UK XFEL Townhall - Advanced Manufacturing and Materials

17 Sept 2024, 10:00 → 18 Sept 2024, 17:00 Europe/London

Room 0.47 (SPARC Event Space)

Tuesday 17 September

10:30 Tea and Coffee

1 Project Overview, Science Case and Facility Design Update

Speakers: Dr David Dunning (STFC), Prof. Jon Marangos (Imperial College), Paul Aden (STFC)

13:00 Lunch (and Poster Session)

2 XFEL diffraction and SAXS measurements of stress and void evolution at high rates - and thoughts on industrial applications.

Speaker: Prof. David Dye (Imperial College London)

3 Time-resolved studies for materials science and engineering

Speaker: Dr Mike Fitzpatrick (Aberystwyth)

4 Advanced Microcrystallization Solutions for Serial Crystallography

Speaker: Dr Lauren Hatcher (Cardiff University)

15:15 Tea Break (and Poster Session)

5 An Introduction to the Institute for Compound Semiconductors and current issues in CS manufacturing

Speaker: Prof. Peter Smowton (Cardiff University)

6 Is XFEL needed to image additive manufacturing processes in real and reciprocal space?

Speaker: Prof. Peter Lee (UCL)

7 Ultrafast XFEL Imaging for Metals Manufacturing

Speaker: Prof. Leora Dresselhas-Marais (Stanford University)

8 Role of Ultrafast Heterogeneous Melting in Laser Machining Dynamics

Speaker: Prof. Ian Robinson (UCL)

9 Speaker Dinner

Wednesday 18 September

08:30 Tea and Coffee

10 XFEL analysis of naturally crystalline protein inclusions from Bacillus thuringiensis

Speaker: Prof. Colin Berry (Cardiff University)

11 Johnson Matthey and potential XFEL collaboration: Industrial analysis requirements

Speaker: Dr Sneha Banerjee (Johnson Mathey)

10:00 Coffee Break

12 Unlocking the properties and dynamics of commercial oil additives using x-rays: Potential for study by XFEL?

Speaker: Dr Peter Dowding (Infineum)

13 Opportunities for X-ray free-electron laser in photocatalysis and electrocatalysis

Speaker: Dr Andrea Folli (Cardiff University)

14 Discussion

12:00 Lunch