CHESS User Meeting & Workshops

Jun 6, 2023, 8:00 AM → Jun 10, 2023, 5:00 PM America/New_York

Physical Sciences Building (Cornell University)

Join us on Tuesday, June 6th for our annual user meeting. This year's meeting will be followed by two workshops: one on our new High Magnetic Field Beamline and one on High Pressure MX.

For detailed information on the User Meeting and workshops, please visit the CHESS website. 

 

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Tuesday, June 6

8:00 AM → 8:40 AM Registration & Set up

8:40 AM → 9:50 AM CHESS Overview & partner program update

8:40 AM Director Welcome & CHESS Overview

Joel Brock, Director of CHESS

9:00 AM CESR Accelerator Update/Timing Structure

Jm Shanks, CLASSE

9:20 AM CHEXS Update

Jacob Ruff, Director of CHEXS

9:40 AM Germano S. Iannacchione. Director Division of Materials Research at NSF

9:50 AM → 10:15 AM Break

10:15 AM → 11:15 AM CHESS Overview & partner program update

10:15 AM MSN-C Update

Arthur Woll, Director of MSN-C

10:35 AM MacCHESS Update

Jeney Weirman, Director of MacCHESS

10:55 AM High Magnetic Field Update

Ernie Fontes, Technical Director of CLASSE

11:15 AM → 11:45 AM Paper Prize

11:15 AM Paper Prize Announcement & Photo - Felicity Worsnop

CHESS Student Paper Prize presented to Felicity Worsnop by CHESS Director Joel Brock

11:20 AM Student Paper Prize Winner: Felicity Worsnop - "The Influence of Alloying on slip intermittency and the Implications of dwell fatigue in Titanium"

The Influence of Alloying on slip intermittency and the Implications of dwell fatigue in Titanium

11:45 AM → 1:15 PM Lunch

1:15 PM → 2:05 PM Science Talks

1:15 PM Science Talk: Mostafa Hassani - "In-Situ Studies of the Mechanics of Metal Matrix Composites"

In-Situ Studies of the Mechanics of Metal Matrix Composites

1:40 PM Science Talk: Yao Yang - "Multimodal Operando X-ray Studies of Interfacial Electrocatalysis"

Multimodal Operando X-ray Studies of Interfacial Electrocatalysis

2:05 PM → 2:20 PM Break

2:20 PM → 3:35 PM Science Talks

2:20 PM Science Talk: Brenden Ortiz - "Disentangling the structure of CsV3Sb5 (and others!) in the charge-density wave state using CHESS data"

Disentangling the structure of CsV3Sb5 (and others!) in the charge-density wave state using CHESS data

2:45 PM Science Talk: Hilmar Koerner - "X-ray microdiffraction and scattering during 3D printing of semi-crystalline polymers"

X-ray microdiffraction and scattering during 3D printing of semi-crystalline polymers

3:10 PM Science Talk: Nozomi Ando - "Structural Biology of Complex Enzymes: Recent Work at CHESS"

Structural Biology of Complex Enzymes: Recent Work at CHESS

3:35 PM → 5:05 PM Poster Session

5:30 PM → 6:00 PM Reception

6:00 PM → 7:00 PM Dinner at Statler Ballroom

7:00 PM → 8:00 PM After Dinner Entertainment - Live Music by Wingnut

Wednesday, June 7

8:55 AM → 5:05 PM HMF Workshop

8:55 AM HMF facility overview + Q&A

Jacob Ruff and Louise Debefve

9:50 AM Science in high magnentic fields

Eric Palm (MagLab)

10:20 AM Break

10:30 AM Quantum Biology

Clarice Aiello (UCLA)

11:00 AM Chemistry in magnetic fields

Jorge Colón (UPR-RP)

11:30 AM Physics in magnetic fields

Ratnakar Palai (UPR-RP)

12:00 PM HMF Workshop: Lunch

1:00 PM 10 T capabilities at CHESS

Ernie Fontes and Elisabeth Bodnaruk (CHESS)

1:30 PM Go over instructions for the afternoon

1:40 PM Work in small groups

3:00 PM Break

3:15 PM Present results from small groups and discussion

4:00 PM Tour of the new facility (Please register for PPE)

9:00 AM → 5:35 PM High Pressure MX Workshop

9:00 AM Morning Session: Structural Biology Under Extreme Conditions

9:00 Welcome & Introduction to Structural Biology @ CHESS – Jeney Wierman & Steve Meisburger

9:15 “High Pressure Biophysics: What Happens to Biomolecules and Why?” – Cathy Royer (RPI) [zoom]

9:45 “Pressure Effects On Enzyme Structure Are Often Subtle” – Sol Gruner (Cornell)

10:15 AM Break

10:30 AM Morning Session: Structural Biology Under Extreme Conditions

10:30 “Plasmalogens Under Pressure: A Biophysical Deep Dive” – Jacob Winnikoff (Harvard) [zoom]

11:15 “"Pushed to Extremes: Probing Protein and Ligand Conformations with Biophysical Perturbations" – Daniel Keedy (CCNY) [zoom]

12:00 PM Lunch (hands-on participants)

1:00 PM Afternoon Session: High Pressure Diffraction Techniques

1:00 “Diffraction 101” – Jeney Wierman

1:15 “SAXS Fundamentals” – Rob Miller (Cornell)

1:45 “HP-BioSAXS at CHESS” – Richard Gillilan

2:15 PM Break

2:30 PM Afternoon Session: High Pressure Diffraction Techniques

2:30 “MX Fundamentals” – Raley Schweinfurth (Cornell)

3:00 “MX at Room Temperature and High Pressure using a Diamond Anvil Cell” – Steve Meisburger

3:30 “High Pressure Cryocooling at CHESS” – Qingqiu Huang

3:50 Logistics for demos hands-on experiments – Steve Meisburger

4:00 (end)

Thursday, June 8

9:00 AM → 5:00 PM High Pressure MX Workshop: HP-MX data collection for hands-on participants

Friday, June 9

9:00 AM → 5:00 PM High Pressure MX Workshop: HP-MX data collection for hands-on participants

Saturday, June 10

9:00 AM → 5:00 PM High Pressure MX Workshop: HP-MX data collection for hands-on participants