Ultrafast X-ray Summer School 2015

Interdisciplinary program features fundamentals and applications of ultrafast X-ray science

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Participants of UXSS 2015. Credit: Marta Mayer/DESY

More than 100 participants from 19 countries have attended this year's Ultrafast X-ray Summer School UXSS 2015 at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science CFEL on the Bahrenfeld campus this week. The four-day course intends to give doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers the opportunity to learn about the latest developments and opportunities in ultrafast X-ray science. With a highly interdisciplinary program, topics ranged from accelerator physics to molecular biology. UXSS 2015 was jointly organized by CFEL and the PULSE institute at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the U.S., and financially supported by the VolkswagenStiftung.

In lectures by nine internationally renowned experts, the participants could learn about the impact of the fast developing ultrafast X-ray techniques on fields like structural biology, plasma physics and chemistry. The lecture program was complemented by practical group work, where participants wrote mock proposals for experiments at Europe's future X-ray laser European XFEL that is currently being built. In a poster session the best proposal was awarded. "I hope that UXSS 2015 was a platform to broaden participants' research areas, meet the experts, and exchange their ideas," says organiser Sang-Kil Son from the CFEL-DESY Theory Division.

The UXSS is held at CFEL every second year and at PULSE every other year.

More information on UXSS 2015: http://conferences.cfel.de/uxss_2015/