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October 2023 marked the 30th anniversary of first light at the ALS. With new opportunities on the horizon prompted by the ALS Upgrade (ALS-U), in summer 2023 the ALS embarked on a strategic visioning exercise to define the evolution of its science portfolio into the 2030s and where investments will be needed to realize the vision.
The output from four science visioning workshops, in the fields of Condensed Matter and Quantum Materials, Energy Sciences, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Biosciences, formed a critical part of the visioning exercise, helping to identify priority science areas for the ALS and emerging research goals and are informing the next iteration of the ALS’s five-year strategic plan. These workshops were held at the 2023 ALS User Meeting at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) September 13–15, 2023.
Each workshop was planned and executed by a separate workshop organizing team, consisting of members internal to the ALS and from the broader external user community. Those teams planned a program with invited participants, comprising a diverse group from a range of career stages and backgrounds, and the workshops were also open to anyone from the scientific community to participate.
Each workshop was charged, within its area of science, to:
- Identify key scientific challenges and priority long-term research opportunities that the ALS’s capabilities could evolve to address 10 years from today.
- Delineate key enabling synchrotron or related capabilities needed to realize these research opportunities.
- Articulate the most critical partnerships and which new partnerships or collaboration modalities would have the most potential for impact.
The reports compiled in the document shown above reflect the user and broader scientific communities’ viewpoints as presented and discussed in these workshops.
Details and descriptions of those workshops are archived below.
Biosciences
Organizing Committee: Greg Hura, co-chair (MBIB, LBNL), Andrej Sali, co-chair (UCSF), Marc Allaire (MBIB, LBNL), Diane Bryant (ALS, LBNL), Scott Fraser (Univ. Southern Calif.), Lisa Miller (NSLS-II, Brookhaven), Ritimukta Sarangi (SSRL, SLAC)
Location: 33-106
Zoom link – Updated 9:20 am on September 14
View the: Agenda | Workshop Page
Condensed Matter & Quantum Materials
Organizing Committee: Aaron Bostwick, co-chair (ALS, LBNL), Ming Yi, co-chair (Rice), Alex Frañó (UC San Diego), Mingda Li (MIT), Hendrik Ohldag (ALS, LBNL), Chris Palmstrøm (UC Santa Barbara), Sujoy Roy (ALS, LBNL), Feng Wang (UC Berkeley/LBNL)
Location: 59-3101
Zoom link
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Earth & Environmental Sciences
Organizing Committee: Martin Kunz, co-chair (ALS, LBNL), Tamas Varga, co-chair (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Harold Barnard (ALS, LBNL), Michelle Devoe (UC Berkeley), Hoi-Ying Holman (MBIB, LBNL), Harry Lisabeth (LBNL), Matthew Marcus (ALS, LBNL), Hope Michelsen (CU-Boulder), Brandy Toner (Univ. Minnesota)
Location: 15-253
Zoom link
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Energy Sciences
Moni Blum, co-chair (ALS, LBNL), Will Chueh, co-chair (Stanford), Greg Su, co-chair (ALS, LBNL), Dean DeLongchamp (NIST), Alex Hexemer (ALS, LBNL), Whitney Loo (Univ. Wisconsin), Karthish Manthiram (Caltech), Wanli Yang (ALS, LBNL), Iryna Zenyuk (UC Irvine)
Location: 91-310
Zoom link
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