NOXSS. 68th Course: The Free Electron Laser for Ultrafast Imaging at the Nanoscale.

Topics

• Overall perspectives of research with the FEL and X-FEL facilities
• Design of experiments with FEL sources
• Imaging by coherent diffraction in Transmission Electron Microscopy
• Phasing and information retrieval in CDI
• Single-shot imaging of nano-objects with X-FEL
• Molecular Movies in biology using an X-FEL
• X-ray interaction with matter at the nanoscale
• The strong excitation density regime in time-dependent density-functional theory
• Modelling extreme spectroscopy and scattering
• Sample strategies for single particles (clusters, viruses) and for solids
• Acceleration technologies that work â€" towards CW-FEL
• Seeding and seeding-like properties of X-ray FELs / Quantum FEL
• Challenges in detection
• Key parameters of sources, detectors, and data handling in present and future FEL experiments