We warmly invite you to participate in a new 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 … 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. ALBA’s call for proposals is now open until March 1st at 14:00 (Barcelona Time) 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 Mark your calendars for the 2022 User Meeting, which will take place virtually August 15–17. Registration is free! Hosted by Diamond. Venue is the Saïd Business School, Oxford (UK) We are delighted to announce registration and the call for abstracts for the 12th International Conference on Inelastic X-ray Scattering (IXS2022) are now open! Showcase your Early Career Research with a global community! The IXS2022 Early Career Scientist Awards will recognise and reward three winning early career scientists on their research within the inelastic x-ray scattering field to date. As selected by an independent judging panel, successful applicants will receive generous financial support to attend the conference and the opportunity to present their work … Read more IXS2022 Early Career Scientist Awards Are you a student, postdoc, or research assistant who has conducted measurements at SSRL and/or LCLS and/or cryoEM? The SSRL/LCLS user’s meeting has introduced a new symposium where early career scientists can highlight their research making use of particular SLAC user facility capabilities in a 15 minute oral presentation. The Registration & Call for Abstracts for the SNI2022 conference is now open. We cordially invite you to submit your oral and poster contributions until April 24th. jointly organized by Centro de Física de Materiales (CSIC/UPV-EHU) and Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC); AUSE (the Spanish Synchrotron User Association) and ALBA Synchrotron, will be held at ALBA premises in Cerdanyola del Vallès from Monday 5th to Thursday 8th of September 2022. The two-day workshop aims to inform all potential users about the capabilities of the recently inaugerated HElmholtz-SEsame beamline HESEB, and to foster exchanges and networking between soft X-ray users of SESAME. It will feature lectures on soft X-ray techniques and applications, as well as the first reports on stays at European synchrotron facilities by researchers … Read more HESEB workshop on soft X-Rays at Istanbul University 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 Conference The Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS), part of the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), will host the XVIII edition of the International Small-Angle Scattering Conference (SAS2022). The conference will be held in hybrid mode and will take place at the Royal Palm Hall Convention Center in Campinas-SP, Brazil, from September 11 to 16, 2022. Hybrid Mode Conference – Due the sanitay … Read more SAS2022 Material Science at European Large-Scale Infrastructures using Open and FAIR Data Data is at the centre of using large scale scientific research infrastructures. 16th September 2022: Save the date in your diary! We cordially invite you to attend our upcoming workshop – hosted jointly by ExPaNDS and PaNOSC: Dedicated online workshop for the Virtual Infrastructure for Scientific Analysis (VISA) platform The Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS) at the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), will host the 7th School of Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS School) from September 17 to 20, 2022. The School will take place at Sirius in Campinas-SP, Brazil as a satellite event part of the scientific activities of the 18th edition of the International Small-Angle Scattering Conference (SAS). On behalf of the organizing committee, we are pleased to announce the upcoming Joint Meeting of PSRS Members and SOLARIS Centre Users, to be held in Krakow, Poland, on September 20-23, 2022 as a as a face-to-face, free-of-charge event. Starts 20 Sep 2022, 16:00 Ends 23 Sep 2022, 14:00 Europe/Warsaw time This annual meeting is a unique opportunity to gather together the light source community in a single scientific event that includes numerous presentations in plenary, poster, and parallel sessions. Participants are able to learn about current/future facility capabilities and the latest user research as well as to discuss science with colleagues from academia, research laboratories, … Read more 2022 SSRL/LCLS Users’ Meeting ESSRI 2022 will bring together international sustainability experts, stakeholders and representatives from research facilities and future research infrastructure projects worldwide, with the purpose of identifying the challenges, best practices and policies to develop and implement sustainable solutions at research infrastructures. 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 ANSTO Powder Diffraction Workshop is aimed at Australian and New Zealand PhD students wishing to learn the technique of Rietveld refinement in order to analyse their X-ray and neutron powder diffraction data. Expressions of interest open! We are delighted to announce that the 32nd LNLS Annual Users’ Meeting (RAU) will be held on November 8-10, 2022 at Sirius, the Brazilian new synchrotron light source, located at the enlarged Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) campus, in Campinas – SP. Organized by LNLS/CNPEM, the event will gather researchers who … Read more 32nd LNLS Annual Users’ Meeting (RAU) 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. 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 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 Next deadline for submission of Standard proposals and BAG proposals: Monday 12th September 2022 (Review Committees: 28, 29 October 2022).