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The joint users' meeting of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) and the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) is a unique opportunity to gather together the lightsource community in a single scientific event that includes numerous presentations in plenary, poster and parallel sessions. Participants are able to learn about current/future facility capabilities and the latest user research as well as to discuss science with colleagues from academia, research laboratories, and industry worldwide.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019 - Workshops

• Metals in Structural Biology
• Materials Science X-ray Diffraction Opportunities
• Ultrafast Electron Diffraction (UED)

Wednesday, September 25, 2019 - Workshops

• LCLS-II Early Science & LCLS Science Campaigns
• Automated Analysis and Control for X-ray Science Experiments
• Multi-Scale Structural Biology
• MXAN:  Three Dimensional Structures for Metal Sites in Condensed Phases and in Catalysts

Thursday, September 26, 2019 - Plenary Session

• 9:00 am    Welcome/Session Introductions - Roseanne Sension (U Michigan, LCLS UEC Vice Chair)
• 9:10 am    Welcome/Update - Chi-Chang Kao (SLAC Director)
• 9:30 am    DOE BES Update - James Murphy (Director of Scientific User Facillities, DOE Office of Science Basic Energy Sciences)
• 10:00 am  LCLS Update - Mike Dunne (LCLS Director)
• 10:30 am  Break
• 11:00 am  SSRL Update - Paul McIntyre (SSRL Director)
• 11:30 am  Town Hall Discussion with UEC and LCLS/SSRL Directors Mike Dunne and Paul McIntyre
• 12:00 pm  Poster Blitz - Bill Schlotter, Moderator
• 12:30 pm  Break
• 1:20 pm    Welcome/Session Introductions - Tim Stemmler (Wayne State U, SSRL UEC Vice Chair)
• 1:30 pm    LCLS Young Investigator Award to be presented to Matteo Mitrano (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• 2:00 pm    SSRL William E. and Diane M. Spicer Young Investigator Award to be presented to Hans Georg Steinruck (Stanford/SSRL):  Shedding X-ray Light on Energy Storage Materials
• 2:30 pm    SSRL Melvin P. Klein Scientific Development Award to be presented to Xinru Wang (University of Arizona/Brown University):  Protein Ser/Thr Phosphatase Substrate Recognition
• 3:00 pm    SSRL Farrel  W. Lytle Award to be announced and presented at the plenary session
• 3:10 pm    Break
• 3:40 pm    SSRL Invited Talk - Stosh Kozimor (LANL): Coordination Chemistry of Actinides
• 4:20 pm    LCLS Invited Talk - Philippe Wernet (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)
• 5:00 pm    User Poster Session & Reception
• 7:30 pm    Presentation of Joe Wong Outstanding Poster Awards

Friday, September 27, 2019 - Workshops

• CryoEM of Macromolecular Machines
• Current and Future Opportunities in Time-Resolved X-ray Science:  Materials and Interface
  • Materials Phenomena
  • Ultrafast Electron and Molecular Dynamics at Interfaces
• Recent Advances in the X-ray Spectroscopy of the Actinides
• Development and Challenges in X-ray Spectroscopies and Ultrafast Dynamics:  Experiment and Theory
• Data-Reduction Pipeline for LCLS-II