Below is the preliminary program overview for the 34th MAX IV User Meeting: “Collaboration in Focus”
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Monday – MAX IV Updates
Room: Theater
11:00 Registration opens
11:30–13:00 Lunch
13:00–13:30 Directors opening of the meeting and “State of MAX IV” by MAX IV Director
13:30–14:30 Plenary talk by Prof. Trevor Forsyth, LINXS
14:30–15:00 FIKA
15:00–15:20 Update on MAX IV accelerators by Pedro Fernandes Tavares, Accelerator Division Director
15:20–15:50 Update on Science Division by Aymeric Robert, Physical Sciences Division Director
15:50-16:20 PRISMAS: PhD COFUND Programme by Marjolein Thunnissen, Life Sciences Division Director
16:20-16:30 News from ESUO by Prof. Derek Logan, Lund University
16:30–17:00 FASM
Room: Brainstorm/Science
17:00–18:30 Poster session
Note: Posters can be left up until Tuesday, 15:00.
Tuesday – Parallel sessions
Spectroscopy
Room: Theater
09:00 | Anders Nilsson | Stockholm University | Origin of the Anomalous Properties of Water Determined Using X-rays; New Opportunities at VERITAS |
09:30 | Alexei Kuzmin | University of Latvia | Probing the structure of functional materials by EXAFS spectroscopy and advanced data analysis |
10:00 | Moritz Hirsbrunner | Uppsala University | Recent results in battery research using high resolution RIXS |
10:20 | Coffee | ||
10:50 | Igor Sokolovic | TU Wien | Two terminations of a truly bulk-terminated SrTiO3(001) host distinct two-dimensional electron gases |
11:20 | Cong Li | KTH Royal Institue of Technology | Coexistence of two intertwined charge density waves in a kagome system |
11:40 | Lauri Palmolahti | Tampere University | Thermally Induced Simultaneous Reduction and Crystallization of Amorphous TiO2 |
12:00 | Lunch | ||
13:00 | Evgeniy Redekop | University of Oslo | From in situ to operando – transient studies of catalytic reactions from the surface and gas-phase perspective |
13:30 | Manoj Ghosalya | University of Oulu | APXPS Study of Photocatalytic Driven Atomic Structure Transformation of Core-Shell Ni@NiCO3/NiO Photocatalyst |
13:50 | Hilde Venvik | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | In situ NAP-XPS characterization of PdAg hydrogen membranes and model systems |
14:10 | Alfred Larsson | Lund University | Understanding the corrosion resistance of advanced industrial alloys |
14:30 | Sabrina Gericke | Lund University | Towards CO2 hydrogenation: A combined (NAP-)XPS and DFT study on In2O3(111) model catalysts |
14:50 | Ricardo Marinho | Brasilia University | Micro-jet X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Applied to Surface Studies of Alcohol-Water Mixtures |
15:10 | Coffee | ||
15:40 | Andrey Shavorskiy(HAXPES) | MAX IV Laboratory | Tender and hard x-ray spectroscopy beamline project at MAX IV: update and next steps |
16:10 | Follow up on last year’s discussion: Quantum material and Energy materials |
Imaging
Room: Beginning
09:20 | Oxana Klementieva | Synchrotron-based imaging for biomedical research |
09:50 | Nathaly de la Rosa-Ramirez | Clustering methods for the characterization of synchrotron radiation X-ray fluorescence images of human carotid atherosclerotic plaque |
10:20 | Coffee | |
10:40 | Rajmund Mokso (Stephen Hall), Per Uvdal, Kajsa Sigfridsson Clauss | MedMAX/GTIMAX, Mirari, CheMic |
11:20 | Luis Santos | Understanding changes in cloud activity of ship exhaust particles induced by fuel sulfur content reduction and wet scrubbing with STXM |
11:50 | Lunch | |
13:00 | Sonka Reimers | Writing and reading antiferromagnetic memory fabricated from Mn2Au thin films |
13:30 | Magnus Hörnqvist Colliander | Scanning transmission WAXS investigations of coatings: Understanding deformation of industrial materials with hard X-ray nanoprobes |
14:00 | Mattias Åstrand | Multi-beam ptychography with Fresnel zone plates |
14:30 | Coffee | |
14:50 | Jens Wenzel Andreasen | Multi-Modal Characterization of Kesterite Thin-Film Solar Cells: Experimental results and numerical interpretation |
15:20 | Maik Kahnt | Bubbling silver catalysts and new imaging opportunities at NanoMAX |
15:50 | TBA | TBA |
16:00 | Per Eng-Johnsson, Sara Thorin and Francesca Curbis | Update from SXL |
16:30 | Kajsa Sigfridsson Clauss, Noelle Walsh, Kim Nygård | Update from the Tackling Environmental Challenges effort |
Diffraction and Scattering
Room: Knowledge
09:00 | Henrik Birkedall | Bone across length scales – insights from X-ray imaging methods |
09:40 | Christian Appel | Multimodal Imaging at ForMAX – Zooming into Hierarchical Structures |
10:00 | Frederik Holm Gjørup | Microsecond in situ sintering experiments |
10:20 | Justus Just | Watching Live How Materials Form – Multimodal in-situ real-time spectroscopy and diffraction reveal the formation process of perovskite solar cells. |
10:40 | Coffee | |
11:00 | Magnus Hörnqvist Colliander | Opera – A hard X-ray operando diffraction beamline |
11:40 | Roland Kadar | Combining Rheology and Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering at CoSAXS and ForMAX |
12:00 | Lunch | |
13:00 | Maciej Lorenc | Non-thermal insulator to metal phase transition by photoinduced strain dynamics in V2O3 |
13:40 | Eric Nilsson | Controlling the motion of atoms in semiconductors using THz radiation |
14:00 | Felix Roosen Runge | Spatial variation of molecular structure in stratum corneum studied by scanning SWAXS |
14:40 | Anders Arner | SAXS on muscle from zebrafish and heart |
15:00 | Coffee | |
15:20 | Leila Lo Leggio | Changes in active-site geometry on X-ray photo reduction of a lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase active-site copper and saccharide binding |
16:00 | Monika Bjelcic | Serial Synchrotron Crystallography possibilities at BioMAX and MicroMAX |
16:20 | Cedric Dicko | Combined spectroscopy and scattering to resolve (bio)molecular processes |
16:40 | Lindsey Merte | Ultra-thin oxides studied by X-ray diffraction and absorption |
18:30 Banquet
Wednesday – Highlight: MAX IV in Collaboration
Room: Theater
Time | Topic | Speaker | Chair |
09.00 – 09.15 | Students awards – poster | ||
09.15 – 10.30 | Panel discussion – Externally Funded Projects | Grants Office presentation | Chair: Anders Mikkelsen |
RÅC collaboration – Foivos Perakis, Stockholm University | |||
Accessibility to Infrastructure collaboration – Wolfgang Knecht, Lund University | |||
SINCRYS – Mads Ry Jørgensen, Aarhus University/MAX IV | |||
European collaborations – Marjolein Thunnissen, MAX IV | |||
10.30 – 11.00 | Fika break | ||
11.00 – 12.15 | Panel discussion – Large Scale Collaborations | Northern Lights on Food – Tommy Nylander, Lund University | Chair: Marco Kirm, University of Tartu |
Treesearch – Aleksandar Matic, Chalmers University | |||
BATTERY2030+ | |||
WISE – Olle Eriksson, Uppsala University | |||
FIMAX – Marko Huttula, University of Oulu | |||
12.15 – 12.30 | Closeout session | Agreements with Universities beyond 2023 – Conny Såthe, MAX IV Closing remarks – Olof Karis, MAX IV Director | |
12. 30 | Lunch |