X-Ray Science Division (XSD) Visitor Program

The XSD Visitor Program hosts expert scientists at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) for short stays of 2-3 months. The goal of the program is to establish long-term scientific collaborations and/or begin to lay foundations for new scientific initiatives.

Proposals will be judged on the basis of scientific merit and contributions to the mission of the APS, i.e. to enable frontier science using x-rays.

The deadline for proposals is December 1 of each year and decisions will be made in February of the following year.

Proposals consist of the following:

Proposal describing the purpose of the visit, dates of the visit, and the research to be carried out. (2 pages)
Support letter from the XSD host. (1 page)
CV of the visiting researcher.
Budget estimate with breakdown of costs.

Documents in Word or PDF format should be sent to Cindy Kuzma, kuzma@aps.anl.gov by December 1 for visits for the following year.

Past Visiting Scientists

2012

Visitor	XSD Host	Project Name
Alexander Rack European Synchrotron Radiation Facility	Francesco DeCarlo	Rapid phase contrast microtomography using partially coherent polychromatic hard X-ray
Ken Ahn New Jersey Institute of Technology	Michel Van Veenendaal	Theory of K-edge resonant inelastic X-ray scattering for perovskite manganites
Carlos Giles Antunez de Mayolo Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Jin Wang	Probing the magnetization dynamics of antiferromagnetism by time resolved x-ray magnetic scattering
Wolfgang Sturhahn California Institute of Technology	Ercan Alp	Evaluation of nuclear resonant scattering spectra
Frank Weber Karlsruhe Institution of Technology	Thomas Gog	Lattice dynamics in layered multiferroics and rare-earth tritellurides
Krzysztof Wohfeld IFW Dresden	Michel Van Veenendaal	Spin-orbital excitations in iridates studied by RIXS
Sakura Pascarelli European Synchrotron Radiation Facility	Daniel Haskel and Steve Southworth	High pressure x-ray absorption spectroscopy and instrumentation for energy dispersive spectroscopy

2011

Visitor	XSD Host	Project Name
Armand Boudin University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Ulrich Lienert	Application of Polycrystal Plasticity Models to Enhance Resolution of High Energy X-ray Diffraction Microscopy
Sakura Pascarelli European Synchrotron Radiation Facility	Daniel Haskel	High-pressure X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Instrumentation for Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy
Wesley Burghardt Northwestern University	Jin Wang	X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy of Soft Matter
Charles H. Lake Indiana University of Pennsylvania	Brian Toby	EXPGUI / GSAS program development
Akira Saito Osaka University	Volker Rose	Synchrotron-Radiation-Based Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

2010

Visitor	XSD Host	Project Name
Andrew Peele La Trobe University, Australia	Ian McNulty and Stefan Vogt	Development of novel methods in coherent imaging
Mark Newton European Synchrotron Radiation Facility	Peter Chupas	Developing new PDF/infrared experimental resources for the study of catalysts, catalytic processes and problems in solid state chemistry: a collaboration between in ESRF and the APS
Sunil Sinha University of California San Diego	Jin Wang	Development of full theory of coherent GISAXS in the Distorted Wave Born Approximation
Evgeny Kravtsov Ural State Technical University, Russia	Daniel Haskel	Development of a user interface for polarized reflectometry studies of magnetization depth profiles in artificial nanostructures
Jingtao Zhu Tongji University, China	Lahsen Assoufid	Fabrication and characterization of X-ray multilayer Laue lens