10th Annual Users’ Meeting Agenda
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Biology 106 and the Geology Atrium, University of Saskatchewan
The following proposed agenda will be updated as meeting details are confirmed.
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” |
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Direct Program Related Inquiries to: clsuo@lightsource.ca
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