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June 2024 ESRFnews
EVENTS
Explore ESRF beamlines: ID30A-3
20 June 2024, 2–3pm CEST
Made possible by the European
STREAMLINE project, “Explore
ESRF beamlines” is a series of monthly
interactive webinars open to the ESRF user
community, especially (but not restricted
to) doctoral students and postdocs who are
interested in the enormous possibilities
of fered by the new Extremely Brilliant
Source. T hey last for about 20 minutes, and
are followed by a moderated discussion of
about 15 minutes.
T his particular webinar concentrates
on ID30A-3 (otherwise known as
MASSIF-3), the mini-focus beamline
for macromolecular crystallography.
Presented by beamline scientist Igor
Melnikov, the webinar will look at the
beamline’s suitability for very small or
inhomogeneous protein crystals, fast data
collection and “SAD” measurements.
17th International Conference on
Surface X-ray and Neutron Scattering
15–18 July 2024
SXNS17 will be hosted on the EPN campus
in Grenoble, France, by the ESRF and the
neighbouring Institut Laue-Langevin.
The four-day conference will bring
together researchers studying surfaces and
interfaces in solid, liquid, biological, soft
and hard condensed matter, via neutron or
(primarily synchrotron) X-ray scattering
techniques. The topics to be covered include
instrumentation, studies of nanostructured
surfaces and interfaces, surfaces and
interfaces in soft matter, biological
interfaces, magnetic thin films and interfaces,
magnetic proximity effects, topological
materials, emergent interfacial materials,
and dynamics of surfaces, interfaces and
nanostructures There are 13 invited speakers
and a wide range of abstracts See https
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Explore ESRF beamlines ID02
25 July 23pm CEST
Theyencheri Narayanan the scientist
in charge of ID02 will present this
introductory webinar to the ESRFs
beamline for timeresolved ultra smallangle
and wideangle Xray scattering ID02
relies on the high brilliance of an undulator
source to probe the microstructure and
nonequilibrium dynamics of soft matter
and related systems from a few Angstroms
up to the micron scale, and down to the
sub-millisecond time range. Its scientific
applications can be divided broadly into
three domains: soft condensed matter;
noncrystalline structural biology; and
interdisciplinary areas of soft matter,
biology and nanoscience. The EBS upgrade
significantly improved the performance
of X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy
in particular, with 30 times more coherent
flux being delivered to the fast Eiger-500k
detector. In addition, its monochromator
was refurbished with improved cooling and
a new polished, channel-cut Si-111 crystal.
SRI 2024
26–30 August 2024
T he 15th International Conference on
Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation
will be hosted in Hamburg, Germany, by
the DESY synchrotron light source and the
European X-ray Free-Electron Laser. T he
conference is important for the worldwide
community to share key experiences in
scientif ic and technical developments,
to promote the future development of all
light sources, the development of the f ield
as a whole, and the economic and political
development of participating countries.
T he deadline for registration is 31 July. See
https://www.sri2024.eu.
Explore ESRF beamlines: ID14
19 September 2024, 2–3pm CEST
The next instalment of this ESRF–EBS
webinar series concentrates on the ESRF
beamline for nuclear resonance scattering
in extreme conditions. Presented by
ESRF scientists Dimitrios Bessas, Ilya
Kupenko and Alexander Chumakov it
will show how Mössbauer spectroscopy
can be a valuable tool for the study of
metal complexes enabling researchers to
elucidate their electronic and magnetic
properties The beamline was recently
upgraded and moved from its former
location at the ID18 port in order to make
possible spectroscopies with extreme
spatial resolutions of around 150 nm and
studies of atomic dynamics with extreme
energy resolution of about 50 eV
New Opportunities for Better User
Group Software
23–27 September 2024
The 14th NOBUGS conference is
returning to the EPN campus, with its
hosts the ESRF and the neighbouring
Institut Laue-Langevin. Its goal is to foster
collaboration and exchange between
scientists and IT professionals working
on software for X-ray, neutron and muon
sources from around the world, to increase
user productivity and maximise scientific
output. Topics will include beamline
control systems, experiment automation,
remote user interfaces, machine learning,
advanced data acquisition, metadata
and data formats, data visualisation,
data reduction, data analysis, model
fitting, workflow engines, “FAIR” data
management, open-source collaborations,
research software engineering and much
more besides. Speakers confirmed so
far include Saulius Gražulis, a research
professor at the VU Institute of
Biotechnology in Lithuania, and Ian Foster,
the director of the data science and learning
division at Argonne National Laboratory
in the US. Registration closes on 15 August.
See https://indico.esrf.fr/event/114/
Energy materials in the circular
economy meet X-rays & neutrons
20–22 November 2024
This workshop is hosted on the EPN
campus, and organised by the ESRF, the
neighbouring Institut Laue-Langevin
(ILL), and the Paul Scherrer Institut in
Switzerland. It aims to bring together
expert X-ray, neutron and muon users, as
well as circular-materials researchers who
are curious about the advanced techniques
available for electrochemistry and energy
materials at the three host research
infrastructures Attendees can expect
presentations on cuttingedge development
in the field of energy materials from
harvesting eg solar panels to storing eg
batteries and fuel cells and conversion
eg electrolysers with examples of circular
materials research Instrumentation
scientists will present some of the techniques
available and there will be an opportunity to
visit the ESRF and the ILL laboratories The
deadline for registration is 21 October 2024