Spring is officially here in Ithaca and the smell of lilacs fills the air on the Cornell campus. While crews at Cornell are preparing for graduation ceremonies, crews here at CHESS are finishing up our last user run before the summer shutdown and civil construction of the new experimental hall for the High Magnetic Field Beamline. 

Spring also means that CHESS is preparing for the annual CHESS User Meeting on June 7th. Registration is now open, and we urge you to register for the event.  This meeting will be a return to in-person at Cornell, with the option to join remotely via Zoom. We also ask that you register for the poster session. There is a lot of exciting research that happens at CHESS and the poster session is a great opportunity to highlight your science while discovering the research of others.  

We are also hosting a workshop on June 8th. The Optical Control of Physical Properties Probed with X-Rays workshop will identify forefront research opportunities for optical control of physical properties in biological, chemical, and materials systems. This workshop will also address instrumentation related to the implementation of optical experiments at x-ray facilities. Please join us and register for the workshop!  

This month, we also look back in time, way back - over 75 years ago when synchrotron light was first observed. Cornell and CHESS have been instrumental in the development of synchrotron-based research, and we look forward to an even brighter future! 

Thanks, and Best Wishes, 

Joel Brock, Director, CHESS (email Joel)

The CHESS User Meeting will take place June 7th, 2022 and will be held in-person at Cornell. We are excited to see everyone gather for a day filled with updates from around the lab, scientific talks, and a poster session.

Please take a moment to register for the meeting. More information will be sent to all registrants closer to the User Meeting date. Can’t make it to Ithaca? The meeting will also be streamed online, please register for the online portion of the meeting.

This workshop will identify forefront research opportunities for optical control of physical properties in biological, chemical, and materials systems. This workshop will also address instrumentation related to the implementation of optical experiments at x-ray facilities.

This workshop will take place on June 8th - the day after the CHESS User Meeting.

75 years after the first discovery of synchrotron light at GE, as CHESS enters its 43rd year of operations, the scientific advancements and discoveries at CHESS have grown continuously, thanks to its inherent connection to Cornell University, and particularly the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based ScienceS and Education, CLASSE.

Hybrid pixel array detectors (PADs) have proven to be powerful, versatile area detectors for x-ray science. A new prototype would enable significant advances in time-resolved studies of dynamic phenomena.

The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source and the University of Puerto Rico are continuing a collaboration that will shape the future of the synchrotron X-Ray laboratory as it builds the new High Magnetic Field facility, HMF.