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September 27-29, Science with FLASH: Recent Results and Future Perspectives

DESY, Hamburg, Germany

With the start of the new Free-Electron Laser sources a new era in X-ray science has just begun. First experiments at FLASH, the XUV-Free-Electron Laser at DESY in Hamburg, and recently also at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) in Stanford, have shown that the unprecedented brilliance, the coherence, and the ultrashort pulses of these sources enable new insights in many different fields such as atomic and molecular physics, cluster physics, condensed matter physics, material science, femtochemistry, structural biology, and high energy density science.

For further information please see https://indico.desy.de/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=3198

September 29 - October 01, FEL 3-site meeting

DESY, Hamburg, Germany

The aim of this collaboration meeting is to exchange experience in the design, construction, and operation of X-ray Free-Electron-Lasers. The exchange of results from existing collaborations and the launch of new collaborations on specific issues is targeted. Since the last meeting, remarkable steps have been achieved in this field. We have observed the very successful start of operation of the LCLS, the construction of the Spring-8 XFEL is nearing its completion, the construction of the European XFEL is in full swing, and the decision has been made to extend the FLASH facility. The meeting shall give ample time for discussion of specific topics and for meeting colleagues from the collaborating laboratories. Following overview talks the program continues by work group discussion in the two areas of electron and photon beams. Following the meetings at Spring-8 (Oct 2008) and at SLAC (Feb 2009), this 3rd meeting is organized jointly by DESY and European XFEL, making the 3rd site for hard X-ray FELs under construction or already in operation. The meeting will take place Sep 29 to Oct 1, 2010 at DESY, Hamburg, where the FLASH facility operates since 2005 for users and where the construction of the European XFEL is on-going. The FEL 3-site meeting will start on Sep 29 at lunchtime and will end in the afternoon of Oct 1. Please note that in close vicinity to this event two other meetings will address issues of FLASH: FLASH II Meeting and FLASH Workshop on Linac Operation with Long Bunch Trains (postponed to Feb 2011).

For further information please see https://indico.desy.de/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=3067

October 11-13, Workshop on Evolution and Control of Complexity: Key Experiments using Sources of Hard X-rays

Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

During the past two centuries, much effort has gone into understanding various types of orders in systems obeying the laws of equilibrium thermodynamics as described using linear response theory or the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. On the other hand, the majority of processes in nature involve nonlinear behavior that obeys nonequilibrium thermodynamics from the flow of energy. Nature in its every manifestation exhibits far-away-from-equilibrium processes, leading to complexity of order. This is true from the Big Bang to the coming of humankind, from chemistry and biology to geosciences and medicine, and from materials engineering to energy sciences. In spite of the recurrence of non-equilibrium behavior in nature and, particularly, in every aspect of our daily activities, fundamental research lacks an understanding of the processes involved in the temporal evolution of complex order with precision. This workshop will identify unexplored opportunities in the emerging field of non-equilibrium science with a focus on the use of hard x-ray spatio-temporal techniques that are available at operating and future x-ray sources, including compact sources, storage rings, energy recover linacs, and x-ray free-electron lasers.

Focus Areas of the Workshop
Control of Processes in Condensed Systems
Controlling the Dynamics of Materials Processing
Nonlinear Chemical Reactions: Mimicking Nature
Controlling Biological Functions
Hydrodynamics of Flowing Fluids: Micro- & Nano-Fluidics
Transformational Dynamics in High- Energy & High-Density Matter
Nonlinear X-ray Science & Future X-ray Metrology

For further information please see http://www.aps.anl.gov/complexity

October 18 - 21, 2010, Research school on Science with XUV- and X-ray Free Electron Lasers,

Club Belambra at the Presqu'Ile de Giens, Hyères, France

The research school supported by the CNRS is motivated by the emergence of a new research direction, namely the scientific applications of the novel Free Electron Lasers in the XUV and X-ray regime. These new femtosecond (1 fs = 10-15 sec) X-rays sources are of particular interest for the user community working at present with synchrotron radiation and/or with high order harmonics of an intense femtosecond laser.

For further information please visit http://www.xfel-school.com/

October 18-21, 2010 LCLS/SSRL Users' Conference

Menlo Park, CA, USA

The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) Annual Users' Meeting provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of research activities from SSRL, LCLS and the light source community in general. New data, developments and plans for the future will be shared through talks, poster presentations and workshops.

For further information please see http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/ssrl-lcls/2009/2010.asp

October 27 - 29, Standard Data Formats for Experiments with Photons, Neutrons, and Ions

DESY, Hamburg, Germany

With the advent of increasingly complex experiments using photons, neutrons, and ions it becomes more and more important to store the data of experiments in a standardized way. The aims are to facilitate data exchange among scientists and access of evaluation programs to the data, but moreover to provide flexible and self-documenting means to integrate all relevant information of an experiment (acquired data, experiment description and parameters, meta-data) into a comprehensive data set. The task has two aspects: 1. Definition and structuring of the contents, 2. Implementation into a file structure and provision of corresponding software tools. The workshop will discuss details of the second aspect but it is mainly intended to concentrate on the first one because definition of the content and its structure serves as an indispensable prerequisite for implementation. Data structuring will be an issue that should be commonly solved for the different experimental techniques whereas content definition is partially common (e.g. instrument description) while in other parts it is differing from one to another experimental technique. Therefore, the intension of the workshop is to bring together IT experts and experts for the different key experimental techniques to discuss the general structuring of the data and to collect data items which are common to all or rather special to specific experimental techniques and experiment strategies. The key experimental techniques identified are 1. Protein Crystallography 2. Micro-Tomography 3. Scattering (SAS/WAS/GISAS) 4. Microfluorescence and Micro-XAS Part of the content definition is planned to be done in smaller working groups with representatives of the specific key techniques. Therefore, experts in those fields are cordially encouraged to participate in the workshop.

For further information please visit https://indico.desy.de/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=3357

December 14-15, Seeded FEL sources and Time-resolved experiments

Adriatico Guesthouse - Trieste, Italy

The implementation of seeding scheme provides the possibility to have high temporal and spatial coherence together with variable polarization and precise control of the photon energy and jitter. The aim of the workshop is to bring together prospective users and experts in FEL and machine physics to discuss the most recent advancements in seeded FEL schemes and their expected impact in studies of fast phenomena in solids, liquids and gases, combining scattering and spectroscopic approaches and exploiting selection rules. This event is taking place in Trieste just before the European XFEL workshop (16-17 December).

For further information please visit http://www.elettra.trieste.it/SESTRE