Photon School

Programme

You can download the program (as of March 28^th, 2022) here.

MONDAY, 4th April (Welcome, Overview, and Light)

MONDAY, 4^th April (Welcome, Overview, and Light)
09.00-09.30	Welcome and Overview \| Marcus Bär / Catalina Jiménez
09.30-10.00	Overview presentation on BESSY II \| Antje Vollmer
10.00-10.15	15’ BREAK
10.15-11.15	Storage ring-based lightsources: Current status and future trends \| Andreas Jankowiak
11.15-12.15	Insertion devices – Undulators for photon production \| Edward Rial
12.15-13.15	1h BREAK
13.15-14.15	X-ray optics and beamlines for synchrotron radiation experiments \| Jens Viefhaus
14.15-14.45	Virtual tour of BESSY II \| Online
14.45-15.00	15’ BREAK
15.00-16.30	Interaction of X-rays with matter – Part I \| Alexander Föhlisch
16.30-16.45	15’ BREAK
16.45-17.45	In-situ and operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy – Special Invited Lecture \| Janis Timoshenko

TUESDAY, 5^th April (Interaction of X-rays with matter, X-ray emission / absorption)
09.00-10.30	Interaction of X-rays with matter – Part II \| Alexander Föhlisch
10.30-10.45	15’ BREAK
10.45-11.45	Introduction to XANES and EXAFS \| Ivo Zizak
11.45-12.30	Intoduction to NEXAFS – principles and applications \| Juan J. Velasco-Vélez
12.30-13.30	1h BREAK
13.30-14.30	Cancelled: X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy: Basics, methods, and applications \| Birgit Kanngießer
14.30-15.00	Molecular Electronic Structure from RIXS: Experimental Perspectives \| Annette Pietzsch
15.00-15.15	15’ BREAK
15.15-15.45	Molecular Electronic Structure from RIXS: Theoretical Perspectives \| Vinícius Vaz da Cruz
15.45-16.30	Theoretical core-level spectroscopy at highest accuracy and with techniques from artificial intelligence \| Annika Bande
16.30-16.45	15’ BREAK
16.45-17.45	Participant’s presentations and informal discussion I (max. 5’/participant, a bit about yourself, your research, your motivation to attend this school. Let’s have a drink together, meet alumni and talk about research opportunities at BESSY II)

WEDNESDAY, 6^th April (Photoemission & Magnetic Spectroscopy)
09.00-10.30	Photoemission: Quantification, depth-“profiling”, and energy level alignment \| Marcus Bär
10.30-10.45	15’ BREAK
10.45-11.30	Photoemission for studying inorganic and organic electronic materials \| Norbert Koch
11.30-12.15	RESPES \| Christoph Janowitz
12.15-13.15	1h BREAK
13.15-14.00	In-situ XPS studies of surface reactions \| Christian Papp
14.00-14.45	Operando soft X-ray spectroscopy experiments for heterogeneous catalytic reactions \| Axel Knop-Gericke
15.00-15.45	How to detect electrons from solutions - Liquid-jet photoelectron spectroscopy \| Robert Seidel
15.45-16.00	15’ BREAK
16.00-17.00	Angle-resolved photoemission for the investigation of topological matter \| Oliver Rader
17.00-17.45	Magnetic spectroscopy and scattering \| Christian Schüßler-Langeheine

THURSDAY, 7^th April (Microscopy & Materials)
09.00-09.45	PEEM: Magnetic imaging and spectroscopy at the nanoscale \| Florian Kronast
09.45-10.30	Scanning transmission X-ray microscopy \| Markus Weigand / Sebastian Wintz
10.30-10.45	15’ BREAK
10.45-11.30	Electronic properties of metal centers and metal clusters in gaseous and liquid environments \| Tobias Lau
11.30-12.15	Introduction, Advances and Applications of Infrared Synchrotron Radiation in Microspectroscopy \| Ljiljana Puskar
12.15-13.00	45’ BREAK
13.00-13.30	X-ray Tomography \| Ingo Manke
13.30-14.00	X-ray microscopy \| Stephan Werner / Gerd Schneider
14.00-14.15	15’ BREAK
14.15-14.45	Tomoscopy: Time-resolved tomography for materials science \| Francisco García-Moreno / Paul-H. Kamm
14.45-15.15	Generation of attosecond pulses in the extreme ultraviolet \| Federico Furch
15.15-15.30	15’ BREAK
15.30-16.30	Energy Materials Research with X-rays \| Marcus Bär
16.30-16.45	15’ BREAK
16.45-17.45	Participant’s presentations and informal discussion II (max. 5’ /participant)

FRIDAY, 8^th April (Structure and wrap-up)
09.00-10.30	Fundamentals of Diffraction and Crystallography \| Susan Schorr
10.30-10.45	15’ BREAK
10.45-11.30	In-situ X-ray Diffraction \| Roland Mainz
11.30-12.30	Macromolecular structure determination by synchrotron X-ray crystallography \| Manfred Weiss
12.30-13.30	1h BREAK
13.30-14.15	Anomalous X-ray Diffraction and its Use in the Analysis of Atomic Structures \| Daniel Többens
14.15-15.00	Introduction to Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) and Anomalous SAXS \| Armin Hoell
15.00-15.15	15’ BREAK
15.15-16.00	Novel measurement opportunities at coherent x-ray sources \| Jan Lüning
16.00-16.15	15’ BREAK
16.15-17.30	Participant’s presentations and informal discussion III (max. 5’/participant)
17.30-17.45	Wrap-up first week, feedback

MONDAY, 11^th April
09.00-10.30	Participant’s presentations and informal discussion IV (max. 3 slides/participant or 5’)
10.30-10.45	15’ BREAK
10.45-11.30	Workshop on how to prepare good beamtime proposals \| Astrid Brandt
11.30-12.00	Workshop on how to prepare the poster and BESSY II experimental report \| Catalina Jiménez
12.00-13.00	1h BREAK
13.00-18.00	Online training – Day 1 Meet your trainer in a small group of two or three people and start activity.

TUESDAY, 12^th April

09.00-18.00

Online training – Day 2

Full dedication to your training.

12.00-13.00

1h BREAK

WEDNESDAY, 13^th April

09.00-18.00

Online training – Day 3

Complete discussion of results and interpretation. Prepare and submit poster.

12.00-13.00

1h BREAK

THURSDAY, 14^th April
09.00-12.00	Rehearsal for online Poster competition \| All
12.00-13.00	1h BREAK
13.00-15.00	Online poster competition \| All
15.00-15.30	Closing Remarks, Certificate Distribution & Farewell \| Jan Lüning, Catalina Jiménez