Just a reminder, the deadline for APS general user proposals for the 2018-2 run (May 30 – August 21, 2018) is Friday, March 2, 2018, at 11:59pm (CST) :

• New General User Proposals

• Beam Time Requests against existing active proposals

Apply for Beamtime : https://beam.aps.anl.gov/pls/apsweb/gup0005.start_page

*** To increase your options to receive beamtime, remember to select a first choice and a second choice beamline.

If you have any questions concerning your proposal, please contact Nancy Lazarz (lazarz@cars.uchicago.edu) or the appropriate GSECARS beamline scientist :

· Microprobe, 13 IDE : Matt Newville (newville@cars.uchicago.edu); Tony Lanzirotti (lanzirotti@uchicago.edu); Steve Sutton (sutton@cars.uchicago.edu)

· Microtomography, 13 BMD : Mark Rivers (rivers@cars.uchicago.edu)

· XAFS, 13 IDE : Matt Newville (newville@cars.uchicago.edu); Tony Lanzirotti (lanzirotti@uchicago.edu)

· Surface Studies and Micro-crystallography, 13 IDC and 13 BMC : Peter Eng (eng@cars.uchicago.edu); Joanne Stubbs (stubbs@cars.uchicago.edu)

· Diamond Anvil Cell, 13 IDD and 13 BMD : Vitali Prakapenka (prakapenka@cars.uchicago.edu)

· Diamond Anvil Cell, 13 BMC : Dongzhou Zhang ( dzzhang@cars.uchicago.edu)

· Multi-anvil Press, 13 IDD and 13 BMD : Yanbin Wang (wang@cars.uchicago.edu); Tony Yu (tyu@cars.uchicago.edu)

Regards,

Nancy Lazarz

The University of Chicago

Building 434A, Argonne National Laboratory

9700 South Cass Ave.,

Argonne, IL 60439

Phone : 630.252.0423

Fax : 630.252.0436

Email : lazarz@cars.uchicago.edu