Aim of the School

We inform you that the application deadline is postponed on June 15, 2019

The Italian Society of Synchrotron Radiation (SILS) in collaboration with ELETTRA-Sincrotrone Trieste SCpA organizes in September 2019 the XV edition of the School:XV School on Synchrotron Radiation “Gilberto Vlaic”: Fundamentals, Methods and Applications

The first seven editions of the School were organized by SILS at S. Margherita di Pula in Sardinia, the VIII at the Frascati Laboratory of the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics, the three following editions at Duino (Italy) and the last two in Grado (Italy). This edition of the school will be held in Muggia (Italy) from the 16 to the 27 of September, 2019. Muggia is a pleasant seaside resort town close to Trieste, where ELETTRA, the Italian 3rd generation synchrotron radiation facility, and FERMI, the new seeded Free Electron Laser source, are located.

The school is dedicated to the memory of prof. Gilberto Vlaic, who founded in 1990 the first SILS school held in Sardinia that was followed by biannual editions till 2017. Prof. Vlaic was one of the pioneers of the X-ray absorption spectroscopy and contributed significantly to its development and its multiple applications.

The School will give a general overview of the characteristics and potentiality of synchrotron radiation to graduated students and young researchers interested in its use. The emission of synchrotron radiation both from the storage rings and from free electron lasers, its properties, most of the experimental methods used, their fundamentals and applications in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Earth Science, Material Science and Medicine will be illustrated. Data analysis sessions, as well as experimental training on some of the ELETTRA beam-lines, are also foreseen.

The lecturers will be well known scientists with long standing experience on the use of synchrotron radiation in each specific topic; the lectures will be given in English.

Directors

Prof. Settimio MOBILIO
settimio.mobilio@uniroma3.it
Department of Science
University Roma TRE
Viale Marconi, 446
00046 Roma
Italy

Dr. Maya KISKINOVA
maya.kiskinova@elettra.eu
Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.
SS 14 KM 163,5 - Basovizza
34149 Trieste
Italy

Dr. Andrea GOLDONI
andrea.goldoni@elettra.eu
Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.
SS 14 KM 163,5 - Basovizza
34149 Trieste
Italy

"Carla Cauletti" Fellowships

As in the previous editions, SILS will grant some fellowships to facilitate participation to the School. Fellowships are entitled to Carla Cauletti, an Italian chemist who pioneered the use of synchrotron radiation. Fellowships will cover the registration fee and, in exceptional cases, part of the accommodation costs. Fellowships will be assigned to PhD student on the basis of their curriculum.