Science opportunities at the LINAC coherent light source

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The LINAC Coherent Light Source is a multidisciplinary user facility that provides ultrafast (femtosecond) and ultrashort (attosecond) x-ray pulses to the scientific community. Since first light in 2009, hundreds of impactful science studies have been undertaken in areas including topological insulators, imaging optical phonons, observing energy transfer in photosystem II, high field physics, and attosecond imaging of molecular orbitals. We have recently upgraded our capabilities by increasing the x-ray pulse repetition rate from 120 Hz to 91 kHz and we are currently commissioning a new suite of instruments. These instruments are poised to specifically address emergent phenomena in quantum materials such as superconductivity, magnetics, and ferromagnetism in addition to other key challenges in biology, catalysis and photocatalysis, fundamental dynamics of energy and charge, nanoscale material dynamics, and matter under extreme conditions. In this talk I will discuss the new instrument capabilities of LCLS II and provide some current examples of science we are envisioning.