Science at FELs

15 Jul 2012, 18:00 → 18 Jul 2012, 17:00 Europe/Berlin

Auditorium (Bldg. 5) (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

E. Weckert ((DESY)), Th. Tschentscher ((European XFEL))

Science at FELs Satellite Meeting to SRI 2012


The Science at FELs Satellite Meeting to the 11th International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation in Lyon, France will present science highlights achieved in the first seven years of operation of short-wavelength free-electron lasers (FELs). Applications from quantum optics to life sciences and systems from atoms to complex solids will be featured. A focus will also be placed on new directions in science at FELs and challenges to scientific instrumentation.

Hamburg is directly connected to Lyon via airplane in less than two hours. Visits of the FLASH FEL facility at DESY and the European XFEL construction site will be included in the meeting programme.

Sunday 15 July

18:00 → 19:00 Registration

19:00 → 20:00 Opening Session

19:00 New Light for Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics …and beyond

Speaker: J. Ullrich (MPI für Kernphysik Heidelberg)

20:00 → 22:00 Conference Dinner

Monday 16 July

08:00 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 10:40 Atoms, Molecules, Ions, Optical Phenomena

Convener: J. Feldhaus

09:00 FEL Experiments for Atoms and Atomic Clusters: From EUV to X Rays

Speaker: Kiyoshi Ueda (IMRAM, Tohoku University)

09:40 Time-resolved imaging experiments with ultraintense, short x-ray pulses on excited nanoparticles

Speaker: Tais Gorkhover (TU-Berlin)

10:10 The interaction of SASE EUV-FEL pulses with high density atomic gas

Speaker: Mitsuru Nagasono (RIKEN/SPring-8)

10:40 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:40 Atoms, Molecules, Ions, Optical Phenomena II

Convener: R. Moshammer

11:00 High-Harmonic and FEL-based pump-probe spectroscopy

Speaker: Marc Vrakking (MBI Berlin)

11:40 Generation of the simplest rotational wave packet in a diatomic molecule at FLASH: Microwave spectroscopy in the time domain without microwaves

Speaker: Dr Tim Laarmann (HASYLAB/DESY)

12:10 Characterization of the LCLS pulse duration and investigation of electronic relaxation dynamics via the Laser Assisted Auger Decay in atomic Neon

Speaker: Dr Michael Meyer (European XFEL)

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:40 Chemistry

Convener: R. Hoekstra

14:00 Observing Molecular Reactions via Simultaneous Ultrafast X-ray Spectroscopy and Scattering

Speaker: Christian Bressler (European XFEL Facility)

14:40 Extreme ultra-violet induced molecular dynamics imaged by three-body coincidences

Speaker: Arne Senftleben (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik)

15:10 High Energy Small Molecule Crystallography at LCLS

Speaker: Simone Techert (Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie)

15:40 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 18:50 Theory

Convener: R. Santra

16:00 Massively parallel ionization

Speaker: J. Rost

16:40 Ac-Stark splitting in core-resonant Auger decay in strong X-ray fields

Speaker: Lampros Nikolopoulos (Dublin City University)

17:10 Limitations of coherent di ractive ff imaging of single objects due to their damage by intense x-ray radiation

Speaker: Dr Zoltan Jurek (CFEL)

17:40 Ultrafast laser-cluster dynamics in intense short-wavelength pulses

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Fennel (University of Rostock)

Tuesday 17 July

09:00 → 11:10 Condensed Matter Physics

Convener: J. Lüning

09:00 Nanoscale charge & spin dynamics in correlated materials

Speaker: H.A. Duerr

09:40 Towards a direct ultrafast measurement of the magnetization

Speaker: Yves Acremann (ETH Zürich)

10:10 Ultrafast magnetic domain dynamics studied by magnetic resonant scattering at X-FEL sources

Speaker: Christine Boeglin (1Institut de Physique et de Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg)

10:40 Femtosecond dynamics of the collinear-to-spiral antiferromagnetic phase transition in CuO

Speaker: Steven Johnson (ETH Zürich)

11:10 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:40 Life Science

Convener: I. Schlichting

11:30 Protein nano-crystallography with X-ray FEL pulses

Speaker: Henry Chapman (DESY-CFEL)

12:10 Time-resolved Single-Shot Diffraction of Lipid Membrane with fs FEL-Pulses

Speaker: Dr Dong-Du Mai (Courant Research Centre Physics)

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:40 New developments/ New FEL techniques/Seeding

Convener: G. Ingold

14:00 Diffractive optics for hard x-rays - opportunities for science at XFELs

Speaker: Christian David (PSI)

14:40 Single Shot Spatial and Temporal Coherence Properties of the LCLS in the Hard X-ray Regime

Speaker: Dr Christian Gutt (HASYLAB)

15:10 Application of Speckle Correlations to Coherent Diffractive Imaging: Practical Aspects

Speaker: Dmitri Starodub (SLAC)

15:40 → 18:30 Poster session and vendor exhibition

18:30 → 23:00 Conference Dinner

Wednesday 18 July

08:30 → 10:10 Matter under extreme conditions

Convener: R. Redmer

08:30 Matter in extreme conditions with 4th generation light sources

Speaker: Bob Nagler (Berkeley)

09:10 Ultrafast non-equilibrium collective dynamics in warm dense hydrogen

Speaker: Marion Harmand (DESY)

09:40 Dynamic evolution of hole states created by X-ray photo-pumping of dense plasmas with intense XFEL radiation

Speaker: Frank ROSMEJ (Sorbonne University, Pierre and Marie Curie)

10:10 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 12:40 New developments/ New FEL techniques/ Seeding

Convener: C. Pellegrini

10:30 Simultaneous Measurement of Pulse Profile and Arrival-time at Free-Electron Lasers

Speaker: Adrian Cavalieri (UHH/MPSD/CFEL)

11:00 Coherent Diffraction Imaging Project at FERMI@Elettra: First commissioning results and research opportunities

Speaker: Flavio Capotondi (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

11:30 Self-seeding x-ray FELs at the LCLS

Speaker: Z. Huang (SLAC)

12:10 First Seeding at FLASH

Speaker: Tim Laarmann

12:40 → 13:00 Concluding remarks

14:00 → 16:00 DESY and European XFEL visits