| Register for Users' Meeting here |
The CHESS Users' Meeting 2008 will be held:
June 10-11, 2008
Tuesday & Wednesday
Location: Robert Purcell
Conference Center,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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| Tuesday - June 10th | |
| Invited Speakers: | Titles: |
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Sturt Manning and/or Charlotte Pearson(Post-doc) 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" |
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Thalia Mills Dept. of Physics Carnegie Mellon University |
"WAXS Detects Liquid-liquid Domains in Model Membranes" |
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Kalle Gehring Dept. of Biochemistry McGill University |
"Structural Studies of Protein Disulfide Isomerases" |
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John Hart Dept. of Mechanical Engineering University of Michigan |
"Revealing the Dynamics of Carbon Nanotube Forest Growth Using X-ray Scattering" |
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Richard Jones Dept. of Physics University of Connecticut | "Morphology of Thin Diamond Monocrystals from X-ray Rocking Curves" |
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Marleen Kamperman Materials Science and Engineering Cornell University |
"Hierarchically Ordered High Temperature Ceramics using Block Copolymer Mesophases" |
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TBA Winner of the 2007-2008 CHESS Thesis Prize |
"TBA" |
| Poster Session | Awards for best in two
categories: Science and Technical Development |
| After-lunch Speaker: Steve Marschner Cornell Computer Science Department Cornell University |
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| Wednesday - June 11th | |
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This workshop is a joint venture between the CHESS and the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF). It is sponsored by the
Kavli Institute at Cornell. Workshop I: - Full Day - CHESS/CNF "Probing the Nanoscale: X-rays Meet Nanofabrication" |
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| Speakers: | Titles: |
| Tom Krupenkin Mechanical Engineering University of Wisconsin |
"TBA" |
| Wenbing Yun Xradia |
"State-of-the-Art High Resolution X-ray Tomography Imaging Systems" |
| Ken Evans-Lutterodt National Synchrotron Light Source Brookhaven National Laboratory |
"Kinoform Hard X-ray Optics" |
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Bert Nickel Dept. of Physics Ludwig-Maximilians University |
"Nanostructure and Function of Biointerfaces and Organic Field Effect Devices" |
| Bob Austin Dept. of Physics Princeton University |
"TBA" |
| David Pine Dept. of Physics New York University |
"TBA" |
| Erik Anderson Dept. of Materials Sciences Lawrence Berkeley National Lab |
"TBA" |
| Wine-tasting and Dinner: Sheldrake Winery | |
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Workshop II: half day - MacCHESS "Environmental Influences on Proteins: pressure, temperature, and more" |
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| Speakers: | Titles: |
| Kris Tesh Director, Macromolecular Products Rigaku Americas Corporation |
"The Free Mounting System (FMS) as a Tool to Improve Diffraction and Reduce Backgrounds" |
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Masound Vedadi PI, Molecular Biophysics University of Toronto |
"Application of High Throughput Ligand Screening to Promote Protein Crystallization" |
| Matt Warkentin Physics Department Cornell University |
"Temperature Dependent Studies of Protein Crystals: Lattice Disorder, Radiation Sensitivity, and the Glass Transition" |
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Markus Buehler Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
"Beyond Genomics: Rupture Mechanics of Protein Materials" |
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Walid Qoronfleh Vice President, Business Development NextGen Sciences, Inc. |
"Confronting High-throughput Protein Refolding using High Pressure and Solution Screens" |
| Wine-tasting and Dinner: Sheldrake Winery | |
