As a part of the commemoration of the International Year of Crystallography, the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CNSNT), Sathyabama University, is conducting this workshop.

Topics to be covered

• Crystallography and powder diffraction
• Characterization of nanomaterials using XRD
• Thin films (polycrystalline and epitaxial) and their characterization using XRD
  
• High temperature and high pressure XRS in materials science and metallurgy
  
• Applications of X-ray synchrotron radiation
  
• Grazing incidence X-ray reflectivity (XRR)
• Small molecule crystal structures
• Recent advancements in XRD
• XRD software for data analysis

*The 2014 BCA-BSG Winter Meeting will take place on the European Photon and Neutron (EPN) Campus (hosting the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility and the Institute Laue Langevin), Grenoble, France on 15-17 December 2014. The meeting will be themed around opportunities for Structural Biology at large-scale research infrastructure and will include sessions addressing the combination of structural information from X-rays & neutrons in Structural Biology, Structural Biology on the EPN Campus, and Emerging Techniques in Structural Biology.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Arwen Pearson, CUI, Hamburg, Germany
• Cecilia Casadei, University of Leicester, UK
• Julia Richardson, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Selma Maric, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
• Stephen Cusack, EMBL, Grenoble
• Andrea Dessen, IBS, Grenoble
• Catarina da Silva, CEA, Grenoble
• Antoine Royant, IBS, Grenoble
• Gemma Newby, ESRF, Grenoble
• Manfred Burghammer, ESRF, Grenoble
• Matthew Bowler, EMBL, Grenoble
• Ulrich Zander, ESRF, Grenoble
• Estelle Mossou, University of Keele, UK/ILL, Grenoble
• Helmut Schober, Director of Science, ILL, Grenoble
• Elizabeth Duke, Diamond Light Source, UK

The first half of the meeting - supported by the UK Science & Technology Funding Council (STFC) - aims at presenting the strategic significance to the structural biology community of UK investment in large-scale research infrastructure. This part of the meeting will include visits to ESRF and ILL Experimental Facilities, a round table discussion and speakers including:

• Florent Bernaudat, Partnership for Structural Biology, Grenoble
• Harald Reichert, ESRF, Grenoble
• Colin Miles, BBSRC, UK
• Pamela Williams, Astex, UK
• David Scott, University of Nottingham, UK
• Adrian Mancuso, European XFEL, Hamburg, Germany
• Andrew Harrison, Diamond Light Source, UK
• Gordon Leonard, ESRF, Grenoble
• Trevor Forsyth, ILL, Grenoble

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The deadline for registration is the 8 December.

The programme includes a poster session. Contributions from younger and more senior scientists on any aspect of Structural Biology are actively encouraged.

 In order to help reduce the costs of attending the meeting, the registration fee (32EUR for students; 64EUR for regular participants) will include the cost of all meals during the meeting, including the meeting dinner on 16 December and as many participants as possible will be housed - at participants' own cost - in the cost effective ESRF/ILL Guesthouse. The registration fee also includes membership of the BCA for the year 2015.

Five Travel Bursaries, each of up to £200, are available from the BCA to support participation in the meeting by research students and postdoctoral workers who are BCA members. Please see http://crystallography.org.uk/prizes/bursaries/abbf-bursaries/ for details.

The European Synchrotron Light Source workshop (ESLS) is an annual event designed to give the synchrotron community the opportunity to keep abreast of new developments taking place in facilities throughout Europe.

The XXII European Synchrotron Light Source workshop will be hosted by the ESRF on 25th and 26th November in Grenoble, France. The workshop programme will cover all relevant aspects of the design, construction, operation and improvement of synchrotron light sources. It will focus on storage ring based sources and will be divided into four parts:

- Status and projects of each facility, - Engineering frontiers for new projects (magnets, girders and mechanical engineering) proposed as a topical subject, - Short talks highlighting recent developments, - Two overview talks to be chosen within low emittance projects, user requirements and points of views, reliability etc.

Participation in the workshop is free of charge. As is the custom, the ESRF will cover two nights' accommodation for up to two participants from each institute.

Scope of the Workshop

The aim of the workshop is to discuss the scientific opportunities and technical challenges opened by the recent improvements in the study of dynamically compressed matter using X-rays. For example, the feasibility of synchrotron radiation single shot X-Ray Diffraction, X-ray Absorption and X-Ray Imaging experiments has been recently assessed and opens many new and exciting opportunities to extend these experiments to a wider user community.

Invited Speakers

Alessandra Benuzzi Mounaix, LULI Palaiseau, France

Roberto Bini, University of Florence, Italy

Simon Bland, Imperial College London, UK

Federica Coppari, LLNL Livermore, USA

Thierry d'Almeida*, CEA/DAM Gramat, France

Thibault de Rességuier, ENSMA Poitiers, France

Fabien Dorchies, CELIA Bordeaux, France

Philippe Gillet, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland

Yogendra Gupta*, Institute for Shock Physics Pullman, USA

Jianbo Hu, Caltech Pasadena, USA

Hanns-Peter Liermann, DESY Hamburg, Germany

Paul Loubeyre, CEA Bruyères-le-Chatel, France

Stéphane Mazevet*, OBSPM Paris, France

Malcolm McMahon, University of Edinburgh, UK

Guillaume Morard, IMPMC Paris, France

Florent Occelli, CEA Bruyères-le-Chatel, France

Norimasa Ozaki, Osaka University, Japan

Arnaud Sollier, CEA Bruyères-le-Chatel, France

Dylan Spaulding, Harvard University Cambridge, USA

Participation in the workshop is free of charge.

The annual event dedicated to the ESRF user community: learn, discuss and experience the science and cutting-edge research made with ESRF synchrotron light

PLENARY SESSION
• Keynote speakers
  - Dr Catherine McCammon, Bayreuth University
  - Prof. Tim Salditt, University of Göttingen
  - Prof. Hyotcherl Ihee, KAIST
• Young scientist award
• Annual Director’s report
• Poster session, clips and prize

USER-DEDICATED MICROSYMPOSIA
1. Novel routes for the study of strongly correlated electron systems
2. New possibilities for chemical studies
3. Hierarchical imaging of biological, bio-mimetic and bio-compatible materials
4. Structural Biology at the ESRF
    - More than crystallography
With Invited talks and tutorials ‘‘Scientists & Media’’ workshop

All users of the ESRF are invited to actively participate in the event by registering, submitting abstracts for a poster or for a talk at the scientific microsymposia (for accepted talks local costs willbe waived).

The European Learning Laboratory for the Life Sciences (ELLS), in collaboration with La Casemate Grenoble, invites European secondary school science teachers to apply for the ELLS LearningLAB “Structural biology â€" shining light onto the fabric of life” at EMBL Grenoble (France).

The course will provide an interactive introduction to the field of structural biology. The professional training course for secondary school science teachers will consist of a mix of seminars by EMBL scientists, hands-on activities and visits to world-class research facilities on the European Photon & Neutron Science Campus. The programme will cover a wide range of topics and highlight the use of high-energy X-ray sources and protein crystallography to study virus structures on the atomic scale.

During the 2-day course, a combination of seminars, discussions and hands-on activities will:

• Introduce you to X-ray crystallography and its great potential to gain insights into the structure and function of viral proteins and antiviral drug design;
• Update your knowledge on current biological research and get you in touch with research scientists;
• Illustrate a range of classroom activities and experiments and equip you to use the presented resources to support your teaching of biology;
• Include visits to world-class research facilities at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Grenoble and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF);
• Give you the opportunity to develop your own scientific quiz and make it available to your students using the EMBL LearnApp;
• Allow you to network and share your experiences with teachers colleagues.Location: EMBL Grenoble (European Photon & Neutron Science Campus) / La Casemate Grenoble

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Course language: English  (teaching resources will be provided in English and French)

Course fee: free attendanceÂ

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This ESS Science symposium invites representatives of the worldwide material engineering and engineering diffraction communities who might be interested in future in situ experiments during processing and testing of engineering materials on material engineering beamline planned for construction at the European Spallation Source in Lund, Sweden.

The aim is to provide MX users with sufficient training to be able to operate any of the Diamond MX beamlines efficiently and to get the most benefit from their beamtime. The training will involve hands-on sessions on the suite of five operational MX beamlines (http://www.diamond.ac.uk/mx-home/) as well as offline software sessions.

Sessions include:

4th December, day session on MX beamlines:

 *  MX software: automation in data analysis
 *  Mini-Kappa goniometry / Anomalous data collection
 *  Sample humidity control (HC1)
 *  I24 new end station
 *  In-situ diffraction
 *  Experiment database: new ISPyB

5th December, morning session: Hands on software in
three tutorial sessions:

 *  CCP4: MR and experimental phasing (CCP4 team)
 *  Manual processing iMosflm (Harry Powell)
 *  Multi crystal analysis / BLEND (James Foadi)


Registration is free-of-charge with lunch provided on the 4th and 5th December, and accommodation and dinner for the nights of the 3rd and 4th December. Travelling expenses within the UK will also be provided. The training is targeted at all users, and is not limited to students and post docs. It is essential that each BAG sends at least one representative per calendar year.

Registration
Places are limited to twenty five participants. The registration deadline is on the 20th November.
Registration is now open

School aims and scope

The international school aims at providing a thorough background in physical and chemical surface characterization, based on methods and instruments, to interested PhD students, post-docs and scientists working at European and non-European universities and laboratories. The school will cover the different aspects of surface analysis and appropriate analytical techniques in detail, from the most conventional (Raman spectroscopy, AFM/STM, IBA) to the most innovative requiring Synchrotron X-ray (X-ray spectroscopy, X-ray microscopy, X-ray diffraction/scattering). The complementarity between laboratory and X-ray based techniques will be presented.

Plenary lectures and tutorials are given by specialists of materials science, solid state-physics, physico-chemical interface from CEA, Synchrotron SOLEIL and Paris Sud University. A substantial part of the programme is devoted to practical sessions carried out on cutting edge instruments, at the facilities of partner institutes and laboratories. In addition, a practical exercise on how to prepare a successful beam time proposal is given, as well as a poster session and a tour of SOLEIL. Examples presented during the lectures cover the variety of existing applications to physics and chemistry of condensed matter.

The attendees will be able to discuss their own projects with the speakers and other participants.

User Offices play a key role in large scale synchrotron, FEL and neutron facilities. Lately, European projects like PaNData, Calipso, NMI3 or EuroFEL between such facilities seems to point towards the harmonization of workflows, software or procedures employed by User Offices. However, each facility has its own national constrains.

The present meeting is a first discussion forum of European User Offices. It was initially proposed after some discussions during European projects meetings like PaNData and it will become an opportunity to know each facility workflows and achievements as well as common worries and future developments.

To coincide with the grand opening of Beamline 7.2W: macromolecule crystallography (BL7.2W: MX) and celebration of the International Year of Crystallography 2014, SLRI would like to announce the AWPX2014. The

This course is intended for young scientists and aims to provide better understanding of key concepts in protein crystallography with hands-on experience in X-ray data collection at BL7.2W: MX, data processing and structure determination.

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Chun-Jung Chen (NSRRC, Taiwan)

The advanced experimental techniques using ultrabright and tunable X-ray, VUV or IR synchrotron and free electron laser radiation are indispensable tools to investigate the properties of matter with unprecedented space, spectral and time resolution.  Tightly focused beams of high intensity and coherence are especially well suited for chemical, morphological and structural characterization of materials under operando conditions. The topical sessions will focus on some of the major challenges of our century -  engineering materials capable of transforming efficiently chemical energy and solar energy into electricity and fuel. Opportunities also exist with x-rays for tackling challenges associated  with developing high capacity energy storage devices. The recent achievements in studies of interfacial electrochemical processes and charge transfer phenomena will be reported with selected presentations illustrating the potentials of the instruments, operated at the large scale facilities, with emphasis on the latest developments. We solicit abstracts demonstrating the recent achievements using synchrotron and FEL-based analytical methods spanning from all types of XRF, scattering (including RIXS and CDI), spectroscopy (including XRPES and XES) and X-ray imaging and microspectroscopy (SPEM, XPEEM, SXTM, TXM).Â

SA1 Synchrotron Studies of Processes in Energy Conversion, Electronic Devices and Other Materials I

• Charles Fadley, UC, Davis, "Looking Into Buried Interfaces with Soft/hard X-Ray Photoemission and Standing-Wave Excitation"
• Franz Himpsel, University of Wisconsin, "Synchrotron-Based Spectroscopy Shedding Light on Solar Cells"
• Gregory Hughes, Dublin City University, Ireland, "Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Studies of Metal Oxide Semiconductor Structures"

SA2 Synchrotron Studies of Processes in Energy Conversion, Electronic Devices and Other Materials II

• Benedetto Bozzini, University Lecce, Italy, "In-situ Characterization of PEMFC, SOFC, and Supercapacitor Components"
• Wanli Yang, ALS-LBNL, "Soft X-ray Spectroscopy of Battery Materials"

SA3 Free Electron Laser and Synchrotron Studies at the Molecule-Surface Interfaces I

• Oliver Gessner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, "Ultrafast X-ray Studies of Interfacial Charge-Transfer Dynamics"
• Sujoy Roy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, "Unraveling Topological Properties of Spintronic Materials Using Coherent X-rays"

SA4 Free Electron Laser and Synchrotron Studies at the Molecule-Surface Interfaces II

• Philippe Wernet, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), Germany, "Valence Electron Rearrangements During Chemical Reactions in Real Time"
• Wilfried Wurth, Universität Hamburg, Germany, "FEL-Based Techniques to Explore Photochemistry and Transient States of Molecules on Surfaces"

SA5 Characterization of Nanostructured and LD Materials Using Synchrotron-Based Methods I

• Burkhard Beckhoff, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany, "Analysis and Speciation of Nanoscaled Materials by Means of Grazing-Incidence and High-Resolution X-ray Spectrometry"
• Andrea Goldoni, Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy, "Growth and Characterization of LD Materials for Applications in Energy and Sensor Devices"
• Petra Rudolf, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Netherlands, "Effect of Interfacial Interactions: Graphene Growth on Metallic and Insulating Surfaces"

SA6 Characterization of Nanostructured and LD Materials Using Synchrotron-Based Methods II

• Andres Santander, Centre de Sciences Nucleaires et de Sciences de la Matiere, France, "Novel 2D Electron Gases at the Surface of Transition-Metal Oxides"
• Claus Schneider, FZJ-Germany, Germany, "XPEEM: Recent Achievements and Future"

SA7 Â Synchrotron Analysis Poster Session

The National Synchrotron Light Source II at Brookhaven National Laboratory will host the 12th International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation in New York City in July of 2015.

This event can be followed on Twitter @SRI2015NYC for up-to-date information on speakers, session topics, and events related to SRI 2015.

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Synchrotron-based, time-resolved techniques provide unprecedented insights into various areas of applied and fundamental science, this being largely due to their unique capabilities of allowing for a direct view onto the constituent building blocks of matter (electrons, spins, atoms, and molecules) on their characteristic length- and time-scales.

Prominent examples are the detection of non-equilibrium phases of matter, the characterization of transient and metastable magnetic and chemical states and the real-time observation of light-harvesting materials and biological systems, just to name a few.

As such, there is an increased demand ofthe user community for high brilliance X-ray light sources with flexible time structures that could accommodate such time-resolved techniques covering the full spectral range from far-IR to hard X-rays.

In a series of foresight work-shops, HZB wishes to establish a discussion platform for future projects and research activities in concert with current and future users from universities, research institutes and industry. The aim of the dialogue is to reveal future scientific fields as well as expectations, needs and requirements for cutting edge science with synchrotron radiation.

HZB kindly invites you to join our workshop on ultrafast X-ray science in order to start or intensify a dialogue with us about future science and your requirements for successful experiments at our synchrotron.

The 10th SOLEIL Users' Meeting will take place on January 22nd and 23rd, 2015 at Polytechnique (Palaiseau) and at SOLEIL.The meeting provides an invaluable forum for the synchrotron radiation user community, presenting an important opportunity to obtain the latest information on beamline performance at SOLEIL, to hear about the latest and most exciting results obtained at SOLEIL and to share scientific, technical and practical issues about the synchrotron radiation use.

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the internationally known HERCULES Course, we will organize a three-week HERCULES School from July 6 to 24,2015 in Hsinchu, Taiwan where the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC) is located. The NSRRC is a national laboratory which operates a 1.5-GeV synchrotron named Taiwan Light Source and is constructing another 3-GeV one called Taiwan Photon source. This 2015 Asia-Pacific Edition of HERCULES in TAIWAN, "Neutron and Synchrotron Radiation for Physics and Chemistry of Condensed Matter and Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics," is a three-week training course including a week of practicals and tutorials. It will be opened to PhD students, postdoctoral, young scientists working in the fields relate to physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science. The language of the course is English.

25 Years of Neutron & Synchrotron Radiation Science

This school provides training for students, postdoctoral and senior scientists from European and non-European universities and laboratories, in the field of Neutron and Synchrotron Radiation for condensed matter studies (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science, Geosciences, Industrial applications).

The 1-month school includes lectures (60%), hands-on practicals and tutorials at partner institutes (ESRF, ILL in Grenoble, Soleil and LLB near Paris, SLS in Switzerland) and Grenoble Laboratories (CEA, CNRS, EMBL, IBS).

The school includes a common part and two parallel sessions:
Biomolecular, soft condensed matter structure & dynamics,
Physics and chemistry of condensed matter

HERCULES is a yearly event, established in 1991.

The Australian Synchrotron's annual User Meeting showcases some of the best research and investigations undertaken at the facility, and provides our user community with updates on the latest developments and technical advances in synchrotron science, both at home and at our sister light sources overseas. Organised by the Australian Synchrotron User Advisory Committee, the 2014 meeting will again be held at the award-winning National Centre for Synchrotron Science (NCSS).

Topics:

• Advanced Materials
• Beamlines, Instrumentation and Techniques
• Biological Systems
• Earth and Environment
• Energy Materials
• Imaging
• Radiotherapy and Radiobiology
• Soft Matter
• Structural Biology
• Surface Science

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