Studies of Nanoscale Dynamics in Condensed Matter using X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy at LCLS Category A Letter of Intent June 21, 2004 Spokesperson:

Spokesperson: Brian Stephenson, Senior Scientist, Materials Science Div., Argonne National Laboratory 9700 S. Cass Ave., Argonne IL 60439, (617) 252-3214, fax (617) 252-7777, stephenson@anl.gov Team Members: Sean Brennan, Staff Scientist, SSRL, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Steve Dierker, Director, NSLS, Brookhaven National Laboratory Eric Dufresne, Assistant Scientist, MHATT Collaboration, University of Michigan Paul Fuoss, Physicist, Materials Science Div., Argonne National Laboratory Gerhard Grübel, Leading Senior Scientist, HASYLAB, DESY Jean-Claude Kieffer, Professor, INRS, Université du Québec Laurence Lurio, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, Northern Illinois University Simon Mochrie, Professor, Dept. of Physics, Yale University Larry Sorensen, Professor, Dept. of Physics, University of Washington Mark Sutton, Professor, Dept. of Physics, McGill University (Contact information for all team members is given in Appendix 1.)

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