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Course Agenda

Saturday 20 April
6 pm	Meet at Berkner Hall to go out for dinner. Bring a car if you have one.
Sunday 21 April Crystallographic Fundamentals Course -- Breakfast: Berkner; Lecture: Biology Department, Bldg. 463, East End
Morning	Get breakfast at Berkner hall with your meal voucher.
9:00 am	A day-long course will be given by R. Sweet from 9:00 AM to roughly 2:30 PM, with a mid-day break, to provide a review of fundamental crystallography. The course will be in the Seminar room at the far East end of the Biology Department, Building 463. [ Directions ] A wide range of fundamentals of diffraction theory, data production, data collection, and structure solving will be presented, with the focus being to provide prerequisite knowledge for the remainder of the course. Preview Lecture Visuals (pdf)
3 pm and After	All students and instructors who do not have a BNL ID should go to the Badging Office in the Research Support Building, Building 400, [ Directions ] before 5:00 PM to complete NSLS registration. Anyone who has not done so, please take both the Safety and the Radiological modules of the NSLS safety training now. Students may complete their registration for RapiData and pick up course materials in Berkner Hall, Building 488. [ Directions ]
5-7 pm	Drinks and Dinner for All at Berkner Hall
Monday 22 April The Lectures -- Biology Department Seminar Room, Bldg. 463 [Directions]
8:00 AM	Continental Breakfast Biology Department
Lectures: Biology Seminar Room
8:30 am	Welcome & Introduction
8:45 am	Some Issues in Data Collection - Bob Sweet (BNL)
9:30 am	Cryogenic Data Collection and Radiation Damage: the Basics -- E. Garman (U. Oxford)
10:15 am	Coffee
10:30 am	I've got a crystal, now what? -- J. Pflugrath (Rigaku)
11:15 am	Special Properties of SR: Polarization, Bandwidth, Collimation - L. Berman (BNL)
12:00 pm	Lunch (In Medical-Department Seminar Room)
1:00 pm	Data Processing: iMosflm/DPS/scala - C. Roessler (BNL)
1:45 pm	Data Reduction with the HKL Suite - M. Chruszcz (U. S. Carolina)
2:30 pm	Coffee
2:45 pm	Data reduction with XDS - G. Jogl (Brown U.)
3:30 pm	Single crystal optical spectroscopy - A. Orville (BNL)
4:00 pm	Head to the NSLS
Visit to the NSLS
4:15 pm	Quick walking tour of the NSLS.
5:00 pm	Hors d'oeuvres, Soft-Drinks, and Conversation at Berkner Hall.
6:15 pm	Banquet in Berkner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm	Back to NSLS for tutorials and conversation. The x-tal prep. room will be open with Elspeth Garman and Jim Pflugrath in attendance. All groups check your dewars, crystals, etc!!
Tuesday 23 April
8:00 pm	Breakfast in Biology Department.
Lectures: Biology Dept. Seminar Room
8:30 am	Advanced Detectors for Synchrotron Beam Lines - D. Schneider (BNL)
9:15 am	Getting the Best Data Using Photon-Counting Pixel Detectors -- M. Mueller (Dectris)
10:00 am	Coffee
10:15 am	Are we MAD or are we SAD? -- A prelude to structure solving. - H. Robinson (BNL)
11:00 am	Structure Solving with Molecular Replacement Methods - Raji Edayathumangalam (Brandeis)
11:30 pm	Structure Solving with SOLVE and Phenix - T. Terwilliger (LANL)
12:15 pm	Lunch In Medical Department
1:00 pm	Data processing and experimental phasing: autoPROC and SHARP/autoSHARP - C. Vonrhein (Global Phasing)
1:45 pm	Structure Solving with SHELX and HKL-to-Map - M. Benning (Bruker AXS)
2:30 pm	Introduction to remote data collection at SSRL - C. Smith (SSRL)
3:00 pm	Introduction to small-angle x-ray scattering - M. Allaire (BNL)
3:30 pm	Head to the NSLS
Laboratory Work (NSLS)
3:30 pm	Coffee, etc. available in the library
3:45 pm	Introduction to the beamlines at the beamline - Individual Instructors - Beamline Operations and Safety Awareness Training - Creation of the SAF for the two groups at each beamline - Demonstration of Specimen mounting and test shots
~ 4:15 pm	Begin Beamline Meetings in rooms listed below: Groups meet with Beamline staff to discuss projects and to prepare a schedule for data-collection.

Beamline	SSRL Remote	X4-A	X4-C	X12-B	X12-C	X26-C
Mtg. Room Safety Form	Library	X8 Conf. Room	X8 Conf. Room	X12 Cyber Café	X12 Cyber Café	X25 Cyber Café

Check on group assignments here See the NSLS Map for RapiData Check on computer information for the course here
6:00 pm	Supper at Berkner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm	Back to NSLS for tutorials, start of data collection, and conversation. The x-tal prep room will be open with Elspeth Garman and Jim Pflugrath in attendance.

Beamline configuration (beamline names are linked to their NSLS description pages -- have a look at the documentation for your beamline)
Main Course Beamlines
Beamline	SSRL Remote	X4-A and X4-C	X12-B and X12-C	X26-C
Morning Startup	Smith	Schwanof	Soares, Agarwal	Orville
Helpers	Doukov Roessler	Jayaraman Liu Guo Clarke	Raji Szebenyi Fuchs Schneider Mardones	Andi Li

Supporting ultra-fast beamlines (X25/X29)
Beamline	X25	X29
Morning Startup	Héroux	Robinson
Helpers	Garcia-Diaz Guja	Shi Page McGrath

Group assignments and very rough data-collection schedule (24-hr clock) on the major course beamlines:
Time	X4-A	X4-C	X12-B	X12-C	SSRL	X26-C	Xtal prep & tutorials
Tues 20:00	A	B	C	D	E	F	G-L
Wed 7:30	G	H	I	J	K	L	A-F
Wed 11:30	A	B	C	D	E	F	G-L
Wed 16:00	G	H	I	J	K	L	A-F
Wed 19:30	A	B	C	D	E	F	G-L
Thu 7:30	G	H	I	J	K	L	A-F
Thu 11:30	A	B	C	D	E	F	G-L
Thu 16:00	G	H	I	J	K	L	A-F
Thu 20:30	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Data-collection schedule for ultra-fast Undulator beamlines:
Time	X25	X29
Wed 7:30	C	A
Wed 11:00	I	G
Wed 16:00	D	B
Wed 19:30	J	H
Wed 22:30	CLOSED	CLOSED
Thu 7:30	E	F
Thu 11:30	K	L
Thu 16:00	A,B,F,G,H,L	C,D,E,I,J,K
Thu 19:00	CLOSED	CLOSED
Fri 7:30	OPEN	CLOSED

Wednesday 24 April
8:00 AM	Breakfast in the NSLS Library Data Collection Sessions and tutorials, including crystal preparation at X12, will run concurrently throughout the day. There will be sign-up sheets for all of the tutorials.
12:00 pm	Lunch (in the NSLS Library)
3:00 pm	There will be a required meeting in the NSLS Seminar Room both afternoons at 3:00 PM to compare notes and make announcements. The Group Photo will be at the end of this meeting.
6:00 pm	Start of informal supper (in the NSLS Library )
Thursday 25 April
8:00 AM	Breakfast in the NSLS Library Data Collection Sessions and tutorials, including crystal preparation at X12, will run concurrently throughout the day. There will be sign-up sheets for all of the tutorials.
11:30 am - 12:20 pm	There will be a short program and mass tour of NSLS-II for those who are interested.
12:00 pm	Lunch will begin (in the NSLS Library)
3:00 pm	There will be a required meeting in the NSLS Seminar Room both afternoons at 3:00 PM to compare notes and make announcements.
6:00 pm	Start of informal supper (in the NSLS Library )
Friday 26 April Recapitulation: Back in Berkner Hall
8:00 am	Breakfast in Berkner
8:30 am	The course staff, with the help of students, will recount triumphs, troubles, and interesting observations. Course staff will be available until noon to assist students in tidying up calculations, backing up data, etc.