Subject Areas of Oral Presentations

IR Imaging and Spectroscopy

Production and Applications of Coherent THz Radiation

Analytical Infrared Microspectroscopy

Biomedical Studies

Surfaces and Thin Films

Free Electron Laser IR

Scanning Probe IR Spectromicroscopy

Preliminary Program


Thursday, October 28^th
8:30
8:30	Registration
9:00
9:00	Opening Address
9:15
9:15	Presentation of the European Science Foundation (ESF)
9:30
9:30	L. Carr	Synchrotron Infrared Science: Past, Present and Future
10:30
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00
11:00	P. Dumas	Main advantages of Synchrotron Infrared Microscopy: present and future
11:45
11:45	P. Lasch	Spatially resolved IR microspectroscopy of single cells and tissues
12:30
	Lunch
	Poster Presentation
14:30
14:30	JM. Ortega	Experiments with the CLIO infrared FEL
15:15
15:15	B. Redlich	The Free Electron Laser based IR User Facility FELIX
16:00
16:00	Coffee Break
16:30
16:30	A. Nucara	SISSI: a new IR beamline at ELETTRA
17:15
17:15	M. Tobin	A New Infrared Microspectroscopy Facility at the Daresbury SRS – Current Performance, Latest Results and Future Developments.
18:00
18:00	K. Hinrichs	Infrared ellipsometry for characterisation of organic films and interfaces
18:45
	Round Table
	Buffet


Friday October 29^th
9:00
9:00	R. Raval	Complex Adsorbates and Surface Phenomena- how far can IR Spectroscopy take us?
9:45
9:45	B. Nelander	High resolution gas phase spectroscopy in the far infrared with a synchrotron radiation source
10:30
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00
11:00	P. Roy	Using infrared spectroscopy for understanding the dynamics in confining systems
11:45
11:45	D. Moss	Synchrotron IR microspectroscopy of biomolecules in microfluidic systems
12:30
	Lunch
	Poster Presentation
14:00
14:00	M. Martin	Synchrotron Infrared Science: Physics, Biology, Environmental Science and Coherence
14:45
14:45	U. Schade	THz microspectroscopy using coherent synchrotron radiation
15:30
15:30	J. Chwiej	Researches on Neurodegeneration Using Techniques Based on Synchrotron Radiation
16:00
16:00	Coffee Break
16:30
16:30	A. Perucchi	The Superconductor MgB₂ and the Charge Density wave NbSe₃ System: an Optical Perspective of Their Broken Symmetry Ground States
17:00
17:00	G. Margaritondo	Beating the Diffraction Limit: Near-field Microscopy with Advanced Photon Sources
17:45
17:45	Poster Presentation
20:00
20:00	Conference Dinner


Saturday, October 30^th
9:30
9:30	Visit to Elettra
12:30
12:30	Lunch

Poster Session

Participants are invited to contribute to the poster session. Poster presentations addressing either the subject areas above or complementary areas are encouraged.

Young Scientist Participation

Young scientists are particularly encouraged to participate to the poster session. Some of the submitted abstracts will be selected to be presented as oral contributions.