SESAME-Germany Info Day

Friday Apr 21, 2023, 9:00 AM → 5:00 PM Europe/Berlin

Seminar Room (FLASH)

Promoting the synchrotron radiation facility SESAME in German research communities.

SESAME has been set up in a unique international collaboration among member states in the Middle East / Eastern Mediterranean. Two new state-of-the-art beamlines – one funded by an EC H2020 grant for micro-tomography (BEATS) and the other funded by the Helmholtz Association for soft X-ray science (Helmholtz-SESAME Beamline HESEB) have been added to SESAME to substantially enhance its analytical capabilities. SESAME has a potential to bring strong opportunities to scientific communities in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean region, and to promote international scientific collaboration worldwide.

The SESAME-German Info Day is targeted towards interested researchers and stakeholders from German institutions & communities with the aim to increase the awareness and visibility of SESAME and its specific experimental capabilities. The info day should also help to build up more user collaboration between Germany and the SESAME region to exploit opportunities at the existing and upcoming new beamlines.

This event will be held on Fri, 21 April 2023 at DESY in the FLASH seminar room and is organized by DESY, SESAME, the HESEB and BEATS consortia in partnership with the Komitee Forschung mit Synchrotronstrahlung KfS. 

For general information to get to DESY, please visit

https://www.desy.de/about_desy/getting_there/hamburg/index_eng.html

A list of hotels is attached in the materials folder.

Abbadi_2022_J._Phys. _Conf._Ser._2380_012036.pdf

Hotelliste 2022_Stand Oktober.pdf

SESAME_Germany_InfoDay_21April2023.pdf

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Opening

9:00 AM Welcome

by
• Helmut Dosch, Chair of the Board of Directors at DESY (tbc)
• Erik Hansalek, BMBF
• Birgit Kanngießer, Komitee für Forschung mit Synchrotronstrahlung KfS
• Ilja Bohnet, Helmholtz Gemeinschaft

9:30 AM → 11:00 AM Introduction / Setting the Stage

• Overview of SESAME
• Status and plans of SESAME and the two new beamlines BEATS and HESEB

9:30 AM SESAME Cooperation (online)

Speaker: Prof. Rolf Heuer (President of the SESAME Council)

9:45 AM Overview of SESAME and its experimental capabilities

Speaker: Dr Andrea Lausi (Science Director at SESAME)

10:15 AM The new beamlines: BEATS for microtomography

Speakers: Dr Gianluca Iori (SESAME) , Dr Axel Kaprolat (ESRF)

10:30 AM The new beamlines: HESEB for soft x-ray science (incl TXPES)

Speakers: Dr Mustafa Genisel (SESAME) , Prof. Wolfgang Eberhardt (DESY)

10:45 AM Questions & Answers

11:00 AM → 11:20 AM Coffee Break

11:20 AM → 12:45 PM Research opportunities at SESAME I

Selected research projects as well as plans for cooperation in materials sciences, surface/interface science, environmental sience, ...

11:20 AM tba

Speaker: Prof. Norbert Esser (ISAS - Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften e.V.)

11:35 AM Investigation of per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in soils and groundwater through fluorine K-edge XANES spectroscopy – potential for collaboration (online)

Speaker: Dr Christian Vogel (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM))

11:50 AM Understanding Written Artefacts

Speaker: Prof. Konrad Hirschler (Universität Hamburg)

12:05 PM Contributions from the Palestinian-German Science Bridge PGSB

12:45 PM → 1:45 PM Lunch Break

2:00 PM → 3:20 PM Research Opportunities at SESAME II

Selected research projects as well as plans for cooperation in cultural heritage science, ...

2:00 PM Biomineralization (tbc)

Speaker: Prof. Paul Zaslansky (Charite Berlin)

2:15 PM Nabataean painting materials: microspectroscopic studies

Speaker: Maram Na'es (TU Berlin)

2:30 PM The Elephantine papyri

Speaker: Prof. Heinz-Eberhardt Mahnke (Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection & FU Berlin/HZB)

2:45 PM Further Topics

3:15 PM → 3:35 PM Coffee Break

3:35 PM → 4:35 PM Discussion

Discussions on how to improve cooperation between Germany, German institutions and the SESAME region

4:35 PM → 4:55 PM Wrap-up & Closing