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Advanced Photon Source has paused experiments as a major year-long upgrade is underway.
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Advanced Photon Source has paused experiments as a major year-long upgrade is underway.
Energy Sciences Network’s ESnet6 project was finished two-plus years ahead of schedule and significantly under budget. In recognition of this unusual feat, the DOE presented ESnet with a special award.
By U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK), Chairman of the US House of Representatives Committee on Space, Science, and Technology.
The 2023 Center for Nanomaterials Sciences Annual user Meeting is August 7 -11 in Knoxville, TN. Registration Deadline is June 12.
June 6 virtual event: The Enrico Fermi Presidential Award is one of the oldest and most prestigious science and technology honors bestowed by the U.S. government.
Dr. Hewett comes to Brookhaven from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, CA, where she most recently served as associate lab director (ALD) for fundamental physics and chief research officer.
The hearing will examine the President’s budget request for the U.S. Department of Energy for Fiscal Year 2024 with Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm.
Molecular Foundry Director Kristin Persson highlights data-driven materials innovation and design powered, in part, by the Materials Project, at the Spring 2023 Materials Research Society Meeting.
The popularity of the hit HBO show “The Last of US” has many people searching the internet for whether it’s possible for a type of real fungus to evolve to cause a zombie apocalypse.
Hybrid event – in person at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) – and virtually.
Advanced Photon Source has paused experiments as a major year-long upgrade is underway.
Energy Sciences Network’s ESnet6 project was finished two-plus years ahead of schedule and significantly under budget. In recognition of this unusual feat, the DOE presented ESnet with a special award.
By U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK), Chairman of the US House of Representatives Committee on Space, Science, and Technology.
The 2023 Center for Nanomaterials Sciences Annual user Meeting is August 7 -11 in Knoxville, TN. Registration Deadline is June 12.
June 6 virtual event: The Enrico Fermi Presidential Award is one of the oldest and most prestigious science and technology honors bestowed by the U.S. government.
Dr. Hewett comes to Brookhaven from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, CA, where she most recently served as associate lab director (ALD) for fundamental physics and chief research officer.
The hearing will examine the President’s budget request for the U.S. Department of Energy for Fiscal Year 2024 with Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm.
Molecular Foundry Director Kristin Persson highlights data-driven materials innovation and design powered, in part, by the Materials Project, at the Spring 2023 Materials Research Society Meeting.
The popularity of the hit HBO show “The Last of US” has many people searching the internet for whether it’s possible for a type of real fungus to evolve to cause a zombie apocalypse.
Hybrid event – in person at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) – and virtually.
The unique power plant was part of a national R&D project to remotely connect energy assets in real-time using the DOE’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet).
Dimitri Argyriou, an accomplished physicist and Associate Director for In-Kind Management at the European Spallation Source, has been selected to serve as the next director of the Advanced Light Source.
March 8, 2023: The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology convened a hearing titled “Innovation Through Collaboration: The Department of Energy’s Role in the U.S. Research Ecosystem”.
CINT offers world-leading capabilities to create, characterize, and understand nanoscale materials in complex integrated environments.
FRIB researchers update their understanding of resulting reactions when heavy-ion beams hit a flowing-water target.
The CSP Functional Genomics call enables users to perform state-of-the-art functional genomics research and to help them translate genomic information into biological function.
We would like to hear your opinions regarding our member-focused activities in 2023, click to take the survey.
Several Federal agencies operate nanotechnology research facilities that are available to outside users.
Proposals Due March 13 for Nuclear Science, and also for Radiation Effects, at the Weapons Neutron Research (WNR) Facility for the run cycle June 19 – December 19, 2023.
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s latest annual report is now available online.
Merlin Theodore has received a presidential appointment to the National Science Board announced by President Joe Biden.
MOU will continue a longstanding collaboration on scientific and engineering research and enable increased partnerships to address the most important challenges of the 21st century.
Functional Genomics call is to enable users to perform state-of-the-art functional genomics research and to help them translate genomic information into biological function.
Researchers have developed an approach to detect the exact moment when a keyhole pore forms during the printing process.
Jefferson Lab and its partners benefit from Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Partnership in Nuclear Physics grants.
LOI due Feb. 9: The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility and Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) are seeking collaborative research applications for the FICUS program.
The National Ignition Facility (NIF) and Jupiter Laser Facility (JLF) User Groups will host a joint meeting February 21- 23, 2023
The Society for Science at User Research Facilities (SSURF) joins the global scientific community to celebrate the historic fusion ignition achievement at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) announced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
ORNL’s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences serendipitously discovered electron microscope beam drill holes between graphene atoms subsequently close up.
This major scientific breakthrough – decades in the making – paves the way for advancements in national defense and the future of clean power.
Without additional and sustained federal investment in domestic national scientific user facilities, our nation will fall behind other countries and relinquish long held leadership in extremely specialized and sought-after, oversubscribed, scientific infrastructure.
Join us for free via Zoom Wednesday Dec. 7 through Friday Dec. 9.
ARM releases “Translator Plan: A Coordinated Vision for Fiscal Years 2023–2025”
Part of the EMSL LEARN Webinar Series featuring John Cort, Chaevien Clendinen, Garry Buchko, and Andy Lipton.
The QSC combines resources and expertise from national laboratories, universities and industry partners to accelerate the design and development of novel quantum technologies.
Berkeley Lab’s biggest project in three decades now moves from planning to execution.
No travel required to see inside DOE’s world-class science and research facilities!
Topics include highlights from the Office of Science, National Science Foundation, facility updates, user spotlights, legislative themes, DEI in user facilities and much more.
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams will consider proposals for experiments using fast, stopped and reaccelerated rare-isotope beams.
Scientists investigate how extremely strong electromagnetic vortices interact with matter, specifically plasma, in a laboratory setting.
Carolyn Bertozzi was the Molecular Foundry’s Director from 2006 to 2010 and is the eighth woman to be awarded the prize.
Symposium to be held virtually on Thursday, November 10, 2022, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Central Time. Register today!
Since 1972, the Brookhaven Linac Isotope Producer (BLIP) has supplied the nation with critical isotopes for use in medicine, research, and other applications
“Power!! Unlimited Power!” Mechanical engineering and Laboratory for Laser Energetics alumna Alison Christopherson ’20 (Ph.D.) quoted the Emperor Palatine…
Cutting-edge technologies with tech-transfer potential – including better forensic sampling methods & lower-cost methane-leak detection – were among eight presentations made by Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists as part of the 2022 DisrupTECH event.
The event will feature keynote talks from internet pioneer Vint Cerf and Ian Foster
The directors of Los Alamos and Sandia National Labs joined Sen. Ben Ray Luján to talk about the CHIPS and Science Act,
Gilberto Fabbris, a physicist with the Advanced Photon Source, is the recipient of the 2022 Alvin Van Valkenburg Award for his work in the area of condensed matter physics at high pressure.
ORNL Fellow and CNMS researcher Bobby Sumpter has been named fellow of two scientific professional societies: the Institute of Physics and the International Association of Advanced Materials
The 12 research projects involve scientists at 32 U.S. institutions including 12 universities, 7 national laboratories, and 14 companies
Three-day meeting will include plenary speakers, flash talks, technical talks, and poster sessions on Imaging; Mass Spectrometry & : Systems and Synthetic #Biology
DOE’s National Quantum Information Science (QIS) Research Centers are preparing for their second virtual QIS Career Fair, to be held on Sept. 14, 2022.
This year’s Users Committee meeting is taking place at Los Alamos National Laboratory, in Los Alamos, NM home of the MagLab’s Pulsed Field Facility.
We are grateful for the tremendous effort by our elected Senators, Representatives and their staff to negotiate the hundreds of details for more than a year that culminated in this historic Act.
The Society for Science at User Research Facilities is seeking nominations for the Board of Directors. Deadline September 15, 2022.
To help bring halide perovskites – promising materials for solar cells – from the lab to commercialization, researchers at Florida State University and DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory examined them under real-world conditions. The scientists found that light and electric fields can create changes in the material’s basic properties and affect
CHESS provides beamtime to users for typically 125 days per year distributed over three cycles.
A team led by scientists from the NASA Ames Research Center simulated the complex chemistry that may be occurring in the hazy atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The work provides new insights into what future Titan probes may encounter upon arrival and what the atmosphere of Earth may have
On August 31 Argonne Leadership Computing Facility is hosting a webinar on the HDF5 parallel file system, its possible effects on HDF5 performance, and a summary of tools useful for performance investigations. HDF5 is a data model, file format, and I/O library that has become a de-facto standard for HPC
On July 20, 2022 the U.S. House or Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology’s Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight held a hearing to discuss the current and future challenges in securing scientific literature from fraudulent academic papers. SSURF is working with our partner ORCID – which was mentioned as
With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), PHY and DUE encourage proposals that involve collaboration between an experimental physicist(s) involved in research with the ATLAS or CMS detector and an educator(s) conducting research in STEM education. This partnership between the investigators should enable them to concurrently carry out research in experimental elementary particle physics (EPP) and advance educational practice and education research at the undergraduate (college/university) level within state-of-the-art research environments in physics.
RSVP for the free 2022 Advanced Light Source User Meeting, which will take place virtually August 15–17. The ALS mission is to advance science for the benefit of society by providing our world-class synchrotron light source capabilities and expertise to a broad scientific community. Agenda Highlights include: (and check the
In their study, the researchers solved the challenge of discovering the right catalytic pathway for using ethane to convert CO2 into gas for generating electricity, liquid fuels, or ethylene.Converting carbon dioxide (CO2) and ethane—an underutilized component of natural gas—into chemicals with higher value would allow us to make use of
Understanding how minerals crystallize and bond in various conditions provides important insights into predicting and controlling their development. It also provides crucial fundamental information for the creation of new materials. Recently, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory used a series of instruments and techniques at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory to
May 10: The U.S. Senate confirmed UC Merced professor Asmeret Asefaw Berhe to be the new director of the Office of Science in the federal Department of Energy.
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are designing and testing small-molecule antivirals that block the virus’s ability to reproduce.
CFN & ALS researchers uncover new avenue for overcoming the performance decline that occurs with repeated charge-discharge cycling.
ALCF Director of Science Katherine Riley was among the HPC professionals named to the annual list for their roles in driving innovation in the field.
This OSTP summit will convene fusion energy leaders from government, industry, academia, and other stakeholder groups to showcase progress made and have inclusive conversations about an updated fusion strategy.
Event builds on the results of the milestone Aug. 8, 2021, NIF ICF experiment that produced 1.35 megajoules of energy.
Among the collaborators are scientists working at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory,
Researchers from the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created the National Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC) Data Portal.
Scientists led by Carolyn Larabell at Berkeley Lab visualized COVID-infected lung cells and identified the major hallmarks of infection.
Scientists around the world can use EMSL’s world-class laboratory space, expertise, and equipment – for free – if their research proposal is competitively selected. During this webinar you’ll hear from four experts how to make your proposal stand out from the competition.
Researchers used Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Quantum Computing User Program (QCUP) to achieve major improvements in quantum fidelity, a potential step toward more accurate, reliable quantum networks and supercomputers.
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program was created to bring together many of the nation’s top researchers to develop new computational methods for tackling some of the most challenging scientific problems.
The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) offers users world-class expertise, scientific leadership, and cutting-edge resources in the native and top-down proteomics fields. Up Next: Realizing the Power of Native and Top-Down Proteomics Date: December 15, 2021 Time: 12:00pm Pacific Time During this webinar: Lili Pasa-Tolic will walk through an introduction
SSURF will host a free webinar on Thursday, December 16, 1:00PM EST with Dr. Vanessa Chan, Chief Commercialization Officer for the Department of Energy and Director of the Office of Technology Transitions. The U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) serves as the central hub for the technology
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s (LBNL) Advanced Light Source (ALS) Division has an opening for a User Services Group Leader to join the team. The Advanced Light Source is a U.S. Department of Energy Office (DOE) of Science national scientific user facility whose excellent scientific reputation, expert staff, and capabilities in
Virtual reality technology enabled ORNL scientists to look “inside” the Covid-19 virus and develop a novel molecule that can inhibit its main protease enzyme. Credit: Jill Hemman/ORNL
The Society for Science at User Research Facilities announced four new Board Directors during our 2021 Annual Meeting on November 9 & 10.
“Nano Matters” is a podcast that explores specific nanotechnology topics for a broad audience.
The Director’s Awards program recognizes the significant achievements of Lab employees.
The 2021 Society for Science at User Research Facilities Annual Meeting is November 9 & 10, 2021. This two-day event is all online and is a forum for the most informed and brilliant scientists from the User Facility network to share ideas, learn, ask questions and be appreciated for all their incredible work.
Laurent Chapon has been appointed director of the Advanced Photon Source (APS). Chapon will lead the Photon Sciences Directorate at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory through a massive upgrade of the user facility. He will begin his new role on January 10, 2022.
First-ever “bedrock-to-atmosphere” observation system could allow scientists to predict the future of water availability in the West
PAC-recommended experiments align with national science priorities and span the four FRIB science areas.
Pengfei Cao, a polymer chemist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been chosen to receive a 2021 Young Investigator Award from the Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Division of the American Chemical Society.
The Advanced Light Source (ALS) held its annual user meeting August 10–13, 2021.
Five-year, $12.5 million U.S. Department of Energy project will help pave the way for a nationwide quantum Internet
Advances in QIS can enable new forms of computing, simulation, communication, and sensing that can advance breakthroughs needed to combat the climate crisis and strengthen America’s competitiveness.
The 2021 LECM meeting resulted in a set of resolutions being accepted, including a commitment to ensuring an inclusive and accessible environment for all, and that FRIB-TA is an essential component of the field.
On Aug. 8, 2021, an experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL’s) National Ignition Facility (NIF) made a significant step toward ignition, achieving a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules (MJ).
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has a new funding opportunity announcement (FOA) describing plans to invest $100 million over the next four years on university-based research on a range of high energy physics topics.
This annual conference focuses on frontier research topics of interest to that community of users, providing a forum to share results and exchange ideas, and bringing together leading researchers, junior scientists, postdocs, and students. In addition to on-site users and Molecular Foundry scientists, meeting participants include researchers from universities, national labs,
“We’re the first to make a room-temperature 2D magnet that is chemically stable under ambient conditions,” said Foundry user and senior author Jie Yao, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Materials Sciences Division.
For 75 years, Argonne National Laboratory has accelerated the science and technology that drive U.S. security and prosperity. To celebrate, they are capturing the stories of the people who’ve made it happen.
Across SLAC and the surrounding region, we are continuing to experience significant improvement in COVID-19 conditions. Positive cases are low and immunizations are high. As of June 15, the state of California has officially reopened its economy, removing or relaxing most physical distancing, masking, and capacity restrictions.
Mariam Kiran, a research scientist in the Scientific Networking Division (ESnet) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has been named a Networking-Networking Women (N2Women) Rising Star in Networking and Communications for 2021.
June 1, 2021: The Society for Science at User Research Facilities (SSURF) hosted a webinar to learn the latest on the ORCID program. Agenda included an overview of ORCID, details about the U.S. Government ORCID Consortium, and examples on how the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory has integrated ORCID into its workflows, policies, and reporting.
Thursday, August 26, 2021: Watch our webinar with Dr. William Kilgore, Program Manager for Theoretical High Energy Physics at the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science.
The U.S. Dept. of Energy has a new funding opportunity announcement (FOA) describing plans to invest $100 million over the next four years on university-based research on a range of high energy physics topics. Dr. Kilgore described the objectives of the funding, the scope of eligible applicants, relevant and expected participating facilities, deadlines and other details regarding this opportunity.
June 1, 2021: Watch our webinar to learn the latest on the ORCID program. The agenda included an overview of ORCID, details about the U.S. Government ORCID Consortium, and examples on how the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory has integrated ORCID into its workflows, policies, and reporting.
We also provided background about the digital persistent identifier language in the January 2021 Presidential Memorandum on United States Government-Supported Research and Development National Security Policy – NSPM-33 and provided an update on new ORCID initiatives of interest to the user facility community.
Panelists:
Jacki Flood, Lead, MUA Administrator, Advanced Photon Source Users Office, Argonne National Laboratory
Carly Robinson, Assistant Director for Information Products and Services, DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)
Shawna Sadler, Engagement Manager, Outreach & Partnerships, ORCID
May 26, 2021: Watch our webinar to learn the latest on Espionage, Intellectual Property Theft, and Technology Transfer issues from Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent Scott McGaunn.
Scott discussed the FBI’s counterintelligence efforts against America’s adversaries, the nature of espionage as it relates to the theft of intellectual property at research institutes, and the challenges of illegitimate transfer of technologies to antagonistic nations.