User Group Numan Akdoğan GYTE Ayşegül Uşun GAZİ UNV.(YL) Sarp Kaya SLAC Mehmet Aslantaş KSÜ Hikmet Sezen BİLKENT UNV. Eda Yılmaz Fikret Yıldız Oral Oltucu HARRAN UNV. Selin Erdoğan Cahit Karanfil MUĞLA UNV. Meltem Babayiğit HACETTEPE UNV. Merve Arseven Emine Gökçe Polat Ural Kazan Gülgün Çakmak METU Dinçer Ülkü Funda Aksoy NİĞDE UNV. Leyla Çolakerol Arslan Ercan Alp ARGONNE NAT. LAB. Zehra Sayers SABANCI UNV. Ahmet Alataş İlker Yıldız Güvenç Akgül Emre Emmez Özgül Kurtuluş Öztürk Doguş Univ. Süheyla Özbey Semra İde Osman Öztürk Sevgi Haman Bayari Ömer Çelik DİCLE UNV. İstem Özen ICTP + CNR-IOM Çiğdem Özkan XFEL, Hamburg, Germany Hüseyin Çankaya Center for Free Electron Laser Science (CFEL) Hasan Yavaş PETRA-III-HASYLAB-Germany Tevfik Onur Mentes ELETTRA Özlem Deveci 19 Mayıs Ün. Emrah Özensoy Bilkent Üniversitesi User Group

User Group Şefik Süzer Bilkent Üniversitesi Abdullah Nurettin Koçbay Gebze Institute of Technology Ahmet Bayırlı Hacettep Unv. Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine Ahmet Yağmur Atilla Aydınlı Bilkent Ün. Ayça Güzel Anadolu University ayhan Yüzübenli TAEK Aykut Can Önel Gebze Yüksek Teknoloji Enstitüsü Bade Çelik Ankara University Betul Yasatekin Bora Ketenoğlu Caner Tükel Hacettepe University Çağıl Çınar İstanbul Üniversitesi Çağlar Kaya Ankara Ün. Damla Koçak Didem Ketenoğlu Dilek Yonar Hacettepe Ün. Dursun Acar istanbu teknik üniversitesi emcol Elif Hilal Şen Karadeniz Teknik Üniversiresi Emre Erbay Gazi Üniversitesi ERSİN Çiçek Gazi University Ezgi Dedecengiz Hacettepe Unv. F. Betül Kaynak Fatma Cagla Öztürk Istanbul University Feride Severcan METU Fırat Anğay Dicle University Gorkem Türemen Celal Bayar University Hakan Uslan Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University Hande Mirza Hazal Büşra Köse Sabancı University Hüsnü Aksakal Niğde Ün. İlhan Tapan Uludağ Universitesi KEREM Teralı Turkish Cypriot DNA Laboratory Mahmut Sami Kavrık Mustafa Öztürk Nurgül Hafızoğlu Dumlupınar Un. Ozlem Karslı Institute of Accelerator Technologies solmaz Khankeshizadeh natural sciences User Group

User Group Umit Kaya Cukurova University Yunus Eren Kalay METU zafer Nergiz Nigde University Science Faculty zhaleh Hajipouran Benam ANKARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ Gündoğ Yücesan YTU Alper Tolga Çolak Dumlupınar Un. Ahmet Akın Ünal BESSY Sevda Avcı Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi Osman Murat Özkendir Mersin Üniversitesi Kaan Atak Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin User Group

User Committee

First phase beamlines proposed by the User Committee Extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS)   * x-ray flourescence spectroscopy (XRF) Güvenç Akgül * grazing incidence x-ray flourescence (GIXRF) Osman Murat Özkendir Soft x-ray beamline Numan Akdoğan * x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) Sarp Kaya * x-ray resonant magnetic scattering (XRMS) Fikret Yıldız * X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) Funda Akgül * X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) Infrared Microspectroscopy Gülgün Çakmak Sevgi Bayarı Inelastic hard x-ray scattering Hasan Yavaş Ahmet Alataş X-ray imaging for magnetic materials X-ray diffraction (XRD) * Coherent x-ray diffraction Özgül Kurtuluş High pressure powder diffraction Bora Kalkan Macromolecular crystallography Süheyla Özbey Small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) Semra İde *Biological Small and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering Zehra Sayers *Grazing Incidence x-ray Scattering (GISAXS) X-Ray Raman Spectroscopy Didem Ketenoğlu Cahit Karanfil

Monday afternoon session Meeting for the scientific case report preparation

SESAME User Committee Gihan Salah KAMEL (Egypt) Hossein KHOSROABADI (Iran) Roy BACK-BARKAI (Israel) Ahmad S. MASADEH(Jordan) Javed BASHIR (Pakistan) Jamal GHABBOUN (Palestinian Authority) Ozgul KURTULUS ÖZTÜRK (Turkey) Kirsi O. Lorentz (Cyprus)

SESAME User Committee Composition of the committee (from Terms of Reference) “The SUC shall consist of one member from each of the SESAME Members and two students, each from a different SESAME Member, appointed on a rotational basis in decreasing alphabetical order of the name of the SESAME Members starting by the letter “A” and back to the letter “A” after having reached the end of the alphabet. The Scientific Director of SESAME shall be ex officio member of the SUC.”

SESAME User Committee “Except in the case of the two students and the Scientific Director of SESAME, the SUC members shall hold office for two years and shall be eligible for re-election for a further term of two years, but shall not serve continuously for more than four years . The two students shall hold office for one year and shall not be re-elected. “The members of the SUC, excluding the two students and the Scientific Director of SESAME, shall each have one vote. The two students and the Scientific Director of SESAME shall have no vote.”

Election of the members of the Committee Elections will be web based and should be held during the week prior to an annual Users’ Meeting of SESAME and the first two days of the meeting. The SUC members should make an announcement to their national users at least three months before the election week and call for nominations. Nominations can be made by anybody among the users registered on the database of SESAME users. CV of the nominees will be distributed to all the users one week prior to the election week. One member shall be elected from each of the SESAME Members, and one member shall be elected from among the students standing for election. The students standing for election shall be elected by all the users. Newly-elected SUC members shall take office at the first SUC meeting following their election.

11th SESAME Users' Meeting 20 - 22 November 2013 - Amman, Jordan Dedicated workshops on IR, XRF/XAFS, PX The scientific program will cover topics in: Atomic, molecular, and chemical physics. Structural biology, drug design, and medical applications. Materials science, electronic structure and nanotechnology. Archaeology and cultural heritage. SESAME machine and Phase I beamlines development.

Grants SESAME in collaboration with the Richard Lounsbery Foundation USA (http://rlounsbery.org), gives travel and subsistence grants for scientists from the SESAME region Grants of International Atomic Energy Agency via Turkish Atomic Energy Authority Grant from Turkish Accelerator Center Project