Starts 13 Jan 2025
Ends 24 Jan 2025
Central European Time
School on Synchrotron Light Sources and their Applications | (smr 4051)
Online -
Online
An ICTP virtual meeting
The School will introduce young scientists to the design, operation, and research opportunities offered at a modern synchrotron light source and how such sources are realized.
The school will be held over two weeks and will consist of three modules:
(1) Physical aspects concerning the design and function of the main components: accelerators, insertion devices and beamline optics;
(2) Overview of the arguments that can be made in order to fund and build a synchrotron light source, including socioeconomic benefits, stakeholder engagement, communication;
and (3) Overview of common beamline techniques, including those utilizing X-rays and infrared radiation.
Topics:
- Fundamentals of synchrotron radiation from storage rings
- Fundamentals of X-ray interactions with matter
- Design and operation of storage rings
- Beamline design: Photon transport and optics
- Bending magnets and insertion devices
- Project management at a large facility
- Ancillary devices for light sources
- Socioeconomic justification
- Cultural heritage
- Stakeholder engagement/communications
- Starting up user operations at a new facility
- Industrial Applications
- IR microscopy
- Basics of X-ray crystallography and powder diffraction
- Basics of structural biology
- Fundamentals of X-ray absorption: EXAFS and XANES
- XRF, TXRF, GIXRF and their applications in materials and life sciences
- Tomography
Registration: There is no registration fee.
Organizers
Marielle Agbahoungbata (X-TechLab, Benin), Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg), Graciela Diaz De Delgado (Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela), Messaoud Harfouche (SESAME, Jordan), Gihan Salah Kamel Badie Mohamed (SESAME), Andrea Lausi (SESAME), Kirsi Orvokki Lorentz (The Cyprus Institute), Alessandro Migliori (IAEA), Edward Peter Mitchell (ESRF), Sekazi Mtingwa (TriSEED Consultants), Prosper Ngabonziza (Louisiana State Univ., USA), Özqül Öztürk (University of Siegen), Sandro Scandolo (ICTP), Michele Zema (University of Bari), Local Organiser: Nadia Binggeli (ICTP)
