Schedule Overview

MONDAY
May 2

CNM meeting

• DOE and Facility Updates
• Shaping Light at the Nanoscale: Quantum Dots and Photonic Crystal Resonators (E. Hu)
• Nanoscale Structure and Properties of Semiconductor Nanowires (L. Lauhon,
• Emergent Physics and Chemistry in the Non-scaleable Nano-size regime (U. Landman)
• Human Issues in Nanotechnology (M.E. Mitchell)
• Oxide Nanostructures (D. Schlom)
• Observation of Solvent Structural Domains Near Ions: Implications for the Design and Operation of Nanoscaled Devices and Machines (A. Goshe)

Exhibits open at noon
CNM poster session
Joint APS/CNM opening reception
CNM dinner

TUESDAY
May 3

Workshops (all day)

• Nanoscale Bio-Hybrid Materials (Tijana Rajh)
• Advanced Nanopatterning (Leo Ocola, Derrick Mancini)
• Scientific Applications of the Hard X-ray Nanoprobe (Jörg Maser, G. Brian Stephenson, Paul Evans)

APS poster session
APS Partner User Council

WEDNESDAY
May 4

APS opening session

• National, DOE, and Facility Updates
• X-ray Microscopy with Zone Plates -- Early Experiments (Günter Schmahl, Compton Award)
• Zone Plates for Microprobes and Scanning Microscopy (Janos Kirz, Compton Award)
• Reflections on the 10th Anniversary: How Photon Sources Were Advanced by the APS (David Moncton)

APS science session I

• Uniform Catalytic Site in Sn-beta Zeolite Determined Using X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (S. Bare)
• It's Not As Easy As It Looks: Application of Synchrotron-based Techniques to the Analysis of Environmental Contaminants (P. O'Day)
• The APS and Archaeometallurgy: Studying the Alloys and Forming Techniques of the Medieval Brass Industry (B. Newbury)
• Structural Studies of Catalytic RNA Molecules (A. Mondragon)

APS poster session
APS/CNM banquet

THURSDAY
May 5

APS business session
APS science session II

• Imaging Electronic Motion in Water with Attosecond Time Resolution (P. Abbamonte)
• A Survey of Possible Near-term Accelerator Improvements (M. Borland)
• Structural Biology and Genomes (A. Edwards)

Exhibits close at noon
Workshops (afternoon)

• Scattering from Liquid Surfaces and Interfaces (Bin-Hua Lin, Ivan Kuzmenko) (continues Friday AM)
• The Art of Collecting Good Diffraction Data (Zbigniew Dauter, Stephan Ginell) (continues Friday AM)
• Metals and Metalloids in Cell Biology (Gayle Woloschak, Dina Mandoli)

Adjunct workshop (afternoon) at Argonne Guest House

• Deep X-ray Lithography and LIGA (Carlo Segre, Derrick Mancini, Jeremy Kropf)

Dinner in memory of Dale Sayers, XAFS pioneer

FRIDAY
May 6

CNM cornerstone ceremony (morning)

Workshops (morning)

• Applications of Grazing-Incidence Small-Angle X-ray Scattering (Jin Wang, Randall Winans)
• Scattering from Liquid Surfaces and Interfaces (cont'd)
• The Art of Collecting Good Diffraction Data (cont'd)

Workshops (all day)

• Generation and Use of Short X-ray Pulses at APS (Dennis Mills, Kwang-Je Kim)