Users' Advisory Committee

CLS 15th Annual Users' Meeting Agenda

Friday, May 4, 2012
Biology Room 106, W.P. Thompson Building
U. of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

Time Event/Title of Talk Speakers/Session Chair
7:30 Meeting Registration opens
08:00-18:15 Vendor Exhibition -  in the Geology Atrium
08:30 Welcome Derek Peak, UAC Chair
08:35 Louis T.J. Delbaere Memorial Lecture:  Resonant Soft X-Ray Scattering:  A Tool for Uncovering New Ordering and Studying Elementary Exitations in Solids George Sawatzky, University of British Columbia
09:20 Facility Update Mike McKibben, Canadian Light Source
09:40 CLS Science Highlights Thomas Ellis, Canadian Light Source
10:00 Coffee Break and Vendor Exhibition -  in the Geology Atrium
10:20 Practical Application of Synchrotron-Based Techniques in Basic Life Sciences Research Andrew Olkowski, University of Saskatchewan
10:55 Interaction of nanostructured calcium silicate hydrate with drug molecules, ibuprofen:  X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) study at the Ca and Si K-edge Xiaoxuan (Vince) Guo, University of Western Ontario
11:15 Antibiotic Resistance in Atomic Detail Albert Berghuis, McGill University
11:50 High Resolution Cortical Bone Imaging of Microarchitecture at the Canadian Light Source Yasmin Carter, University of Saskatchewan
12:10–13:10 Lunch -  Vendor Exhibition in the Geology Atrium and Poster Viewing on the 2nd floor above the Geology Atrium
13:15 Frontiers in Soil and Environmental Chemistry: The Important Role of Synchrotron-Based Tools Donald Sparks, University of Delaware
13:50 High resolution rovibrational spectroscopy of heterocycles Ziqiu (Felix) Chen, University of Manitoba
14:10 G. Michael Bancroft Ph.D. Thesis Award Talk: Photoionization Studies of O2 and H2 Arathi Padmanabhan, University of Windsor
14:30 Ongoing developments and upgrades at the SGM beamline Tom Regier, Canadian Light Source
15:00 Coffee Break – Vendor Exhibition -  in the Geology Atrium
15:20 Using SAXS to study interfaces.  How to keep things clean means getting a “little” rough. Robert Lamb, University of Melbourne
15:50 A Vision for CLS Josef Hormes, Canadian Light Source
16:15-18:00 POSTER SESSION – STUDENT POSTER JUDGING – 2nd floor above Atrium (Wine and Cheese Reception) – Awards presented at Banquet
18:15 Cocktails, Banquet and Awards at Marquis Hall, University of Saskatchewan - Guest Speaker – Dr. Ken Van Rees, University of Saskatchewan Professor and Agri-Food Innovation Chair in Agroforestry and Afforestation

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