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Early Bird Pricing until August 20th, 2026!
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Event
Bay Area Light Sources Joint Users' Meeting
Meeting Dates
20-25 September 2026
Location
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Menlo Park, California
Meeting Format
Fully Onsite Event
DOE National
User Facilities
Advanced Light Source, Linac Coherent Light Source, and
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
About the Meeting
In a first-ever collaboration, three U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory light source facilities—the Advanced Light Source, the Linac Coherent Light Source, and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource—will come together for a joint users’ meeting, hosted at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
This unprecedented scientific gathering brings together the Bay Area’s world-leading light source community in a single, week-long event. While Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource and Linac Coherent Light Source have traditionally hosted a joint users’ meeting, 2026 marks the inaugural participation of the Advanced Light Source as a full partner, creating a unique forum for cross-facility collaboration, shared vision, and scientific exchange.
Each year, thousands of scientists from universities, national laboratories, and industry worldwide use the Advanced Light Source, Linac Coherent Light Source, and Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource to advance discovery across materials and energy sciences, chemistry, biology, medicine, environmental science, engineering, astronomy, and physics.
Registration Pricing
NOW OPEN - Advance registration will be required to participate in this onsite meeting.
General Attendee - $425 (Early Bird Pricing until August 20th, 2026)
Student/Postdoc - $99
Registration
Sponsor/Exhibitor
NOW OPEN (PLATINUM & GOLD SPONSORSHIPS ARE FILLED) - Sponsorship and exhibitor registration opportunities are available on a first-come basis.
LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Advanced Light Source
Berkeley Lab is committed to groundbreaking research focused on discovery science and solutions for abundant and reliable energy supplies. The lab’s expertise spans materials, chemistry, physics, biology, earth and environmental science, mathematics, and computing.
The ALS mission is to advance science for the benefit of society by providing our world-class synchrotron light source capabilities and expertise to a broad scientific community. Over 1,600 users annually conduct research on x-ray, infrared, and extreme ultraviolet light beamlines at the ALS, which is undergoing an upgrade to produce even brighter, more coherent light.
SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Linac Coherent Light Source
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
As one of 17 Department of Energy national labs, SLAC pushes the frontiers of human knowledge and drives discoveries that benefit humankind. We invent the tools that make those discoveries possible and share them with scientists all over the world.
LCLS produces ultrafast pulses of X-ray laser light a billion times brighter than any previous X-ray source, allowing researchers to freeze the motions of atoms and molecules and string those images together to make stop-motion movies.
SSRL provides extremely bright X-rays for a wide range of experiments that probe matter down to the scale of atoms and molecules. These studies target advances in energy production, human health, environmental cleanup, nanotechnology, novel materials and information technology, among other areas.
SLAC is operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.
The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.