Workshop  “Science at Cornell’s G-line”



November 2, 2000 at the CHESS Seminar Room, Wilson Laboratory


17:30 Tour of G-line Alan Pauling
18:00 Welcome and 
G-line Status Report
Detlef Smilgies
18:15 Session G1 Chair:  Detlef Smilgies
     Sol Gruner:  SAXS of materials under time-varying fields
     Uli Wiesner:  Soft matter under shear: order and dynamics
     Lois Pollack: Time-resolved small angle x-ray scattering studies of macromolecular folding
     Hilmar Koerner: Synchrotron studies of liquid crystals and block copolymers
     Don Bilderback: Microbeam opportunities with glass capillaries
19:30 PIZZA
20:00 Session G2 Chair:  Joel Brock
     Detlef Smilgies: Organic thin films: from the microstructure of  molecular and 
block copolymer films to supramolecular assemblies
     Hector Abruna: Study of surface structure and dynamics of metal deposition 
and redox active dendrimers with x-rays
     Rob Thorne: X-ray diffraction based approaches to probing macromolecular interactions, crystal structure, and disorder
     Qun Shen New experimental methods for solving the x-ray phase problem
     Joel Brock: Prospects of a sub-picosecond x-ray facility at G-line
21:15 COFFEE & COOKIES
21:30 Session G3  Chair:  Detlef Smilgies
    Randy Headrick:  Gallium nitrite growth
     Joel Brock: Hyperthermal ion/supersonic neutral beam growth experiments
     Yuri Suzuki: Pulsed laser deposition of complex oxide thin films
     Shef Baker: Stress distributions and deformation mechanisms in thin metal films
     Val Kostroun: Recoil ion momentum spectroscopy of fundamental x-ray processes 
in free atoms and molecules
22:45 Final Remarks Joel Brock