User Facilities: Unique Resources for Interdisciplinary Discovery and Innovation

Saturday, 15 February 2014
Columbus EF (Hyatt Regency Chicago)
Eric Isaacs , Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
This presentation will provide an overview of the breadth of capabilities offered by our national scientific user facilities, explain how scientists can access these resources, describe how the unique sociology at user facilities encourages interdisciplinary research, and highlight a few recent outstanding discoveries and technological innovations that have emerged from work at the user facilities.