (Sector 14)
- Diffraction/fluorescence rastering and remote screening at GM/CA - Mark Hilgart (GMCA-CAT)
- May 21, 2009
- LS-CAT's Lustre: A Supercomputer File System for Protein Crystallography - Keith Brister (LS-CAT)
- Using IBM's GPFS at NE-CAT and SER-CAT - Brian Finley (CIS)
- June 18, 2009
- High energy X-ray CT at 10BM - Jeremy Kropf (CSE)
- Real-time High Performance Computing for XOR - Ken Sidorowicz (AES-IT)
- July 16, 2009
- Status of R&D on Superconducting Undulator for the APS - Yury Ivanyushenkov (ASD-MD)
- Design and Development of Compact Mini-beam Collimators for Macromolecular Crystallography at the GMCA CAT - Shenglan Xu (GMCA-CAT)
- August 20, 2009
- The development of a novel high-resolution element-selective microscope by means of synchrotron x-ray enhanced scanning tunneling microscopy (SXSTM) - Volker Rose (XSD-MIC)
- Nanoradian angular stabilization of x-ray optical components - Stanislav Stoupin (XSD-IXN)
- September 17, 2009
- Levitation: Engineering + Science at 11 ID-C - Rick Weber (USR-APS)
- Scanning probe diffraction microscopy at the nanoprobe beamline - Martin Holt (CNM)
- October 15, 2009
- Technical overview of ACS Motion Controllers - Jason Goerges (ACS Motion Control Ltd.)
- New EPICS software developments for area detectors - Mark Rivers (CARS)
- November 15, 2009
- LS-CAT Remote User Control - Keith Brister (LS-CAT)
- Longer string communication with EPICS R3.14.11 IOCs - Andrew Johnson (AES-CTL)
2008
- January 17, 2008
- LN2 Delivery System Upgrade for the 11ID-D Monochromator - Evan Maxey (CEP/old BESSRC)
- Status of the PICO-SECOND SOURCE - Eric Landahl (TRR)
- February 21, 2008
- March 4, 2008
- March 20, 2008
- Active Beam Steering Techniques at NE-CAT - Malcolm Capel (NE-CAT)
- Detector Strategies:
- Steve Ross (detector pool)
- Dean Haeffner (high energy)
- Qun Shen (imaging)
- Ercan Alp (nuclear/inelastic scattering)
- Bernhard Adams (timing experiments)
- Alec Sandy (correlation spectroscopy)
- Steve Heald (spectroscopy)
- April 17, 2008
- Radiometry and Infrared Imaging Capabilities at the APS - Jeff Collins (AES-MED)
- Coupling Definition Options for the SR - Michael Borland (ASD-OA)
- June 19, 2008
- areaDetector: A New EPICS Module for Area Detector Support - Mark Rivers (CARS/Sector 13)
- August 21, 2008
- Beam Stabilization Proposals Supporting the APS Renewal - G. Decker (ASD)
- First Experiences with the Atto-cube Positioning System - Stefan Vogt (XSD)
- October 16, 2008
- A High Energy Fast Shutter - Ultrich Lienert (XSD)
- The High Pressure Synergetic Consortium at the Advanced Photon Source: an Overview - Michael Lerche (HPSynC)
- November 20, 2008
- Space Saving Shielding Systems-Hybrid Tungsten / Lead Collimator Concepts - Oliver Schmidt (AES-MED)
- Centralized Beamline Scheduling - A Work in Progress - Claude Saunders (AES/CTL)
2007
- January 18, 2007
- New Measurement Tools and Capabilities at the X-ray Optics Metrology Laboratory and Updates on Mirror Quality and Trends - L. Assoufid (XSD)
- February 16, 2007
- Development of a real-time monitor for x-ray timing shutters - R. Alkire (SBC-CAT)
- Electron guns for the home and office: A new approach to making high-brightness beams - J. Lewellen (ASD)
- Design and application of CVD diamond windows for x-rays at the APS - Y. Jaski (XFD)
- June 21, 2007
- November 15, 2007
2006
- February 16, 2006
- March 16, 2006
- Upcoming challenges for the Technical Working Group - E. Dufresne (XOR), R. Pahl (BioCARS)
- Tools & Toys: X-ray-Eye design with off-the-shelf components - D. Schultz (ChemMat CARS)
- Progress on photon beam position monitors and related issues - G. Decker (AOD)
- Time-resolved magnetic microscopy using photo-emitted electrons - D. Keavney (XOR)
- April 20, 2006
- June 15, 2006
- September 21, 2006
2005
- January 20, 2005
- February
17, 2005
- Facility updates - K. Randall (AOD)
- Facility updates - E. Chang (AOD)
- Accelerator physics aspects of crab-cavity based production of picosecond X-ray pulses - M. Borland (AOD)
- Picosecond X-ray pulse compression optics following RF bunch deflection (to be published) - S. Shastri (XOR)
- Technical issues for pump-probe experiments utilizing picosecond X-ray pulses - E. Landahl (XOR)
- March 17, 2005
- April 21, 2005
- May 19, 2005
- June 16, 2005
- July 21, 2005
- August
18, 2005
- Adaptation of a commercial optical CMOS image sensor for direct-detection high-speed X-ray imaging - L. Marschand (XOR)
- X-ray imaging at Sector-32 - Q. Shen (XOR)
- September 15, 2005
- October 20, 2005
- November 17, 2005
- December 15, 2005
- Design of a diffraction system for in-situ materials processing - P. Fuoss (MSD)
- Observations of beam-tilt from monochromatic beams at 7-ID - E. Dufresne (XOR)
- APS Machine Status Link (MSL) - from the user's point of view - M. Smith (ASD)
2004
- January 22, 2004
- February 19, 2004
- March 18, 2004
- April 15, 2004
- May 20, 2004
- June 17, 2004
- October 21, 2004
- Hutch and FE installation update - K. Randall (AOD)
- CNM contruction update - R. Janik (AOD)
- Floor coordinator walkthrough - R. Klaffky (AOD)
- Progress and status of a new detector for time-resolved SAXS studies - J. Hessler (ANL)
- E-bay A resource for scientists? Or: The wavelength dispersive spectrometer at Sector-20 - J. Cross (PNC-CAT)
- November 18, 2004
2003
- January 16, 2003
- Shutdown activities - J. Noonan (ASD)
- Design and schedule for the installation of the canted undulator beamlines - P. DenHartog (XFD)
- Radiation damage to APS insertion devices - E. Moog (XFD)
- Beam-position monitor and its applications - R. Alkire (SBC-CAT)
- Implementation of the EPICS software feedback system at CARS - R. Henning (CARS-CAT), M. Rivers (CARS-CAT)
- The digital monochromator stabilization system SIS2900 - K. Attenkofer (BESSRC-CAT)
- February 20, 2003
- March 20, 2003
- Beginning a new PSS design - J. Carwardine (ASD), R. Emerson (ASD)
- MHATT-CAT OMS-8s servo motor EPICS installation and related information - E. Dufresne (MHATT-CAT)
- April 17, 2003
- May 15, 2003
- June 19, 2003
- July 17, 2003
- August 21, 2003
- September 18, 2003
- October 16, 2003
- APS-wide PV naming convention - J. Maclean (ASD)
- Report on diffractometer incident at Sector-7 - D. Walko (XOR, MHATT-CAT)
- EPICS software to control area detectors: Roper, Bruker , mar165 and MAR345 - M. Rivers (CARS)
- Update on APS quad-electrometer development - M. Rivers (CARS)
- APS metrology laboratory – Update on instrumentation and recent activities - L. Assoufid (XFD)
- November 20, 2003
- December 18, 2003
2002
- December 19, 2002
- November 21, 2002
- APS Updates - R. Klaffky (AOD)
- DetectorSync initiative - D. Mills (APS)
- Silicon PIN diodes - T. Gog (CMC-CAT)
- X-ray detector development at APS/ASD - S. Ross (AOD)
- APS Detector Pool - P. Ilinski (XFD)
- October 17, 2002
- Comparison, low emittance vs. lower emittance lattices - G. Decker (APS)
- Exploring APS parameters in view of the user experiment - P. Ilinski (SER-CAT)
- Synchrotron Circulating Beam Parameters and Photons to Sample - P.J. Viccaro
- September 19, 2002
- August 15, 2002
- July 18, 2002
- June 20, 2002
- May 16, 2002
- April 18, 2002
- Agenda Review and TWG Activity Summary - R. Pahl
- APS Update - S. Davey (APS)
- Performance of GSE-CARS large KB Focusing Optics - P. Eng (CARS)
- 3-Dimensional Submicron X-ray Structural Microscopy - J. Tischler (ORNL)
- APS Beam Stability and Beam Position Monitors - G. Decker (APS)
- March 21, 2002
- Agenda Review and TWG Activity Summary - M. Beno
- APS Update - S. Davey (APS)
- APS Retreat - G. Srajer (SRI)
- APS ID radiation damage measurements - P.K. Jobs (APS)
- See also P.K. Job LS-283 for details, two addendum
- Canted Undulator design - P. Den Hartog (APS)
- Ultrafast Laser Excited EXAFS - D. Brewe (PNC)
- Ultrafast Laser−pumped X−ray probe Spectroscopy of GaAs - B. Adams (APS)