UK XFEL Townhall: Electronics, photonics and quantum technologies

8 Aug 2024, 10:00 → 9 Aug 2024, 15:35 Europe/London

Royce Hub Building (University of Manchester)

Paul Aden (STFC)

Join the UKXFEL team for our next Townhall at the Royce Insitue in Machester, taking place on the 8th and 9th of August 2024. Speakers will include: Prof. Simon Wall (Aarhus University), Prof. Richard Curry (University of Manchester),Prof. Philip King (University of St Andrews), Dr. Charlotte Sanders (CLF, STFC), Prof. Jens Biegert (ICFO, Spain), Dr. Olena Fedchenko (Mainz University), Prof. Mette Attature (University of Cambridge), Dr. Artem Bakulin (Imperial College).

This townhall will also include a dedicated THz workshop, which will take place on the afternoon of the 8th of August, and include: Prof. Keith Nelson (MIT), Prof. Steve Johnson (ETH Zurich), Dr. Matthias Hoffmann (SLAC), Prof. Ben Murdin (University Surrey), Dr. Dave Walsh (Daresbury Lab, STFC).
This is your chance to discuss with the design team, connect with academic and industrial experts, as well as to input into the Next Generation of XFEL facilities.

Tickets availbe here: https://UKXFEL-EPQ.eventbrite.co.uk

Thursday, 8 August

10:00 → 10:30 Tea/Coffee

10:30 → 12:30 UK XFEL Project Overview & Open Discussion

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

12:30 → 13:10 Lunch Break

13:10 → 13:40 Tracking ultrafast heterogeneity and disorder in quantum materials

Speaker: Dr Simon Wall (Aarhus Universitet)

13:40 → 14:10 Scaling Silicon-Based Qubit Technologies

Speaker: Prof. Richard Curry (University of Manchester)

14:10 → 14:25 THz Workshop Opening Discussion

Speaker: Dr Andrew Burnett (University of Leeds)

14:25 → 14:55 Coherent dynamics on multiple length scales via x-ray diffraction and spectroscopy

Speaker: Prof. Steven Johnson (ETH Zurich)

14:55 → 15:15 Tea Break

15:15 → 15:45 THz FEL studies of silicon impurities, and the use of X-rays for impurity diagnostics

Speaker: Prof. Benedict Murdin (University of Surrey)

15:45 → 16:15 THz Science at LCLS

Speaker: Dr Matthias Hoffman (SLAC - Stanford)

16:15 → 16:35 Overview of possible THz options at UK XFEL

Speaker: Dr David Walsh (STFC)

16:35 → 17:00 Laser-driven THz Source Development at Cockcroft: Tunable multi-cycle pulse generation

Speaker: Dr Darren Graham (University of Manchester)

17:00 → 17:30 Discussion

Friday, 9 August

09:30 → 10:00 Tea Break

10:00 → 10:30 Time- and angle-resolved photoemission of inter-layer charge transfer and charge density wave dynamics in monolayer TiSe2

Speaker: Prof. Phil King (St Andrews University)

10:30 → 11:00 Time-Resolved Photoelectron Diffraction: Mapping Atomic Motion in Phonon Oscillations

Speaker: Dr Charlotte Sanders (STFC)

11:00 → 11:30 Attosecond Quantum Dynamics in Material and Molecules

Speaker: Prof. Jens Biegert (ICFO)

11:30 → 12:00 Implementation of momentum microscopy for the study of quantum materials

Speaker: Dr Olena Fedchencko (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

12:00 → 12:45 Lunch and Close

12:45 → 13:15 Ultrafast Action Spectroscopy of Processible Electronic Materials and Devices

Speaker: Dr Artem Bakulin (Imperial College London)

13:15 → 13:45 Closing Discussions