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The School aims at introducing graduate students and young scientists at the early stage of their career to the unique research opportunities offered at synchrotron and recent free electron laser (FEL) facilities. The school will provide an overview of the production and characteristics of synchrotron light, its interaction with the matter and the experimental methods based on these interactions that have proven to be indispensable tools with applications all domains of basic and applied research. The school lectures will be given by scientists who are experts in the relevant fields. They will include:

  • Production and properties of Synchrotron and FEL Radiation;
  • Basics of the photon-matter interactions;
  • Photon transport and beamline instrumentation;
  • X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (EXAFS and XANES);
  • X-ray diffraction;
  • X-ray scattering, SAXS, WAXS;
  • Inelastic and inelastic X-ray scattering;
  • X-ray Microscopy and imaging;
  • Photoelectron spectroscopy, microscopy and imaging;
  • THz and IR spectroscopy and microscopy;
  • Dedicated lectures illustrating applications and recent research achievements in the fields of materials, nanoscience, magnetism, catalysis, earth science, environmental science, cultural heritage, biology and medicine.

Data analysis sessions are foreseen for X-ray absorption, X-ray diffraction and photoelectron spectroscopy.

A full day will be dedicated to a visit of ELETTRA and FERMI facilities. The visit will be virtual for on-line participants. Take notes that if restrictions due to pandemic do not make possible the visit in presence, it will be virtual also for participants in presence.

Participants are encouraged to present a poster on their research activity with emphasis on the need to use the tools at synchrotron and FEL facilities that should foster exchange of ideas and collaborations.