The International Workshop on X-ray Optics and Metrology (IWXM 2015) will be held at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) in Berkeley, California, USA as a satellite meeting of SRI 2015. The workshop will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of the latest information and achievements in X-ray optics, especially mirror optics. The meeting will introduce new concepts, equipment, and products, as well as highlight recent advances in X-ray optics and optical systems. Presentations on emerging needs, progress reports, and topical reviews covering the following and related topics are solicited. Contributors from related companies are also invited to exchange information on recent developments and fabrication capabilities. Within the workshop, the second award in memory of Giovanni Sostero will be assigned to a distinguished person in the field of metrology for synchrotron, FEL, or astronomical X-ray optics.

X-Ray Science Utilizing the Dramatic Increases in Peak and Average Brightness from Current/Planned Next Generation Accelerator Based X-Ray Sources

The importance of X-ray science across a broad range of areas in science and engineering continues to grow. The Gordon Research Conference on X-Ray Science has a long history of bringing together leading scientists at the forefront of X-ray-based science. Planned upgrades to storage rings and ever increasing capabilities of X-ray lasers drive the growth in the breadth and importance of X-ray science.

There appears to be no end in sight for the unparalleled growth in performance of accelerator-based X-ray sources. New developments in experimental techniques continue to push into uncharted territories in physics, chemistry, biology, materials science, and a host of applied sciences. With the balance between basic and applied science constantly evolving, the conference will provide a unique forum to exchange ideas for the further evolution of X-ray Science.

An international list of speakers will describe the latest scientific and technological achievements in X-Ray Science as well as provide a view into the future. The conference, with its strongly interdisciplinary character, provides a stimulating environment to present the latest research in poster format, engage in discussions in a friendly setting, and exchange ideas with leaders in the field. We especially encourage young scientists early in their careers steps to participate and profit from this unique forum for exchange with leading scientists in a relaxed atmosphere. Selected posters will be given the opportunity for a short talk.

The 2015 GRC on X-ray Science will again be held in conjunction with the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS). The GRS (July 25-26, 2015), a two-day meeting preceding the GRC, is specifically designed for graduate students and early career researchers. The meeting offers an opportunity for young scientists to present their work to their peers. It is expected that GRS participants will participate in the subsequent GRC.

The International Workshops on Radiation Imaging Detectors are held yearly and provide an international forum for discussing current research and developments in the area of position sensitive detectors for radiation imaging, including semiconductor detectors, gas and scintillator-based detectors. Topics include processing and characterization of detector materials, hybridization and interconnect technologies, design of counting or integrating electronics, readout and data acquisition systems, and applications in various scientific and industrial fields. The workshop will have plenary sessions with invited and contributed papers presented orally and in poster sessions. The invited talks will be chosen to review recent advances in different areas covered in the workshop. This year's edition will draw focus on high-intensity X-ray Photon sources.

Following the previous two meetings held in Garmisch (V) and Giens (VI), the present conference deals with materials microstructure and properties, as they can be studied by diffraction methods, with a special interest in the application of diffraction techniques to polycrystalline materials, methodologies for the study of lattice defects, residual stress and texture in thin films, surfaces and nanostructures, line-broadening analysis, line-profile fitting and modelling based on fundamental parameters for applications in materials science problems. New topics, added at SS-VI, were microbeam diffraction and coherent diffraction. SS-VII will add X-ray and neutron imaging, and PDF (pair distribution function) analysis to the list of methodologies covered.

 The seventh Size-Strain conference will take place in the historic city of Oxford. Scientific sessions will take place at the University of Oxford's Department of Engineering Science and accommodation will be available to book in nearby Trinity College. A half day trip to Diamond and ISIS will be arranged and transport provided.

 Co-chairs: Ian Robinson (UCL) and Alexander Korsunsky (Oxford)

UXSS 2015 is jointly organized by the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) at DESY and the PULSE institute at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The summer school program will be highly interdisciplinary, with topics ranging from accelerator physics to molecular biology.Please note that the number of summer school participants will be limited. In order to facilitate the selection of participants, we are asking applicants to provide a short text describing their educational and scientific background and their motivation for applying for participation in UXSS 2015. The applicants will be asked to pay a registration fee in the amount of 100 EUR. Accepted applicants will receive financial support for travel and local expenses, provided by the VolkswagenStiftung.

Please forward this announcement to doctoral students and postdoctoral research associates who you think might be interested in participating in UXSS 2015.

 List of speakers at UXSS 2015
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- Giorgio Margaritondo, EPFL, Switzerland: X-ray light sources

- Robin Santra, DESY & Univ. of Hamburg, Germany: Fundamentals of X-ray--matter interaction

- David Reis, SLAC & Stanford Univ., USA: Ultrafast X-ray application in condensed matter physics

- Linda Young, Argonne Natl. Lab., USA: Atomic and molecular physics using ultrafast X-rays

- Markus Gühr, SLAC, USA: Ultrafast chemical dynamics

- Simone Techert, DESY & Univ. of Göttingen, Germany: Time-resolved structural biology and chemistry

- Thomas White, DESY, Germany: Serial femtosecond crystallography

- Wilfried Wurth, DESY & Univ. of Hamburg, Germany: Ultrafast electronic dynamics in solids

- Ulf Zastrau, Univ. of Jena, Germany: Matter under extreme conditions

2015 Conference Topic Areas

• Metamaterials • Nonlinear Optics and Applications • Photon Counting Applications • Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Transfer and Processing • Optical Sensors • Micro-structured and Specialty Optical Fibres • Holography: Advances and Modern Trends • Relativistic Plasma Waves and Particle Beams as Coherent and Incoherent Radiation Sources • EUV and X-ray Optics: Synergy between Laboratory and Space • Damage to VUV, EUV, and X-ray Optics (XDam) • Advances in X-ray Free-Electron Laser Instrumentation • High-Power, High-Energy, and High-Intensity Laser Technology • Medical Applications of Laser-Generated Beams of Particles: Review of Progress and Strategies for the Future • Laser Acceleration of Electrons, Protons and Ions • Research Using Extreme Light: Entering New Frontiers with PW-Class Lasers • Integrated Optics: Physics and Simulations • Laser Energy Workshop

The workshop will focus on the following subjects:

-Manufacturing of high precision optical elements with synchrotron based lithography

-Material science with synchrotron radiation and neutron scattering offering for example characterisation of residual stresses in various components

-Macromolecular protein crystallography at our MX-beamlines

Presentations by industrial users and researchers will be given at Berlin Adlershof. The one day workshop is free of charge to the participants. A tour into the experimental hall of the synchrotron is possible if wanted.Â

the main topics will be:

• Atomic spectrometry (ICP OES, ICP-MS, GD, AAS, etc.);
• Molecular spectrometry (UV-Vis, NMR, Raman, IR, etc.);
• Organic and inorganic mass spectrometry (TIMS, MALDI, LC-MS, GC-MS);
• X-ray spectrometry (XRF, XRD, XANES, PIXE, etc.);
• Hyphenated techniques;
• Laser spectroscopy;
• Imaging techniques;
• Nuclear techniques (Mössbauer spectroscopy, Gamma spectroscopy, NAA);
• Material sciences (micro, surface and interface analysis);
• Environmental and geochemical analysis;
• Archaeometry and cultural heritage;
• Biological applications;
• Food analysis;
• Clinical and pharmaceutical analysis;
• Speciation analysis;
• Mass spectrometry in post-genomics and proteomics;
• Miniaturisation and nanotechnology;
• Fuels and biofuels;

The conference is organised by the iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences, a group of multi-disciplinary research laboratories administered by the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the Department of Sciences and Technology (DST) of the Republic of South Africa

The PIXE conference is a biennial event with a long tradition of being the international forum to discuss recent developments and future prospects in particle induced X-ray spectrometry. The conference brings together physicists and scientists from different fields of application including biology and medicine, environmental and earth sciences, cultural heritage and materials research.

Topics

• Fundamental processes of ionisation, X-ray emission and absorption
• Fundamental parameter
• PIXE software
• PIXE methodology and facilities
• PIXE of complex and layered samples (mapping, depth profiling)
• Confocal PIXE and PIXE tomography
• Atmospheric aerosols
• Environmental and earth sciences
• Extra-terrestrial applications
• Biology and medicine
• Forensic science
• Archaeometry and Cultural Heritage
• Materials Science

The thirteenth International Conference on Electron Spectroscopy and Structure: ICESS-15, will be held in Stony Brook, New York, Sept 28th to bring together some 400 people interested in the properties of electrons and their interactions in systems ranging from atoms and molecules to complex condensed matter materials. Specific topics fordiscussion will include Atomic and Molecular Science, Photochemistry, Quantum Materials, Imaging Spectroscopies, Novel Instrumentation, and Nanomaterials.

Electronic structure is one of the fundamental properties of matter, and as such has been the subject of scientific investigation for more than a century. Â However the last two decades have witnessed important new discoveries in all areas ranging from the atomic level through to that of complex materials. Â There have also been significant developments in new methods, both theoretical and experimental, for investigating these properties. Â Â New experimental techniques have often evolved at the large scale facilities and by 2015 it is anticipated that the new state-of-the-art synchrotron radiation source at BNL, the NSLS II will be operational. Â It is anticipated that attendees will have the opportunity to tour this important facility.

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ICXOM23 will bring together scientists in the fields of X-ray microanalysis and those involved in optical instrumentation developments which will extend the reach of microanalysis. Although synchrotron radiation will be at the heart of the conference, since electron microscopy offers a different view of materials, the conference also welcomes contributions of recent developments in that field.

Topics Include

• Optics for microanalysis
• Scanning microscopy
• Full-field imaging
• Coherent Imaging
• PEEM
• Electron microscopy
• Microdiffraction
• Data analysis
• Detectors

BioStruct-X (www.biostruct-x.eu) is an integrated project funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission for transnational access to biological synchrotron X-ray radiation facilities. The BioStruct-X consortium coordinated by EMBL-Hamburg has 19 partners from 11 EU member and associated states providing integrated access via 42 installations in four key areas: macromolecular X-ray crystallography, small angle X-ray scattering, X-ray imaging, protein production and high-throughput crystallisation. In addition to the transnational access, BioStruct-X partners are involved in joint research activities aimed at novel developments in synchrotron instrumentation, automation of the experiment and high-throughput software services.

The X-ray based structural biology activities supported in BioStruct-X are core technologies used in many pharmaceutical and biotech companies. The workshop will promote the exchange of knowledge and approaches, either available or being established, between BioStruct-X consortium and industrial partners.

The Workshop will take place at the premises of the DESY synchrotron facility in Hamburg operating the presently world brightest storage ring PETRA III. A tour to the biological beamlines running at PETRA III will be included in the program. There will be a poster session and ample advertizing possibilities for the companies.

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.

Anno 2014 marks the United Nation's International Year of Crystallography, a discipline on which is based the analysis of materials by neutron and X-ray diffraction. Since discovery of the latter by Laue and the Bragg's, over a centenary ago, the method excels and still evolves with the up-come of most modern sources. Recently X-ray free-electron lasers became available, high-energy synchrotrons are being refurbished, neutron reactors built and spallation sources driven to new scales; while future facilities, as energy-recovery linacs have been technically designed. Hand-in-hand with achievements in detector development, instrumentation and computing power, these installations continuously drive into new possibilities for materials analysis. The present symposium shall expose those latest developments for the materials science applications, demonstrating both pioneering experiments and well established methods. Modern diffraction methods of synchrotron and neutron radiation, combined simultaneously with time resolved or imaging techniques allow a multi-dimensional insight into materials. Thus information from an ensemble of individual grains in a polycrystalline material, time resolved in situ investigations can be obtained from materials undergoing mechanical, chemical or electric load under working or extreme conditions. Last but not least, coherent-beam diffraction opens new aspects of data acquisition and analysis in both spectroscopic and space resolved domains.

Contributions are sought in the fields of metallurgy and materials forming; energy materials in realistic conditions; response of functional materials under parametric load; materials under extreme or exotic conditions. Particularly contributions using an innovative approach in their application or from the novel upcoming facilities with unprecedented possibilities are desired.
The methods shall cover time and lengths scales from sub-picoseconds to days and sub-angstrom to meters, respectively.

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Topics will include:

In-Situ Processes Â

• Time resolved
• Complex environments
• Extreme conditions

Single Grain Resolved Studies Â

• Embedded grain characterization
• Grain statistics
• Orientation relationships
• Subgrains

Strain Scanning Â

• Strains and residual stresses
• Multiple length scales
• Grain resolved strain

Texture Â

• Three-dimensional reciprocal space mapping
• Texture evolution
• Local texture

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Liquid, Amorphous, Nanocrystalline and Distorted Materials Â

• Pair distribution function
• Diffuse scattering
• Phase transformations
• Local structure

Materials Imaging / Tomography Â

• Real time imaging
• High resolution tomography
• Combined diffraction tomography

Exotic and Novel Experimental Developments Â

• Coherent beam diffraction
• Fourier reconstruction
• X-ray photo-correlation spectroscopy
• Ultrafast processes
• The future arrived: X-ray free electron lasers

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The Swiss Physical Society SPG and the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI invite you to a training session on "Modern aspects of the physics of condensed matter" to PSI in Villigen AG.

 Lectures:

Polymer brush structures on polymer surfaces, Dr. C. Padeste, PSI

Nanomagnets as model systems, Prof. F. Nolting, PSI

X-ray phase contrast imaging, Dr. F. Marone, PSI

Magnetism and Superconductivity, Prof. C. Niedermayer, PSI / University of Konstanz

Roundtable Discussion:

Current Topics in Physics Education, Prof. A. Vaterlaus, Dr. C. Wagner, A. Lichtenberger, ETH Zurich

Evening lecture:

The proton accelerator HIPA as a tool for research, Dr. M. Seidel, PSI


Cost: SPG and the PSI take over the costs of meals and accommodation.
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The final program will be sent to the beginning of November to the participants.

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 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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The coherent light of synchrotrons and FEL sources has opened multiple opportunities for exploring the structure and properties of matter with lateral and time resolution that was not possible a decade ago. The workshop will be focused on recent advances and future prospects in imaging technologies and their applications. The main topics that will be tackled are phase-sensitive X-ray imaging, synchrotron X-ray tomography, coherent X-ray imaging methods (with X-ray optics and/or lensless) and ultrafast time resolved imaging using FELs. Special attention will be paid on progress in image analysis (reconstruction of 3D images and phase-retrieval algorithms) with reference to applications in different research fields, from medicine and biology to material science. Relevant topics, such as low-dose phase-contrast computed tomography and 3D coherent diffraction imaging, are in common with the European research network EXTREMA (Enhanced X-ray Tomographic Reconstruction: Experiment, Modeling, and Algorithms) MP1207 COST Action aimed at facilitating collaboration between X-ray tomography experimentalists and the mathematical image reconstruction community. In this joint event, presentations from experts in the field and topical round table sessions will illustrate current achievements and future developments.

Workshop topics

• Phase-sensitive X-ray imaging- X-ray tomography
• Coherent Diffraction Imaging
• Image reconstruction and phase-retrieval algorithms
• Applications

Topics of the round tables

• Low-dose phase
• contrast computed tomography
• From 2D to 3D Coherent Diffraction Imaging Â

Photon14 is the largest optics and photonics conference in the UK and the seventh in the series, following Photon02 (Cardiff), Photon04 (Glasgow), Photon06 (Manchester), Photon08 (Edinburgh), Photon10 (Southampton) and Photon12 (Durham). Photon14 will be held at Imperial College London and is an umbrella conference series embracing both 'Optics and Photonics 2014' and 'QEP-21' and has a common social programme

Photon14 will comprise:

• Optics and Photonics 2014
• QEP-21 the latest in the series of conferences initiated in 1973 by the IOP Quantum Electronics and Photonics Group.
• An exhibition of the latest optics and photonics technology
• Plenary Lectures

Topics

• Active and adaptive optics
• Advances in imaging and displays
• Advances in lasers
• Advances in THz technology
• Biophotonics
• Computational photonics
• FASIG - Fringe Analysis Special Interest Group
• Fibre optic sensors
• Fibre optics and waveguides
• Lighting design
• Manufacturing of optics
• Metamaterials, nanophotonics and plasmonics
• Nonlinear photonics
• Optical and quantum metrology
  
• Optical diagnostic in engineering
• Optical environmental sensing
• Optical vortices, polarization, coherence and non-Gaussian beamsÂ
• Photonic energy harvesting
• Photonic systems
• Quantum coherent control
• Quantum dots, nanocrystals, and low dimensional materials
• Quantum information
• Quantum optics
• Silicon and carbon photonics
• Structured optical materials and biomimetics
• Trapping and manipulation
• Ultrafast and attosecond optics