Dear subscribers, Please save the date for the two back-to-back, *in-person*, events: EXAFS-50 symposium (Oct. 30-31) and annual EXAFS short course (Nov. 1-3, 2023), both to be run at Brookhaven National Laboratory. While the usual format of our short courses is Wednesday through Friday, this year we will mark the 50th anniversary of discovery of EXAFS by organizing a two-day symposium on Monday-Tuesday to celebrate it. The short course participants will benefit from attending the symposium as well because they will be able to learn from, and interact with, leading experts in the field, credited for developing the foundations of the EXAFS experiments, theory, data analysis and modeling. Brookhaven shares with other synchrotron facilities good memories of developing new techniques and applications of EXAFS, and other labs, as well as the International X-ray Absorption Society (IXAS), are planning their own efforts to commemorate the 50th anniversary in the coming years. Regarding the short course: following up on the feedback we received after the 2022 course, we are planning to teach advanced topics in 2023. They will include but not limited to: Reverse Monte Carlo EXAFS, Molecular Dynamics EXAFS, Machine Learning EXAFS, MCR-ALS and others. More information will soon appear on the web site of the Synchrotron Catalysis Consortium that co-sponsors the short course. The other sponsors are National Laboratory and the Users Executive Committee at the National Synchrotron Light Source-II (to be confirmed). We are grateful to BNL and Stony Brook University, as well as NSLS-II UEC (to be confirmed) for the support of the EXAFS-50 symposium that will enable participants to attend it registration fee-free. Stay tuned for further updates. Anatoly ------------------------------------------------------------------- Anatoly I. Frenkel Professor Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering (primary appointment) Department of Chemistry (affiliate appointment) Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794 Email: anatoly.frenkel@stonybrook.edu https://mail.bnl.gov/OWA/redir.aspx?C=F6wCGt4adziN6IvpdRQ-rWdgy3Oaoif_x-0ybKTBGBlALcrWeszTCA..&URL=mailto%3ajgchen%40columbia.edu http://you.stonybrook.edu/frenkel Co-Director and Spokesperson, Synchrotron Catalysis Consortium (SCC) at BNL http://you.stonybrook.edu/scc2 Joint Appointment: Senior Chemist Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973. Ph: 631-344-3013. Group: 631-344-3494 Email: frenkel@bnl.gov https://www.bnl.gov/staff/frenkel -------------------------------------------------------------------