The Advanced Light Source (ALS) is a U.S. Department of Energy scientific user facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Our mission is to advance science for the benefit of society by providing our world-class synchrotron light source capabilities and expertise to a broad scientific community.

Project ACCORD (ALS Computing, Controls, and OpeRations for Data) was launched in 2026 to upgrade ALS controls and data systems to meet the anticipated requirements of the new and enhanced beamlines post ALS-U, an ongoing upgrade of the ALS that will enable the production of highly focused beams of soft X-ray light that are at least 100 times brighter than those of the existing ALS.

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