Workshop on High Energy X-ray Techniques 2020, HEXT-2020

提议的高能x射线技术研讨会，HEXT，在康奈尔高能同步加速器源（CHESS）是独一无二的，它的目标是提供参与学生，主要来自美国国家科学基金会合作伙伴关系研究和教育材料（PREM）计划的机构，需要的知识和技能，战略规划，进行和解释同步加速器实验，以回答具体的问题，他们的研究兴趣在材料科学。PREM机构是少数民族服务机构，其学生在材料研究领域的代表性很大。研讨会将由三个主要部分组成：1)由国际象棋的科学家讲授同步加速器方法的基本原理以及如何将这些方法应用于材料研究；2)动手演示，参与者将收集和处理CHESS光束线上的数据；3)指导和指导如何为束时间撰写成功的提案，并有机会获得CHESS科学家的个性化反馈。在讲习班结束时，参加者将具备成为国际象棋用户社区中富有成效的成员的知识和示范技能。HEXT-2020研讨会将作为2020年6月CHESS用户会议的一部分举行。研讨会参与者将能够参加用户会议，包括设施运营的更新，战略规划和科学演讲，以及社交活动（会议晚宴，国际象棋之旅）。研讨会的参加者还将参加海报环节，分享他们的科学兴趣并了解国际象棋的研究。在那里，他们还将有机会与已经使用同步加速器设备的学生、负责x射线束线的国际象棋工作人员科学家以及设备用户的pi（从早期职业科学家到世界知名的杰出研究人员，都在不同领域工作）建立联系。本次研讨会的目标受众将具有不同的科学兴趣，并且将是同步加速器社区的新成员。因此，研讨会将涵盖广泛的同步加速器方法，如衍射、光谱和成像，这些方法可以应用于许多材料系统。讲座和实践课程都将侧重于方法的基础，特别强调如何将这些技术应用于材料系统。使用国际象棋光束线的实验将给参与者提供在同步加速器上进行研究所需的第一手经验。通过将这些教育活动与准备提案的实践相结合，本次研讨会将使参与者成为国际象棋用户社区的积极成员。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The proposed workshop on High Energy X-ray techniques, HEXT, at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) is unique in its goal to provide participating students, primarily from institutions in the NSF Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) program, the knowledge and skills needed to strategically plan, conduct and interpret synchrotron experiments to answer questions specific to their research interests in material science. The PREM institutions are Minority Serving Institutions with a student population largely underrepresented in the field of materials research. The workshop will consist of three main components: 1) Lectures by CHESS staff scientists that cover the fundamentals of synchrotron methods and how these can be applied to materials research; 2) Hands-on demonstrations where participants will collect and process data on CHESS beamlines; and 3) Instruction and coaching on how to write a successful proposal for beamtime, with the opportunity for personalized feedback from CHESS scientists. At the conclusion of the workshop, the participants will have the knowledge and demonstrated skills to be productive members of the CHESS user community.The HEXT-2020 workshop will occur as part of the CHESS Users’ Meeting in June 2020. Workshop participants will be able to attend sessions of the Users’ meeting featuring updates of the facility operation, strategic planning and science presentations, as well as social events (meeting dinner, tour of CHESS). Attendees of the workshop will also participate in a poster session to share their scientific interests and learn about research at CHESS. There they will also have the opportunity to network with students already using synchrotron facilities, with the CHESS staff scien-tists who are responsible for x-ray beamlines, and with PIs who are facility users (from early career scientists to world-renowned distinguished researchers, all working in diverse fields). The targeted audience for this workshop will have diverse scientific interests and will be new to the synchrotron community. Therefore, the workshop will cover a broad range of synchrotron methods—such as diffraction, spectroscopy, and imaging—that can be applied to many materials systems. Both lectures and hands-on sessions will focus on the fundamentals of the methods, with a special emphasis on how these techniques can be applied to materials systems. The experiments using CHESS beamlines will give participants firsthand experience with what it takes to conduct research at a synchrotron. By combining these educational activities with practice in preparing proposals, this workshop will uniquely equip participants to become active members in the CHESS user community.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.