UK XFEL Townhall - Energy, Environmental and Climate Technologies

4 Jun 2024, 10:25 → 5 Jun 2024, 17:00 Europe/London

Dept. of Chemistry (University of Sheffield)

Paul Aden (STFC)

The UK XFEL Conceptual Design team are hosting a townhall meeting in collaboration with University of Sheffield. This will be an exciting opportunity for anyone interested in the possible technologies and applications of a UK XFEL to come and hear and discuss topics surrounding 'Energy, Environmental and Climate Technologies'. The townhall is being organised by our Chemical science sub team: Julia Weinstein (Sheffield), Russell Minns (Soton), Sofia Diaz-Moreno (Diamond), Alex Baidak(Manchester), Andrew Burnett (Leeds), Tom Penfold (Newcastle), Rebecca Ingle (UCL), Mark Brouard, Claire Vallance (Oxford)

The event will take place over two days with a multiple of speakers (to be announced) and breakout sessions for informal discussions.

Tickets available here: https://sheffield-ukxfel.eventbrite.co.uk/

More details about UK XFEL, including the science case, are availbe here: xfel.ac.uk

Tuesday, 4 June

1 Opening Address

Welcome by the local organising committee

2 UK XFEL Conceptual Design and Options Analysis Project Overview

Speakers: Dr David Dunning (STFC), Paul Aden (STFC)

3 Overview of the UK XFEL Science and Technology Case

Speaker: Prof. Jon Marangos (Imperial College)

4 Lunch & Posters

5 Excitonic up- and down-conversion for solar energy harvesting applications

Speaker: Prof. Jenny Clark (University of Sheffield)

6 TBD

Speaker: Dr Rob House (University of Oxford)

7 Non-linear Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) to hard X-ray spectroscopy

Speaker: Prof. Majed Chergui (EPF-Lausanne)

8 Tea & Coffee

9 Non-precious metal catalysts investigation for hydrogen fuel cells.

Speaker: Dr Adrien Chauvet (University of Sheffield)

10 Femtosecond Chemical and Biological Dynamics at the Alvra Endstation

Speaker: Dr Camila Bacellar (PSI)

11 Opportunities for ultrafast gas phase photochemistry at an advanced XFEL

Speaker: Dr Thomas Wolf (Standford University)

12 TBD

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Feurer (Eu-XFEL)

13 Drinks Reception

Wednesday, 5 June

14 Arrival: Tea & Coffee

15 Li-ion batteries: picoseconds to years

Speaker: Prof. Louis Frederick Piper (Warwick university)

16 Atmospheric chemistry from a computational and theoretical perspective

Speaker: Dr Basile Curchod (University of Bristol)

17 Catching and steering electrons and atoms in action with light

Speaker: Prof. Kiyoshi Ueda (Tohoku University, Japan)

18 Carrier capture at the active sites in metal-oxide photo-catalysts

Speaker: Dr Soonam Kwon (POSTECH / PAL, Korea)

19 Investigating chemical reactions in solution with ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy methods

Speaker: Dr Nils Huse (University of Hamburg)

20 Closing Discussions

21 Lunch