More Than 200 Here
For ALS Users Meeting

For the next three days, more than 200 researchers who use the Advanced Light Source for their work will be discussing advances and applications of the machine at their annual workshop on site. They will also be helping to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the ALS in a special "ALS 10-Year Retrospective" session. Berkeley Lab's David Attwood and Jay Marx will chronicle the twists and turns in the ALS's journey from concept through construction. An updated program for the meeting, including a list of the young researchers and highlights speakers, can be seen here.

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For months, executives of the University of California have anguished publicly over competing to stay at the helm of Los Alamos, the world's first nuclear-weapons laboratory. But as new UC President Robert Dynes made clear last Thursday, the immediate fate of UC's 60-year dynasty in New Mexico won't be decided in Oakland but in Washington — most imminently in political wrangling over a federal spending bill. Full story.

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