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