SOLARIS update meeting

21 Jun 2023, 10:00 → 22 Jun 2023, 15:30 Europe/Warsaw

The conference „SOLARIS update meeting” will enable the exchange of knowledge and experience in scientific research using synchrotron radiation and will undoubtedly help ensure the highest world level of scientific research conducted at the synchrotron in Krakow. The meeting is a continuation of the conference "Joint Meeting of Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society and SOLARIS Centre Users", which, taking place every two years in the form of a face-to-face meeting, integrates the community of scientists conducting research using synchrotron radiation. This year, for the first time, SOLARIS inaugurates the form of meetings in the online system - „SOLARIS update meeting” - which will supplement the current knowledge about synchrotron and Cryo-EM technologies in the years between the "live" conference.

The meeting will be an excellent forum for popularizing world science and disseminating knowledge about synchrotron radiation and research opportunities related to its use. The topics of the conference will cover virtually all areas of science, from physics, to biology, chemistry, geology, and environmental engineering. The conference will be also an opportunity to discuss new beamlines and ideas related to scientific projects that can already be implemented on the currently launched SOLARIS synchrotron beamlines.

As part of the meeting, it will be possible to present the results of research obtained with the use of synchrotron radiation and the opportunity to listen to lectures by invited users, who will share the results of their research. The program includes several review lectures summarizing the current state of scientific and technological achievements and presenting development trends in the field of research using the SOLARIS synchrotron. The didactic aspect of the conference is particularly important for young scientists, graduate students, or doctoral students, who constitute the direct scientific and research base of the future scientific groups of SOLARIS users. Equally important is the opportunity to exchange experiences between more advanced users of synchrotron radiation and to share these experiences with a group of young scientists.

 

The special guest of the meeting will be Tomasz Rożek, who will deliver his own lecture about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in science. 

 

We look forward to seeing you via the Zoom platform!

Chair of the conference,

Jakub Szlachetko

 

CONFERENCE DOCUMENTS PRIVACY POLICY.pdf regulations_SOLARIS Update Meeting 2023.pdf

Wednesday, 21 June

10:00 → 10:05 Session 1 - overview. Chairman: Prof. Jakub Szlachetko: Welcome - Prof. Jakub Szlachetko, SOLARIS NSRC Acting Director

10:05 → 10:25 Session 1 - overview. Chairman: Prof. Jakub Szlachetko: SOLARIS progress in the last year, future projects, mission and vission - Prof. Jakub Szlachetko, SOLARIS NSRC Acting Director

10:25 → 10:45 Session 1 - overview. Chairman: Prof. Jakub Szlachetko: Current Status of SOLARIS Accelerators – Operation plan and statistics, machine parameters, future plans - Dr. Adriana Wawrzyniak, Accelerators Deputy Director, SOLARIS NSRC

10:45 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:15 Session 2 - Spectroscopic methods. Chairman: Dr. Ewa Partyka-Jankowska: The technical improvements and performance of the PIRX beamline at SOLARIS - Dr. Marcin Zając, SOLARIS NSRC

11:15 → 11:35 Session 2 - Spectroscopic methods. Chairman: Dr. Ewa Partyka-Jankowska: The PIRX highlight: Role of transition metal ions valency in electrochemical energy storage - Prof. Janina Molenda, AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow

11:35 → 11:50 Session 2 - Spectroscopic methods. Chairman: Dr. Ewa Partyka-Jankowska: ASTRA beamline for XAS: the soft, the hard and the tender - Dr. Alexey Maximenko, SOLARIS NSRC

11:50 → 12:10 Session 2 - Spectroscopic methods. Chairman: Dr. Ewa Partyka-Jankowska: The ASTRA highlight - Tender X-ray absorption in hard tissue engineering - Prof. Agnieszka Witkowska, Gdańsk University of Technology

12:10 → 13:10 Lunch break

13:10 → 13:50 Popular Science Lecture - "Artificial Intelligence (AI) in science” - Tomasz Rożek

13:50 → 14:05 Session 3 - Spectroscopic methods. Chairman: Dr. Marcin Zając: The URANOS beamline - the system for band structure study - Dr. Natalia Olszowska, SOLARIS NSRC

14:05 → 14:25 Session 3 - Spectroscopic methods. Chairman: Dr. Marcin Zając: The URANOS highlight: ARPES of confined semiconductor and topological insulator heterostructures grown by MBE - Prof. Dr. Gunther Springholz, Institut fuer Halbleiter- und Festkoerperphysik Johannes Kepler Universität

14:25 → 14:40 Session 3 - Spectroscopic methods. Chairman: Dr. Marcin Zając: The PHELIX beamline efficiency and research capabilities, Users FAQ, sample preparation - Dr. Magdalena Szczepanik, SOLARIS NSRC

14:40 → 15:00 Session 3 - Spectroscopic methods. Chairman: Dr. Marcin Zając: The PHELIX highlight: Electronic properties of quantum materials investigated by spectroscopic methods at the PHELIX beamline - Dr Ewa Młyńczak, Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences

Thursday, 22 June

10:00 → 10:15 Session 4 - Users. Chairman: Dr. Tomasz Wróbel: Easy access to SOLARIS - MA Alicja Górkiewicz, SOLARIS NSRC

10:15 → 10:35 Session 4 - Users. Chairman: Dr. Tomasz Wróbel: Hints and tips for submitting successful proposals - Dr. Andrea Locatelli

10:35 → 11:05 Once upon a time… Adventures of a sample in SOLARIS - MSc. Tomasz Sobol

Could life have originated in rocks? And how could one process have influenced the history of an entire planet?
These and other questions will be answered in a lecture by MSc. Tomasz Sobol.

11:05 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 11:30 Session 5 - Imaging methods. Chairman: Dr. Paweł Nita: DEMETER - a soft x-ray beamline dedicated to x-ray microscopy - Dr. Anna Mandziak, SOLARIS NSRC

11:30 → 11:50 Session 5 - Imaging methods. Chairman: Dr. Paweł Nita: The STXM highlight: Microstructure and composition alterations of conventional materials for enhancing the SOC efficiency - Dr. Patryk Błaszczak, Gdańsk University of Technology

11:50 → 12:10 Session 5 - Imaging methods. Chairman: Dr. Paweł Nita: The PEEM highlight: Domain wall motion in complex 3D nanostructures - Dr. Claudia Fernandez Gonzalez, Max Planck Institute, Drezno

12:10 → 13:10 Lunch break

13:10 → 13:25 Sesion 6 - Imaging methods. Chairman: Dr. Maciej Roman: The CIRI beamline efficiency and research capabilities - Dr. Tomasz Wróbel, SOLARIS NSRC

13:25 → 13:45 Sesion 6 - Imaging methods. Chairman: Dr. Maciej Roman: CIRI highlight: Nanoscale imaging of chromosomes and protein aggregation in Alzheimer's disease - Dr. Ewelina Lipiec, Faculty of Physics, Jagiellonian University

13:45 → 14:05 Sesion 6 - Imaging methods. Chairman: Dr. Maciej Roman: POLYX beamline for microimaging and microspectroscopy at SOLARIS - Dr. Katarzyna Sowa, SOLARIS NSRC

14:05 → 14:15 Coffee break

14:15 → 14:30 Session 7 - Stuctural biology. Chairman: Dr. Paulina Indyka: SOLARIS Cryo-EM facility - Dr. Michał Rawski, SOLARIS NSRC

14:30 → 14:50 Session 7 - Stuctural biology. Chairman: Dr. Paulina Indyka: Cryo-EM highlight: Half way to hypusine. Molecular basis of (deoxy) hypusination - Dr. Przemysław Grudnik, Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University

14:50 → 15:10 Session 7 - Stuctural biology. Chairman: Dr. Paulina Indyka: The SOLCRYS beamline efficiency and research capabilities - Prof. Maciej Kozak, SOLARIS NSRC

15:10 → 15:25 Closing remarks - Dr. Adriana Wawrzyniak, Accelerators Deputy Director, SOLARIS NSRC