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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Location: Robert Purcell Conference Center,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

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Tuesday - June 10th
 8:00AM Registration
Continental Breakfast
Poster setup
Welcome and Introduction
 9:00 Transitions Ahead - Sol Gruner
 9:15 Status of CESR - Maury Tigner
 9:25 CHESS Science Initiatives - Don Bilderback
 9:35 MacCHESS Science Initiatives - Quan Hao
 9:45 ERL Developments - Ivan Bazarov
Invited User Presentations
10:00 Sturt Manning and/or Charlotte Pearson (Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory - The Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Laboratory for Aegean and Near Eastern Dendrochronology, Cornell University) -
"Tree Ring Analysis Via Scanning X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy - Problems and Potential"
Presentation (pdf)
10:30 Thalia Mills (Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University) - "WAXS Detects Liquid-liquid Domains in Model Membranes"
Presentation (pdf)
11:00 BREAK
11:15 Kalle Gehring (Dept. of Biochemistry, McGill University) -
"Structural Studies of Protein Disulfide Isomerases"
Presentation (pdf)
Group Discussion & Election
11:45 User Group Discussion
Election of Members to the CHESS Users' Executive Committee
12:15 LUNCH
After-lunch Speaker
 1:00  Steve Marschner (Cornell Computer Science Department, Cornell University) - "The Optics of Entertainment: Computing the Appearance of Everyday Materials for the Movies"
Invited User Presentations - (continued)
 2:00 John Hart (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan)
"Revealing the Dynamics of Carbon Nanotube Forest Growth by In Situ X-ray Scattering"
 2:30 Richard Jones (Dept. of Physics, University of Connecticut) - "Morphology of Thin Diamond Monocrystals from X-ray Rocking Curves"
Presentation (pdf)
 3:00 BREAK
 3:15  Marleen Kamperman (Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University) - "Hierarchically Ordered High Temperature Ceramics using Block Copolymer Mesophases"
 3:45 Thesis Prize Winner - Chae Un Kim
"High Pressure Cryocooling for Macromolecular Crystallography"
Presentation (pdf)
4:30- 7:00PM Poster Session with light refreshments, tours of CHESS/ERL available during this period - See article for recipients of awards
Workshop I         Workshop II         Main Agenda       

2008 Run

Nov 19th - Dec 22nd