School on Synchrotron Light Sources and Their Applications

Administration

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

Poster

School on Synchrotron Light Sources and Their Applications | (smr 4205)

Go to day

Monday, 12 January 2026
- 12:50 - 17:05
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Chair: Andrea Lausi (SESAME, Jordan)
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  Location: Online
  - 12:50 Opening Remarks 10'
    
    Speaker: Atish Dabholkar (ICTP, Italy)
  - 13:00 History of SESAME 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Khaled Toukan (SESAME, Jordan)
  - 14:00 Progress Towards an African Light Source 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg, AFLS, South Africa)
  - 15:00 Group photo 5'
  - 15:05 Fundamentals of Synchrotron Radiation from Storage Rings 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Giorgio Margaritondo (EPFL, Switzerland)
  - 16:05 Fundamentals of X-ray Interactions with Matter 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Giorgio Margaritondo (EPFL, Switzerland)
Tuesday, 13 January 2026
- 13:00 - 17:00
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Michele Zema (University of Bari, Italy)
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  Location: Online
  - 13:00 Design and Operation of Accelerator Chain and Storage Rings 1h50'
    
    Speaker: Simone Di Mitri (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
  - 14:50 Break 10'
  - 15:00 Bending Magnets and Insertion Devices 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Gaël Le Bec (ESRF, France)
  - 16:00 Beamline Design 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Matteo Altissimo (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
Wednesday, 14 January 2026
- 13:00 - 17:05
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Chair: Sanae Samsam (INFN, Italy)
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  Location: Online
  - 13:00 Virtual Tour of SESAME 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Andrea Lausi (SESAME, Jordan)
  - 14:00 Infrared Microspectroscopy 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Christophe Sandt (SOLEIL, France)
  - 15:00 Break 5'
  - 15:05 Hands-on at the IR Beamline at SESAME 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Gihan Kamel (SESAME, Jordan)
  - 16:05 XRF Techniques for Materials and Life Sciences 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Alessandro Migliori (IAEA, Austria)
Thursday, 15 January 2026
- 13:00 - 17:05
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Alessandro Migliori (IAEA, Austria)
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  Location: Online
  - 13:00 X-ray absorption techniques (EXAFS and XANES) 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Sofia Diaz-Moreno (Diamond Light Source, UK)
  - 14:00 Hands-on at the XAFS/XRF beamline at SESAME 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Messaoud Harfouche (SESAME, Jordan)
  - 15:00 Break 5'
  - 15:05 Open Science and FAIR data 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Andrew Goetz (ESRF, France)
  - 16:05 Visualizing ultrafast kinetic instabilities in femtosecond laser-heated solids using X-ray scattering 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Özgül Öztürk (University of Siegen, Germany)
Friday, 16 January 2026
- 13:00 - 17:05
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Chair: Carolina Santacruz
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  Location: Online
  - 13:00 Sample Environments at a Synchrotron 1h0'
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Joint presentation
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    Speaker: Klaus Kiefer (Helmholtz Zentrum, Germany), Stefan Carlson (Max IV, Sweden), Marek Bartkowiak (PSI, Switzerland)
  - 14:00 Advanced XEOL/XAS Experimental Probe at BM08-XAFS/XRF: Illuminating Optoelectronic Nature of Nanophosphors 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Latif Ullah Khan (SESAME, Jordan)
  - 15:00 Break 5'
  - 15:05 Crystallography and Powder Diffraction 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Thierry d'Almeida (Expertise France, France)
  - 16:05 Hands-on at the PAINERA Powder Diffraction Beamline at Sirius 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Cristiane B. Rodella (LNLS, Brazil)
Monday, 19 January 2026
- 13:00 - 18:05
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Chair: Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg, AFLS, South Africa)
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  Location: Online
  - 13:00 Synchrotron Light Sources for Building the Global Scientific Community 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Antje Vollmer (Helmholtz Zentrum, Germany)
  - 14:00 Applications of Synchrotron Radiation to Biomedical Imaging 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Renata Longo (University of Trieste & INFN, Italy)
  - 15:00 Break 5'
  - 15:05 Applications of nanotechnology to biophysics and translational medicine 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Loredana Casalis (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
  - 16:05 Synchrotron powder diffraction for the characterization of pharmaceuticals 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Graciela Diaz de Delgado (Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela)
  - 17:05 GIWAXS Study on 2D-3D Perovskite Materials 1h0'
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Joint presentation
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    Speaker: Benjamin Victor Odari (MMUST, Kenya), Milimo Amos Nalianya (MMUST, Kenya)

Tuesday, 20 January 2026

13:00 - 18:05

Chair: Marielle Agbahoungbata (X-TechLab, Benin)

Location:

Online

13:00 Synchrotron radiation and the Earth Sciences 1h0'

Speaker: Bjorn von der Heyden (University of Stellenbosch (South Africa))
14:00 Macromolecular Crystallography 1h0'

Speaker: Silvia Onesti (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
15:00 Break 5'
15:05 Structural biology in infectious disease research 1h0'

Speaker: Thandeka Moyo-Gwete (National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa)
16:05 Exploring Quantum Materials via Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy 1h0'

Speaker: Prosper Ngabonziza (Louisiana State University, USA)

17:05 Synchrotron light source - first contact and the impact on academic life 1h0'

Joint presentation

Speaker:

Magna Monteiro (National University of Asuncion, Paraguay), Celeste Zunilda Aquino Ayala (National University of Asuncion, Paraguay)

Wednesday, 21 January 2026

13:00 - 18:05

Chair: Davon Matrasulov

Location:

Online ( Online )

13:00 Communications Strategies at Major Facilities 1h0'
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Joint presentation
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Speaker: James Gilles (CERN, Switzerland), Jessica Ahedor (SESAME, Jordan)
14:00 Socio-economic Justification for Lightsources 1h0'

Speaker: Frank Lehner (DESY, Germany)
15:00 Break 5'
15:05 Cultural Heritage Applications with Synchrotrons - part II 1h0'

Speaker: Kirsi Lorentz (The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus)
16:05 The Psiché Beamline of SOLEIL: Experiments under extreme conditions using white beam 1h0'

Speaker: Jean Paul itie (SOLEIL, France)

17:05 Unveiling the Local Structure of Doped-BSCCO High-Temperature Superconductors Using XAFS 1h0'

Joint presentation

Speaker:

Mustafa Shalaby (National center for Radiation Research and Technology, Egype), Ahmed Reda El-Sayed Shalaby (ELARABY Group, Egypt)

Thursday, 22 January 2026
- 13:00 - 18:05
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Sandro Scandolo (ICTP, Italy)
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  Location: Online
  - 13:00 How to Write Synchrotron Beamtime Proposals 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Annick Froideval (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland)
  - 14:00 HESEB: The Soft X Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Beamline at SESAME 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Mustafa Genisel (SESAME, Jordan)
  - 15:00 Photoelectron Spectroscopy 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Giorgio Paolucci (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
  - 16:00 Break 5'
  - 16:05 The TXPES Beamline at SESAME: Commissioning, Capabilities, and First Experimental Results 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Zeynep Öztürk (SESAME, Jordan)
  - 17:05 Plugging Innovation Ecosystems and Industry into Light Sources 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Edward Mitchell (ESRF, France)
Friday, 23 January 2026
- 13:00 - 18:05
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Chair: Sekazi Mtingwa (TriSEED Consultants, USA)
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  Location: Online
  - 13:00 X-ray Tomography 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Kudakwashe Jakata (The Diamond Light Source, UK)
  - 14:00 Overview of BEATS Beamline at SESAME 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Fareeha Hameed (SESAME, Jordan)
  - 14:30 Hands-on at the BEATS Beamline 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Abdellatif SaadAldin (SESAME, Jordan)
  - 15:00 Break 5'
  - 15:05 Applications of Synchrotron X-ray Micro-Computed Tomography 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Kathleen Dollman (ESRF, France)
  - 16:05 Social Impact of Synchrotrons 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Caterina Biscari (ALBA Synchrotron, Spain)
  - 17:05 Closing Remarks 1h0'
    
    Speaker: Organizers