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Issue No. 20
2015.07.15

FROM THE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR


This month's excitement flows from three main activities. First, the house was full with x-ray users recording data, and, in the future, you'll hear a report about how x-ray beam position stability has been bumped up another notch by the accelerator operations group testing a new horizontal storage ring orbit correction algorithm based on x-ray beam position monitors with horizontal sensitivity. This is another technical advance following the beamline upgrades to accommodate undulator sources. Second, if you weren't able to attend the Users' Meeting, find some articles highlighting engaging workshops and student paper and poster prize winners. The MacCHESS workshop organized by Tiit Lukk highlighted how fast framing detectors create new science opportunities in time-resolved crystallography and BioSAXS. The XES session organized by Ken Finkelstein discussed science and practical concepts leading into a two-day hands-on workshop offering expert help with simulation and analysis software and 36 hours devoted to measurements using the new Dual Array Valence Emission Spectrometer (DAVES) at the C1 station. And last but certainly not least, read about the antics of more than two-dozen undergraduate research assistants doing research and serving as "science ambassadors" in our outreach and education program. Busy times...

-Ernest Fontes
Key to cooperative Ostwald ripening unraveled
Through diligent chemistry work on purifying small gold nanoparticles and then reintroducing a variety of additives, Yixuan Yu and his fellow students from the Korgel group at the University of Texas at Austin have found the key... more »
Undergrads from across country visit for summer research
Earlier this summer, undergraduates from across the country gathered to hear from fellow physics students engaged in a summer of research at Cornell... more »
Summer students serve as science ambassadors
Undergraduate physics and chemistry students from throughout the country have come to CHESS to conduct cutting-edge research this summer... more »
CHESS USERS' MEETING WRAP-UP
CHESS hands-on workshop on x-ray emission spectroscopy
This workshop was designed to give a thorough, practical introduction on x-ray emission spectroscopy to researchers with little background in XES... more »
Workshop on fast framing detectors and time-resolved x-ray biology
The second workshop at the 2015 CHESS Users' Meeting was organized by MacCHESS scientist Tiit Lukk on the topic of "Fast framing detectors and their applications in time-resolved crystallography/BioSAXS"... more »
CHESS Student Paper Prize to Gaurav "Gino" Giri
CHESS Director Joel Brock was pleased to announce this year's winner of the CHESS Student Paper Prize as Gaurav "Gino" Giri. Gino, a graduate student of Zhenan Bao at Stanford and then post-doctoral associate at MIT... more »
Poster Prize winners honored at CHESS Users' Meeting
An important part of the annual CHESS Users' Meeting is the display and discussion surrounding users who present their work via posters. This year 42 posters covered the gamut of topics from new technical advances... more »
The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), a national user facility, is supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences under NSF award DMR-1332208. CHESS is operated and managed for the National Science Foundation by Cornell University.
 
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