LCLS Run 24 Call for Proposals & Virtual Town Hall Meeting
LCLS Call for Proposals for period: March 2025 – July 2025 (Run 24 Hard X-rays and Soft X-rays)
Submission Deadline: 11 September 2024 (4:00 PM Pacific Time)
We are pleased to announce the call for LCLS Proposals for Run 24. This Run will offer capabilities on the soft X-ray instruments using the beam from the new LCLS-II superconducting high repetition rate accelerator. It also offers a continuation of the existing hard X-ray instruments, with dedicated use of the LCLS copper accelerator.
Full details of the Run 24 proposal call: https://lcls.slac.stanford.edu/proposals/run24-regular
For Run 24, Proposals must be submitted through the new Universal Proposal System (UPS) - for information about this new system and to learn more about the features and functionality of this new tool please visit the link below:
Universal Proposal System Information
Virtual Town Hall Meeting
A Virtual LCLS “Town Hall” User Meeting to discuss Run 24 will be held at 9:00 am Pacific Daylight Time on August 20, 2024.
Agenda
| Time | Topic | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 am - 10:10 am | Plenary Session | View Recording | Download Slides |
| 9:00 am | Current LCLS Status & Plans | Mike Dunne Director, LCLS | |
| 9:15 am | User Executive Committee Update | Nicholas Hartley LCLS UEC Chair | |
| 9:18 am | Universal Proposal System | Leilani Conradson / Paul Jones LCLS User Office | |
| 9:28 am | Accelerator Plans for Run 24 | Axel Brachmann / Tim Maxwell Accelerator Dept. Head | |
| 9:40 am | New Instrument Capabilities | James Cryan / Kristjan Kunnus /Georgi Dakovski TMO/chemRIXS/qRIXS Instrument Leads | |
| 9:50 am | Hard X-ray instruments brief overview | Sebastien Boutet Experimental Operations Director | |
| 9:55 am | Data systems | Jana Thayer Data Systems Dept. Head | |
| 10:10 am-11:00 am | Breakout Sessions/Office Hours by Instrument | ||
| TMO James Cryan | View Recording | Download Slides | |
| MEC Eric Galtier | View Recording | Download Slides | |
| MFX Leland Gee | View Recording | Download Slides | |
| qRIXS Georgi Dakovski | View Recording | Download Slides | |
| XCS / XPP Matthieu Chollet / Takahiro Sato | View Recording | Download Slides | |
| chemRIXS Kristjan Kunnus / DJ Hoffman / Douglas Garratt | View Recording | Download Slides | |
| CXI Meng Liang | View Recording | Download Slides | |
| TXI Andy Aquila | View Recording | ||
Universal Proposal System - Office Hours
To help users with the transition to the new proposal submission tool, we have scheduled open "Office Hours" to assist users learning how to use UPS for the first time.
| Date | Time | Zoom details |
|---|---|---|
| August 26, 2024 | 10:00 Pacific Time | Registration closed |
| August 29, 2024 | 10:00 Pacific Time | Registration closed |
| September 5, 2024 | 10:00 Pacific Time | Registration closed |
| September 9, 2024 | 10:00 Pacific Time | Click here to register and add to your calendar |
