Satellite Meetings 2019
Monday-Tuesday, 21-22 January (Organised by European XFEL)
Early User Workshop: hRIXS @ SCS
Organiser: A. Scherz, J. Schlappa (European XFEL), Stefan Neppl (University of Potsdam)
Location: European XFEL, XHQ E1.173, Schenefeld
The workshop will focus on the specific operation conditions expected for Early User Experiments with the User Consortium Heisenberg RIXS (hRIXS) and baseline X-ray Resonant Diffraction (XRD) setup at the Spectroscopy and Coherent Scattering (SCS) instrument. hRIXS and XRD will open up opportunity for resonant inelastic and elastic x-ray scattering studies at SASE3. The workshop is ideally addressing potential users that intend to submit a project to the SCS instrument using XRD or hRIXS in one of the first calls for proposals. The meeting aims at opening up opportunities for discussion and setting up collaborations for early experiments.
Scientists wishing to acquire a general knowledge about the SCS instrument, unique capabilities for science with other European XFEL instruments, as well as the status of the facility, are encouraged to attend the European XFEL Users' Meeting on 23-25 January 2019 in Hamburg.
Satellite Meetings on Tuesday, 22 January (Organised by European XFEL)
Biological Sample Preparation and Characterisation for XFEL Experiments"
Organiser: K. Lorenzen
Location: European XFEL, XTOB 1.01, Schenefeld
XFELs open up new possibilities for life science experiments from imaging of single molecules to monitoring of biochemical reactions. The science critically depends on the performance of the X-ray laser and on quality of samples that are placed into the X-ray beam. Many biological transformations happen on time scales shorter than some minutes, and an optimal use of the beam heavily depends on well prepared and thoroughly characterised samples. This workshop will focus on sample preparation, characterization, sample environment for biological samples at the SPB/SFX end station, results of first experiments at the European XFEL as well as novel developments in these areas.
Early science at the HED instrument and status of the HIBEF contributions
Organiser: : U. Zastrau and C. Baehtz
Location: European XFEL, XHQ E1.173, Schenefeld
The half-day workshop on the HED instrument and the HIBEF UC will take place in the large seminar room E1.173 at the European XFEL headquarter building in Schenefeld. In the morning, smaller meetings and tours of the experimental hall and the HED instrument are possible upon request to interested colleagues. After lunch in the foyer of EuXFEL, you will hear status updates and perspectives of the HED instrument, in preparation for the next call for proposals in late spring 2019. After a coffee break, the second part of the afternoon will concentrate on HiBEF UC contributions with special emphasis on the TW laser which will become available to users in 2020. We plan for a reception in the foyer in the evening.
Tuesday, 22 January (Organised by DESY)
FLASH2020+
Organiser: R.Treusch
Location: DESY, Bldg. 28c, FLASH Sem.R.
Within the DESY strategy process for the next decade – DESY2030 – long-term upgrade goals for the future of FLASH have been defined which are strongly based on user demands for a high repetition rate XUV and soft x-ray FEL facility formulated at the FLASH user workshop in September 2017.
This full day satellite workshop is a follow-up to the latter since we are in process of writing a conceptual design report for FLASH2020+ and would like to further discuss facility concepts and performance goals with you. In addition to this discussion of overall strategy and concepts, we will have two dedicated topical sessions, one on present and future data acquisition and controls and one regarding flexible (pump-probe) laser schemes, the latter continuing the fruitful discussion of last year’s satellite workshop.
We have foreseen time slots for short contributed oral presentations and would strongly encourage all span style="color:#696969">present and future users to participate in shaping the future of FLASH.
Computing for Photon Science made easy
Organiser: F. Schluenzen, Y. Kemp, A.Rothkirch
Location: DESY, Bldg. 15, CSSB Auditorium
DESY offers significant compute resources for photon science applications, both for high-throughput data analysis and high-performance simulations. The computer resources are open to in-house as well as external photon science users performing experiments at one of the DESY and Eur.XFEL campus facilities.
This satellite workshop aims to give a basic introduction how to exploit and efficiently use the immense compute and storage capabilities. Small tutorials will guide you how to
- use painless full graphical logins
- search and find resources, software, support
- design and run batch jobs
- work with Jupyter notebooks
- work with containers
- photon science data lifecycle management
- ...
More information about the high-performance cluster Maxwell, available soft- and hardware and related topics can be found under https://confluence.desy.de/display/IS/
Powder Diffraction and Total Scattering at P02.1
Organiser: M. Wharmby
Location: DESY, Bldg. 1b, Sem.R. 4a/b
In 2018 beamline P02.1 was renamed as the Powder Diffraction and Total Scattering beamline. This satellite meeting offers all users interested in these techniques a chance to find out what the change in focus means for the scientific opportunities available at the beamline.
We will present an overview of the current status of P02.1 and plans for the nearer and farther future, including detectors, support facilities, automation and rapid access. A number of our present users will also report some of their recent results. Throughout the workshop there will be opportunity for current and future users to discuss their specific scientific challenges as well as the general direction of the beamline. This will help the beamline team to refine our future aims and ensure that P02.1 continues to provide the best service for our vibrant user community.
Thursday, 24 January (Organised by DESY)
9th workshop on X-ray Nano-Imaging of Biological and Chemical Systems at PETRA III
Organiser: G. Falkenberg, Chr. Schroer
Location: DESY, Bldg. 15, CSSB Auditorium
The workshop gives attention to x-ray microscopy at various PETRA III beamlines with special emphasis on applications in biology and chemistry. Several scientific highlights are presented and recent methodological and instrumental developments at PETRA III beamlines and the NanoLab are discussed. X-ray microscopy will greatly benefit from a future upgrade of PETRA into the ultra-low emittance source PETRA IV.
Participants are encouraged to discuss future scientific opportunities.
SAXS/WAXS/GISAXS User Workshop @ DESY
Organiser: Rainer Gehrke, Stephan Roth
Location: DESY, Bldg. 3, Sem.R. BAH 1/2
This workshop addresses current and potential users of small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering facilities at PETRA III. It is intended to present and discuss the status and perspectives of the experimental facilities available at DESY, and recent as well as planned user activities. It shall foster communication among the users and identify common interests.
mTCA Workshop @ DESY
Organiser: mTCA TechLab
Location: DESY, Bldg. 1b, Sem.R. 4a
This pre-workshop introduces new users to the electronics standard MicroTCA, which has been established as a technology of choice for beam control and beam diagnostics in many facilities around the world.
The standard is also applicable to equipment for beam experiments (for example in fast data acquisition systems), so we would like to introduce the general concept and the main advantages of MicroTCA in comparison to other standards. We will present several boards and their use cases, run live demonstrations and highlight first applications in photon science
X-ray absorption spectroscopy at P64/65
Organiser: W. Caliebe, E. Welter
Location: DESY, Bldg 1b, Sem.R. 4b
The two XAFS-beamlines P64 and P65 are in user-operation mode now for 2 and 3 years, respectively. The satellite workshop is intended to give an overview about the current status of the beamlines, the associated projects, and results from different external user groups. Short- and long-term plans for instrumentation concerning experimental techniques and sample environments will be presented and discussed, as well as results from users' experiments.
Present and future users are strongly encouraged to participate in this workshop and to discuss their options with the beamline staff.
Coherent scattering and imaging at P10/PETRA III
Organiser: Michael Sprung, Ivan Vartaniants
Location: DESY, Bldg. 28c, FLASH Sem.R
New coherent x-ray scattering techniques have been developed, implemented and exploited at several instruments of PETRA III. These instruments use forward or Bragg scattering geometries or apply nano-focusing capabilities as e.g. provided by the P10-GINIX (build by the group of Prof. T. Salditt of the University of Göttingen). This workshop aims to give a comprehensive overview of available research opportunities / activities employing coherent X-rays at the Coherence Application beamline P10.
The first part of this workshop will give an introduction to coherent x-ray scattering techniques and present the current instrumentation available at P10 beamline. Afterwards presentations will highlight recent research activities.
High Energy X-Ray Diffraction for Physics and Chemistry
Organiser: Ann-Christin Dippel, Martin v. Zimmermann
Location: DESY, Bldg. 25b, Sem.R. 109
High energy X-ray diffraction based techniques have a unique impact on physics and chemistry, especially with respect to the formation of materials. This workshop brings together experienced users, interested researchers, and beamline staff to present and discuss the current and future high-energy X-ray diffraction capabilities at DESY and key experiments that demonstrate the potential of this technique.
Extreme Conditions Research at the PETRA III
Organiser: H.-P. Liermann, R. Farla
Location: DESY, Bldg. 25f, Sem.R. 456
Extreme Conditions Research at high pressures and simultaneously high/low temperatures will be significantly strengthened at DESY in 2019 through the commissioning of the LVP beamline at PETRA III. Planetary and materials research can be performed under a wide range of conditions on small samples at very extreme pressures at the ECB (P02.2), and on larger samples at moderate pressures (< 25 GPa) at the LVP beamline (P61B). At the ECB we have refined dDAC operation as well as imaging within. Super high-pressure experiments are now benefitting from sub-micron diffraction experiments. At P61B, high energy polychromatic X-rays (30-200 keV) are expected to be available by late spring of 2019, followed by commissioning of the beamline for in situ energy-dispersive X-ray diffraction and imaging (e.g. radiography) experiments in the LVP. During this satellite meeting we will present ongoing research from different external and internal groups at the different high-pressure beamlines of PETRA III and give a status report on the current status of the Extreme Conditions CDR for PETRA
Time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy at European XFEL
Organiser: K. Rossnagel
Location: DESY, Bldg. 61, Auditorium
This workshop addresses potential users of combined time-, momentum-, and spin-resolved photoemission spectroscopy at the Soft X-ray Port (SXP) at SASE3. The current status of the project and plans for the nearer future will be presented. We will discuss experimental challenges and scientific opportunities on the basis of results and experiences from users’ experiments at FLASH.
Light-Matter Interaction: Recent Advances in Theory
Organiser:Beata Ziaja-Motyka (Executive), Sang-Kil Son, Ralph Welsch, and Robin Santra from the CFEL-DESY Theory Division
Location: DESY, Bldg. 48e, Sem.R. L202
The meeting will comprise 6 talks on theory advances in atomic, molecular, solid state physics, warm-dense-matter and plasma research. Participation will be open to all interested users of photon science facilities, attending the EXFEL and DESY Photon Science Users' Meetings.
Thursday, 24 January 2019 (Organised by European XFEL)
Karabo Control and Data Analysis at European XFEL
Organiser: Daniel Fulla Marsa
Location: DESY, Bldg. 5, Auditorium
We introduce the Karabo control and data analysis ecosystem at European XFEL. This includes an introduction to the underlying design, calibration of detector data, the infrastructure and policies for data storage, online analysis during the experiment and offline analysis.
Further meeting on 24 January 2019 (Organised by DESY, HZG, Accelerate)
Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht GEMS Outstation: Materials Research and High Resolution Imaging
Organizer: Chr. Krywka (HZG)
Location: DESY, Bldg. 99, Sem.R. II/III
Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht operates the research platform GEMS with an outstation at DESY, running beamlines and instruments with a focus on engineering materials research and high resolution imaging techniques. On the 2018 satellite meeting, the status of the HZG beamlines and future perspectives are reported and users will present recent research highlights
Looking for the Indestructible: Preventing Damage, Failure and Fracture
On invitation only: to participate, please register via e-mail to sabine.jaehmlich@desy.de or just give us a call at +49 40 8998 4579 (DESY ITT).
Location: DESY, Bldg. 99, Sem.R. I
Especially for aerospace, automotive, railway or other civic industries, faultlessness in terms of reliability and safety of the engineering components is a must. With the introduction of new ways of fabricating components such as additive manufacturing or the development of new designs to reduce energy consumption, the complete understanding of these components, which are often operating under extreme conditions, not negotiable. What are the best ways to achieve this understanding? This seminar aims to give you the answer. We will showcase how synchrotron radiation and neutrons can, in a non-destructive manner, give insights into the behavior of materials and engineering components during fabrication or operation. Several techniques will be explained and linked to current questions.
