International Materials Institute
for New Functionality in Glass

Workshop: Applications of Synchrotron Techniques
in Glass Research. April 6-7, 2009

Program

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Welcome Reception
4:30 pm - 7:00 pm in the Research Support Building 400.
All attendees arriving on or before the Sunday are encouraged to attend.
You can also check in and pick up your workshop packet at this time.

Monday, April 6, 2009 - Berkner Hall, Conference Rm B (Bldg. 488)

7:30 - 8:30 am Registration / Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 8:45 am Welcome / Introduction to Workshop
Ron Pindak, BNL; Himanshu Jain; IMI-NFG, Lehigh University and Carlo Pantano, IMI-NFG, Penn State University
8:45 - 9:00 am Introductory Remarks on the NSLS
Chi-Chang Kao, Chair, National Synchrotron Light Source
9:00 - 9:30 am Looking Forward to NSLS-II and Future Capabilities
Qun Shen, NSLS-II Experimental Facilities Division Director
9:30 - 10:15 am Lecture 1 – EXAFS
Bruce Ravel, National Institute of Standards & Technology
10:15 - 11:00 am Lecture 2 - Pump-Probe EXAFS
Klaus Attenkofer, Argonne National Laboratory
11:00 - 11:30 am Break & Group Photo
11:30 - 12:15 pm Lecture 3 - Total X-Ray Scattering
Simon Billinge, BNL / Columbia University
12:15 - 1:00 pm Lecture 4 - Anomalous X-Ray Scattering
Takeshi Egami, University of Tennessee
1:00 - 1:45 pm Lunch
1:45 - 2:30 pm Lecture 5 - NEXAFS, XANES
Faisal Alamgir, Georgia Institute of Technology
2:30 - 3:15 pm Lecture 6 – XPS
Joseph Woicik, National Institute of Standards & Technology
3:15 - 3:45 pm Break 



3:45 - 4:00 pm

4:00 - 4:15 pm

Overview of NSLS

SCC (Synchrotron Catalysis Consortium)

Anatoly Frenkel, Yeshiva University

COMPRES (Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences)
Lars Ehm, BNL / Stony Brook University
4:15 - 5:15 pm Open discussion about the formation of a glass consortium: advantages, strategic planning, leadership 
5:15 - 5:30 pm

Industrial Program
Jun Wang, NSLS

5:30 - 7:00 pm Dinner - Brookhaven Center (Bldg. 30)
7:00 - 8:30 pm Posters / Dessert

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 - Berkner Hall, Conference Rm B (Bldg. 488)

7:30 - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:45 am Lecture 7 - High Energy XRD at High Temp & Pressure
Chris Benmore, Argonne National Laboratory
9:45 - 10:30 am Lecture 8 - EXAFS-SAXS-WAXS
Neville Greaves, Aberystwyth University
10:30 - 11:00 am Break 
11:00 - 11:45 am Wrap-up of workshop
Pindak/Jain/Pantano
11:45 - 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 - 2:30 pm


2:30 - 3:00 pm
Tours of the NSLS
Start Location: NSLS Seminar Room

Tour of the Center for Functional Nanomaterial
Start Location: CFN Lobby

Revised 04.07.09



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