User Program - Before you come
 Shipping Information
Administarative Information
Accomodation
Training
Safety
License and user agreements
GM/CA CAT Location
Automounter Templates
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 Shipping Information
Shipping address for our beamlines is:
Sheila Trznadel
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 S. Cass Ave.
GM/CA-CAT, Bldg 436D
Argonne IL 60439
USA
To avoid delays, it is advisable to send the dewars few
days earlier than the beamtime start date.
We will refill the dewars upon their arrival. If possible, avoid
weekend delivery as dewars will not be delivered to the
beamline. If you must ship with Saturday delivery, you have an option to
deliver to yourselves at the Guest House Building 460. For more details,
their telephone number is (630)739-6000 With all other sample shipping
questions please contact Sheila Trznadel at
strznadel@anl.gov or (630)252-0662
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Administrative Information
Questions regarding GM/CA beamlines should be addressed to Ms. Sheila
Trznadel at strznadel@anl.gov
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Accomodation
http://www.anlgh.org/
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Training
As soon as your application is approved for the beamtime, please take some
time to visit the “User Information” Pull-down menu on the APS
home page at http://www.aps.anl.gov/
It is a good source and most of your questions will be answered there.
Before you can access any beamline at APS, you will need to complete
mandated training requirements. Please visit APS web site for general
training information at http://www.aps.anl.gov/Users/Become_A_User/When_You_Arrive/Complete_orientation.htm
or contact user office at http://www.aps.anl.gov/About/Visiting/Directions/index.htm
630-252-9090, or apsuser@aps.anl.gov
Sector specific training, administered by GM/CA-CAT, will be completed as
soon as you complete the APS general training and will arrive at sector 23.
Untrained personnel is not allowed to be at the beamline alone and
will not have access to the station. Sector specific training will
be given only once, so please make sure entire group is present.
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Safety
At least a week before you arrive at APS, submit your Experimental Safety
Assessment form to APS. Visit http://www.aps.anl.gov/Safety_and_Training/Experiment_Safety_Approval_Form/index.html
for detailed information and instructions.
Environmental, Safety & Health Plan
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License and user agreements - User agreement
Before you are able to conduct experiments at APS, you must have User
Agreement. Visit http://www.aps.anl.gov/Users/Become_A_User/Before_You_Arrive/Arrange_for_access.htm
for details GM/CA-CAT will provide crystallographic and other software. It is
your responsibility to make sure that Your home institution has appropriate
licenses for using the software.
At the end of your visit, your host will conduct informal “end of
experiment” interview. Please plan about 30 minutes for it. In you
publications, please acknowledge the beamline by a following sentence: GM/CA CAT has been funded in whole or in part with Federal
funds from the National Cancer Institute (Y1-CO-1020) and the National
Institute of General Medical Science (Y1-GM-1104). Use of the Advanced Photon
Source was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences,
Office of Science, under contract No. W-31-109-ENG-38.
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GM/CA CAT Location
GM/CA-CAT beamlines are located in sector 23 of APS. For more information,
please follow links below http://www.aps.anl.gov/Beamlines/.
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Automounter Templates
If you are planning to use automounter, you would need to bring with you
and upload into the Blu-Ice data acquisition program a Microsoft Excel
spreadsheet file describing your samples. The spreadsheet templates and the
instructions on their filling are avalible through the
Facilities ->
Automounter requirements page.
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