News and Announcements
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Dr. Mark Rivers and Dr. Stephen Sutton: Recipients of 2021 APSUO Arthur H. Compton Award
Congratulations to Dr. Mark Rivers and Dr. Stephen Sutton as the recipients of the 2021 APSUO Arthur H. Compton Award. The award recognizes a significant scientific or technical accomplishment at the Advanced Photon Source.
GSECARS Hosts Virtual Tutorial on Crystal Truncation Rod Diffraction (CTR) for Atomic-Scale Surface Structure Measurement
On Wednsday, March 31st, GSECARS Beamline Scientists Peter Eng and Joanne Stubbs host a virtual tutorial on Crystal Truncation Rod Diffraction (CTR) for Atomic-Scale Surface Structure Measurement.
GSECARS Hosts Faculty and Students from Lockport Township High School Involved with the ESRP Program at APS
Their experiment “Comparative Chemical Analysis of Soil Contamination Using Hyperaccumulators” was run at 13 IDE with GSE beamline scientists Tony Lanzirotti and Matt Newville as hosts.
Virtual Tutorial on Crystal Truncation Rod Diffraction for Atomic-Scale Surface Structure Measurement
March 31, 2021: GeoSoilEnviroCARS, the University of Chicago, at the Advanced Photon Source invites you to attend a half-day online workshop.
HP Interest Group
Dr Stella Chariton, GSECARS, to host high pressure interest group: “Solving crystal structures from complex multigrain, multi-phase samples at extreme conditions”. Monday, Jan 25th, 2-3pm (CST)
In-situ Studies of Rock Deformation Science Workshop
Presentations will be given in virtual meeting format on the afternoons of Jan 18 and 19, 2021.
Mark Rivers of GSECARS Elected as a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America
Congratulations to Mark Rivers for being elected as a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America!
GSECARS 13 ID-D DAC Program Successfully Runs Using Mail-In Samples
The GSECARS 13 ID-D DAC program successfully ran 140 mail-in DACs and 10 ambient samples. They received (and returned!) 36 boxes of DAC samples. Users report that running experiments remotely with mail-in samples resulted in excellent data and was deemed a great success!
GSECARS Hosts Virtual Hands-On Microtomogoraphy Tutorial Sessions
Dr. Mark Rivers at GSECARS hosts a virtual hands-on tutorial sessions on synchrotron computed microtomography.
GSECARS Welcomes Christofanis Skordas
Christofanis will be working on software development for the Diamond Anvil Cell program.