The AVS International Symposium and Exhibition addresses cutting-edge issues associated with materials, processing, and interfaces in the research and manufacturing communities. The weeklong Symposium fosters a multidisciplinary environment that cuts across traditional boundaries between disciplines, featuring papers from AVS technical divisions, technology groups, and focus topics on emerging technologies. The equipment exhibition is one of … Read more 66th Annual AVS International Symposium and Exhibition This workshop will bring together the Brookhaven staff, the user community of the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), and a number of invited speakers to identify the current grand scientific challenges, review the ability of the current suite of NSLS-II beamlines to address these challenges, and develop concepts for world-leading capabilities and novel approaches … Read more Exploring new science frontiers at NSLS-II Inauguration of the Undulator Beamline of the Russian-German Laboratory at BESSY II, accompanied by a workshop on Spin-resolved Photoemission and Electronic Structure of Quantum and Energy Materials. The 29th RAU program will include 6 satellite events: CPU – Computational Processing for Users NAP-XPS – Workshop on scientific cases for Sirius T-RHEXI – Time-resolved high energy x-ray imaging meeting TRIXS – Trends on Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering NanoAHES – Nanomaterials Applied to Health and Environmental Sciences SMX – MX at Sirius and Emerging … Read more 29th RAU Annual User Meeting LNLS / CNPEM The workshop is intended for users of Diamond beamlines that perform elemental imaging. It is specifically focused on the use of PyMca, a versatile software package for the analysis of X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) data. The Two Orbit operation mode is a special storage ring setting providing two well separated, independent orbits, which can be used to store, to some extent, two independent fill pattern, i.e., beams in one storage ring. It is a very elegant electron bunch separation scheme based on non-linear beam dynamics using transverse resonance island buckets … Read more TRIBS Controlroom Workshop at BESSY II The pioneers of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun were recently awarded the prestigious Turing Award, dubbed the tech industry’s Nobel Prize, recognising their work over 30 years in developing and using neural networks. The award also comes at a time when AI is one of the fastest growing areas in … Read more Artificial Intelligence applied to photon and neutron science This workshop brings together different communities working in the field of thin films, nanostructures, surfaces and interfaces, to gain insights to the very powerful method of grazing incidence small angle x-ray scattering and related techniques. In keynote and invited lectures the possibilities and new trends in GISAXS and GISANS will be highlighted with a special … Read more GISAXS 2019 The European Synchrotron Light Source Workshop is the annual occasion for the storage ring community to share the status and the new developments of existing light sources in Europe as well as to report on the progress of new light sources under construction. This year the event will be organized in combination with the ESUO (European synchrotron and FEL user organization) Regional Meeting, thus the program of the meeting will be extended to two full days. The event will bring together scientists from the region and world experts in the various fields of synchrotron applications, and will provide … Read more 17th SESAME Users Meeting It is also an opportunity for prospective users to hear about the unique capabilities of ANSTO’s scientific infrastructure, which comprises a suite of neutron beam instruments in Sydney and synchrotron beamline in Melbourne. ANSTO also offers a range of other capabilities for scientific investigations including radiation measurements, use of natural and radioactive isotopes, radiochemistry, materials … Read more ANSTO User Meeting The Eleventh Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting will take place on December 4th to 6th, 2019. The Young Scientists and Neutron Day will take place at Berlin-Wannsee* on Wednesday, December 4th. The Young Scientists and Synchrotron Day as well as the Science Day will take place at Berlin-Adlershof on Thursday, December 5th … Read more 11th joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting Please submit nomination to the chair of the Society of Friends of HZB: Prof. Dr. Mathias Richter, mathias.richter@ptb.de, deadline: 30th Stepmber 2019 Advances in accelerator technology with the introduction of multi-bend achromat (MBA) lattices are leading to the design and implementation of next generation diffraction-limited synchrotron radiation (DLSR) sources with significantly increased brightness and coherent fraction of the emitted X-rays. The CONGA Workshop, which is part of the XXVIII Elettra Users’ Meeting, aims at bringing together scientists … Read more Challenges and Opportunities of New Generation Accelerator-based sources: DLSR The workshop FUSEE aims at bringing together scientists to debate the perspectives and challenges for the design of the ultimate seeded free electron laser source. The past few years have witnessed the development of seeded FELs extending typical optical laser based spectroscopies towards the XUV region. The goal of FUSEE is to examine the new … Read more FUture of SEeded free Electron lasers (FUSEE) Joint Universities Accelerator School (JUAS) The full programme covers essential topics during 10 weeks from January to March. Each course lasts 5 weeks: 4 weeks comprising more than 100 hours of lectures and tutorials, including computer sessions, and the final week given over to revision and the written examinations. The programme includes visits to leading … Read more The science of particle accelerators (JUAS) Joint Universities Accelerator School (JUAS) The full programme covers essential topics during 10 weeks from January to March. Each course lasts 5 weeks: 4 weeks comprising more than 100 hours of lectures and tutorials, including computer sessions, and the final week given over to revision and the written examinations. The programme includes visits to leading … Read more The technology and applications of particle accelerators (JUAS) This school is primarily aimed at master students and early stage researchers in physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, life or environmental sciences. Students will be introduced to synchrotron and laboratory-based methods that probe the molecular structure, function and dynamics of complex material systems. The two-week program consists of basic and specialized lectures including exercises, given … Read more HZB Photon School IPAC is the main international event for the particle accelerator community. Over 1200 scientists, engineers, and students from around the world are presented with the most recent results on research and development in particle accelerators, particle colliders, synchrotron light sources,free electron lasers, and associated instrumentation. The event also receives around 100 industry exhibits on related equipment … Read more 12th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC21) We are very enthusiastic to present Brazil as the new host of the XVIII International Small-Angle Scattering Conference. Brazil has already hosted this international conference under the chair of Prof Aldo Craievich in 1996. By 2021, the construction of the Brazilian 4th generation synchrotron light source, SIRIUS, will be concluded and the renewed small-angle scattering capabilities … Read more XVIII International Small-Angle Scattering ConferenceThe Innovation Award includes a monetary prize of 3000 Euro and will be bestowed at the Users’ Meeting of HZB (BESSY II) in December 2019.