A science talk was presented by our student paper award prize winner, Jason Huang, who discussed his paper “Disorder Dynamics in Battery Nanoparticles During Phase Transitions Revealed by Single Particle-Diffraction.” His work was also recently featured in the Cornell Chronicle.

We are excited to announce two new members of the Users’ Executive Committee, Ashley Bucsek and Kushol Gupta. Both members will work with other representatives of the UEC to help cultivate the user experience at CHESS. As always, you can reach our UEC through the link above for any comments or questions.

We are also looking forward to an upcoming workshop in July: Computing, Machine Learning, and Data-Intensive Science at Synchrotron Facilities. Please register at the above link. In preparation, the organizer of this workshop are asking the synchrotron community to fill out this survey, even if you don’t plan to attend the workshop.

Thanks, and Best Wishes,

Joel Brock, Director, CHESS (email Joel)

Last week we held our first in-person User Meeting since 2019! Over 100 in-person attendees enjoyed an informative and fun day of CHESS updates, science talks, posters, and a keynote speech from Nobel Prize winner Roald Hoffman. We were also joined by about 40 remote attendees. A workshop on research opportunities for optical control of physical properties in biological, chemical, and materials systems was also held the day after the User Meeting.

Ashley Bucsek and Kushol Gupta are the newly-elected members of the Users' Executive Committee. Congratulations! The full list of committee members can be found here.

At the CHESS Users' Meeting, we recognized the best student paper and outstanding poster presentations based on research performed at CHESS during the past year. Click through for more information about the winners.

In July CHESS will be hosting an interdisciplinary, interactive workshop on the challenges and opportunities in scientific computing, machine learning, and other aspects of data-intensive science at synchrotron facilities.

Recent research performed at CHESS presents new insights into the microstructural evolution which occurs during annealing of Mg alloys using in-situ X-ray diffraction. These alloys have potential to make vehicles lighter and reduce greenhouse gases.