TUESDAY, 12 SEPTEMBER 2023

08:45 - 09:10 Introductory remarks
Marco Zangrando
09:10 - 09:40 Operation and Upgrade of Elettra and FERMI
Alfonso Franciosi

X-ray optics design, realization and metrology – part 1

09:40 - 10:10 Correction of X-ray wavefront errors using adaptable refractive correctors
David Laundy
10:10 - 10:30 Blazed Soft X-Ray Gratings Fabricated by Grey-Tone Electron-Beam Lithography and Thermal Oxidation of Silicon
Nazanin Samadi

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

X-ray optics design, realization and metrology – part 2

11:00 - 11:20 Synchrotron- and substrate-induced structural modifications in adventitious carbon layer on beamline optical elements
Roberta Totani
11:20 - 11:40 Diamond-VeNOM: a high-speed slope profiler for characterising X-ray mirrors
Simon Alcock
11:40 - 12:00 Experiences and Challenges with X-ray Optics for the LCLS
May Ling Ng
12:00 - 12:20 Characterization of silicon pore optics for the ATHENA observatory in the PTB laboratory at BESSY II
Michael Krumrey
12:20 - 12:40 Diffraction-limited reflective optics development at NSLS-II
Mourad Idir

12:40 - 13:00 Conference Photo

13:10 - 14:20 Lunch

X-ray optics design, realization and metrology – part 3

14:20 - 14:40 Highly efficient multilayer-coated blazed and laminar gratings for tender X-ray energy range
Andrey Sokolov
14:40 - 15:00 Development of stitching interferometry and ion beam figuring methods for high precision X-ray mirrors
Qiushi Huang
15:00 - 15:20 Next Generation of Mirror Benders at LCLS
William Lane

15:20-15:50 Coffee break

Beamline design and simulation – part 1

15:50 - 16:20 The Optics of the Athos Soft X-ray Beamlines at SwissFEL
Ulrich Hilmar Wagner
16:20 - 16:40 BEaTriX, the new facility to measure the modular X-ray optics of the ATHENA telescope with an expanded and parallel X-ray beam
Bianca Salmaso
16:40 – 17:00 Closing the gap - towards tender X-rays by means of multi-layer coated gratings as monochromator optics
Frank Siewert
17:00 – 17:20 Scattering effect from mirror surface defects: analytical and simulation approach
Lorenzo Raimondi
17:20 – 17:40 Design plane varied-line-spacing grating in complex optical layout using step-by-step ray tracing method
Meiyi Wu
 
WEDNESDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2023

Beamline design and simulation – part 2

08:40 - 09:00 X-ray photon transport simulators comparison: which will win?
Matteo Altissimo
09:00 - 09:20 Active grating for monochromatization in the extreme-ultraviolet spectral region
Fabio Frassetto
09:20 - 09:40 The new Pulse-Length Preserving Double Monochromator Beamline at FLASH
Guenter Brenner
09:40 - 10:10 OASYS and DABAM: Two important projects born after MEADOW-2013. Status and Perspectives
Manuel Sanchez del Rio

Wavefront sensing – part 1

10:10 - 10:40 Developing high numerical aperture EUV Lithography at FELs
Mabel Ruiz Lopez
10:40 - 11:00 Wavefront sensing: Investigating FEL sources and Optics tuning
Michele Manfredda

11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break

Wavefront sensing – part 2

11:20 - 11:50 Wavefront metrology and beam propagation in the EUV/X-ray spectral range
Dong Du Mai
11:50 - 12:10 Hard X-ray Hartmann wavefront sensor for focus optimization of Compound Refractive Lenses at the European X-ray Free Electron Laser
Naresh Kujala
12:10 - 12:30 High-resolution hard X-ray Hartmann wavefront sensor
Guillaume Dovillaire
12:30 - 12:50 Recent developments in X-ray speckle-based techniques at Diamond Light Source
Hongchang Wang

13:10 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 16:00 Poster Session

15:40 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00 Sponsors' Presentations

17:00 - 18:00 Facility Reports

19:30 – 23:30 Social Dinner
Yacht Club Adriaco – Molo Sartorio 1, Trieste
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THURSDAY, 14 SEPTEMBER 2023
Scientific computing, machine learning and large data management
09:00 - 09:30 Advancements in X-ray Wavefront Sensing and At-wavelength Metrology at the Advanced Photon Source
Xianbo Shi
09:30 - 09:50 A new user-friendly tool for simulating the efficiency of multilayer gratings
Andrew Walters
09:50 - 10:10 Efficient simulation and AI surrogate models for real-time optimisation
Peter Feuer-Forson
10:10 - 10:30 A New Ray Trace Computer Program For Radiation Safety
Lance Lee

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

Photon diagnostics for FELs and synchrotrons
11:00 - 11:30 XFEL sub-10 nm focusing with 10^22 W/cm^2 intensity: wavefront corrected mirror and focus characterization
Jumpei Yamada
11:30 - 11:50 X-ray Gas Monitor operation at European XFEL above 25 keV
Theophilos Maltezopoulos
11:50 - 12:10 Development of X-ray Ionization Beam Position Monitor for PAL-XFEL Soft X-ray
HyoJung Hyun
12:10 - 12:30 Silicon Carbide ultra-thin membranes for X-ray beam position and intensity monitoring
Massimo Camarda

12:30 – 13.00 AI-driven real-time optics control system to achieve aberration-free coherent wavefronts at 4th-generation synchrotron radiation and free electron laser beamlines
Luca Rebuffi

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

Time related beam properties – temporal characterization of electron, FEL and laser beams

14:00 - 14:30 A New Electro-Optic Detection Scheme for Recording Electron Bunch Shapes With High Resolution and Record Recording Length
Eléonore Roussel
14:30 - 14:50 X-ray pulse shortening via nonlinear absorption and diffraction
Ichiro Inoue
14:50 - 15:10 Single-shot temporal characterization of fundamental and harmonic ultra-short FEL Pulses
Mahdi M. Bidhendi
15:10 - 15:30 Photon arrival time monitoring with few fs measurement uncertainty at MHz rate
Jia Liu

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

Science instruments and detectors

16:00 - 16:30 A Diamond Sensor for Position Resolving Measurements at the European XFEL
Tuba CONKA YILDIZ
16:30 - 16:50 Detector developments at PSI
Jiaguo Zhang
16:50 - 17:10 High-NA hard X-ray in-line holography with advanced KB optics based on Wolter type-III geometry
Gota Yamaguchi
17:10 - 17:30 Correcting for the loss in degree of polarization caused by beamline optics
Mats Leandersson

17:30 - 17:50 Closing remarks
Marco Zangrando