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Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie

With the series of annual user meetings we bring together our user community to intensify scientific exchange and stimulating new collaborations. The meetings 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. The bestowals of the 'Prizes for Young Scientists' donated by the Freundeskreis Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin e.V. (FHZB) are traditional highlights of the user meetings.

Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy

Particle Accelerators,    Applied Physics (general)

The 18th SOLEIL Users’ Meeting will take place on Thursday January 18th and Friday 19th, 2024 at SOLEIL. This invaluable forum for the synchrotron radiation users’ community will provide the opportunity to exchange and learn about the evolution of the machine and the beamlines. It will be also the occasion to share scientific, technical and practical issues about the synchrotron radiation use.

Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), TU München

Level of automation in lab and large-scale facility experiments display enourmous increase in recent decades, where progress in diffraction studies of various kind is very remarkable. Relevance for automation in diffraction is driven by a multitude of reasons, ranging from improving efficiency in data collection and analysis, mail in and remote experiments to enabling more advanced and complex studies. In order to adress them, we organise one day „noon-to-noon“ Workshop „Automation in Diffraction“ taking place in Garching b. München on March, 14-15, 2024. The goal is to gather diffraction specialists and to discuss the challenges and solution strategies towards automation in diffraction experiments with respect to increase of instrumental throughput, enhancement of rapid and remote access as well as mail in services in diffraction applications.

Applied Physics (general),    Robotics, Automation & Mechatronics

Association Française de Cristallographie (AFC)

XTOP brings together scientists from the fields of X-ray diffractometry, reflectometry, standing waves, coherent and conventional X-ray diffraction imaging and topography, as well as X-ray absorption and phase contrast imaging. XTOP is thus one of the central scientific conference concerning methods and instrumentation in laboratory and synchrotron-based high-resolution X-ray diffraction methods, phase contrast imaging, and micro-tomography.

The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)

The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility is organizing an on-site workshop on Fluid dynamics meets synchrotron X-ray high-speed imaging. The primary goal of this workshop is to highlight the capabilities of synchrotron X-ray imaging to investigate fast fluid dynamic problems and to bring together both scientists who have experience in using such techniques as well as those who would be interested in considering using them. The workshop will be a unique platform to foster discussions on which areas and specific problems in fluid dynamics might benefit from fast X-ray imaging. The participants will also learn how to apply for access to such a facility and how to prepare and conduct a successful experimental campaign either using environments available at the beamline as well as bringing their own setups.

Bubbly flows ● Breakup and coalescence processes ● Cavitation ● Drops and bubbles ● Flow in porous media ● Interfacial instabilities ● Heat and mass transfer in multiphase flows ● Particle-laden flows ● Phase-change processes ● Turbulent multiphase flows ● Sprays ● Suspensions and non-Newtonian flows ● Shock waves

Condensed Matter Physics and Materials,    Metrology and Instrumentation

The symposium will be jointly organized by the Synchrotron SOLEIL and the CNRS/University of Strasbourg at the ‘European School for Chemistry, Polymers of Matériaux’ (ECPM).

This three-days event will focus on electrocatalytic systems combined with electron or X-ray based analysis techniques (e.g., electronic microscopy or synchrotron-based approaches). Specifically, it will cover technical and scientific challenges related to the study under operating conditions of electrocatalytic reactions linked to energy storage or production (e.g., water, oxygen, CO2 reduction; hydrogen, water oxidation).

Chemical Engineering,    Catalysis

Since 2014, HTCC workshops have tackled the most fascinating achievements in both experimental methods and theoretical approaches, that have recently brought structural research to the forefront of natural sciences. We try to bring together leading experts in selected domains as lecturers, and motivated scientists in crystallography or related fields as “students”, who may come from both academia and industry, and who are interested in acquiring new knowledge on cutting-edge methods in structural science and exploring ways to apply them in their ongoing research. Since HTCC4 held in 2019, HTCCs are dedicated exclusively to macromolecular crystallography and are taking place in Dubrovnik, one of the most shiny gems of the entire Mediterranean. The IUCr Newsletter (No. 2, 2023) published a comprehensive report from the HTCC5. This year, we are proudly inviting you to the sixth edition of the series, HTCC6 – advanced macromolecular crystallography workshop, which will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, from 7th to 12th April, 2024.

HTCC6 is entirely dedicated to structural biology. Over four days, we shall explore structural research of biological macromolecules (proteins, nucleic acids and their complexes) from a highly practical perspective, putting special emphasis on crystallization, data collection, data processing, and database (CSD, PDB and NDB) digging.

Biophysics, Medical Physics,    Physical (Theoretical) Chemistry, Computational Chemistry

OPIC2024：16 SPECIALIZED CONFERENCES

OPIC2024：16 SPECIALIZED CONFERENCES

Association Française de Cristallographie (AFC)

The Bombannes summer school is devoted to the practical «state-of-art» approach to scattering methods, using neutrons, as well as X-ray and light sources - today’s key techniques to study structure and dynamics in systems containing colloids, polymers, surfactants and biological macromolecules. Since 1990 the Bombannes school series introduces, on a fundamental level, the current methodology of static and dynamic scattering techniques and their application to soft matter systems. It provides with a period of 2 years advanced training for young researchers with a working place in European laboratories at post-graduate and post-doctoral level.

Condensed Matter Physics and Materials,    Courses and Events for Physics Students

Coherence - the International Workshop on Phase Retrieval and Coherent Scattering- is the top international meeting on developing and using coherent scattering methods with X-rays, EUV, electrons, lasers and beyond. It attracts researchers from many fields (physics, chemistry, biology, optics, …) interested in developing coherence-based methods and their applications.

Synchrotron SOLEIL

We have the pleasure of inviting you to Synchrotron SOLEIL and Sorbonne University (Paris) to join the Science at FELs conference, June 17-19, 2024 and the Forum on Advanced FEL Techniques which will be held on, June 20-21, 2024. After the previous successful meeting in Hamburg and the exciting new developments and results from these extraordinary light sources, we are looking forward to a fascinating and informative conference. The meeting will include the hottest new results, of course, but also tutorials on the operation and uses of FEL radiation along with possible tours of relevant accelerator and laser-based sources in the Paris-Saclay area.

Synchrotron SOLEIL

We have the pleasure of inviting you to Synchrotron SOLEIL and Sorbonne University (Paris) to join the Science at FELs conference, June 17-19, 2024 and the Forum on Advanced FEL Techniques which will be held on, June 20-21, 2024. After the previous successful meeting in Hamburg and the exciting new developments and results from these extraordinary light sources, we are looking forward to a fascinating and informative conference. The meeting will include the hottest new results, of course, but also tutorials on the operation and uses of FEL radiation along with possible tours of relevant accelerator and laser-based sources in the Paris-Saclay area.

The one and a half day “Forum on Advanced FEL Techniques”, aiming to bring together FEL experts and FEL users, will take place right after the main conference, from 20-21 June 2024.

Association Française de Cristallographie (AFC)

The school will be held in Nancy, at the site of the Faculté des Sciences et Technologies of Université de Lorraine. The ECS9 edition will focus on the improving of crystallography skills: from basic structure analysis to understanding of chemical bonds, bonding interactions and structure-properties relationships in materials.

Le prochain colloque de l'Association Française de Cristallographie aura lieu au Corum à Montpellier.

European Molecular Biology Organization – EMBO

Neutron Scattering,    Condensed Matter Physics and Materials

This 15th SRI conference will again be hosted by Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) and the European XFEL.

The International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation (SRI) is a successful conference series continuing for over 40 years, organised by the community of worldwide synchrotron radiation and X-ray free electron laser facilities. The SRI conferences are important for the worldwide community to share key experiences in scientific and technical developments. Having timely access to the latest information and new ideas is of crucial importance for the future development of all light sources, the development of the field as a whole as well as for the economic and political development of participating countries. Along the conference an industry exhibition is scheduled.

International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation (SRI) is a unique, large and the most significant international forum held every three years in the community of synchrotron radiation (SR) and free electron laser (XFEL).

Metrology and Instrumentation,    Particle Accelerators

The J-PARC facility started its operation of a neutron beam facility in May 2008, a muon facility in September 2008, a hadron facility in February 2009, and a neutrino facility in April 2009. The output beam power of the accelerators is steadily increasing with the progress of the beam tuning and hardware upgrades. The output beam power of the rapid cycling synchrotron is reaching its design goal, 1 MW, and the main ring synchrotron achieved the operation for the neutrino facility at 500 kW. According to the symposium theme, "Futures of J-PARC, Futures by J-PARC", we will discuss the achievements from 15 years of J-PARC operation together with the progress in relevant fields around the world. We then will discuss future and upgrade plans of J-PARC and other facilities.