11. Annual MT Meeting

3 Nov 2025, 10:00 → 6 Nov 2025, 12:00 Europe/Berlin

SB1 Lecture Hall (GSI)

Anke-Susanne Mueller, Friederike Januschek (DESY)

The 11th annual meeting of the program Matter and Technologies will take place at GSI in Darmstadt from November 3rd to November 5th (lunch-to-lunch).

The meeting will be accompanied by the MT Student Retreat for students and young postdocs (November 5th - November 6th), see Indico page for more information and registration.

 

Group Photo of the 10th annual MT meeting at HZB, Berlin Adlershof

 

Monday 3 November

12:00 → 13:00 On-Site Registration

13:00 → 15:00 Plenary: Opening plenary

13:00 Introduction and Welcome

Speakers: Anke-Susanne Mueller (KIT), Friederike Januschek (DESY), Ties Behnke (DESY)

13:30 Detectors for photon science at 4th generation light sources

Speaker: Anna Bergamaschi (PSI)

14:15 Dual isotope beams from SIS18

Speaker: David Ondreka (GSI)

14:30 Highlight DTS

14:45 Highlight DMA

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee/ Tea

15:30 → 17:15 Plenary: Strategy I

15:30 Strategy ARD

16:15 Strategy OPT

16:45 Strategy IDAF

17:15 → 18:15 Poster: Speed talks

17:15 Speedtalk 1

17:20 Speedtalk 2

17:25 Speedtalk 3

17:30 Speedtalk 4

17:35 Speedtalk 5

17:40 Speedtalk 6

17:45 Speedtalk 7

17:50 Speedtalk 8

17:55 Speedtalk 9

18:00 Speedtalk 10

18:05 Vote of best speedtalk

18:15 → 20:15 Poster: Display and discussion

Tuesday 4 November

09:00 → 10:45 Stream 1: ARD morning session

09:00 → 10:45 Stream 2: DMA Morning Session

09:00 → 10:45 Stream 3: DTS Morning session

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee/ Tea

11:15 → 12:45 Stream 1: ARD late morning session

11:15 → 12:45 Stream 2: DMA Late morning session

11:15 → 12:45 Stream 3: DTS Late morning session

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch

12:45 → 14:00 MT executive board meeting (by invitation)

14:00 → 15:30 Plenary: Strategy II

14:00 Strategy DTS

14:45 Strategy DMA

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee/ Tea

16:00 → 17:30 Plenary: Colloquium

16:00 Transverse Deflecting Structures as a diagnostic tool

Accurate beam characterisation is essential to enhance the performance of X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs). This talk presents recent advances in time-resolved diagnostics and phase-space reconstruction. At SwissFEL’s Athos beamline, attosecond-resolution measurements with a variable-polarization X-band TDS enabled full FEL power profile reconstructions with pulse durations down to 300 as. In addition, a new method for five-dimensional (5D) phase-space tomography, first demonstrated at FLASHForward and later applied at SwissFEL, provides detailed insight into the spatial and momentum distributions of GeV-class electron beams.

Speaker: Paolo Craivech (PSI)

16:45 Plenary III

18:00 → 21:00 Dinner

Wednesday 5 November

09:00 → 10:45 Stream 1: ARD Wednesday morning

09:00 → 10:45 Stream 2: DMA Wednesday morning

09:00 → 10:45 Stream 3: DTS Wednesday morning

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee/ tea

11:15 → 13:00 Plenary: Closing plenary

11:15 Plenary IV

12:00 Commissioning results from the SRF photoinjector at SEALab

Speaker: Emily Brookes

12:15 Highlight DTS

12:30 Highlight DMA

12:45 Closeout

13:00 → 13:30 opt. Lunch Break

13:30 → 15:30 Tours/Lab Visits

15:30 → 19:00 Meeting of Writing Team: PoF Proposal - by invitation

We will meet in an extended Managment Board MT with Topic speakers and roughly one representative per subtopic.

Thursday 6 November

09:00 → 12:00 Meeting of Writing Team: PoF Proposal

We will meet in an extended Managment Board MT with Topic speakers and roughly one representative per subtopic.