The online ESRF User Meeting will be an excellent opportunity to hear the latest research and technical news, including the latest news on COVID-19 research at the ESRF. Although the current public health situation in Europe does not allow us to hold the meeting on site, the programme of the virtual meeting has been designed to encourage users and scientists interested in the ESRF to attend, hear the latest scientific and technical news, and interact remotely from the comfort of their office or home. This time together will be the perfect breeding ground for new research ideas, which can be exploited for the March 2021 proposal submission deadline.

To be presented from the Center for BioMolecular Structures, Brookhaven National Laboratory.
LIX (morning) (Event ID:  E000003456) and Macromolecular Crystallography and MX (Event ID:  E000003457)(afternoon) Workbenches
The main goal of these VIRTUAL workshops is to provide an opportunity to get acquainted with the method and software utilized for data collection. Lectures and demonstrations will address the capabilities of the beam lines and provide an overview of Structural Biology resources available to the community at NSLS II. Tips and Tricks on how to collect the best data will be discussed throughout the workshops. We encourage you to send samples and take advantage of the time reserved for the workbench to analyze a few samples.

REGISTRATION Deadline: October 23, 2020
https://www.bnl.gov/lixworkbench/
 

https://www.bnl.gov/mxworkbench/
 

Please do register for both workshops separately if you plan to participate in both.

It is a great pleasure and honour to invite colleagues from academia and business, as well as young researchers and students from all parts of the world to attend the Materials Science Conference. The conference, scheduled from October 11-14, 2021 is organized by Prism Scientific Services in collaboration with The University of Queensland.

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The conference will underpin the need and importance of collaboration and cooperation by individuals from a wide range of professional backgrounds. Materials Oceania will bring together a multidisciplinary group of scientists and engineers from all over the world to present latest findings and to exchange their ideas. This in turn paves the way for further discoveries, which most often happen where disciplines and specialists meet and congregate. In fact the development of materials was, is and will be fundamental for all technological applications, and in the entire field of applied science targeting the improvement of quality of life for humanity. At the end of the materials conference, we hope that attendees will feel they have generated the most up-to-date information available.

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We hope that you will join us for a symphony of outstanding science, and to also take a little extra time to enjoy the spectacular and unique beauty of Brisbane City.

Start 09/10/2020 03:30 PM End 09/10/2020 04:30 PM

Location

Zoom online - see meeting join link below

Organized by

Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung and Diamond Light Source, UK

Please note the given time above is CEST (CEST = UTC + 2; BST = UTC + 1)

Topic: The path to LoKI & SANS at the ESS

Presenter: Dr Judith Houston, ESS, SE

Summary

As one of two small-angle neutron scattering beamlines under construction at the ESS, LoKI has been designed specifically with the needs of the soft matter, materials, and bio-science communities in mind. For example, its high flux and wide simultaneous Q-range will make it ideal for performing spatially-resolved and time-resolved studies.

In this talk, we want to take you through LoKI’s design, our progress with construction, and finally, give some highlights of the main scientific areas which are expected to benefit from this instrument.

Registration fee

These lectures are free and can be attended via Zoom by to up to 100 attendees.

The lectures will be recorded as well, and (with permission of the presenter) will be made available online afterwards for a broader educational reach.

To participate, use the meeting join link here.

For further questions, please contact [email protected].

This one month course, coordinated by the Université Grenoble Alpes, is designed to provide 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). It includes lectures, practicals and tutorials, visits of Large Facilities and a poster session (each participant puts up a poster about her/his thesis or research topic for a day).

• PART I:Â BASIC METHODS AND INSTRUMENTSÂ :
  (This part is common for all the participants - 1.5 weeks)
• PART II is divided into two parallel specialized sessions (3.5 weeks) :
  • Session A:Â PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF CONDENSED MATTER
  • Session B:Â BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS

A special seven days programme is included , in a partner institution among European Large instruments. In 2021, one week (out of the five of the school) will be spent in one different partner institutions among 4:

• ALBA synchrotron in Barcelona, Spain
• KIT Light Source in Karlsruhe, Germany
• Elettra and FERMI in Trieste, Italy
• Swiss Light Source / Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen, Switzerland

The language of the course is English.

La 7^ème édition de l’école « Cristallographie et grand Équipements » se déroulera sur le site du synchrotron SOLEIL du 12 au 16 Octobre 2020. Elle s’adresse à toute personne souhaitant « renouer » avec les fondements de la cristallographie (bases théoriques, méthodes, utilisation des logiciels pour la résolution et l’affinement des structures cristallines) et/ou souhaitant obtenir un état de l’art sur les possibilités offertes par les différentes méthodes expérimentales, en particulier dans le cadre des grands Instruments (sources synchrotron et neutrons).

Satellite Workshop of the XXV IUCr Congress

"Macromolecular crystallography (MX) is the dominant means of determining the three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules. Over the last few decades, most MX data have been collected at synchrotron beamlines using a large number of different detectors produced by various manufacturers and taking advantage of various protocols and goniometry. These data came in their own formats, sometimes proprietary, sometimes open. The associated metadata rarely reached the degree of completeness required for data management according to Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability (FAIR) principles. Efforts to reuse old data by other investigators or even by the original investigators some time later were often frustrated. In the culmination of an effort dating back more than two decades, a large portion of the research community concerned with High Data-Rate Macromolecular Crystallography (HDRMX) has now agreed to an updated specification of data and metadata for diffraction images produced at synchrotron light sources and X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs). This Gold Standard will facilitate processing of datasets independent of the facility at which they were collected and enable data archiving according to FAIR principles, with a particular focus on interoperability and reusability. This agreed standard builds on the NeXus/HDF5 NXmx application definition and the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) imgCIF/CBF dictionary and is compatible with major data processing programs and pipelines. Just as with the IUCr CBF/imgCIF standard from which it arose and to which it is tied, the NeXus/HDF5 NXmx Gold Standard application definition is intended to be applicable to all detectors used for crystallography, and all hardware and software developers in the field are encouraged to adopt and contribute to the standard." [A. Förster, H. J. Bernstein, A. Bhoemick, A. S. Brewster, S. Brockhauser, L. Geliso, D. R. Hall, F. Leonarski, V. Mariani, G. Santoni, C. Vonrhein, G. Winter, "A Gold Standard for Macromolecular Diffraction Data", in preparation]

This is a tutorial workshop presented by the developers of the Gold Standard to introduce the community to this important upgrade to the interoperability and reusability of macromolecular crystallographic data for both synchrotrons and XFELS,and to give the participants an opportunity to work with and comment on the Gold Standard. To widely share best practices for metadata recording, we encourage the participation of neutron and chemical crystallographers.

The workshop will function as a purely virtual meeting via Zoom from 9 am to 3 pm Prague time (3 am to 9 pm New York time, 8 am to 2 pm London time) on 14 August 2021 with two breaks. In order to participate and receive the Zoom meeting room URL and agenda, contact Herbert J. Bernstein, [email protected], giving your name, institutional affiliation and email address by no later than 6 pm Prague time (noon New York time, 5 pm London time) on Friday 6 August 2021. Registration is limited to 100 persons. There will be no additional fee for the workshop virtual meeting registration.

Reminder: The CommDat user forum is at https://forums.iucr.org

Satellite Workshop of the XXV IUCr Congress

Following on from a recent survey of the community, this full-day workshop is aimed at: (1) educating those who generate and deal in crystallographic data on best practices in data management; (2) how to communicate those best practices to students and other novice users; (3) discussing current practices in data archival; and (4) exploring current and future use cases for archival of raw data.

Attendees will gain an appreciation of the importance of archiving raw data and an understanding of how to archive their own raw data effectively. The workshop will lay the groundwork for a large-scale community driven effort to standardize small-molecule raw data archival with a view to ensuring that best practice in the laboratory leads to appropriate and FAIR availability of raw data to the wider community. A key goal is to explore how to make this process seamless and integrated with current facility, research and publishing practices.

Reminder: The CommDat user forum is at https://forums.iucr.org

LEAPS is the League of European Accelerator-based Photon Sources, a strategic consortium initiated by the Directors of the Synchrotron Radiation and Free Electron Laser (FEL) user facilities in Europe. Its primary goal is to actively and constructively ensure and promote the quality and impact of the fundamental, applied and industrial research carried out at their respective facility to the greater benefit of European science and society.

In this context LEAPS will organize in May 25 - 28, 2020 the first LEAPS Topical Conference aiming to bring together the latest achievements from the synchrotron radiation user community with those from source development and instrumentation. The focus of the first LEAPS Conference will be dedicated to the opportunities emerging from the Quantum Technologies R&D. This conference shall showcase where today and future synchrotron radiation contributes to the advancements of Quantum Technologies.

This Conference will be by invitation. In order to get an invitation please fill the request of an invitation before January 31st, 2020. An acceptance letter will be sent at the end of February 2020.

This one month course, coordinated by the Université Grenoble Alpes, is designed to provide 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). It includes lectures, practicals and tutorials, visits of Large Facilities and a poster session (each participant puts up a poster about her/his thesis or research topic for a day).

• PART I: BASIC METHODS AND INSTRUMENTS :
  (This part is common for all the participants - 1.5 weeks)
• PART II is divided into two parallel specialized sessions (3.5 weeks) :
  • Session A: PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF CONDENSED MATTER
  • Session B: BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS

The language of the course is English.

Graduate students at North American universities are invited to apply to attend the 22nd National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering (NXSchool), which will be held at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Labs from June 13 - 27, 2020.

The NXSchool is designed to introduce students to the capabilities available at U.S. neutron and x-ray user facilities and pays for students’ travel, meals and lodging costs. Lectures, presented by researchers from academia, industry, and national laboratories, include basic tutorials on the principles of neutron and x-ray scattering theory, the characteristics of neutron and synchrotron sources, as well as seminars on the application of scattering methods to a variety of scientific subjects. As part of the school, students also conduct a series of short experiments to obtain some hands-on experience using instruments at neutron and synchrotron sources, both at Oak Ridge's Spallation Neutron Source and High Flux Isotope Reactor facilities (1st week) and at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source (2nd week).Â

Further details can be found at http://bit.ly/NXSchool and http://neutrons.ornl.gov/nxs

Applications must be received by February 17th, 2020. The application process is quite competitive and requires submission of evaluation letters from the student’s advisor and two other professionals familiar with the student.

DESY Photon Science Users' Meeting: 30-31 January 2020

European XFEL Users' Meeting 29-31 January 2020

The 15th International Conference on X-ray Microscopy (XRM) 2020 will be hosted by the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC) from July 19 to 24, 2020. A 6-day program will feature the invited and contributed oral presentations in plenary and parallel sessions, poster and exhibition sessions, and a tour to the recently opened 3-GeV facility, Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) at NSRRC.

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Satellite Workshop

Machine Learning for Synchrotron-based and Medical Imaging Applications

Dates: July 19, 2020
Organizers: Dr. Chun-Chieh Wang, Dr. Yao-Chang Lee, and Dr. Lee-Jene Lai
Location: TICC, Taipei, Taiwan

https://indico.nsrrc.org.tw/event/4/page/91-machine-learning-for-synchrotron-based-and-medical-imaging-applications

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CONEXS Conference

Emerging Trends in X-Ray Spectroscopy

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The Collaborative Network for X-Ray Spectroscopy (CONEXS) is an EPSRC-funded network in partnership between Newcastle University and Diamond Light Source. The first CONEXS Conference will be taking place at Newcastle University on the 18-20 February 2020, bringing together leading national and international experts to discuss emerging trends in X-ray Spectroscopy and examine the intersection of experiment and theory.

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Date: 18-20 February 2020

Venue: Newcastle University, UK

Call for Abstracts

We are now welcoming submissions for abstracts for both oral presentations and posters, the abstract guidance and the submission form are available here:Â https://research.ncl.ac.uk/conexs/conference/abstractsubmission/.

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Registration (https://research.ncl.ac.uk/conexs/conference/registration/)

Registration for the conference is now open, at a rate of £150 (standard) or £75 (students/ECRs). This price includes attendance at the conference dinner.

Keynote speakers

•            Prof. Serena DeBeer, Professor and Director, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion

•            Prof. John Rehr, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Washington

•            Prof. Sonia Coraini, Professor in Physical Chemistry, University of Denmark

•            Dr. Anna Regoutz, Lecturer in Materials Chemistry, University College London

•            Prof. Matthias Bauer, Professor in Inorganic Chemistry, University of Paderborn

•            Prof. Neil Hyatt, Professor of Nuclear Materials Chemistry, University of Sheffield

•            Dr. Marius Retegan, Scientist, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

•            Dr. Olga Safonova, Senior Scientist, Paul Scherrer Institute

•            Dr. Mihaela Gorgoi, Beamline Scientist, EMIL Berlin

•            Prof. Jakub Szlachetko, Associate Professor, Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS

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Conference website: https://research.ncl.ac.uk/conexs/conference/

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The School targets young scientists to introduce them to the exceptional research opportunities offered by synchrotron and free-electron-laser (FEL) facilities worldwide for exploring the properties of all types of matter.

The school will provide an overview of the production and characteristics of synchrotron and free-electron-laser light, its interaction with matter and the numerous experimental methods enabled by these interactions that have become indispensable tools spanning over all domains of basic and applied research. The school lecturers will demonstrate the multidisciplinary applications and the most recent instrumental developments and science breakthroughs in the fields relevant to their expertise. The program will also include discussions of the lecturers with the students, talks describing the open access to these facilities based on the merits of the proposed project and possible industrial application. Demonstration sessions will be organized at the beamlines of Elettra's synchrotron and FEL facilities.

Topics:

• Production of Synchrotron and FEL Radiation
  
• Properties of Synchrotron and FEL Light
  
• Photon-Matter Interactions
  
• Photon Transport and Beamline Instrumentation
• X-ray Absorption and Fluorescence Spectroscopy
• Photoelectron Spectroscopy Methods
• X-ray Diffraction Methods
• X-ray Scattering Techniques - SAXS, WAXS, XPCS, RIXS
• Imaging Techniques using Synchrotron and FEL Light
• X-ray and IR Spectromicroscopy.
• Time-resolved Approaches and non-linear X-ray Optics

Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.