2017 CAMD New User Meeting Schedule

Thursday May 4, 2018 from 12:45 – 4:50 p.m.

LSU Union – Capital Chamber Room

Time	Speaker/Presentation	Topic
12:45	Gus Kousoulas, Assoc. VP, ORED	Welcome
12:50	Richard Kurtz, CAMD Director Purpose of meeting (MOU, SACS election, performance metrics, cleanroom etc.)	Introduction
12:55	Phillip Sprunger, CAMD Scientific Director Overview of experimental capabilities	Beamlines
1:00	Weiwei Xie, Chemistry X-ray structural probes of phase transitions at variable temperatues	Anomalous X-ray Diffraction
1:15	Christopher Arges, Chemical Engineering X-ray Scattering from disordered materials: polymers	SAXS / GISAXS
1:30	Jerry Spivey, Chemical Engineering X-ray probes of catalysts	XANES
1:45	James Dorman, Chemical Engineering Pyrochlores / rare-earths L, M edges	Soft-XANES
2:00	Kenneth Lopata, Chemistry Computational Materials Studies: Simulations of XANES spectra	Modeling
2:15	Break
2:30	Jianwei Wang, Geology and Geophysics Nuclear waste	XANES
2:45	Achim Hermann, Geology and Geophysics Geology / ancient rocks / Bahamas	XANES
3:00	Les Butler, Chemistry X-ray Interferometry/Tomography for Polymer and Metal Additive Manufacturing	X-ray Phase Contrast / Microtomography
3:15	Phillip Sprunger Physics & Astronomy, CAMD Catalysis applications	XANES – high pressure, synchrotron XPS
3:30	Break
3:45	Kip Matthews, Physics & Astronomy, CAMD Synchrotron X-rays for Radiation Biology and Cancer Therapy	Med-phys
4:00	Cherice Evans, Chemistry Department, Queens College Photoemission in liquids	VUV
4:15	Orhan Kizilkaya, CAMD Infrared techniques & spectromicroscopy	Infrared
4:30	Charlie Wilson, RSO CAMD Radiation Safety Training – annual refresher	User Training
4:50	Conclude Meeting

SAXS = ”Small-Angle X-ray Scattering”
GISAXS = ”Grazing Incidence” SAXS
XANES = ”X-ray Absorption Near-Edge Spectroscopy”
EXAFS = ”Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure”
XPS = ”X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy”
ARPES = ”Angle-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy”
VUV = ”Vacuum Ultra-Violet”