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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 4205)
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  • Monday, 12 January 2026
    • 12:50 - 17:05 
      Chair: Özgül Öztürk (University of Siegen, Germany)
      Location: Online
      • 12:50 Opening Remarks 10'
        Speaker: Atish Dabholkar (ICTP, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 13:00 History of SESAME 1h0'
        Speaker: Khaled Toukan (SESAME, Jordan)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 14:00 Progress Towards an African Light Source 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg, AFLS, South Africa)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 15:00 Group photo 5'
      • 15:05 Fundamentals of Synchrotron Radiation from Storage Rings 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Giorgio Margaritondo (EPFL, Switzerland)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 16:05 Fundamentals of X-ray Interactions with Matter 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Giorgio Margaritondo (EPFL, Switzerland)
        Material: Video
  • Tuesday, 13 January 2026
    • 13:00 - 17:00 
      Chair: Giuliana Aquilanti (IAEA, Austria)
      Location: Online
      • 13:00 Design and Operation of Accelerator Chain and Storage Rings 1h50' 
        (two talks: 50 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Simone Di Mitri (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 14:50 Break 10'
      • 15:00 Bending Magnets and Insertion Devices 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Gaël Le Bec (ESRF, France)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 16:00 Beamline Design 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Matteo Altissimo (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
  • Wednesday, 14 January 2026
    • 13:00 - 17:05 
      Chair: Sanae Samsam (INFN, Italy)
      Location: Online
      • 13:00 Virtual Tour of SESAME 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Andrea Lausi (SESAME, Jordan)
        Material: Video
      • 14:00 Infrared Microspectroscopy 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Christophe Sandt (SOLEIL, France)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 15:00 Break 5'
      • 15:05 Hands-on at the IR Beamline at SESAME 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Gihan Kamel (SESAME, Jordan)
        Material: Video
      • 16:05 XRF Techniques for Materials and Life Sciences 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Alessandro Migliori (IAEA, Austria)
        Material: Slides Video
  • Thursday, 15 January 2026
    • 13:00 - 17:05 
      Chair: Alessandro Migliori (IAEA, Austria)
      Location: Online
      • 13:00 X-ray absorption techniques (EXAFS and XANES) 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Sofia Diaz-Moreno (Diamond Light Source, UK)
        Material: Video
      • 14:00 Hands-on at the XAFS/XRF beamline at SESAME 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Messaoud Harfouche (SESAME, Jordan)
        Material: Video
      • 15:00 Break 5'
      • 15:05 Open Science and FAIR data 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Andrew Goetz (ESRF, France)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 16:05 How X-ray Scattering Lets Us See Ultrafast Dynamics in Solids 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Özgül Öztürk (University of Siegen, Germany)
        Material: Video
  • Friday, 16 January 2026
    • 13:00 - 17:05 
      Chair: Carolina Santacruz (International Science Council, Colombia)
      Location: Online
      • 13:00 Sample Environments at a Synchrotron 1h0' 
        Joint presentation
(55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Klaus Kiefer (Helmholtz Zentrum, Germany), Stefan Carlson (Max IV, Sweden), Marek Bartkowiak (PSI, Switzerland)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 14:00 Advanced XEOL/XAS Experimental Probe at BM08-XAFS/XRF: Illuminating Optoelectronic Nature of Nanophosphors 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Latif Ullah Khan (SESAME, Jordan)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 15:00 Break 5'
      • 15:05 Synchrotron powder diffraction for the characterization of pharmaceuticals 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Graciela Diaz de Delgado (Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela)
        Material: Video
      • 16:05 Hands-on at the PAINERA Powder Diffraction Beamline at Sirius 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Cristiane B. Rodella (LNLS, Brazil)
        Material: Slides Video
  • Monday, 19 January 2026
    • 13:00 - 16:05 
      Chair: Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg, AFLS, South Africa)
      Location: Online
      • 13:00 Synchrotron Light Sources for Building the Global Scientific Community 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Antje Vollmer (Helmholtz Zentrum, Germany)
        Material: Slides
      • 14:00 Applications of nanotechnology to biophysics and translational medicine 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Loredana Casalis (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 15:00 Break 5'
      • 15:05 Applications of Synchrotron Radiation to Biomedical Imaging 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Renata Longo (University of Trieste & INFN, Italy)
        Material: Video
  • Tuesday, 20 January 2026
    • 13:00 - 15:05 
      Chair: Marielle Agbahoungbata (X-TechLab, Benin)
      Location: Online
      • 13:00 Macromolecular crystallography in cancer biology 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Silvia Onesti (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 14:00 Structural biology in infectious disease research 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Thandeka Moyo-Gwete (National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa)
        Material: Video
      • 15:00 Break 5'
    • 15:05 - 18:05 
      Chair: Sanae Samsam (INFN, Italy)
      • 15:05 Synchrotron radiation and the Earth Sciences 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Bjorn von der Heyden (University of Stellenbosch (South Africa))
        Material: Slides Video
      • 16:05 GIWAXS Study on 2D-3D Perovskite Materials 1h0' 
        Joint presentation
(55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Benjamin Victor Odari Ombwayo (MMUST, Kenya), Milimo Amos Nalianya (MMUST, Kenya)
        Material: Video
      • 17:05 Socio-economic Justification for Lightsources 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Frank Lehner (DESY, Germany)
        Material: Video
  • Wednesday, 21 January 2026
    • 13:00 - 15:05 
      Chair: Sanae Samsam (INFN, Italy)
      • 13:00 Communications Strategies at Major Facilities 1h0' 
        Joint presentation
(55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: James Gilles (CERN, Switzerland)
        Material: Video
      • 14:00 Plugging Innovation Ecosystems and Industry into Light Sources 55' 
        (50 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Edward Mitchell (ESRF, France)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 14:55 Break 10'
    • 15:05 - 18:05 
      Chair: Natasa Stojic (ICTP, Italy)
      • 15:05 Cultural Heritage Applications with Synchrotrons - part II 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Kirsi Lorentz (The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus)
        Material: Video
      • 16:05 The Psiché Beamline of SOLEIL: Experiments under extreme conditions using white beam 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Jean Paul itie (SOLEIL, France)
      • 17:05 Unveiling the Local Structure of Doped-BSCCO High-Temperature Superconductors Using XAFS 1h0' 
        Joint presentation
(55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Mustafa Shalaby (National center for Radiation Research and Technology, Egype), Ahmed Reda El-Sayed Shalaby (School of Artificial Intelligence, Russian Egyptian University, Egypt)
        Material: Slides Video
  • Thursday, 22 January 2026
    • 13:00 - 17:05 
      Chair: Nicola Seriani (ICTP, Italy)
      Location: Online
      • 13:00 HESEB: The Soft X Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Beamline at SESAME 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Mustafa Genisel (SESAME, Jordan)
        Material: Video
      • 14:00 Photoelectron Spectroscopy 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Giorgio Paolucci (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 15:00 Break 5'
      • 15:05 The TXPES Beamline at SESAME: Commissioning, Capabilities, and First Experimental Results 1h0'
        Speaker: Zeynep Öztürk (SESAME, Jordan)
        Material: Video
      • 16:05 X-ray Tomography 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Kudakwashe Jakata (The Diamond Light Source, UK)
        Material: Video
    • 17:05 - 18:05 
      Chair: Natasa Stojic (ICTP, Italy)
      • 17:05 Overview of BEATS Beamline at SESAME 30' 
        (25 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Fareeha Hameed (SESAME, Jordan)
        Material: Video
      • 17:35 Hands-on at the BEATS Beamline 30' 
        (25 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Abdellatif SaadAldin (SESAME, Jordan)
        Material: Video
  • Friday, 23 January 2026
    • 13:00 - 18:05 
      Chair: Natasa Stojic (ICTP, Italy)
      Location: Online
      • 13:00 Synchrotron light source - first contact and the impact on academic life 1h0' 
        Joint presentation
(55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Magna Monteiro (National University of Asuncion, Paraguay), Celeste Zunilda Aquino Ayala (National University of Asuncion, Paraguay)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 14:00 How to Write Synchrotron Beamtime Proposals 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Annick Froideval (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 15:00 Break 5'
      • 15:05 Applications of Synchrotron X-ray Micro-Computed Tomography 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Kathleen Dollman (ESRF, France)
        Material: Video
      • 16:05 Social Impact of Synchrotrons 1h0' 
        (55 min talk + 5 min Q&A)
        Speaker: Caterina Biscari (ALBA Synchrotron, Spain)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 17:05 Closing Remarks 1h0'
        Speakers: Andrea Lausi (SESAME, Jordan), Alessandro Migliori (IAEA, Austria), Graciela Díaz de Delgado (Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela), Sanae Samsam (INFN, Italy), Sekazi Mtingwa (TriSEED Consultants LLC, USA), Natasa Stojic (ICTP, Italy)
        Material: Video
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