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 → 11:00 Tea and Coffee

11:00 → 13:00 Project Overview, Science Case and Facility Design Update

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

13:00 → 13:45 Lunch (and Poster Session)

13:45 → 14:15 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)

14:15 → 14:45 Time-resolved studies for materials science and engineering

Speaker: Dr Mike Fitzpatrick (Aberystwyth)

14:45 → 15:15 Advanced Microcrystallization Solutions for Serial Crystallography

Speaker: Dr Lauren Hatcher (Cardiff University)

15:15 → 15:40 Tea Break (and Poster Session)

15:40 → 16:10 An Introduction to the Institute for Compound Semiconductors and current issues in CS manufacturing

Speaker: Prof. Peter Smowton (Cardiff University)

16:10 → 16:40 Is XFEL needed to image additive manufacturing processes in real and reciprocal space?

Speaker: Prof. Peter Lee (UCL)

16:40 → 17:10 Ultrafast XFEL Imaging for Metals Manufacturing

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

17:10 → 17:40 Role of Ultrafast Heterogeneous Melting in Laser Machining Dynamics

Speaker: Prof. Ian Robinson (UCL)

19:30 → 21:30 Speaker Dinner

Wednesday, 18 September

08:30 → 09:00 Tea and Coffee

09:00 → 09:30 XFEL analysis of naturally crystalline protein inclusions from Bacillus thuringiensis

Speaker: Prof. Colin Berry (Cardiff University)

09:30 → 10:00 Johnson Matthey and potential XFEL collaboration: Industrial analysis requirements

Speaker: Dr Sneha Banerjee (Johnson Mathey)

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 11:00 Unlocking the properties and dynamics of commercial oil additives using x-rays: Potential for study by XFEL?

Speaker: Dr Peter Dowding (Infineum)

11:00 → 11:30 Opportunities for X-ray free-electron laser in photocatalysis and electrocatalysis

Speaker: Dr Andrea Folli (Cardiff University)

11:30 → 12:00 Discussion

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch