We warmly invite you to participate in our series of scientific seminars organised by the User Office at MAX IV, Lund University Seminars take place on Mondays at 13.45h CET. These Zoom talks will feature users discussing scientific results and possible future experiments at MAX IV beamlines. Future talks will be published on the website … Read more MAX IV Scientific seminar series A new massive-open-online course (MOOC) offered by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) via the edX platform will be published on 11th April 2022. Subscription possible any time (even before publication). Audit track subscription: Course available for six weeks after first access. First possible access date: 11.04.2022. Verified track subscription: Unlimited access after subscription The European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility (European XFEL) encourages the scientific community worldwide to submit proposals for User Experiments. Current calls include: our 8th call for regular user proposals (including some new options for users of FXE, HED and FXE, like standard configurations) a call for protein crystal experiments on SPB/SFX and a call for … Read more Call for proposals for User Experiments at the European XFEL The Canadian Light Source (CLS) Call for Proposals for Cycle 36, which runs from July 1 – December 31, 2022, is now open! The deadline for submission of new proposals or beamtime requests (BTRs) is Wednesday, February 23 at 12pm (noon) CST. Submission deadline 2022-03-14 23:59 CET PAL-XFEL Call for proposal : by April 18, 2022 We encourage scientists from all over the world to submit proposals for general user beamtime experimentsat the PAL-XFEL from August to December 2022. The PAL-XFEL has three beamlines, two for hard X-ray experiments (XSS: X-ray Scattering and Spectroscopy, NCI: Nano Crystallography and CoherentImaging) and one for … Read more PAL-XFEL Call for proposal We are now accepting proposals to access the CHEXS (Center for High Energy X-ray Sciences at CHESS), MacCHESS (Macromolecular X-ray science at CHESS), and MSN-C (Materials Solutions Network at CHESS) beamlines during the November to December cycle (2022_3). The purpose of the 2022 workshop of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Commission on High Pressure is to bring together researchers who apply extreme-conditions crystallography in combination with other experimental and computational methods to study a wide range of material properties covering various fields of science, including condensed-matter physics, solid-state chemistry, geophysics, materials science, … Read more 2022 IUCr High Pressure workshop The meeting will provide an overview of the many exciting and inspiring research results obtained at our facility in the past year. A keynote lecture, plenary talks, discussions, a public lecture and a poster session will provide vast possibilities of information and discussion. Registration and Poster Submission by the 20th of November. There is less than a week left for abstract submissions at the 2022 AGU Fall meeting (12-16 December 2022, Chicago and online everywhere): The deadline for abstracts submissions is Wednesday, 3 August, 23:59 EDT. An opportunity for early career scientists to get inspired by speakers from a diverse range of career paths. Proposal deadline: Proposals are accepted until 11:59 pm, Pacific Time Zone on Wednesday 7th September 2022. General users are granted beam time through a peer-review proposal process. They may use beamlines and endstations provided by the ALS or the Participating Research Team (PRT) that operates the beamline. January–June 2023 operating cycle Users can access beamtime through a number of different mechanisms, including Peer-Reviewed Access, Puchased Access, Rapid Access, and Beamteam Access. Submit a new proposal or beamtime request by August 24 at 12pm (noon) CST. January – June 2023 Call for proposals for the Alvra and Bernina instrument at the Aramis hard X-ray line and for Maloja instrument at the Athos soft X-ray line. Please consult the following websites to obtain general information about the call and about the status of the available instruments: https://www.psi.ch/swissfel/calls =========================================================================== The DEADLINE for the submission of beam time … Read more SwissFEL call for proposals Deadline for proposal submission: 15 September 2022 / midnight (CEST) This call for proposals covers the beamtime from Jan 2023 to Oct 2023, i.e., over nine rather than six months and is the last call for proposals before the long shutdown to upgrade the SLS. Assuming that supply chains and related issues do not deteriorate … Read more Swiss Light Source (SLS) – call for proposals for non-PX beamlines The protein crystal screening (PCS) beamtime at the PAL-XFEL is open for domestic scientists who are willing to judge a crystal quality prior to the macromolecular crystallography experiments at not only XFEL but synchrotron facilities. PAL-XFEL Call for proposal : by September 26, 2022, Beamtime Service Period : January 12~June 30, 2023 We encourage scientists from all over the world to submit proposals for general user beamtime experiments at the PAL-XFEL from January to June 2023. The PAL-XFEL has three beamlines, two for hard X-ray experiments (XSS: X-ray Scattering and … Read more PAL-XFEL Call for general user beamtime proposals The workshop “Scientific Opportunities with very Hard XFEL Radiation” will be held at the German Electron Synchrotron DESY in Hamburg, Germany. It aims at identifying scientific questions and applications requiring very hard XFEL radiation (> 40 keV) in the context of future upgrades of the source and instruments of the European XFEL. The workshop will bring together scientists from … Read more European XFEL: Scientific Opportunities with very Hard XFEL Radiation The next DESY Photon Science Users’ Meeting “Research with Synchrotron Radiation and FELs” will take place on 25 – 27 January 2023 (Wednesday to Friday) in conjunction with the European XFEL Users’ Meeting which will take place on 23 – 27 January 2023 (www.xfel.eu/2023um). Both meetings will be held on the DESY campus in Hamburg, … Read more DESY Photon Science Users’ Meeting & XFEL Users’ Meeting 2023 Submission Deadline: October 28, 2022 2023-1Cycle Dates: January 31, 2023 – April 17, 2023 New users are always welcome. The HZB User Coordination is the major point of contact for all current and prospective users of the HZB user facility BESSY II. Please do not hesitate to contact us for administrative help or support. Together with the HZB instrument scientists we can help you with your beamtime application or … Read more BESSY II – Call for proposals 2023-I The User Meeting organisers are delighted to welcome users back onsite for the next edition, to be held in Grenoble from 6 to 8 February 2023. Given the popularity of the two past online meetings with participation from students from all over the world, it has been decided to organise the plenary of the User Meeting … Read more ESRF User Meeting 2023 Next deadline for submission of Standard proposals and BAG proposals: Monday 12th September 2022 (Review Committees: 28, 29 October 2022). This call for proposals for six beamlines will adopt a new, more inclusive, collaborative review process. The submitted proposals will be evaluated on their scientific merit under a double-blind and crossed-peer review system. From November 8 to December 15, those researchers interested in performing experiments at Sirius can submit a proposal. The HZB Photon School 2023, to be held online from March 27th – 31st, 2023. Onsite training sessions will take place from April 3rd – April 6th , 2023.(*)(*) Contingent on BESSY II is operating at a level that allows HZB employees access. The program is aimed primarily at master students and other early stage researchers in physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, … Read more HZB Photon School 2023 Photon Factory welcomes an application of research proposals from all over the world. The due dates of the proposal submission are set twice a year (May and November) except for U, P and S1 categories. This call’s deadline is Wednesday November 9th at 13:00 (in Japanese Standard Time) The second LEAPS Conference aims to bring together the latest achievements from the Life Sciences user community with those from synchrotron radiation source development and instrumentation. The focus of the second LEAPS Conference will be the opportunities emerging from the Life Sciences R&D. This conference will showcase where today and future synchrotron radiation contributes to … Read more LEAPS Meets Life Sciences Conference 10th Call for Proposals for User Experiments: Regular Proposals (including Cross-Instrument Use) and Sample and Protein Crystal Screening Proposals. The 10th call for regular proposals at the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility (European XFEL) is open until Friday, 09 December 2022, at 16:00 (local Hamburg/Schenefeld time / Central European Time – CET) for the seven scientific instruments planned to be … Read more Call for regular proposals: European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility (European XFEL) Each summer HZB offers 20 undergraduate students an eight-week summer student programme. International students can get the chance to work on their own research project in close cooperation with HZB scientists in the fields of Photon Science, Photovoltaics, Solar Cells/Catalysis, Electrochemical Energy Storage, Quantum and Functional Materials and Accelerator research The international Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation (SRI) is a successful conference series continuing for nearly 40 years, organised by the community of worldwide synchrotron radiation (SR) and X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) facilities. The last conference in 2022 (postponed from 2021) was hosted by Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) and the European XFEL from 28 March … Read more 14th International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation (SRI) 2024