Meeting Archives

2023

January 19, 2023 No Meeting February 24, 2023 No Meeting Thursday, March 17, 2023 No Meeting Thursday, April 14, 2023 No Meeting Thursday, May 18, 2023 Gap Workshop Committee Report Summary on Experiment Hall Temperature, Vibration, and Acoustic Issues - Curt Preissner Useful tools for cryocooler management - Don Walko Thursday, June 15, 2023 No Meeting Thursday, July 20, 2023 APS Hard X-ray Transition Edge Sensor Spectrometer - Orlando Quaranta Design and implementation of X-ray wavefront sensors for APS-U beamline diagnostics - Xianbo Shi Thursday, August 17, 2023 No Meeting Thursday, September 28, 2023 Embedded EPICS IOC for standalone Power PMAC motion controller capable of driving up to 128 axes - Oleg A. Makarov Controls and Data Acquisiton with Labjack Hardware and EPICS Software at the APS - Kurt Goetze Thursday, October 19, 2023 No Meeting Thursday, November 16, 2023 The DAQ of BEATS Beamline - Mustafa Alzubi, SESAME Synchrotron

2022

January 20, 2022 Real-time streaming tomographic reconstruction with on-demand data capturing and 3D zooming to regions of interest - Viktor Nikitin February 24, 2022 Fast automated energy changes at 23-ID beamlines equipped with CRL transfocator and focusing mirrors - Sergey Stepanov Cleaner than a Cleanroom: Filling Technology Gaps for Space Telescopes and LIGO - First Contact Polymers as a Path Towards Atomic Cleanliness - Jim Hamilton, Professor University of Wisconsin-Platteville  Thursday, March 17, 2022 Software for Reciprocal Space Mapping & Visualization - Henry Joseph Smith What can Inelastic X-ray Scattering Contribute to the Understanding High Temperature Superconductivity? - Paul Chow Thursday, April 14, 2022 Installation of in-vacuum Eiger2S 9M into SAXS flight tube at 12IDB - Byeongdu Lee X-ray detector gain correction without flat fields - James Weng Thursday, May 19, 2022 Tomolog: automatic logging for tomographic experiments - Viktor Nikitn Automating Sample Handling for the Grazing Incidence X-Ray Scattering Instrument at 8-ID-E - Joe Strzalka June 16, 2022 No Meeting July 21, 2022 No Meeting August 18, 2022 Moving on from VME without Breaking the Bank - Mark Rivers Beamline Start Ups Post APS-U Dark Period - Dean Haeffner September 15, 2022 Experience of using RI Cryo-cooling system and thoughts of future collaborative efforts at APS - Jiyong Zhao RI Cryopump - David Cyl October 27, 2022 Direct-detection Imaging via BrillianSe: DFXM for Weak Scattering and Fast Imaging - Elliot Kisiel Advanced at-wavelength metrology of refractive lenses for APS-U - Xianbo Shi November 17, 2022 No Meeting December 15, 2022 No Meeting ​​

2021
January 21, 2021 Ground Diffusion and Related APS-U Stability Predictions - Vadim Sajaev February 18, 2021 Remote operation of 12-ID SAXS/GISAXS with UR3 robot - Byeongdu Lee Plans for Detector-Positioning Robot at 7-ID-C - Don Walko March 18, 2021 Python Software for Tomography Data Collection - Mark Rivers April 15, 2021 Development of in-situ broadband Laue microdiffraction for determination of crystallographic orientation at the 34-ID-C Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging instrument - Ross Harder An Update on Serial Crystallography Efforts at APS - Darren Andrew Sherrell  May 20, 2021 TomoScan and TomoStream integration - Francesco De Carlo and Viktor Nikitin How mechanical motion systems enable crystal clear sub-micron resolution imaging - Dan Crews June 17, 2021 No Meeting July 15, 2021 No Meeting August 26, 2021 Zhi Qiao – “Development of advanced wavefront sensing techniques for beamline diagnostic and optics characterization" Guobao Shen – “Accelerator Parameters needed by Beamline Users After APS Upgrade Project” September 16, 2021 No Meeting October 21, 2021 No Meeting November 18, 2021 No Meeting December 9, 2021 Dongzhou Zhang - "Recent development of single crystal diffraction at 13-BM-C: from extreme environments to isotope effect" Sungsik Lee - “Quick-EXAFS implementation at 12-BM”
2020
January 16, 2020 New Proposed Recommendation for Connecting Stepper Motors at the APS - Kurt Goetze February 18, 2020 The XGLab Dante digital X-ray spectrometer - Mark Rivers Beamline status web page at 4-ID-D - Joerg Strempfer
2019
January 17, 2019 Sample delivery using linear stages: large areas with high accuracy and speed - Darren Sherrell February 21, 2019 Bluesky for data collection: status at APS - Pete Jemian X-ray/ion coincidence spectroscopy of atoms and molecules - Steve Southworth March 21, 2019 Operational Experience with Aerotech’s Hexapod at HPCAT - Jesse Smith Summary of Beam Stability Working Group Accomplishments - Louis Emery April 18, 2019 Smaller and Faster: New Support for Data Compression in areaDetector - Mark Rivers New Support for GenICam cameras in areaDetector - Mark Rivers May 16, 2019 No Meeting June 20, 2019 No Meeting July 18, 2019 Bending Magnet Beamlines for APS-U - Mohan Ramanathan August 15, 2019 No Meeting September 16, 2019 Recent optics and detector developments in 8-ID E and I XPCS beamlines - Eric Dufresne October 17, 2019 No Meeting November 21, 2019 No Meeting  December 19, 2019 No Meeting
2018
January 18, 2018 An update from the XSD Detectors Group - Antonino Miceli Design and Development Progress at the Nanopositioning Support Lab for APS Operations and Upgrade Project - Deming Shu February 15, 2018 New Developments for the KB mirrors at 20-ID - Steve Heald White beam motion measurements at 7-BM - Katie Matusik March 15, 2018 APS Data Management System - Sinisa Veseli A comparison between Phytron SINCOS and ACS StepPak SPD-32M for driving a goniometer - Ross Harder April 2018 No Meeting May 2018 No Meeting June 28, 2018 areaDetector Update: 10Gbit Ethernet cameras (and more) - Mark Rivers Measurement Computing Ethernet Devices on Linux - Mark Rivers July 19, 2018 Numerical Simulations of Scintillator Heating in White Beam Experiments - Alan Kastengren Computing Solution for CDI reconstruction - Barbara Frosik August 16, 2018 "Mechanical design of a compact x-ray compound refractive lens manipulator for dark-field imaging at the APS" - Deming Shu September 20, 2018 "Real Time Data Verifier for Beamline 12-IDC" - Barbara Frosik October 18, 2018 "X-ray eye-beam imaging and diagnostic device" - Olaf Borkiewicz "Miscellaneous Improvements/lessons learned at 27-ID" - Diego Casa November 15, 2018 "Designs for low cost motor controllers" - Guy Jennings "Developing Uniaxial Strain for Single Crystal systems and scattering in AC for use with piezo-driven sample phenomena" - Phil Ryan December 2018 No meeting
2017
January 19, 2017 SCU1 Experience at 1-ID - Sarvjit Shastri Novel Bragg-Laue high energy monochromator for bending magnet beamlines - Wenquian Xu February 16, 2017 areaDetector Update: EPICS V4 and More - Mark Rivers March 16, 2017 Scientific Data Verifier and Real-Time Data Feed - Barbara Frosik EPICS and Custom Beamline Electronics on the MicroZed - Tim Mooney April 20, 2017 Hardware-based fly scan capabilities at HPCAT - Jesse Smith Improving a World-Class Instrument: Upgrades at 11-BM - Lynn Ribaud, Saul Lapidus, Tim Mooney May 2017 No Meeting June 15, 2017 Development of Thick Bismuth Absorbers for Hard x-ray TES Detectors - Lisa Gades Thin-film optics and the Modular Deposition System: scope, capabilities and status - Ray Conley July 21, 2017 Single photon counting hybrid pixel detectors with 85 ns dead time, 70 kfps frame rate and TSV option - Piotr Maj (AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland) What's new in GSAS-II - Brian Toby (XSD) August 2017 No Meeting September 21, 2017 Status of the VIPIC Detector Development Effort - Rebecca Bradford Status of the JTEC ultra-precise K-B nano-focusing mirrors at 34-ID-E - Wenjun Liu October 19, 2017 Strain-free polished channel-cut monochromators: a new approach and results - Elina Kasman Crystal Optics Capabilities at teh APS - XianRong Huang November 16, 2017 StreamWriter at GM/CA: Reading ZeroMQ from the Eiger 16M at NE-CAT - Mark Hilgart Real-time CBF image generation with the Eiger 16M at NE-CAT - Jon Shuermann December 2017 No Meeting
2016
January 21, 2016 New focusing options at Sector 20 - Steve Heald Web page-based steering request system" and "Beamline tests of elevated vertical beam-size during injector down-time - Louis Emery February 18, 2016 A new state of the art instrument for x-ray optics fabrication: scope, capabilities, and design of the Modular Deposition   System - Ray Conley March 17, 2016 Effects of 'Degraded Beam at the Beamlines - Donald Walko Experience with JTEC mirrors - Wenjun Liu April 21, 2016 quadEM: New beam position monitor/electrometer hardware and software - Mark Rivers areaDetector: New developments - Mark Rivers May 19, 2016 Developing a Spin Coater for In Situ Grazing-Incidence X-ray Scattering Studies of Thin Film Deposition at 8-ID-E - Joe Strzalka Are you still using Fit2D - Robert Von Dreele June 16, 2016 The Eiger 9M: Making Data Great Again - Keith Brister The Eiger 9M: How do we treat our great data? - Joseph Brunzelle July 2016 No Meeting August 18, 2016 Feedback control systems for alignment and stabilization of x-ray optics - Sioan Zohar Update from User Office - Susan White-Depace September 2016 No Meeting October 20, 2016 New Pixel Array Detector Techniques for X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy Experiments - Eric Dufresne Post-mortem analysis of IEX monochromator - Fanny Rodolakis Simoes November 17, 2016 An Art of Combining Nano-Calorimetry and X-ray Scattering - Zahir Islam Confocal X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy at Sector 20 - Zou Finfrock
2015
January 15, 2015 No Meeting   February 19, 2015 SPEC at APS - some recent developments - Christian Schlepuetz Some observation of chromatic aberration and coherence effects using Be Compound Refractive Lenses - Eric Dufresne March 19, 2015 caputRecorder: a macro recorder for EPICS - Tim Mooney Rapid In Situ X-ray beam intensity and positional stabilization via extremum seeking feedback - Sioan Zohar April 16, 2015 Recent additions to areaDetector - Mark Rivers pvMail and pvWebMonitor: Python tools to assist beam line operations - Pete Jemian July 16, 2015 Development on EPICS data collection software with Python - Matt Newville (GSECARS) High-energy monochromator development for 17-BM - Gregory Halder (XSD) August 20, 2015 Automatic beam steering pilot program - Malcolm Capel (NE-CAT) White BPM developments at APS - Bingxin Yang (XSD) September 17, 2015 Nano-imaging with TXM at 32-ID: first year of operation - Vincent de Andrade (XSD) Developing sample environments for the condensed matter and applied physics synchrotron user community - Phil Ryan (XSD) October 15, 2015 Review of New IDT Monochromator at 10-ID - Joshua Wright (MR-CAT) APS metrology laboratory updates: The new APS Long Trace Profiler - Lahsen Assoufid (XSD) November 19, 2015 The new RIXS beamline at 27-ID - Diego Casa Detector R&D Update at APS/XSD - Antonino Miceli
2014
January 16, 2014 An historic overview of 32-ID TXM program - Francesco De Carlo (XSD-IMG) Software scanning tools at 2-ID - Chris Roehrig (XSD-MIC) February 20, 2014 Overview of the GSECARS upgrade (1) - Peter Eng (GSECARS) Overview of the GSECARS upgrade (2) - Matt Newville (GSECARS) March 20, 2014 GSECARS upgrade part 3: 13-ID-E early experiments - Tony Lanzirotti (GSECARS) Early commissioning results for IEX - Jessica McChesney (XSD-NMG) April 17, 2014 Beamline 8-ID-E: Enabling Grazing Incidence X-Ray Scattering for Organic Photovoltaic Research - Joseph Strzalka (XSD-TRR) DTXRD - software for evaluation of single crystals using x-ray diffraction - Stanislav Stoupin (XSD-OPT) Mai 15, 2014 No meeting due to 2014 Users Meeting. June 19, 2014 New tools for fast and reliable 3-dimensional reciprocal space mapping using area detectors - Christian Schlepuetz (XSD-SSM) Comparing the PiXirad and Pilatus detectors - a crystal truncation rode case study - Joanne Stubbs (GSECARS) July 17, 2014 Monitoring an IOC's status with the "alive" record - Dohn Arms (AES-BCDA) New EPICS Support for Low-Cost High-Performance Devices: Measurement Computing USB-CTR08 Counter/Timer and Point Grey Grasshopper3 Camera - Mark Rivers (GSECARS) October 16, 2014 Fast Pink Beam Tomography at 13-BM-D - Mark Rivers (GSECARS) softFlue on Linux: EPICS Support for Standard Industry Pack Modules on Linux PC's - Mark Rivers (GSECARS)   November 20, 2014 No Meeting
2013
January 17, 2013 No meeting. February 21, 2013 Bimorph Mirror Tuning - Mati Meron (ChemMatCARS) B3 Control System Framework. Design and Applications - John Taylor (ALS) and Leif Steinhour (ALS) March 21, 2013 High-Current Beamline Optics Diagnostics Time, Run 2013-1 - Gary Navrotski (AES/MED) Laser-Based Beamline Alignment Tool - Scott Izzo (AES/MED) April 18, 2013 Implementation of a Dectris RIGI 4S and Libera Photon at 17-ID - Kevin Battaile (IMCA-CAT) Zone-plate stacking project at 2-ID-E - Sophie-Charlotte Gleber (XSD-MIC) May 16, 2013 No meeting. June 20, 2013 No meeting. July 18, 2013 Automated fluorescence tomography of frozen-hydrated cells at the Bionanoprobe - Si Chen (XSD-MIC) Shutterless Vector Scanned Data Collection Methods for the Pilatus 6M - Malcolm Capel (NE-CAT) August 15, 2013 SScan Data Visualisation in a Web Browser - David Vine (XSD-MIC) September 19, 2013 Progress report on our APS x-ray detector developments - Steve Ross and David Kline (XSD-DET) APCF, Structural Biology Using Synchrotron Radiation - Andrzej Joachimiak (BIO) October 17, 2013 No meeting. November 21, 2013 No meeting. December 19, 2013 No meeting.
2012
January 19, 2012 Microsecond Time-Resolved SAXS at the BioCAT Beamline 18ID - Raul Barrea (BioCAT) Progress toward a high-power hard x-ray beam position monitoring and alignment system at the APS - Glenn Decker (ASD-DIA) February 16, 2012 Recent developments using Paris-Edinburgh large volume press at the HPCAT beamline 16BM-B - Yoshio Kono (HPCAT) A Compact, Versatile Magnet at 7ID - Harold Gibson (XSD-TRR) March 15, 2012 An Early View of the Bionanoprobe - Si Chen (XSD-MIC) April 19, 2012 Design and test of a microwave taper - Bernhard Adams (XSD-TRR) May 17, 2012 2-ID-E — main stream navigation at a side branch beamline - Sophie-Charlotte Gleber (XSD-MIC) Using MDA Utilities for accessing data stored by saveData - Dohn Arms (AES-BC) June 21, 2012 pgepics and pgpmac: LS-CAT postgresql based channel access server and MD2 interface - Keith Brister (LS-CAT) July 19, 2012 No meeting. August 16, 2012 Session: Macromolecular Crystallography Data Processing at CATs At IMCA-CAT - Kevin Battaile (IMCA-CAT) At LS-CAT - Joseph Brunzelle (LS-CAT) At GM/CA-CAT - Sudhir Pothineni (GM/CA-CAT) At NE-CAT - Frank Murphy (NE-CAT) September 20, 2012 quadEM: EPICS Software for High-Speed Electrometers for Beam Position Monitors - Mark Rivers (GSECARS) A Novel Hybrid X-Ray Focusing Scheme - Bernhard Adams (XSD-TRR) October 18, 2012 Testing commercial sample-mounting loops for movement in the cold-stream - Randy Alkire (SBC) Characterization and Modification of a Grating Spectrometer for Time-Resolved Spectroscopy - Michael Cycon (DePaul University) November 15, 2012 tomoRecon: High-speed tomography reconstruction on workstations using multi-threading - Mark Rivers (GSECARS) Auto-Raster: Unattended Diffraction-Based Sample Centering at GM/CA - Mark Hilgart (GM/CA) December 20, 2012 No meeting.
2011
January 20, 2011 Status of Experiment Software Architecture - Claude Saunders (AES-SSG) Measurements of gas bremsstrahlung radiation in the Sector 35 diagnostic beamline - Jeffrey Dooling (ASD-AOP) February 17, 2011 Polygon rastering, shuttle scans, comprehensive disable and other JBluIce improvements - Mark Hilgart (GM/CA CAT) X-ray Focusing Lenses for Medical and Materials Applications - Dip Mahato (Intel Corp.) March 17, 2011 Using coherent X-ray diffraction to probe laser-generated strain - Eric Dufresne (XSD-TRR) April 21, 2011 RIXS analyzer development - Diego Casa (XSD-IXN) A GUI for real-time analysis of X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy using HPC - Marcin Sikorski (XSD-TRR) May 26, 2011 Improving Communication of APS Operations Information Using Social Networking Tools - John Quintana (AES-MIS) On-the-fly scanning: Improvements in the EPICS 'motor' and 'mca' modules - Mark Rivers (GSECARS) June 16, 2011 SoftGlue: A Run-time User-configurable FPGA in EPICS - Tim Mooney (AES-SSG) Status of PX Beamline Controls at the Australian Light Source - Mark Clift (AS) July 21, 2011 Vector Scanned Data Collection Methods at NECAT - Malcolm Capel (NECAT) A new, and improved, MOSTAB (monochromator stabilizer) - Bernhard Adams (XSD-TRR) August 18, 2011 A Mössbauer Microscope - Esen Alp (XSD) Data Reduction and Quality Checks in Microchannel-Plate Tests - Matthew Wetstein (HEP) September 15, 2011 Using Python for Epics Channel Access: Library and Applications - Matthew Newville (GSECARS) Meet the Liquid Nitrogen Distribution System - Andrew Stevens (AES-SO) October 20, 2011 Recent Developments at the 20-ID-B Microprobe Station - Steve Heald (XSD-SPC) Periodic Variation of Stress in Sputter Deposited Si/WSi2 Multilayers - Albert Macrander (XSD-OPT) November 17, 2011 Keep it Cheap: EPICS Devices for the Small Laboratory - Mark Rivers (GSECARS)
2010
January 21, 2010 A Flexible Video Distribution System - Lynn Ribaud (XSD-MC) The Efforts to Develop a sub-ns and sub-mm Resolving Area Detector - Matthew Wetstein (HEP) February 18, 2010 A portable laser heating system for high pressure research - Guoyin Shen (HP-CAT) Beam stabilization systems development work supporting the APS Upgrade - Glenn Decker (ASD) March 18, 2010 Computing infrastructure at the tomography beamline - Francesco DeCarlo (XSD-IMG) Using GPU for x-ray tomography data processing - Valeriy Titarenko (University of Manchester) X-ray lenses with continuously variable focal length - Matthieu Chollet (XSD-TRR) April 15, 2010 4,000 Spectra or 4,000,000 ROIs per Second: EPICS Support for High-Speed Digital X-ray Spectroscopy with the XIA xMap - Mark Rivers (GSECARS) Networking Support and 10G Upgrades for CAT Beamlines - David Leibfritz (AES-IT) May 20, 2010 Refinement of the ALS Sample Mounter at NECAT - Malcolm Capel (NE-CAT) Thoughts on Signal Processing for Future X-ray Detectors - Tim Madden (XSD-ODG) June 17, 2010 Transition of GM/CA-CAT data acquisition software from BluIce to JBluIce - Mark Hilgart (GM/CA-CAT) Stiffness and resolution test of the APS T8-31 vertical nanopositioning weak-link stage - Deming Shu (AES) July 15, 2010 X-ray pulse isolation using synchronous beam choppers at BioCARS - Tim Graber (BioCARS) Deploying a PILATUS 6M for Protein Crystallography at IMCA-CAT - Lewis Muir and Joe Digilio (IMCA-CAT) September 16, 2010 Single-line-command-driven user interfaces for automated data processing at SER-CAT - Zheng-Qing (Albert) Fu (SER-CAT) First results with integrating 2nd generation Berkeley Cartesian automounters into GM/CA-CAT beamline controls - Oleg Makarov (GM/CA-CAT) October 21, 2010 Small aperture, welded, stainless-Steel insertion device vacuum chambers - Ben Stillwell and Emil Trakhtenberg (AES) Development of a short-pulse laser enhancement cavity for intense-laser/x-ray pump-probe experiments at 6.5 MHz - Anne Marie March (XSD)   November 18, 2010 Application of X-ray reflection interface microscopy to thin-film materials - Zhan Zhang (XSD) Time Resolved Radiography at the 7-BM Beamline - Alan Kastengren (XSD)
2009
January 15, 2009 Interfacing PowerPMAC with EPICS - Krzysztof Lazarski (SBC-CAT) Catalysis Beamline at the APS - Steve Heald (XSD)   February 19, 2009 On-axis Sample Visualization Techniques - Kazimierz Gofron (SBC-CAT)   March 19, 2009 Electronics and Signal Processing for Fast Detectors - Jean-Francois Genat (Enrico Fermi Institute - University of Chicago) Installation and Development of the MD2 microdiffractometer on NE-CAT undulator beam lines - Malcolm Capel (NE-CAT)   April 16, 2009 High Flux Double Undulator Beamline for Time Dependent Scattering Experiments - Tim Graber (Sector 14) Diffraction/fluorescence rastering and remote screening at GM/CA - Mark Hilgart (GMCA-CAT)   May 21, 2009 LS-CAT's Lustre: A Supercomputer File System for Protein Crystallography - Keith Brister (LS-CAT) Using IBM's GPFS at NE-CAT and SER-CAT - Brian Finley (CIS)   June 18, 2009 High energy X-ray CT at 10BM - Jeremy Kropf (CSE) Real-time High Performance Computing for XOR - Ken Sidorowicz (AES-IT)   July 16, 2009 Status of R&D on Superconducting Undulator for the APS - Yury Ivanyushenkov (ASD-MD) Design and Development of Compact Mini-beam Collimators for Macromolecular Crystallography at the GMCA CAT - Shenglan Xu (GMCA-CAT)   August 20, 2009 The development of a novel high-resolution element-selective microscope by means of synchrotron x-ray enhanced scanning tunneling microscopy (SXSTM) - Volker Rose (XSD-MIC) Nanoradian angular stabilization of x-ray optical components - Stanislav Stoupin (XSD-IXN)   September 17, 2009 Levitation: Engineering + Science at 11 ID-C - Rick Weber (USR-APS) Scanning probe diffraction microscopy at the nanoprobe beamline - Martin Holt (CNM)   October 15, 2009 Technical overview of ACS Motion Controllers - Jason Goerges (ACS Motion Control Ltd.) New EPICS software developments for area detectors - Mark Rivers (CARS)   November 15, 2009 LS-CAT Remote User Control - Keith Brister (LS-CAT) Longer string communication with EPICS R3.14.11 IOCs - Andrew Johnson (AES-CTL)
2008
January 17, 2008 LN2 Delivery System Upgrade for the 11ID-D Monochromator - Evan Maxey (CEP/old BESSRC) Status of the PICO-SECOND SOURCE - Eric Landahl (TRR)   February 21, 2008 GMCA Controls for Bimorph Mirrors - Sergey Stepanov (GMCA-CAT) X-ray Focusing with Large Kirkpatrick-Baez Bimorph Mirrors (GMCA-CAT)   March 4, 2008 Coupling Definition Options for the SR - Michael Borland (ASD-OA)   March 20, 2008 Active Beam Steering Techniques at NE-CAT - Malcolm Capel (NE-CAT) Detector Strategies: Steve Ross (detector pool) Dean Haeffner (high energy) Qun Shen (imaging) Ercan Alp (nuclear/inelastic scattering) Bernhard Adams (timing experiments) Alec Sandy (correlation spectroscopy) Steve Heald (spectroscopy)   April 17, 2008 Radiometry and Infrared Imaging Capabilities at the APS - Jeff Collins (AES-MED) Coupling Definition Options for the SR - Michael Borland (ASD-OA)   June 19, 2008 areaDetector: A New EPICS Module for Area Detector Support - Mark Rivers (CARS/Sector 13)   August 21, 2008 Beam Stabilization Proposals Supporting the APS Renewal - G. Decker (ASD) First Experiences with the Atto-cube Positioning System - Stefan Vogt (XSD)   October 16, 2008 A High Energy Fast Shutter - Ultrich Lienert (XSD) The High Pressure Synergetic Consortium at the Advanced Photon Source: an Overview - Michael Lerche (HPSynC)   November 20, 2008 Space Saving Shielding Systems-Hybrid Tungsten / Lead Collimator Concepts - Oliver Schmidt (AES-MED) Centralized Beamline Scheduling - A Work in Progress - Claude Saunders (AES/CTL)
2007
January 18, 2007 New Measurement Tools and Capabilities at the X-ray Optics Metrology Laboratory and Updates on Mirror Quality and Trends - L. Assoufid (XSD) February 16, 2007 Development of a real-time monitor for x-ray timing shutters - R. Alkire (SBC-CAT) Electron guns for the home and office:A new approach to making high-brightness beams - J. Lewellen (ASD) Design and application of CVD diamond windows for x-rays at the APS - Y. Jaski (XFD) June 21, 2007 November 15, 2007
2006
February 16, 2006 March 16, 2006 Upcoming challenges for the Technical Working Group - E. Dufresne (XOR), R. Pahl (BioCARS) Tools & Toys:X-ray-Eye design with off-the-shelf components - D. Schultz (ChemMat CARS) Progress on photon beam position monitors and related issues - G. Decker (AOD) Time-resolved magnetic microscopy using photo-emitted electrons - D. Keavney (XOR) April 20, 2006 June 15, 2006 Results of the Detector Survey - P. Fernandez (AOD) September 21, 2006
2005
January 20, 2005 Development of reliable monochromatic beam shutters for crystallography experiments - M. Capel (NE-CAT) Experience with the new Oxford-Danfysik cryo-pump - M. Capel (NE-CAT) APS Detector Pool – X-ray equipment for 2005 - S. Ross (ASD) February 17, 2005 Facility updates - K. Randall (AOD) Facility updates - E. Chang (AOD) Accelerator physics aspects of crab-cavity based production of picosecond X-ray pulses - M. Borland (AOD) Picosecond X-ray pulse compression optics following RF bunch deflection (to be published) - S. Shastri (XOR) Technical issues for pump-probe experiments utilizing picosecond X-ray pulses - E. Landahl (XOR) March 17, 2005 April 21, 2005 May 19, 2005 June 16, 2005 July 21, 2005 The New Indirectly Cooled Monochromator Crystals at Sector 20 - S. Heald (PNNL, PNC-CAT) August 18, 2005 Adaptation of a commercial optical CMOS image sensor for direct-detection high-speed X-ray imaging - L. Marschand (XOR) X-ray imaging at Sector-32 - Q. Shen (XOR) September 15, 2005 October 20, 2005 November 17, 2005 Machine Operation Parameters - Tolerances - J. Quintana (AOD) Brief Introduction to GE Angio Amorphous Silicon Dectector - J. Lee (AOD) What's new with APS Insertion Devices - L. Moog (XFD) Toys & Tools - J. Cross (APS) December 15, 2005 Design of a diffraction system for in-situ materials processing - P. Fuoss (MSD) Observations of beam-tilt from monochromatic beams at 7-ID - E. Dufresne (XOR) APS Machine Status Link (MSL) - from the user's point of view - M. Smith (ASD)
2004
January 22, 2004 Future APS operation issues – Long straight section and high(er) beam current - R. Gerig (ASD) Recent storage ring injection area upgrade - S. Sharma (ASD) February 19, 2004 Development of a highly efficient and tunable fluorescence detector with an energy resolution of about 1 eV - K. Attenkofer (XOR) March 18, 2004 Lithium metal in refractive x-ray optics for synchrotrons - N.R. Pereira (Ecopulse Inc.) April 15, 2004 Cheap thrills for monochromatic beam position stabilization - E. Dufresne (MHATT-CAT) May 20, 2004 Shutdown activities and APS Run 2004-02 (pdf) - R. Klaffky (AOD) Customization of beta functions for user experiments at the APS - P. Ilinski (AOD), V. Sajaev (ASD) June 17, 2004 Modifications to the PSS water flow monitoring system - R. Dortwegt (ASD) October 21, 2004 Hutch and FE installation update - K. Randall (AOD) CNM contruction update - R. Janik (AOD) Floor coordinator walkthrough - R. Klaffky (AOD) Progress and status of a new detector for time-resolved SAXS studies - J. Hessler (ANL) E-bay A resource for scientists?Or:The wavelength dispersive spectrometer at Sector-20 - J. Cross (PNC-CAT) November 18, 2004 HERIX – Concept and design of a new spectrometer - H. Sinn (XOR) The new ultrafast laser laboratory at Sector-7 - E. Landahl (XOR)
2003
January 16, 2003  Shutdown activities - J. Noonan (ASD) Design and schedule for the installation of the canted undulator beamlines - P. DenHartog (XFD) Radiation damage to APS insertion devices - E. Moog (XFD) Beam-position monitor and its applications - R. Alkire (SBC-CAT) Implementation of the EPICS software feedback system at CARS - R. Henning (CARS-CAT), M. Rivers (CARS-CAT)  See also presentation on the software implementation from last year - M. Rivers (CARS-CAT) The digital monochromator stabilization system SIS2900 - K. Attenkofer (BESSRC-CAT) February 20, 2003  Thermoelectric sample freezer - J. Cross (PNC-CAT) First experiments with Oxford position-sensitive ion-chambers - T. Gog (CMC-CAT) On-the-fly scanning with the Newport diffractometer in EPICS and SPEC - M. Rivers (CARS-CAT) March 20, 2003  Beginning a new PSS design - J. Carwardine (ASD), R. Emerson (ASD) MHATT-CAT OMS-8s servo motor EPICS installation and related information - E. Dufresne  (MHATT-CAT) April 17, 2003 Automatic dark count assessment software in EPICS - P. Jemian, J. Tischler (UNI-CAT) An update on cryogenically cooled monochromators - W-K Lee (XFD) May 15, 2003 Experiences with Phase Retarding Optics in Sector 4 - J. Lang (XFD) June 19, 2003 Canted undulator ID and FE installations at the APS - P. Den Hartog (XFD) Plans for use of the tandem-offset undulator at Sector 24 - M. Capel (NE-CAT) GM/CA-CAT’s implementation of the dual canted undulators - R. Fischetti (GM/CA-CAT) July 17, 2003 Inelastic X-Ray Scattering Six-Element Linear Array GSECARS - P. Eng (GSE-CARS) Performance of the 16-ID-B bimorph mirrors - D. Haeusermann (HP-CAT) August 21, 2003  APS Partner User Council – TWG interactions - J. Quintana (DND/LS-CAT) ID X-ray BPM feedback/feedforward and implications for user gap control - G. Decker (AOD) APS power system overview - G. Markovich (ASD) Toys & Tools - R. Pahl September 18, 2003 October 16, 2003 APS-wide PV naming convention - J. Maclean (ASD) Report on diffractometer incident at Sector-7 - D. Walko (XOR, MHATT-CAT) EPICS software to control area detectors: Roper, Bruker , mar165 and MAR345 - M. Rivers (CARS) Update on APS quad-electrometer development - M. Rivers (CARS) APS metrology laboratory – Update on instrumentation and recent activities - L. Assoufid (XFD) November 20, 2003  Storage ring status and possible upgrade paths: higher current, customized beta functions, etc. - G. Decker (AOD) AOD Technical User Support - P. Fernandez (AOD) December 18, 2003  APS-wide PV naming convention - N. Arnold (ASD) Fast fly-scanning for X-ray microscopy - S. Vogt (XFD) Focusing of 80 keV X-rays using silicon saw tooth lenses at 1-ID: First results - J. Almer (XFD)
2002
December 19, 2002 November 21, 2002  APS Updates - R. Klaffky (AOD) DetectorSync initiative - D. Mills (APS) Silicon PIN diodes - T. Gog (CMC-CAT) X-ray detector development at APS/ASD - S. Ross (AOD) APS Detector Pool - P. Ilinski (XFD) October 17, 2002  Comparison, low emittance vs. lower emittance lattices - G. Decker (APS) Exploring APS parameters in view of the user experiment - P. Ilinski (SER-CAT) Synchrotron Circulating Beam Parameters and Photons to Sample - P.J. Viccaro September 19, 2002  Low vs. lower emittance lattices - G. Decker (AOD) Another source of short KB mirror flats - E. Dufresne (MHATT-CAT) August 15, 2002  Scintillation Crystal - Objective Mount - P. Ilinski Making a Photo X-ray Eye - S. Weigand (DND-CAT) July 18, 2002  High-Energy X-Ray Optics Development at SRI-CAT Sec. 1 - S. D. Shastri (XFD) Cooling Water Supply for Beamline Components - G. Swetin June 20, 2002  APS Settlement Surveys - Horst Friedsam (ASD) May 16, 2002  SR Improvements and Trade-Offs - L. Emery (AOD) April 18, 2002  Agenda Review and TWG Activity Summary - R. Pahl APS Update - S. Davey (APS) Performance of GSE-CARS large KB Focusing Optics - P. Eng (CARS) 3-Dimensional Submicron X-ray Structural Microscopy - J. Tischler (ORNL) APS Beam Stability and Beam Position Monitors - G. Decker (APS) March 21, 2002  Agenda Review and TWG Activity Summary - M. Beno APS Update - S. Davey (APS) APS Retreat - G. Srajer (SRI) APS ID radiation damage measurements - P.K. Jobs (APS)  See also P.K. Job LS-283 for details, two addendum Canted Undulator design - P. Den Hartog (APS) Ultrafast Laser Excited EXAFS - D. Brewe (PNC) Ultrafast Laser−pumped X−ray probe Spectroscopy of GaAs - B. Adams (APS)
2001
March 15, 2001 X-ray Beam Position Monitor Feedback and Feedforward Status and Plans - G. Decker (APS) Development of new Xbpm interface (hardware) - G. Decker (APS) February 15, 2001 Recent Design Upgrades of the APS Beamline - Standard Components (brief) - Deming Shu (APS) January 18, 2001
2000
December 17, 2000 November 16, 2000 October 19, 2000 August 21, 2000 July 20, 2000 June 16, 2000 May 18, 2000 April 20, 2000 March 16, 2000 February 17, 2000 January 20, 2000
1999
December 16, 1999 October 21, 1999 August 19, 1999 July 15, 1999 June 17, 1999 May 20, 1999 March 18, 1999 February 18, 1999 January 21, 1999
1998
December 17, 1998 November 19, 1998

 

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