In a few hours Neil and Ailsa (two work chums) and I are off for a weekend of fun at the APS, part of the ANL (run by the DoE) where we'll be using the SER-CAT beamline.
What does all this mean? Well I know you don't really care, but I'm going to tell you anyway.
The Argonne National Laboratory, is a U.S. Department of Energy facility located just outside of Chicago. We're going to collect data at the world's second brightest X-ray source, the Advanced Photon Source and here are some quick facts about the APS. Here's a schematic of the beamlines at the APS. We're going to be at ID-22/BM-22 since MUSC is a member of the South East Regional Collaborative Access Team or SER-CAT .
We'll get up there tonight and go to bed early and get lots of rest. Then we'll get up early saturday, work for 27 hours straight - collecting reams of stonking data we hope - and fly home, dazed and confused, on sunday evening. I'm planning to blog through the night on saturday, worky-work permitting of course, so stay tuned to the P club for updates on the gekkery!
- Mr. Ed
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