The detailed programme for download as pdf here.
(Updated 28-08-2025)
Photon Diagnostics
- Arrival time and pulse duration methods
- Few-femtosecond pulse duration measurements
- Synchronization and timing jitter correction
- Spatial, wavefront and polarisation diagnostics
- real-time wavefront sensing
- adaptive optics for photon beams
- polarization state measurement and control
- Intensity and coherence diagnostics
- transverse and longitudinal coherence
- Intensity jitters and corrections
Invited Speakers:
Markus Braune (DESY)
Jia Liu (EuXFEL)
Ichiro Inoue (RIKEN Spring-8
Elizabeth Skoropata (SwissFEL)
Photon beamlines & optics
- Beamline design
- beamlines for diffraction limited x-ray sources
- beamlines for multiple x-ray beams
- Beamline optics and metrology
- latest advances in in-situ and ex-situ optics characterization
- damage and degradation of optics
Invited Speakers:
Lucia Alianelli (Diamond Light Source)
Alberto Simoncig (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)
Murilo Bazan da Silva (Diamond Light Source)
Detectors
- overview of facility detector systems and needs
- new detector systems & novel detector materials
- calibration and gain switching correction
Invited Speakers:
Haruki Nishino (JASRI)
Andreas Ebersoldt (KIT, Karlsruhe)
Dominic Greiffenberg (Paul Scherrer Institute)
Conny Hansson (LCLS)
Computational techniques
- Fats data acquisition and real-time analysis
- AML and virtual diagnostics
- automated anomaly detection
- predictive modelling for beam properties
- AI-assisted tuning of photon diagnostics
Invited Speakers:
Fady Bishara (EuXFEL)
Jana Thayer (LCLS)
Short presentations from industrial sponsors
Open forum discussion
