Cecam-LighTnet Workshop: Computational Challenges Emerging from Next Generation Light Sources

13 Oct 2009, 08:00 → 15 Oct 2009, 13:00 Europe/Berlin

DESY, Main Auditorium, bldg 5

The objective of this workshop is to address the challenges for theory and computation arising from the novel experiments made possible by the next generation of X-ray Free-electron Lasers, which explore regions in parameter space never attained before. While the focus is on computational methods, also lectures given by experimentalists are a constituent part of the meeting in order to identify possible areas of application. This is an important and timely subject, as Free-electron Laser facilities in the X-ray region are becoming reality. FLASH is operational at DESY in Hamburg and reaches wavelengths down to 6.5 nm routinely. The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) in Stanford is just being commissioned, with hard X-rays down to 0.15 nm; and the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser Facility in Hamburg will follow in 2014. Ultra-bright short ( < 100 fs) pulses of spatially coherent X-ray radiation are expected to produce a variety of results in atomic, molecular, condensed matter and soft-condensed matter science; a partial realization of this promise is already evident from FLASH experiments. The workshop is supported by CECAM (Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moleculaire, Lausanne, CH) and by The Light Source Theory Network (LighTnet), a EU network providing theoretical support for European Light Sources All interested colleagues from theory and experiment are invited to participate in this workshop. There is no registration fee. Furthermore, US-based scientists can apply for travel support by the Travel Award Program (http://www.mcc.uiuc.edu/travel/) to attend this workshop. Besides invited presentations, a limited number of poster presentations is planned.

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