UK XFEL Townhall - Energy, Environmental and Climate Technologies

Jun 4, 2024, 10:25 AM → Jun 5, 2024, 5:00 PM 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, June 4

10:25 AM → 10:35 AM Opening Address

Welcome by the local organising committee

10:40 AM → 11:40 AM UK XFEL Conceptual Design and Options Analysis Project Overview

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

11:40 AM → 12:40 PM Overview of the UK XFEL Science and Technology Case

Speaker: Prof. Jon Marangos (Imperial College)

12:40 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch & Posters

1:30 PM → 2:00 PM Excitonic up- and down-conversion for solar energy harvesting applications

Speaker: Prof. Jenny Clark (University of Sheffield)

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM TBD

Speaker: Dr Rob House (University of Oxford)

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM Non-linear Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) to hard X-ray spectroscopy

Speaker: Prof. Majed Chergui (EPF-Lausanne)

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Tea & Coffee

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Non-precious metal catalysts investigation for hydrogen fuel cells.

Speaker: Dr Adrien Chauvet (University of Sheffield)

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Femtosecond Chemical and Biological Dynamics at the Alvra Endstation

Speaker: Dr Camila Bacellar (PSI)

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Opportunities for ultrafast gas phase photochemistry at an advanced XFEL

Speaker: Dr Thomas Wolf (Standford University)

5:00 PM → 5:30 PM TBD

Speaker: Prof. Thomas Feurer (Eu-XFEL)

6:00 PM → 7:00 PM Drinks Reception

Wednesday, June 5

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Arrival: Tea & Coffee

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Li-ion batteries: picoseconds to years

Speaker: Prof. Louis Frederick Piper (Warwick university)

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Atmospheric chemistry from a computational and theoretical perspective

Speaker: Dr Basile Curchod (University of Bristol)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Catching and steering electrons and atoms in action with light

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

11:10 AM → 11:40 AM Carrier capture at the active sites in metal-oxide photo-catalysts

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

11:40 AM → 12:10 PM Investigating chemical reactions in solution with ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy methods

Speaker: Dr Nils Huse (University of Hamburg)

12:10 PM → 12:40 PM Closing Discussions

12:40 PM → 1:00 PM Lunch