Workshop venues

Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
and
Brookhaven National Laboratory,
Upton, NY 11973 USA

This workshop will bring together the Brookhaven staff, the user community of the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), and a number of invited speakers to identify the current grand scientific challenges, review the ability of the current suite of NSLS-II beamlines to address these challenges, and develop concepts for world-leading capabilities and novel approaches to fill the identified gaps. It will launch the process of identifying a potential set of new beamlines at NSLS-II as one of the newest and most advanced light source around the world and a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Research Facility.
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Registration is free but mandatory to participate in the workshop.
Please register on the workshop website.

Breakthroughs in deep learning (DL) technology are revolutionising the amount, rate and nature of information that can be extracted from data, creating new opportunities to accelerate scientific discovery in ways that have never been imagined before.

The scientific information generated at large scale facilities, such as Synchrotrons, Free Electron Lasers and neutron sources, presents a novel and challenging platform to explore the boundaries of DL technology. Here both the volume of high quality scientific data as well as the high speed of experiments, specifically those that monitor and track fast real-time physical processes, place high demands on both state of the art instruments and software as well as in experimenters themselves. DL can potentially enhance the scientific value and insight that can be gained from experiments in these large-scale scientific infrastructures.

In this workshop we shall focus on two topical themes on DL Accelerated Discovery:

• The use of DL architectures to generate unbiased and objective models for analysis of scattering data from X-ray and neutron sources.
• The use of DL methods for optimising data collection protocols in real time and for discovering anomalies in experimental data and enhancing the efficiency of the scientific workflow.

These intersections of scientific discovery and DL science are unique and the workshop will explore potential research avenues to understand how to best develop these technologies to accelerate discovery using these facilities.

The program for the workshop will consist of plenary sessions followed by working groups, and final close-out.Â

On Thursday the 26th, plenary seminars will review the state of the art in DL and how it is currently used in X-ray and neutron scattering experiments, as well as on the challenges that these experimental techniques face that can be addressed by DL. Afternoon working groups, led by a convener, will explore and report in how DL methods can become more generically applicable to a wide range of scattering experiments, including data analysis, bias-free modelling and optimization of experimental protocols.

On Friday, 27th, conveners will present the outcomes of the previous day’s working-groups and the meeting will close with a discussion and presentation of an overall summary. A tentative roadmap on how to make progress in the application of DL for Accelerated Scientific Discovery at next generation X-ray and Neutron Sources will also be proposed.

There is no registration fee for the workshop, but attendance is limited to 20 participants. Further announcements regarding the program and speakers will be made available shortly.

The workshop will focus on the application of established and emerging synchrotron techniques to understand problems from the energy sector, and investigate new opportunities following the ESRF-EBS upgrade to open up a new level of insight into the field. A wide range of topics, including solar energy, hydrogen storage and piezoelectrics, will be covered in the workshop. Â

Abstract Deadline: 19th July 2019Â

Final Registration Deadline: 25th August 2019

This is the annual Diamond conference for all Small Angle Scatterers (SAS). It aims to reach out to all users of the technique providing a forum for technological advancement, as well as showcasing the current state-of-the-art in experimentation and data analysis for SAS users. By highlighting leading scientific research in the field alongside technological advancements, both at synchrotron and laboratory sources, this conference aims to provide a forum for discussion all users of Small Angle Scattering (SAS).

An international workshop organized by the Jülich Centre for Neutron Science entitled: canSAS XI is driving the science of small angle scattering

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Between July 31st and August 2nd, 2019, the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS), part of the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), will host the event Synchrotron Techniques Under High Pressure (PRESSYNC).PRESSYNC is a satellite workshop to the 27th International Conference on High Pressure Science and Technology (AIRAPT27).

The AIRAPT27 conference, sponsored by AIRAPT (International Association for the Advancement of High-Pressure Science and Technology), is the largest and most important international scientific event in the field of high-pressure science and technology. The 27th conference in Rio de Janeiro will be the first one to be held in the southern hemisphere. The conference gathers a multidisciplinary international community whose focus is on fundamental and applied research at extreme pressure conditions, as well as on the associated technology and instrumentation.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the PRESSYNC Satellite Workshop will bring together world leaders in high-pressure science to discuss the potential of synchrotron-based techniques under high pressure on the new fourth-generation synchrotron light sources, such as Sirius.

Sirius, the new Brazilian synchrotron light source, is planned to be one of the most advanced facilities of its kind in the world, opening new perspectives for research in a wide range of fields. Hence, PRESSYNC aims specially to motivate the community around the several possibilities that will be available at Sirius’ extreme conditions beamline, EMA.

The European High Pressure Research Group (EHPRG) was established in the sixties of the last century to support a development of both the basic as well as the applied high pressure research by the annual meetings. To create a close contact of all the workers in scientific and technological high pressure disciplines, the wide scope of the EHPRG conferences is traditional and characteristic feature of these meetings. A relatively rapid increase of high pressure activities in almost all areas of Physics, Geosciences, Material Research, Chemistry and namely in Biosciences during the last decades demands a similarly rapid exchange of knowledge in high pressure research and technology.

This workshop, which will be held at the University of the Basque Country, will contain lectures, tutorials and round tables for industry and scientific users. In addition, there will be a visit to the ESS Bilbao facility and also a neutron beam-time proposal writing exercise.

Registration deadline: 31st May 2019

You’re invited to the 77th Annual Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), which is located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (near Knoxville). The conference will take place over three days and feature sessions focused on all areas of diffraction, from powders to protein crystals. Topics will include emerging technologies/techniques, Total scattering, Magnetic scattering, and Integrative Structural Biology. The Chung Soo Yoo Award, established by the Pittsburgh Diffraction Society to honor Dr. Yoo’s memory, and a $400 cash prize will be given to the graduate student having the best poster presentation at the conference.

This workshop is the successor to five previous successful work-
shops, which took place in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2016. It is
sponsored by the German Society for Crystallography (DGK) and
organised in cooperation with the DGK Working Group 1 (Biological
Structures).

The workshop comprises a series of basic lectures on the topic
and two extended practical sessions. It is aimed at PhD students
in Biological Crystallography with little or no experience in
diffraction data collection at a synchrotron. The practical sessions
will take place at the MX beamlines located at the electron storage
ring BESSY II.

The workshop fee is 100 EUR for DGK-members and 120 EUR for non-members.
This fee covers all conference material as well as board and lodging
for two nights on the campus in Berlin-Adlershof.

Following the success of the past editions (DESY 2016, Oxford 2013, Aussois 2011), the 4th international conference on Resonant Elastic X-ray Scattering will be hosted outside Europe for the first time.

Topics will include:

• Electronic orderings, magnetism, interfacial phenomena, quantum materials, soft matter, phase transitions and inhomogeneity;
• Symmetry, topology, artificial structures, reduced dimensionality, structure and dynamics;
• Coherence, imaging, nanodiffraction, reflectivity, polarization and energy analysis (REXS in RIXS);
• Instrumentation development, multimodality, diffraction limited sources and XFELs;
• Theory and simulation, modeling and data analysis.