Time |
Title of Talk |
Speakers/Session Chair |
| 7:00 |
Meeting Registration & Poster Set-Up – Geology Atrium (coffee available) |
| Introduction and Status of the CLS |
|
| 8:30 |
Welcome |
Ingrid Pickering, UAC Chair |
| 8:35 |
Beamlines and Science Update |
CLSI Management |
| Keynote Speaker |
|
| 9:15 |
The CLS—View from the CIHR |
Christine Fitzgerald , Executive Vice-President, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) |
9:45 |
Coffee Break —Geology Atrium |
|
| Science Session 1: |
René Coulombe |
| 10:05 |
Developing a World-Class Scientific Program for the Biomedical Imaging and Therapy Beamline |
Dean Chapman, University of Saskatchewan |
| 10:35 |
Infrared spectromicroscopy of biomaterials at the CLS 01B1.1 beamline |
Craig Hyett, CLS and Université de Montréal |
| 10:50 |
A High-affinity Ni(II)-Binding Site from Escherichia coli HypB |
Alistair Dias, University of Toronto |
| 11:05 |
Piece by Piece: Structural Studies of the Mammalian Splicesome |
Andrew MacMillan, University of Alberta |
| 11:35 |
Lunch —Geology Atrium |
| 12:15 |
Lunchtime Q & A Discussion |
| 13:05 |
UAC Business and Elections |
Ingrid Pickering, UAC Vice-Chair |
| Science Session 2: |
John Neville |
| 13:15 |
X-ray Excited Optical Luminescence (XEOL) and Time-Resolved XEOL (TRXEOL) of Calcium Oxide |
J.Y. Peter Ko, University of Western Ontario |
| 13:30 |
Near-Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure spectroscopy study of organometallic sandwich compounds and functionalized polymers |
Edwige Otero, University of Saskatchewan |
| 13:45 |
CLS-SGM Phosphorus K-edge X-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy (XANES) and valence band photoemission spectroscopy (PES) of intermetallic compounds |
Andrew Grosvenor, University of Alberta |
| 14:00 |
Synchrotron Radiation: An Extraordinary Tool to Probe the Solid State at Extreme Conditions |
Serge Desgreniers, Université d'Ottawa, |
| 14:30 |
Coffee Break —Geology Atrium |
| Science Session 3: |
Suzanne Beauchemin |
| 14:50 |
X-ray Microscopy - Past, Present and Future |
Janos Kirz , Advanced Light Source |
| 15:20 |
Rings and things: far-infrared spectroscopy of large molecules at the CLS |
Dennis Tokaryk, University of New Brunswick |
| 15:35 |
A surface science approach to understanding the key steps of the oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cells |
Janay B. MacNaughton, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory |
| 15:50 |
From X-rays to Biogeochemistry to Beethoven |
Kenneth Kemner, Argonne National Laboratory |
| 16:20 |
Poster Session and Wine & Cheese – Geology Atrium |
| 18:30 |
Annual Users’ Meeting Banquet - Marquis Hall, Garry Room
Cocktails, Dinner
CISR Student Poster Award Presentation
After Dinner Speaker: Herman Winick -- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and Stanford University “SESAME and the Impact of Synchrotron Radiation Research on Science and Society in Developing Countries” |
