Joint Meeting of PSRS Members and SOLARIS Centre Users

Agenda

   11.09.2024 - Wednesday   

 

10:30 - 11:00   Registration and welcome coffee

11:00 - 11:50   Welcome session: Introduction to SOLARIS and PSRS

• Marek Stankiewicz, Jakub Szlachetko: Opening (5m)
• Agnieszka Witkowska: Past and present of PSRS & ESUO (15m)
• Adriana Wawrzyniak: SOLARIS – Machine status (15m)
• Marcin Sikora: SOLARIS – Research facilities (15m)

11:50 - 13:00  Session: X-ray scattering in soft matter

• Mirosław Gilski: Challenges of X-ray crystallography: Unusual molecular arrangements (30m)
• Maciej Jankowski: Advanced software tools and workflows for synchrotron X-ray scattering analysis at ESRF from a user's perspective (20m)
• Karolina Jurkiewicz: Studies of the local structure of amorphous pharmaceuticals using X-ray scattering (20m)

13:00 - 15:00  Lunch

15:00 - 17:00  Session: Spectroscopy with synchrotron light (I) 

• Aleksandra Mielewczyk-Gryń: The importance of synchrotron studies in view of the development of hydrogen industry (30m)
• Taymaz Tabari: Unveiling the active sites in co-containing perovskite-based photo-rechargeable batteries (20m)
• Paulina Gwóźdź: Diving deep into non-stoichiometric perovskites: unveiling Co/Fe doping effects (20m)
• Josef Hormes: Synchrotron radiation based techniques for agricultural research (20m)
• Dominik Czernia: Plasma-enhanced Physical Properties of Mn(II)-Nb(IV) Molecular Magnet Investigated with EXAFS (10m)
• Mohammad Sadegh Shakeri: Time-dependent oxidation state change during pulsed laser irradiation of colloids; an experimental XAFS study confirmed by computational analysis (10m)
• Adam Czempik: Changes in the electronic structure of NiFe2O4@SiO2 nanocomposites by synthesis process and annealing (10m)

17:00 - 17:30  Coffee break

17:30 - 19:00   Session: Research opportunities and support for synchrotron users

• Jakub Szlachetko: LEAPS consortium (15m)
• Anna Wolska: ESRF access project (15m)
• Wiktor Kotlarz: SOLARIS User Office (15m)
• Danylo Babich: Light 4 Ukraine project (15m)
• Mikołaj Gołuński: Beyond open call – forms of access to SOLARIS (15m)
• Robert Nietubyć: PolFEL project (15m)

19:00 - 19:05   Group photo

19:10 - 21:00   Poster session

 

   12.09.2024 - Thursday   

 

09:00 - 10:30   Session: X-ray scattering in hard matter

• Guillaume Brotons: In-situ and operando synchrotron small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) experiments, designed to understand nanoparticles assemblies in complex bio-environments (30m)
• Przemyslaw Rzepka: Quantitative locating titanium in the framework of titanium silicalite-1 by exploiting anomalous X-ray powder diffraction (20m)
• Taoufik Lamrani: Studies of molecular order in itraconazole by X-ray diffraction (20m)
• Franciszek Sobczuk: Ill – posed problems with noisy data: from optics to X-ray scattering (20m)

10:30 - 11:00  Coffee break

11:00 - 13:00  Session: Ultrafast processes studied with X-ray FEL radiation

• Nils Huse: Investigating the electronic structure of molecules in solution with X-ray spectroscopy  (30m)
• Giuseppe Mercurio: Time-resolved RIXS and SAXS at the SCS instrument of European XFEL (30m)
• Ryszard Sobierajski: Scientific Opportunities at XFEL (20m)
• Tomasz Kołodziej: Towards new time and frequency standards with ⁴⁵Sc and EuXFEL (20m)
• Oleksii Liubchenko: Ultrafast structural transformations in Fe studied by time-resolved XRD (20m)

13:00 - 15:00  Lunch

15:00 - 16:30  Session: Microspectroscopy and imaging (I) 

• Tim A. Butcher: Development of ptychographic imaging with soft X-rays (30m) 
• Ewa Madej: How PEEM helps in the study of antiferromagnets? (20m)
• Ewa Młyńczak: Ultrathin Sn deposited on Pt(111): growth and electronic structure (20m)
• Paweł Nita: Observing barium oxide on W(110) by  low-energy, thermionic and photoemission electron microscopy (20m)

16:30 - 17:00  Coffee break

17:00 - 18:00  SOLARIS guided tour

19:00   Networking meeting

 

 

   13.09.2024 - Friday   

 

09:00 - 11:00 Session: Microspectroscopy and imaging (II) 

• Martin Schnell: Nano-FTIR spectroscopy of single cell sections (30m)
• Artur Biela: CryoEM – A perfect tool for investigation of protein cages polymorphism (30m)
• Michal Gucwa: Checkmymetal (cmm): validating metal-binding sites in X-ray and Cryo-EM data (20m)
• Oskar Siemianowski: How do plants manage their microelements? Untangling the Zn transport mechanisms between lateral roots (20m)
• Joanna Ortyl: New polymeric materials based on cationic photopolymerisation processes for 3D printing technology (3D-VAT) based on digital light processing (20m)

11:00 - 11:30  Coffee break

11:30 - 13:20 Session: Spectroscopy with synchrotron light (II)

• Łukasz Pluciński: On the origin of circular dichroism in ARPES spectra from graphene, WSe₂, and other quantum materials (20m)
• Marek Stęślicki: Absolute calibration of the solar X-ray spectrometer BRAXIS for a NASA MidEx mission (20m)
• Ashutosh Wadge: Unveiling impervious band crossings in the bulk of topological nodal-line semimetal ZrAs₂ (20m)
• Marcin Rosmus: Electronic Structures of Dirac Semimetals LaCuSb₂ and LaAgSb₂ (20m)
• Aleksandra Figura-Jagoda: Understanding the mechanism of beam damage on copper thin films (10m)
• Jacek Kołodziej: Band-bending, Band-tailing, 2D Electron Gas at Te doped InAs Surfaces (20m)

13:20 - 13:30   Closing remarks