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NUFO 2008

National User Facility Organization (NUFO)

April 24-25, 2008

The 2008 National User Facility Organization (NUFO) meeting was held at the W.R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland Washington on Thursday and Friday April 24-25, 2008. Building upon the workshops held by the light source user administrators since 1990, this meeting was the fifth occasion for all user administrators and user organization chairs to meet and discuss issues of common interest to the community which utilizes these laboratories.

We are had a very interesting meeting with many great speakers. April 24 included presentations from Pedro Montano from the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, the American Chemical Society, and the American Physical Society. In addition, Linda Horton, Director of the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (ORNL), discussed the nanoscience centers, and Dave Koppenaal, Chief Technology Officer of the EMSL, discussed integrative research.

On Friday April 25, talks and discussions focused on users and facility user administrator issues. Agenda items included user portal demos and benchmarking. The breakout groups last year were a big hit, so we provided meeting space for specific communities to meet Friday afternoon to discuss items unique to those facilities.

Points of Contact:

Dr. Nancy Foster-Mills
EMSL User Services Manager
PO Box 999, MS K8-84
Richland, WA 99352
phone: 509-371-6009
fax: 509-371-6072

Dr. Theresa Windus
EMSL User Advisory Committee, Chair
Iowa State University, Dept. of Chemistry
1605 Gilman Hall
Ames, IA 50011-3111
phone: 515-294-6134