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X-Ray Physics
(This meeting is currently known as "X-Ray Science")
August 5-10, 2007
Colby-Sawyer College
New London, NH

The 2007 X-ray Physics GRC is being held August 5-10 at Colby-Sawyer College in New Hampshire! As the schedule below indicates, this meeting emphasizes much of the exciting x-ray based science going on at 3rd generation light sources, and will feature very recent results from work at the 4th generation laser-based sources.


SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 11:00 pmArrival and Check-in
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmWelcome by Conference Chair / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff
7:40 pm - 9:30 pmScience Frontiers Using New X-ray Sources
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm Discussion Leader: Helmut Dosch (MPI-Stuttgart)
7:50 pm - 8:30 pm Tetsuya Ishikawa (SPRING8)
"Compact SASE XFEL project at SPring-8"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:20 pm Jochen R. Schneider (DESY)
"Science at FLASH & performance of the VUV-FEL in Hamburg"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmUltra-short pulse x-ray science
9:00 am - 9:10 am Discussion Leader: David Reis (U. Michigan)
9:10 am - 9:50 am Andrea Cavalleri (Oxford U.)
"Light induced dynamics in correlated-electron systems and ferroelectrics measured with fsec x-rays"
9:50 am - 10:05 am Discussion
10:05 am Coffee Break / Group Photo
10:35 am - 11:15 am David Villeneuve (NRC Ottawa)
"Reconstructing a molecular orbital wave function from high harmonic generation spectra from aligned molecules"
11:15 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm Henry Chapmann (LBNL)
"Ultrafast Coherent X-ray Imaging with FELs"
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session 1
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmFrontier applications for soft x-rays
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm Discussion Leader: Peter Abbamonte (UIUC)
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm George Sawatzky (U British Columbia)
"Scientific Challenges and New Directions"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm Christian Schüßler-Langeheine (U. Koeln)
"Soft x-ray diffraction from charge, spin, and orbital order"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmCoherence and phase imaging
9:00 am - 9:10 am Discussion Leader: Qun Shen (APS)
9:10 am - 9:50 am Franz Pfeiffer (SLS-PSI)
"X-Ray Lensless Imaging of Extended Objects"
9:50 am - 10:05 am Discussion
10:05 am Coffee Break
10:35 am - 11:15 am Paul Fenter (ANL)
"Imaging Interfaces with Phase-Sensitive X-ray Scattering & Microscopy"
11:15 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm Roberto Cerbino (University of Fribourg)
"Near field speckles: a new tool for X-ray scientists"
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session 1 (conclusion)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmNew and novel x-ray scattering
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm Discussion Leader: Jose Goulon (ESRF)
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm William Bailey (Columbia U.)
"X-ray detected magnetic resonance"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm Taka-Hisa Arima (Tohoku University)
"Nonreciprocal Directional Dichroism and Related X-ray Magnetoelectric Phenomena"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmMaterials science with nano-scale beams
9:00 am - 9:10 am Discussion Leader: Donald Bilderback (CHESS)
9:10 am - 9:50 am Albert Macrander (APS-ANL)
"Multilayer Laue Lens Optics for nm focusing of hard X-rays"
9:50 am - 10:05 am Discussion
10:05 am Coffee Break
10:35 am - 11:15 am Yasuko Terada (SPRING8)
"XRF analysis for environmental sciences using high-energy X-ray micro focusing"
11:15 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm Malcolm McMahon (U. Edinburgh)
"High pressure science at 3rd & 4th generation x-ray sources"
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session 2
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmHot Topics
Discussion Leader: TBA
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm Sol Gruner (Cornell)
"Future directions in x-ray detection"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm Alexei Bossak (ESRF)
"Novel results in phonon spectroscopy by inelastic x-ray scattering"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm Yuri Shvyd'ko (APS)
"New Optics for High-Resolution IXS (principles and progress)"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmX-rays in medicine, life, environmental sciences
9:00 am - 9:10 am Discussion Leader: Alberto Bravin (ESRF)
9:10 am - 9:50 am Yuji Sasaki (SPRING8)
"Diffracted X-ray Tracking (DXT) for super-accurate dynamical observations of single internal biomolecular motions"
9:50 am - 10:05 am Discussion
10:05 am Coffee Break
10:35 am - 11:15 am Kevin Boyce (U Chicago)
"XANES-based comparative chemistry in anatomically preserved fossils"
11:15 am - 11:30 am Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm Zhong Zhong (NSLS)
"Diffraction Enhanced Imaging & Alzheimers disease"
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session 2 (conclusion)
6:00 pmDinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pmBusiness Meeting
(Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair)
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmClosing Session
Session Leader: Jun'ichiro Mizuki, Vice Chair (Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm Poster Prize Talk
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm Discussion
8:15 pm - 9:00 pm Guest Lecture: Marcelo Gleiser (Dartmouth College)
"What we know and what we don't know about the universe"
9:00 pm - 9:15 pm Discussion
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDepart

 
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