APS User News-at-a-Glance 2005

Year-End Index

Issue 29 (01.24)

• APS Community Mourns Howard Birnbaum, Long-time Friend and Advisor
• Message from Murray: Scientific Strategic Plan Nearing Completion
• Cross-cut review on January 26: Science requiring the pulsed structure of the APS x-ray beam
• Research highlight: In situ kinetics study reveals a key to consistent self-assembly of nanocrystal superlattices
• Users Meeting May 2-6 celebrates anniversary, beginning
• Mail-in crystallography program introduced for general users
• General User update: More beamlines, extra beam time, next deadline
• Users invited to support accelerator research through American Physical Society
• People news: New leadership in accelerator operations, x-ray microscopy, and ESH/QA; Joanne Day retiring in March
• Administrative dates and deadlines

Issue 30 (03.08)

• Message from Murray
• Schmahl, Kirz Receive Compton Award for Contributions to X-ray Microscopy
• Research Highlight: X-ray Movies Reveal Muscle Motion for Insect Flight
• Local Special Interest Groups Help Users Overcome "Geography" and Share Info, Resources
• User Announcement: Workshop on New Neutron Technique for Membranes and Films
• 2005 Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting Held in January
• Urgent: Data on Papers, Talks, Awards Needed by March 21 for BES Facility Review
• Deadline Reminders: Proposals, User Meeting Posters and Registration
• Electrical Safety Update
• International Effort Launches New Online Resource, lightsources.org
• People News (Zitzka Replaces Day)

Issue 31 (04.07)

• Message from Murray
• Users Meeting: Time's Almost Up
• APSUO Elections Open April 15 - May 3
• The First Radiation: A Brief Historical Account in Commemoration of the 10th Anniversary
• Important Open Meeting April 15: Implementing Our "New Directions"
• Introducing the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory
• Science Highlight: Zinc Deficiency Linked to Esophageal Cancer
• Attention New Users and Young Scientists: XAFS Program Joins Summer School Line-up
• Picosecond Pulses? Workshop on Possibilities, May 6
• Briefly Noted (scholarship to nanoscience workshop [April 15 deadline], special interest groups on interfaces and structural biology, operating mode change August 9-15, new ESH/QA coordinator, [web edition addition 4/11/05:] high magnetic field workshop)

Issue 32 (06.29)

• Message from Murray: XOR Tactical Plan Evolves; Three Upgrades Chosen
• Science Highlight: Sequence to Structure in DNA
• New Technique Captures Submicrosecond Images Using White Beam; Work Garners Argonne Award
• Operating Mode Changes Decided for Summer Run
• Proposal Deadlines Approaching: July 15
• Crystallographic Exposure: APS at ACA
• Four Elected to APS Users Organization Steering Committee
• 2005 Users Meeting: A Rich Sampling of Science Past, Present, and Future
• Briefly Noted
  • subscribe to News Flash from lightsources.org
  • meeting notice: neutron macromolecular crystallography at SNS, July 12-13
  • meeting notice: surface and interface characterization at APS, Sept. 8-9
  • meeting notice: Synchrotron Environmental Science III at Brookhaven, Sept. 19-21
  • meeting notice: Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference at Argonne, Nov. 3-5
  • thesis data needed for publication database
• SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: Users Meeting Summaries

Issue 33 (08.25)

• SCIENCE NEWS
  • Recent Highlights
    • ---Characterizing Complete Metal-Cluster Proteins
    • ---"Cookbook Recipes" Would Cure Disease with Nontoxic DNA Delivery Systems
    • ---Other Science Headlines
  • September Workshops Probe New Directions in Catalysis, Surface/Interface Science
  • Three APS Employees Win R&D 100 Award for Nanoprobe Lens
  • Magazine Ranks Illinois Highest for Biotechnology
  • Getting Noticed: Your Press Releases Can Help the APS Too
  • APS Science 2004 and Strategic Plan Report Now Available
• FACILITY NEWS
  • Work Beginning on Initial XOR Beamline Upgrades
  • GM/CA-CAT Dedicates Dual-Undulator Beamlines at Sector 23
  • Partner User Council Adopts New Charter and Elects Chair
  • APSUO Elects Vice-Chair/Users Meeting Chair
  • Planning Begins for 2006 Users Meeting--Especially Workshops
  • Proposal Deadlines Set for 2006 Beam Time
  • Staff Transitions in the User Office
• OPERATIONS NEWS
• Operating Schedule Published for Run 2006-1
• Reliability Continues High
• BRIEFLY NOTED
• Reminders for non-U.S. citizens and their collaborators
• Argonne/University of Chicago shuttle schedule changed

Issue 34 (09.26)

• Message from Murray
• SCIENCE NEWS
  • DOE Supports Science and Technology Faculty, Students Affected by Katrina
  • Cheaper Silicon Found Effective for Solar Cells
  • Two APS Groups Awarded NIH Protein Structure Initiative Grants of More Than $100 Million
  • Argonne Supercomputing Resource Available to APS Users
  • Two from HP-CAT win Balzan Prize
  • Student User Meets Nobel Laureates
• FACILITY NEWS
  • Summer Schools Train 117 Students
• BRIEFLY NOTED
  • "New user" scholarships available for SNS/HFIR users meeting
  • Correction: Beamtime Allocation Committee meeting date
  • New menu unwrapped at 401 Grill
  • Construction affects access from west

Issue 35 (11.22)