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The 2005 Users' Meeting was held on the 7th floor of Clark Hall, Cornell University

Day One - Tuesday, June 14, 2005
 8:00 am Registration & Continental Breakfast
 9:00 am Welcome and Introduction
Sol Gruner, Director, CHESS
Quan Hao, Director, MacCHESS
Joel Brock, Director, G-line

"LEPP Status," Sol Gruner, Director, CHESS (stepping in for Maury Tigner, Director of LEPP)
 9:40 am Don Bilderback, Associate Director, CHESS
New Developments at CHESS and Introduction to Poster Session
Invited User Presentations
10:00 am Matt Miller, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University
"Measuring Crystal Stress Distributions in Metallic Alloys using in-situ Mechanical Loading and High Energy Synchrotron X-rays"
10:30 am Coffee Break
10:45 am Eddy Arnold, Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rutgers University
"Use of Synchrotron Radiation to Drive Structure-based Design of Novel Anti-AIDS Drugs"
11:30 am User Group Discussions and Elections of Members to the CHESS Users' Executive Committee
Noon Lunch
Invited User Presentations continue
 1:00pm Daniel Blasini, Chemistry Dept, Cornell University
"Surface Characterization of Ordered Intermetallic Compounds PtBi and PtPb"
 1:30 pm Andrei Sirenko, Department of Physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology
"Microbeam X-ray Diffraction in Selectively Grown Optoelectronic Devices"
 2:00 pm Rob Thorne, Physics Department, Cornell University
"Improving Diffraction Throughput Using New Approaches to Crystal Handling and Mounting"
 2:30 pm John Chiment, Simple Interest
"Trace Elements in Paleontology, Archaeology, and Medieval History: the small things hiding in sticks and stones"
 3:00 pm Coffee Break
 3:15 pm Poster Session
 4:00 pm Tours
 6:30 pm Reception, Atrium - Biotechnology Building
 7:00 pm Dinner, G10 Biotechnology Building
Guest Speaker: Professor James Bell, III, Department of Astronomy Cornell University
"Latest Results from the Mars Exploration Rovers"
Day Two - Wednesday, June 15, 2005
 8:00 am Registration & Continental Breakfast
 8:30 am Poster Viewing
 9:00 am Workshops I and II
10:30 am Coffee Break
10:45 am Workshops I and II continue
12:15 pm Lunch
 1:15 pm Poster Award Presentations
Joint Session
 1:30 pm Hiro Tsuruta, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford University
"Small Angle X-ray Scattering Studies on Large Protein Assemblies in Solution.  A Structural Tool to Complement High-Resolution Techniques"
 2:15 pm Tom Irving, Advanced Photon Source, Illinois Institute of Technology
"Advances in Fiber Diffraction of Muscle with 3rd Generation Synchrotron Sources"

2008 Run

Nov 19th - Dec 22nd