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

拟议的高能X射线技术研讨会，HEXT，在康奈尔大学高能同步加速器源（CHESS）是独特的，其目标是提供参与的学生，主要是来自美国国家科学基金会合作研究和教育机构的材料（PREM）计划，战略规划所需的知识和技能，进行和解释同步加速器实验，以回答特定的问题，他们在材料科学的研究兴趣。PREM机构是少数民族服务机构，学生人数在材料研究领域的代表性很低。该研讨会将包括三个主要部分：1）由国际象棋工作人员科学家的讲座，涵盖同步加速器方法的基本原理以及如何将其应用于材料研究; 2）动手演示，参与者将收集和处理国际象棋光束线的数据;以及3）指导和指导如何编写成功的光束时间提案，并有机会从国际象棋科学家那里获得个性化的反馈。 在研讨会结束时，参与者将拥有知识和技能，成为CHESS用户社区的高效成员。HEXT-2020研讨会将作为2020年6月CHESS用户会议的一部分。研讨会的参与者将能够参加用户会议的会议，其中包括设施运营，战略规划和科学演示的更新，以及社交活动（会议晚餐，国际象棋之旅）。研讨会的与会者还将参加海报会议，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施的学生，负责X射线光束线的国际象棋工作人员科学家，以及设施用户的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。 这次研讨会的目标受众将有不同的科学兴趣，并将是新的同步加速器社区。因此，研讨会将涵盖广泛的同步加速器方法，如衍射，光谱学和成像，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本原理，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为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，该研讨会将使参与者成为CHESS用户社区的积极成员。该奖项反映了NSF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.