last update May 25, 2012, at 06:34 PM
by Alessandra Gianoncelli


14 May 2012

19:00: Welcome Cocktail at Adriatico Terrace


15 May 2012

8:30: Registration

9:00 - 9:30: Opening and Welcome

9:00 - 9:10: C. Rizzuto, President of Sincrotrone Trieste S.c.p.A.: Opening

9:10 - 9:20: R. Cosolini, Mayor of Trieste: Welcome

9:20 – 9:30: M. Colomban, Australian Honorary Consul in Venice: Welcome Address

1. Medical Imaging: the Australian perspective

Chair: K. Prince

9:30 - 10:00: Steve Wilkins: Some recent developments in phase-contrast imaging and materials determination using SR

10:00 - 10:30: Chris Hall: Opening soon! Preparing for bio-medical imaging experiments on the IMBL at the Australian Synchrotron

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee break

2. Cultural heritage: artworks, archaeology and palaeontology

Chair: C. Tuniz

11:00 - 11:30: Franco Zanini: X-ray microstructural analysis at SYRMEP: applications in cultural heritage, archaeology and paleoanthropology

11:30 - 12:00: Mark Tobin: Synchrotron FTIR microanalysis of art materials from Europe and Australasia at the Australian Synchrotron

12:00 - 12:30: Clément Zanolli: Hominid biodiversity in Southeast Asia during the Early-Middle Pleistocene: Evidence from high-resolution dental structural analyses

12:30 - 13:00: Simon James: High Definition X-ray Fluorescence Elemental Mapping of Historic Paintings

13:00 -14:30: Lunch

3. Advances in imaging techniques, instrumentation and new light sources

Chair: G. R. Morrison

14:30 - 15:00: Daniele Pelliccia: Grating interferometry for phase contrast mammography: preliminary result

15:00 - 15:30: Ralf Menk: Detector developments for Elettra and Fermi

15:30 - 16:00: Mac Luu: Multi-wavelength elemental contrast imaging

16:00 - 16:30: Coffee break

Chair: C. Hall

16:30 - 17:00: William Fawley: Some personal perspectives on future directions for short wavelength FELs

17:00 - 17:30: Flavio Capotondi: Resonance Coherent Diffraction Imaging: new opportunities for free electron laser science

19:30: Dinner


16 May 2012

4. Imaging and spectromicroscopy applications in Life sciences

Chair: S. Wilkins

9:00 - 9:30: Giuliana Tromba: Progress in Biomedical Imaging at the SYRMEP beamline of Elettra

9:30 - 10:00: Maria Cova and Maura Tonutti: Mammography program at ELETTRA: clinical conclusions of the first protocol

10:00 - 10:30: Alessandra Gianoncelli: Life science applications of Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy at Elettra

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee break

Chair: M. Kiskinova

11:00 - 11:30: Lorella Pascolo: The trick of Asbestos and Iron revealed by Synchrotron radiation X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy

11:30 - 12:00: Michael Jones: High resolution coherent diffractive imaging of the malaria parasite P. falciparum

12:00 - 12:30: Stefano Pesaro: Ornithological applications of phase contrast imaging and tomography

12:30 - 13:00: Lisa Vaccari: Synchrotron Radiation InfraRedMicroSpectroscopy (SR-IRMS) for life sciences at SISSI beamline

13:00 - 13:10 Closing remarks

Afternoon: participants wishing to visit Elettra or our sponsor Kyma should contact the registration desk during the workshop and transport and a guide will be arranged.