News from the facilites

DESY and HZB offer workshops for exchange and preparation of ErUM-Pro proposals in September:

DESY: 'Match-Making' -Workshop (video conference) on Sept. 16 and 17, 2021. At this workshop, the operators of the radiation sources will present their development and expansion strategy for the coming years. Furthermore, applicants and user groups will be given the opportunity to present their ideas for instrumentation proposals and to coordinate these with the radiation source operators and, if necessary, also with each other. [more information] [registration until Sept. 10, 2021]

HZB: ErUm-Pro-Workshop at BESSY II (Verbundforschung) on Sept. 22, 2021. In order to give potential applicants some feedback on their plans, there will be an online workshop on Wednesday, 22nd September 2021, from 9:00-15:00 where project ideas should be presented and discussed. If you are planning to apply for Verbundforschung at one of the BESSY II-Instruments, please contact Esther Dudzik until the end of August. [more]

In order to prepare the application in the upcoming EruM-Pro round ("Verbundforschung"), it is helpful for the applicants to discuss with potential partners, the user community and the operators of the large-scale facilities before submission to ensure that the necessary prerequisites are in place and that productive continued operation of the instrumentation is guaranteed after the funding expires. To support this coordination process, DESY Photon Science, in coordination with the KFS for the two radiation sources PETRA III and FLASH, invites the interested research community to a 'match-making' workshop (video conference) on 16 and 17 September 2021. At this workshop, the operators of the radiation sources will present their development and expansion strategy for the coming years. Furthermore, applicants and user groups will be given the opportunity to present their ideas for instrumentation proposals and to coordinate these with the radiation source operators and, if necessary, also with each other. [more information] [registration until Sept. 10, 2021]

Three research centres in the Helmholtz Association have developed a joint future plan for the research conducted at the scientific light sources they operate in Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden. The upgrades proposed in the strategy for their world-class accelerator-based facilities will strengthen Germany as a research location and promote innovations in many different fields.

A summary of the national strategy for the further development of accelerator-based light sources is provided in the brochure „Forschung und Innovation stärken“. The long version is "Nationale Strategie zur Weiterentwicklung beschleunigerbasierter Nutzereinrichtungen für die Forschung mit Photonen und mit hohen elektromagnetischen Feldern". [more]

PETRA IV will be the new X-ray microscope at DESY which will show chemical and physical processes from the atom to visible objects and from nanoseconds to hours.

Topical online workshops regarding the planned synchrotron radiation source PETRA IV will take place in autumn 2020.

Topical online workshops regarding the planned synchrotron radiation source PETRA IV will take place in autumn 2020:

Soft X-ray Science at PETRA IV (Sept. 18, 2020)

Surface and Interface Scattering Experiments at PETRA IV (Sept. 21-22, 2020)

PETRA IV Workshop - Materials and Processes for Energy and Transport Technology (Oct. 19-21,2020)

PETRA IV Workshop - Soft Matter, Health, and Life Science (Oct. 28-30,2020)

PETRA IV Workshop - Earth, Environment, and Materials for Nanoscience and Information Technology (Nov. 02-04,2020)

Satellite Workshop On Scientific Instrument Proposals for Extreme Pressures and Temperatures Research at PETRA IV (Nov. 05-06,2020)

PETRA IV Workshop - Technical Challenges and Scientific Computing (Nov. 18-20,2020)

European XFEL Chairman Prof. Robert Feidenhans’l gave a positive review of the past ten years: “I have watched with pride and excitement how this complex masterpiece, to which scientific institutes and companies from many countries have contributed, has taken shape. Now, a decade after construction started, scientists from all over the world visit the facility for experiments, and we are already celebrating astonishing results.”

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On December 6, 2019, only five days after the start of the commissioning of the new EBS storage ring at ESRF, electrons have been stored for the first time. This is a key milestone on the way to opening to the international scientific community the first high-energy fourth-generation synchrotron light source, known as EBS - Extremely Brilliant Source. User Service Mode will start in summer 2020. [more]