X-ray light sources have evolved from their traditional role as unique and powerful sources of energy-tunable and time-resolved electromagnetic radiation into nucleation sites for novel science. Currently, light sources provide singular and indispensable capabilities for advancing science and technology in many scientific fields. These special sessions will bring together facility principals and scientific leaders, as well as early career scientists, to showcase the most recent and powerful developments at these facilities, as well as plans for facility upgrades and future directions in experimentation. Specifically, the sessions will examine in detail the new possibilities for science that can be done in the tender X-ray with existing and future beamlines. The overall coherence characteristics of the upgraded light sources offer new and substantial opportunities for unique experimental design and time-resolving measurements. These sessions will showcase the best and most impactful recent experiments built upon the unique characteristics of light sources, such as high energy resolution fluorescence detection, spectromicroscopy, ambient–pressure photoelectron spectroscopy, hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and their key roles in contributing innovation to societally important science issues such as clean energy production, economic competitiveness, and general national security. Shared sessions will be with Applied Surface Science, Magnetic Interfaces/Nanostructures, and with several Topic Areas – Theory for Surface Processes and Spectroscopies, Laboratory-Based Ambient–Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy; and Actinide and Rare Earth.
AC1+MI+TH: Magnetism, Electron Correlation, and Superconductivity in the Actinides/Rare Earths
- Li Hao Tjeng, TU Dresden, Germany
AC2+MI+TH: Chemistry and Physics of the Actinides/Rare Earths
- Alyssa Gaiser, Michigan State University, “Promethium: the missing piece in the Americium and Curium Separation”
- Tsuyoshi Yaitai, JAEA, Japan, “Structures and Electronic States of Actinide and Lanthanide Complexes with Phenanthroline Derivatives”
AC3+AS+MI+TH: Emerging Topics and Methods in Actinide/Rare Earth Sciences
- Andrea Severing, University of Koeln, Germany
- Samuel Webb, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
AC4+AS+TH: Nuclear Safeguards, Forensics, Environmental Science, and Stewardship
- Claire Corkhill, University of Sheffield, UK
- Scott Donald, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, “Changes in Oxidation Mechanism with Relative Humidity:
Application to Uranium Dioxide Powders”
AC5+MI+TH: Actinide/Rare Earth Theory
- Xiaosong Li, University of Washington, “Electronic Structure Methods for f-Block Elements: Are We There Yet?”
AC6+LX+MI+TH: Tender X-ray Science
- Dimosthenis Sokaras, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, “SSRL Advances in X-Ray Spectroscopy for Actinides Research”
AC7+TH: Time-resolved Studies
- Robert Schoenlein, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Linda Young, University of Chicago, “Attosecond Studies of Radiolysis at XFELs”
AC8+AS+LX+MI+TH: Facility Upgrades
- Dennis Mills, Argonne National Laboratory, “The Impact of Upgraded High-Brightness Synchrotron Lightsources on the Chemical Speciation of Nanoscale Heterogeneous Aggregates and Transformations”
- Jonathan Lang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
AC9+AS+LX+MI+TH: Recent Capability Development
- Lynne Ecker, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Tonya Vitova, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
AC10: Actinides and Rare Earths Poster Session