Overview: Advanced Photon Source User Program

Susan Strasser Senior Advisor, APS User Program “Three-Way” Meeting Argonne National Laboratory July 31, 2013

Agenda for the Day

Facility Overviews (9:00–11:30am) Publications (11:30–Noon) Working Lunch–General Discussion of Topics Covered in the Morning (Noon–1:00pm) Databases and Data Management (1:00–2:00pm) Scientific Access: Proposal Systems (2:00–3:30pm) Special Facility Access Requirements/International & Gov’t. Review (3:15–4:15pm) User Meetings, Organizations, Workshops and Industrial Issues (4:15–5:30pm) Reception (6:00–7:30pm) No-host Dinner – To be determined

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APS Key Information

Groundbreaking: June 4, 1990 Key operational dates:

– First light: March 26, 1995 – First user operations run: early 1996

Initial configuration and subsequent changes – All beamlines funded, built , and operated by Collaborative Access Teams (CATs) – 20 initially – Transition to APS-operated beamlines began in late 2001-early 2002 – Current (FY2013) configuration: 32 CAT beamlines, 34 APS-operated beamlines (45 ID, 21 BM)

First partially centralized proposal system for Independent Investigators: early 2000 Initiation of current central proposal system for General Users: October 1, 2002 Expansion of central proposal system to include all proposals: February 2009 Beginning of central scheduling system: May 2009

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Statistics: APS Users by Fiscal Year (Each person is counted only once/year.)

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766

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2770 2754

3199 3253 3401

3229 3459

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Statistics: APS User Visits by Fiscal Year (Each visit is counted.)

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Statistics: APS Users by Institution and User Type

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Foreign Academic Inst. 186

U.S. Academic Inst. 204

U.S. Industry

73

U.S. Medical School

42

Foreign Other 45

No Info. Provided 3

Foreign Industry 8

Foreign Nat’l Lab 12

U.S. Gov’t Funded Agency/Inst. 18

U.S. National Lab 16

U.S. Private Research Inst. 24

Faculty/Prof. Staff 1552

Grad Student 1477

Post-doc 1042

Retired/Self-employed 5 No Info

Provided 3 Undergraduate

207

Other 75

Fiscal Year 2012 10.1.11 through 9.30.12

Statistics: Users by Geographical Affiliation (FY 2012)

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562 Non-US Total

Statistics: APS Experiments by Fiscal Year

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560

944 1164

1391 1558

2011 2171

2371 2661

2934 3180

3628 3899

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Statistics: APS Requests for Beam Time (BTRs) vs. Allocated Beam Time

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APS Overview: Budget ($M)

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ARRA – American Recovery and Reinvestment Act GPP – General Plant Projects AIP – Accelerator Improvement Projects

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APS User Office: Staffing and Functions

APS User Office Staff (10 total – 9 permanent, 1 STA)

User Office Responsibilities:

– User registration – Site an scientific access (non-US citizen

permissions, scientific proposal systems) – Training – User conference/workshop administrative

support (Annual User Meeting + others) – APS Users Organization, Partner User

Council – Support for various review committees – User electronic communications and user

Web pages – User data management – Scientific Advisory Committee – User Web applications

Publications by Calendar Year (1998-2013) (more from Rick Fenner, APS Director’s Office)

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Use of the APS by industry: History (1998-2009)

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%8.0%

10.0%12.0%14.0%16.0%18.0%20.0%

1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Industrial Support

Industrial Institution

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Industries either built (or contributed to building) beamlines – DND-CAT (Dow, DuPont, Northwestern) – IMCA-CAT (12 big pharma companies) – IMM-CAT – IBM, McGill,MIT – MHATT-CAT – Michigan, Howard, AT&T – LRL-CAT – Eli Lilly Research Laboratory – UNI-CAT – UOP – CMC-CAG – Exxon-Mobil

Industrial User Program (2010-2012)

8892 unique users for 2010-2012; 363 (~4% from industry) Industrial Users can be General Users, Partner Users, or come in for quick

one-time measurements – some industrial work is proprietary; most is not APS recently hired Jyotsana Lal as a User Outreach Scientist to work with

industry New Industry tab on APS Home Page More information on industrial interactions in Friday’s session

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APS Proprietary Process and Pricing

Must have a proprietary user agreement in place to cover liability, intellectual

property, and payments – Currently there are 110 proprietary user agreements in place – Must have a prefunded user account in place

Proprietary rate for FY12 is $361.58/hour Proprietary income from FY2012 was $1,966.8K (~10% of APS operating budget)

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APS Proposals, Databases, Communication, Outreach, and More…

Still to come, APS presentations about the following later today! Publications – Rick Fenner Databases/User Portals at the APS – Connie Vanni Scientific Access – Beam Time Access Proposal System – Bev Knott Special Facility Site Access Issues – Susan White-DePace Outreach/Communication/User Meetings – Connie Vanni

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