The Advanced Photon Source
a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility

APS Colloquium 2018

The monthly APS Colloquium series is intended for the benefit of the Advanced Photon Source and Argonne community by bringing distinguished scientists in all disciplines to lecture on topics of general interest. Objectives include the cross-fertilization of research initiatives at various institutions and the identification of possible uses of the Advanced Photon Source.

Scientific Domain-informed Machine Learning - December 12, 2018

Prasanna Balaprakash – Argonne National Laboratory

Video (YouTube) | Poster (pdf)

MicroED: Conception, Practice and Future Opportunities - November 14, 2018

Tamir Gonen – University of California, Los Angeles

Video (YouTube) | Poster (pdf)

The Quest for Lost Ancient Literature - October 3, 2018

Vito Mocella, CNR – Italian National Research Council

Video (YouTube) | Poster (pdf)

The Start-up of the European XFEL Facility - September 5, 2018

Harald Sinn, European XFEL Facility

Video (YouTube) | Poster (pdf)

Future Directions in Soft and Hard X-ray Photoemission - August 1, 2018

Alexander Gray, Temple University

Video (YouTube) | Poster (pdf)

An Update on Construction of Sirius, the New Brazilian Synchrotron Light Source - July 11, 2018

Harry Westfahl, Jr., Brazilian Synchrotron Laboratory

Video (YouTube) | Poster (pdf)

Prospects of an X-ray FEL Oscillator - June 6, 2018

Kwang-Je Kim, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago

Video (YouTube) | Poster (pdf)

Ultrafast X-ray Probing and Pumping: All About the Wavevector - May 2, 2018

Keith A. Nelson, Department of Chemistry, MIT

Video (YouTube) | Poster (pdf)

The Birth of the Fifth-Generation Light Source - March 28, 2018

James Rosenzweig, Particle Beam Physics Laboratory at the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy

Video (YouTube) | Poster (pdf)

Biological Soft X-Ray Tomography - March 14, 2018

Carolyn Larabell, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Slides (pdf) | Poster (pdf)

Early Career Researcher Series
What Can Synchrotron X Rays Tell Us about High-Tc Superconductors, Designing Interfacial Magnetism, and Kitaev-Frustrated Magnetism - February 7, 2018

Alex Frañó, University of California, San Diego

Video (YouTube) | Poster (pdf)

APS/NST Joint Colloquium
Making Atomic and Molecular Movies with MeV Electrons - January 10, 2018

X.J. Wang, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Video (YouTube) | Poster (pdf)