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Description
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.

Material

School on Synchrotron Light Sources and their Applications | (smr 4051)
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  • Monday, 13 January 2025
    • 14:00 - 18:20 
      Chair: Sekazi MTINGWA (TriSEED Consultants, USA)
      • 14:00 Opening Remarks 10'
        Speaker: Atish DHABOLKAR (Director, ICTP, Italy)
      • 14:10 Opening Remarks and the History of SESAME 1h0'
        Speaker: Khaled TOUKAN (Director, SESAME, Jordan)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 15:10 Road to the African Light Source 1h0'
        Speaker: Simon CONNELL (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 16:10 Group Photo 10'
      • 16:20 Fundamentals of Synchrotron Radiation from Storage Rings 1h0'
        Speaker: Giorgio MARGARITONDO (EPFL, Switzerland)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 17:20 Fundamentals of X-ray Interactions with Matter 1h0'
        Speaker: Giorgio MARGARITONDO (EPFL, Switzerland)
        Material: Video
  • Tuesday, 14 January 2025
    • 13:00 - 17:05 
      Chair: Sanae SAMSAM (INFN-Milano, Italy)
      • 13:00 Design and Operation of Accelerator Chain and Storage Rings 2h0'
        Speaker: Simone DI MITRI (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 15:00 Break 5'
      • 15:05 Bending Magnets and Insertion Devices 1h0'
        Speaker: Adriana WAWRZYNIAK (SOLARIS, Poland)
        Material: Video
      • 16:05 Beamline Design 1h0'
        Speaker: Matteo ALTISSIMO (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
        Material: Video
  • Wednesday, 15 January 2025
    • 13:00 - 18:05 
      Chair: Kirsi LORENTZ (The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus)
      • 13:00 XRF Techniques for Materials and Life Sciences 1h0'
        Speaker: Alessandro MIGLIORI (IAEA, Austria)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 14:00 Socio-economic Justification for Lightsources 1h0'
        Speaker: Frank LEHNER (DESY, Germany)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 15:00 Break 5'
      • 15:05 Crystallography and Powder Diffraction 1h0'
        Speaker: Thierry D'ALMEIDA (X-TechLab, Benin)
        Material: Video
      • 16:05 SESAME MS-XPD Beamline for Powder Diffraction Applications 1h0'
        Speaker: Mahmoud ABDELLATIEF (SESAME, Jordan)
        Material: Video
      • 17:05 Open Science and FAIR data 1h0'
        Speaker: Andrew GOETZ (ESRF, France)
        Material: Slides Video
  • Thursday, 16 January 2025
    • 13:00 - 17:05 
      Chair: Alessandro MIGLIORI (IAEA, Austria)
      • 13:00 Sample Environments at a Synchrotron 1h0'
        Speaker: Klaus KIEFER (Helmholtz Zentrum, Germany), Stefan CARLSON (Max IV, Sveden),Marek BARTKOWIAK (PSI, Switzerland)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 14:00 X-ray absorption techniques (EXAFS and XANES) 1h0'
        Speaker: Sofia DIAZ MORENO (Diamond Light Source, UK)
        Material: Video
      • 15:00 Break 5'
      • 15:05 Hands-on at the XAFS/XRF beamline at SESAME 1h0'
        Speaker: Messaoud HARFOUCHE (SESAME, Jordan)
        Material: Video
      • 16:05 XEOL and XAFS Integrated Probe: Unraveling Optoelectronic Structure of Phosphors 1h0'
        Speaker: Latif Ullah KHAN (SESAME, Jordan)
        Material: Slides Video
  • Friday, 17 January 2025
    • 13:00 - 17:00 
      Chair: Ozgul OZTURK (University of Siegen, Germany)
      • 13:00 Macromolecular Crystallography 1h0'
        Speaker: Silvia ONESTI (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 14:00 Structural Biology in Infectious Disease Research 1h0'
        Speaker: Thandeka MOYO-GWETE (National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa)
        Material: Video
      • 15:00 Break 5'
      • 15:05 Applications of nanotechnology to biophysics and translational medicine 55'
        Speaker: Loredana CASALIS (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 16:00 Applications of Synchrotron Radiation to Biomedical Imaging 1h0'
        Speaker: Renata LONGO (University of Trieste, Italy)
        Material: Video
  • Monday, 20 January 2025
    • 13:00 - 18:05 
      Chair: Simon CONNELL (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
      • 13:00 Virtual Tour of SESAME 1h0'
        Speaker: Andrea LAUSI (SESAME, Jordan)
        Material: Video
      • 14:00 Infrared Microspectroscopy 1h0'
        Speaker: Christoph SANDT (SOLEIL, France)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 15:00 Break 5'
      • 15:05 Hands-on at the IR beamline at SESAME 1h0'
        Speaker: Gihan Kamel MOHAMED (SESAME, Jordan)
        Material: Video
      • 16:05 Atomic diffusion studied with X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) 1h0'
        Speaker: Özqül ÖZTÜRK (University of Siegen, Germany)
        Material: Video
      • 17:05 The Psiché Beamline of SOLEIL: Experiments under extreme conditions using white beam 1h0' 1h0'
        Speaker: Jean-Paul ITIE (Synchrotron SOLEIL, France)
  • Tuesday, 21 January 2025
    • 13:00 - 17:05 
      Chair: Carolina SANTACRUZ (International Science Council, Colombia)
      • 13:00 Social Impact of Synchrotrons 1h0' 1h0'
        Speaker: Caterina BISCARI (ALBA Synchrotron, Spain)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 14:00 Communications Strategies at Major Facilities 1h0'
        Speaker: James GILLES (CERN, Switzerland)
        Material: Video
      • 15:00 Break 5'
      • 15:05 Photoelectron Spectroscopy 1h0'
        Speaker: Giorgio PAOLUCCI (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 16:05 Synchrotron Light Sources for Building the Global Scientific Community 1h0'
        Speaker: Antje VOLLMER (Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, Germany)
  • Wednesday, 22 January 2025
    • 13:00 - 17:05 
      Chair: Andrea LAUSI (SESAME, Jordan)
      • 13:00 Cultural Heritage Applications with Synchrotrons 1h0'
        Speaker: Kirsi LORENTZ (The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus)
        Material: Video
      • 14:00 X-ray Fluorescence and Tomographic Study of the Magic Scroll of the Future Ampus Writing Museum 1h0'
        Speaker: Jean-Paul ITIE (Synchrotron SOLEIL, France)
      • 15:00 Break 5'
      • 15:05 Multi-modal micro-analyses for cultural heritage: application to the study of inks composition in Egyptian papyri 1h0'
        Speaker: Marine COTTE (ESRF, France)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 16:05 Synchrotron Radiation in Archaeometry and Cultural Heritage Studies: Case Studies from Jordan 1h0'
        Speaker: Sahar AL KHASSWNEH (Yarmouk University, Jordan)
        Material: Video
  • Thursday, 23 January 2025
    • 13:00 - 18:05 
      Chair: Prosper NGABONZIZA (Louisiana State University, USA)
      • 13:00 How to Write Synchrotron Beamtime Proposals 1h0'
        Speaker: Annick FROIDEVAL (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:00 HESEB Beamline: Soft X ray Absorption Spectroscopy in SESAME 1h0'
        Speaker: Mustafa GENISEL (SESAME, Jordan)
        Material: Video
      • 15:00 Break 5'
      • 15:05 The TXPES Beamline at SESAME 1h0'
        Speaker: Zeynep ÖZTÜRK (SESAME, Jordan)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 16:05 Synchrotron radiation and the Earth Sciences 1h0'
        Speaker: Bjorn Phillip VON DER HEYDEN (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 17:05 Plugging Innovation Ecosystems and Industry into Light Sources 1h0'
        Speaker: Edward MITCHELL (ESRF, France)
        Material: Video
  • Friday, 24 January 2025
    • 13:00 - 17:05 
      Chair: Sekazi MTINGWA (TriSEED Consultants, USA)
      • 13:00 Fundamentals of Synchrotron X-ray imaging techniques 1h0'
        Speaker: Kudakwashe JAKATA (The Diamond Light Source, UK)
        Material: Video
      • 14:00 The Tomography Beam Line at SESAME 1h0'
        Speaker: Fareeha HAMEED (SESAME, Jordan)
        Material: Video
      • 15:00 Break 5'
      • 15:05 From Fossils to Soft Tissues, the Applications of Synchrotron X-ray Micro-computed Tomography for Palaeontology and Evolutionary Biology 1h0'
        Speaker: Kathleen DOLLMAN (European Synchrotron and Radiation Facility, France)
        Material: Video
      • 16:05 Overview of LAAAMP (https://laaamp.iucr.org/) 1h0'
        Speaker: Sekazi MTINGWA (TriSEED Consultants, USA)
        Material: Slides Video
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