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Opening Session, May 4, 2005 |
| 9:00 am |
Welcome
Mark Rivers, Chair, APS Users Organization |
| 9:05 |
Welcome
Robert Rosner, Director, Argonne National Laboratory
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| 9:10 |
News from the Hill
Senator Richard Durbin, U.S. Senator from Illinois
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| 9:35 |
DOE Perspective
Pedro Montano, DOE Office of Basic Energy Science |
| 9:50 |
CNM Update
Eric Isaacs, Director, Center for Nanoscale Materials |
| 10:05 |
APS Update and Directions
Murray Gibson, Director, Advanced Photon Source |
| 10:35 |
Break |
| 10:55 |
Compton Award Presentations
- X-ray Microscopy with Zone Plates -- Early Experiments
Günter Schmahl, University of Göttingen, Germany
- Zone Plates for Microprobes and Scanning Microscopy
Janos Kirz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley,
California
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| 11:35 |
Reflections on the 10th Anniversary: How Photon Sources
Were Advanced by the APS
David Moncton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts |
| 12:15 pm |
Lunch |
|
Science Session I: May 4, 2005 |
| 1:30 pm |
Uniform
Catalytic Site in Sn-beta Zeolite Determined Using X-ray Absorption
Fine Structure
Simon R. Bare, UOP LLC, Des Plaines, Illinois |
| 2:10 |
It’s
Not As Easy As It Looks: Application of Synchrotron-based Techniques
to the Analysis of Environmental Contaminants
Peggy A. O’Day, University of California,
Merced |
| 2:50 |
Break |
| 3:10 |
The
APS and Archaeometallurgy: Studying the Alloys and Forming Techniques
of the Medieval Brass Industry
Brian Newbury, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania |
| 3:50 |
Structural
Studies of Catalytic RNA Molecules
Alfonso Mondragon, Northwestern University |
| 4:30 |
Adjourn to poster session |
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Science Session II: May 5, 2005 |
| 9:00 am |
Welcome and Announcements
Mark Rivers, Chair, APS Users Organization |
| 9:20 |
Imaging
Electronic Motion in Water with Attosecond Time Resolution
Peter Abbamonte, Brookhaven National Laboratory,
Upton, New York |
| 10:00 |
A
Survey of Possible Near-term Accelerator Improvements
Michael Borland, Operations Analysis Group, APS
Operations Division, Advanced Photon Source |
| 10:40 |
Break |
| 11:00 |
Structural
Biology and Genomes
Aled Edwards, University of Toronto |
| 11:40 |
APSUO Election Results
Mark Rivers, Chair, APS Users Organization |
| 11:50 |
Student Poster Awards |
| 12:00 |
Lunch |