Name: UK XFEL Townhall - Fundamental Physics, Quantum Computing and AI
Start: 2024-01-18T10:45:00+00:00
End: 2024-01-19T17:00:00+00:00
Location: University of Plymouth

UK XFEL Townhall - Fundamental Physics, Quantum Computing and AI

from Thursday, 18 January 2024 (10:45) to Friday, 19 January 2024 (17:00)

Monday, 15 January 2024
Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Wednesday, 17 January 2024
Thursday, 18 January 2024

10:45

10:45 - 11:00
Room: Babbage 003 Lecture Theatre
11:00
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Babbage 003
Contributions

11:00 Opening Address: Dr Shakil Awan - Local Technical Committee - Shakil Awan (University of Plymouth)

11:10 Welcome Address: Prof Kevin Jones - Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) - Kevin Jones (University of Plymouth)

11:20 Welcome Address: Prof Alexander Belton - Head of School (Engineering, Computing and Mathematics) - Alexander Belton (University of Plymouth)
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Babbage 003
Contributions

11:30 UK XFEL Conceptual Design and Options Analysis Project - David Dunning (STFC) Paul Aden (STFC)

12:00 Overview of UK XFEL Science and Technology Case - Jon Marangos (Imperial College London) Rebecca Ingle (UCL)

12:30 Forum - open discussion
13:00

13:00 - 13:45
Room: Babbage 410
13:45
13:45 - 15:15
Room: Babbage 003
Contributions

13:45 Few-fs atomic resolution movies of a photoactive protein traversing a conical intersection - Abbas Ourmazd (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

14:15 Measuring Unruh radiation from accelerated electrons - Gianlunca Gregori (University of Oxford)

14:45 On Spectral domain ghost imaging - James Cryan (Linac coherent light source (SLAC))
15:15

15:15 - 15:45
Room: Babbage 002
15:45
15:45 - 17:30
Room: Babbage 003
Contributions

15:45 Towards a FEL-based "fundamental physics" facility - Stewart Boogert (Cockcroft Institute)

16:00 Applying AI to complex problems in the physical sciences - Alvaro Sanchez Gonzalez (Google DeepMind)

16:30 Challenges and Opportunities from Electronic Structure Calculations of Systems at the Nanoscale - Luigi Genovese (CEA Grenoble)

17:00 Real-time visualization of conical intersections in biomolecules using XFELs - Giulio Cerullo (Polytecnico di Milano)
17:30
17:30 - 18:30
Room: Babbage 410
Contributions

18:00 Developing a National Strategy for Quantum Technology - Sir Peter Knight (Imperial College London)
Friday, 19 January 2024

09:00

09:00 - 09:30
Room: Babbage 002
09:30
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Babbage 003
Contributions

09:30 Electron Paramagnetic Resonance - an overview from the National Research Facility for EPR - Alice Bowen (University of Manchester)

10:00 EPR experiments and XFELs - Graham Smith (St Andrews)

10:30 Opportunities in nonlinear classical and quantum physics with intense XFELs - Tom Blackburn (Gothenburg)
11:00

11:00 - 11:30
Room: Babbage 002
11:30
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Babbage 003
Contributions

11:30 Fundamental Physics with XFELs - Ralf Schuetzhold (Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rosendorf)

12:00 On covariance mapping and multi-dimensional extensions - Leszek Frasinski (Imperial College London)
12:30

12:30 - 13:30
Room: Babbage 002
13:30
13:30 - 14:30
Room: Babbage 003
Contributions

13:30 Physics using XFELs and high intensity lasers - Stuart Mangles (Imperial College London)

14:00 Novel capabilities from plasma wakefield-based high-brightness X-FELs - Bernhard Hidding (Düsseldorf)
14:30

14:30 - 15:00
Room: Babbage 003

15:00

15:00 - 15:15
Room: Babbage 003 Lecture Theatre