CHESS - Users' Meeting 2007

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The CHESS Users' Meeting 2007 was held:

June 12-13, 2007
Tuesday & Wednesday
Location: Robert Purcell Conference Center,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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Tuesday - June 12th - (see Agenda for details)
Invited Speakers:
Héctor D. Abruña Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Cornell University	"X-ray Based Studies of Fuel Cell Electrocatalysts"
Joseph E. Wedekind Dept. Biochemistry & Biophysics University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry	"Small Angle X-ray Scattering Provides Insight into the Mode of RNA-Mediated Regulation of APOBEC3G Anti-HIV Activity"
Todd C. Hufnagel Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering Johns Hopkins University	"In-situ X-ray Diffraction Studies of Rapidly Propagating Exothermic Reactions in Nanostructured Multilayer Foils"
Tomasz Kowalewski Dept. of Chemistry Carnegie Mellon University	"GISAXS-AFM Studies of Block Copolymers and Nanostructured pi-electron Materials"
Daniel Blasini Johns Manville Technical Center Winner of the 2006-2007 CHESS Thesis Prize	"Grazing Incidence Scattering Methods at the CHESS G2 Station - An Historical Overview"
Poster Session

After-dinner Speaker: Professor Thomas O'Rourke Thomas R. Briggs Professor of Engineering School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Cornell University "Hurricane Katrina: Geosystems in Crisis"

Wednesday - June 13th

Workshop I: (see Agenda for details) "Peeking into High-Pressure Worlds Through a Small Diamond Window"
Neil Ashcroft Dept. of Physics Cornell University	"Pressure, and Inorganic Complexity"
Bill Bassett Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Cornell University	"Structure of Aqueous Zinc Bromide Solutions by XAFS and Raman to 500°C and 900 MPa in a Hydrothermal Diamond Anvil Cell"
Joe Zaug Chemistry and Materials Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	"A Study of an Amorphous to Amorphous Phase Transition in Red Phosphorus: The importance of using synchrotron x-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopic results to constrain computationally derived amorphous structures"
Peter Lazor Dept. of Earth Science Uppsala University, Sweden	"Precise Optical Interferometry in DAC: Application to dielectric and equation-of-state studies"
Oliver Tschauner High Pressure Center and Dept. of Physics University of Nevada, Las Vegas	"High Pressure Phase Transitions Constrain Shock Conditions in Meteorite Parent Bodies"

Workshop II: (see Agenda for details) "Anomalous X-ray Scattering and Phasing at Low Energies"
John Rose Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology University of Georgia	"Optimizing the SER-CAT Beamlines for Routine Soft X-ray Data Collection"
Chae Un Kim Field of Biophysics Dept. of Physics Cornell University	"High Pressure Cryocooling for Capillary Sample Cryoprotection and Diffraction Phasing at Long Wavelengths"
Cheng Yang Rigaku Americas Corporation	"Taking the Edge Off: The softer side of in-house SAD phasing"
Brian Zoltowski Chemical Biology Tri-Institutional Training Program Cornell University	"Conformational Switching in the Fungal Light Sensor Vivid"
Gino Cingolani Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology SUNY Upstate Medical University	"Structure of a Biological Cell Wall Penetrating Device"

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Nov 19th - Dec 22nd

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