SLAC’s program is evolving into an extremely diverse future, with the heart of the laboratory – the linear accelerator – concentrated at the frontier of ultrafast x-ray science. The users of this laboratory are also naturally going to diversity, and earlier this year the SLAC Users’ Organization, SLUO, hosted a one-day event to peek forward and see how the many science opportunities may serve to redefine the SLAC user community.
The SLUO annual meeting, to be held this next week on Sept. 18, will spend the day exploring these new user communities. Beginning with an introduction to the lab management’s view of the lab, and presentations by key individuals invested in the federal effort to support science, the meeting will use panel discussions, fueled by expert and audience input, to probe further the new definitions of our diverse user community.
The effort to better define and serve the SLAC user community cannot succeed with you. You can find out more about the meeting, and most importantly register to attend, at http://www-group.slac.stanford.edu/sluo/2008meeting/default.asp. You can attend the meeting remotely, via phone, using the connection information available on the agenda.
