APS Scientific Interest Groups

These are self-organizing groups that offer forums for discussion among users and beamline staff who are interested in advancing synchrotron research in a particular area.
Groups
  • High-energy X-ray Special Interest Group (HEX-SIG)
    • Jonathan Almer, APS
    • The focus of this SIG is on current and future beamlines operating above ~30 keV, with goals of exchanging ideas and latest achievements among the beamlines and encouraging common projects and developments. The group meets monthly on the first Monday.
  • High Pressure
    • Jesse Smith, HP-CAT
    • Ercan Alp, APS
    • Vitali Prakapenka, GSECARS
    • The high-pressure group promotes awareness of the high-pressure research activities and associated facilities at the APS and elsewhere. This group meets on the third Monday of every month from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm virtually.
  • Soft Matter
    • Binhua Lin, University of Chicago, or Jin Wang, APS
    • The Soft Matter group promotes awareness of the Soft Matter research activities at the APS and elsewhere.  This group meets on the second Monday of each month from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm in the LOM 434 conference room.
  • Small Angle Scattering
    • Mrinal Bera, University of Chicago, or Pete Jemian, APS
    • This group meets on the first Tuesday of each month at noon in LOM 433 conference room to promote awareness of the small-angle scattering facilities at the APS and elsewhere on the Argonne campus. The group maintains an email distribution list to foster communications among the various research groups.
  • Surface and Interface Scattering
    • Zhan Zhang, APS
    • LOM 437-C010, 12:00-1:00 pm, 3rd Monday of each month.
    • The surface and interface scattering group meets to promote awareness of surface and interface scattering science and facilities at the APS. All interested parties are welcome to attend.
  • Ultrafast
    • Burak Guzelturk and Cunming Liu, XSD
    • This group is organized on the theme of "science and techniques that use the pulsed structure of the APS to study time-resolved phenomenon from a few picoseconds to microseconds." Seminars are held virtually and announced via the Aps_resident_users mail list.
  • X-ray Spectroscopy
    • Chengjun Sun and Yongseong Choi, APS
    • Meetings are held 11:00 am to 11:50 am on the second Wednesday of each month in LOM 434, C010 conference room. Those interested in recent developments in X-ray Spectroscopy, both scientific research and technique/beamline/ facilities development, are encouraged to join the discussions.
 
Related APS Group
  • InterCAT Technical Workgroup (TWG)
    • The TWG meets in a hybrid fashion at 10:00 the third Thursday of each month. The meetings serve to inform the community of status, progress, or developments that a sector or the APS is making and provide an important information-sharing dialog.
 
More Information
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