All the call for propsals are collated in the post “Lightsource research on SARS-CoV-2”https://lightsources.org/lightsource-research-and-sars-cov-2 Postponed – Date TBD Due to the uncertainity about the spread of the coronavirus in the Bay Area and elsewhere, we have decided to postpone our March 30-April 4 workshop until the epidemic has settled down. Thank you for understanding. Call for AP28 – October 2020 – April 2021 – POSTPONED The management team at Diamond appreciates the pressure the call deadline has been putting on our user community at this time of uncertainty. Diamond has decided to postpose the AP28 call for proposals (the Rapid Access call for remote work directly relevant to the COVID-19 outbreak is still open). We are unable to … Read more Call for proposals deadline: Diamond Light Source ICTP has suspended all educational activities from 24 February up to 15 May as precautionary measures due to COVID-19; more details at https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2020/2/ictp_suspend_activities.aspx We thank those who completed the survey which assisted in the assessment of the viability of an online event. Based on this survey, an online event is not favoured by the majority of our delegates and sponsors. We have also given careful consideration to possible dates for a postponed AXAA-2020. Given that the trajectory of … Read more Australian X-ray Analytical Association AXAA 2020 In view of the evolution of the COVID-19 disease, we have decided to postpone the Conference “LEAPS meets Quantum Technology” to a new date, still to be defined, but most probably not before one year. Graduate students at North American universities are invited to apply to attend the 22nd National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering. (…) As part of the school, students also conduct a series of short experiments to provide some hands-on experience using instruments at neutron and synchrotron sources, both at Oak Ridge’s Spallation Neutron Source and High … Read more National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering UXSS is an annual event jointly organized by the Stanford PULSE Institute at SLAC and the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) at DESY. UXSS is intended to introduce students and postdocs to the latest science that is enabled by novel X-ray Free Electron Lasers. The program will be highly interdisciplinary, with topics ranging from … Read more The Ultrafast X-ray Summer School 2020 (UXSS 2020) Scholarships requests are due by March 11, 2020. In 1987 the U.S. Particle Accelerator School initiated its first credit course program. To carry out its educational mission, the USPAS developed programs of courses suitable for universities. Major universities, in partnership with the national laboratories, underwrite the offerings and provide the necessary quality control. Through this … Read more US Particle Accelerator School (USPAS 2020) UXSS 2020 is a four day program hosted by Stanford University’s PULSE Institute at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. UXSS 2020 is organized in collaboration with the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science at DESY in Hamburg, Germany. The goal of UXSS 2020 is to disseminate information and train students and post-docs on new opportunities in ultrafast … Read more Ultrafast X-ray Summer School (UXSS 2020) Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, we have made the decision to postpone the conference for 1 year. All those already registered for the conference will be contacted and their registration fees refunded as required. We will decide on a new date soon… Name: Workshop on Resonant Inelastic and Elastic X-ray Scattering 2020 Date: July 15–17, 2020 Registration deadline/ link: Jun 28, 2020 https://www.bnl.gov/rixsrexs2020/reg/step1.php Location: Danforts Hotel & Marina, USA hosted by NSLS-II The International Beam Instrumentation Conference (IBIC) is dedicated to exploring the physics and engineering challenges is diagnostics and measurement techniques of particle accelerator beams. This will be the fifth conference in the Science@FELs series, following those in Stockholm in 2018, in Trieste in 2016, at the Paul Scherrer Institute in 2014, and at DESY in 2012. Science@FELs is organised as a regular biannual activity of FELs OF EUROPE, the collaboration of European FEL and SPS Facilities. Science@FELs 2020 will … Read more International Science@FELs Conference The Conference is a three day event featuring lecture and poster presentations covering a wide range of subject matter of interest to researchers in chemistry, physics and structural biology. The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers in all areas of fundamental and applied diffraction and crystallographic research to present current topics. The … Read more 78th Pittsburgh Diffraction Society Conference The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) and the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) hosted a joint users’ meeting at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratroy. This annual meeting is a unique opportunity to gather together the lightsource community in a single scientific event that includes numerous presentations in plenary, poster and parallel sessions. Participants are able to learn … Read more Joint SSRL/LCLS Annual Users’ Conference and Workshops WAO’2020 will be hosted by the ALBA Synchrotron and the Worskhop venue will be the Parc de Recerca Biomèdica located on the Barceloneta seafront downtown in Barcelona. The objective of the workshop is to create an open forum for those involved in the daily operation of particle accelerators to present, discuss, and exchange ideas with … Read more Workshop on Accelerator Operations (WAO’2020) The conference deals with new developments and advances in the field of photon diagnostics, ranging from new devices for online measurements, to data processing, new experimental challenges and future developments for next generation x-ray light sources. Registration and abstract deadlines to be confirmed in due course. We are delighted to announce that the 30th RAU (Annual Users Meeting) will take place at the Brazilian synchrotron light source, Sirius, at the new area of the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory, within the enlarged CNPEM campus, in Campinas – SP. The third African light source conference will review the light source based science and further progress the vision of an African Light Source. This conference will cover topics that include Medical Sciences, Heritage Sciences, Geosciences, Environmental sciences, Energy Sciences, Nano Sciences, Materials Sciences, Mineral Sciences, Accelerator and Detector Sciences, Competitive Industry, Capacity Building and Infrastructures. … Read more The Third African Synchrotron Light Source Conference (AfLS3) : towards a brighter future 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) After nearly 40 years, the SRI will return to Hamburg, where the first meeting was held in 1982. At that time DORIS was the only operating synchrotron source in Hamburg. The metropolitan area now hosts three unique research facilities: the European XFEL, PETRA III and FLASH at DESY. These three facilities complement each other and open … Read more 14th International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation 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