Call for abstracts for the Fundamentals at the Bay Area Light Sources symposium
Are you a student, postdoc, or research assistant who has conducted measurements at ALS, SSRL, LCLS, UED and/or cryoEM?
The ‘Fundamentals at the Bay Area Light Sources’ Symposium at the 2026 Users’ Meeting is a symposium for early career scientists to highlight their research making use of particular Bay Area user facility capabilities in a 15 minute oral presentation. The symposium will take place in-person at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory on Monday, September 21st. Expert staff scientists will give talks introducing techniques available at ALS, SSRL, LCLS, UED and the S2C2 cryoEM facilities followed by examples of early career research. The symposium will cover x-ray crystallography/diffraction, spectroscopy, imaging, electron methods (cryoEM/UED), and accelerator science. Early career work which spans multiple techniques or user facilities at SLAC and LBNL are especially encouraged. Abstracts from all technical fields are welcome. Please consider taking part in this symposium and sharing your work with other users while learning about work being conducted and what the vast capabilities at SLAC and LBNL user facilities have to offer. Awards for best oral presentation will be presented at the end of the session. Speakers will have their User Meeting registration fee waived and will be provided with some travel assistance.
Please submit abstracts through this link by August 1st for consideration:
https://forms.gle/MwkUDyPPbwfeqEsy7
Please note: This session is separate to the Poster Session taking place during Users' Meeting on Wednesday September 23. Please only fill out this form if you want to be considered for an in-person talk on Monday September 21.
If you have questions regarding the symposium or abstract submission, please contact the workshop organizers at fundamentals.ssrl.lcls@gmail.com.
Thank you,
Fundamentals at the Bay Area Light Sources Organizing committee:
Linda Vogt
Natalia Powers-Riggs
Liane Moreau
Amy Cordones-Hahn
Vandana Tiwari
Sheng-Chih Lin
Joshua Del Mundo
Francis He
Brandy Stewart
