HERCULES 2024

Mar 11, 2024, 8:00 AM → Mar 15, 2024, 11:30 PM Europe/Rome

Training Room - T1 P1 160 (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. di interesse nazionale)

Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste is proud to host the HERCULES 2024 European School from 11 to 15 March 2024 as partner facility. 

 

IMPORTANT: Deadline for Registration and Access Request to enter in Elettra is Tuesday 5th March 2024. See the REGISTRATION AND ACCESS link for more information 

 

Following the successful experience of the past editions, 20 students will be admitted to the laboratory and spend a week interacting closely with their teachers. The program includes lectures and practicals providing an in-depth learning on the techniques and the exciting science carried out at the synchrotron ring Elettra and the free electron laser FERMI.

Scope

HERCULES aims at delivering the highest level of training for students, postdoctoral researchers, and scientists using neutron and synchrotron radiation in varied disciplines, spanning from chemistry, physics and materials science to biology and geoscience. 

Lectures are given by world leading experts and are complemented by practicals and tutorials. Synchrotron and FEL methods and instrumentation are taught as main topics. Participants can also attend specialized sessions focusing on:

A. Physics and chemistry of condensed matter.
B. Biomolecular and soft condensed matter.

HERCULES provides its attendees with the opportunity to visit also one of the following large European facilities outside Grenoble: ALBA in Barcelona, Elettra and FERMI in Trieste, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen, DESY synchrotron and European XFEL in Hamburg, KIT Light Source in Karlsruhe, and SOLEIL synchrotron in Paris

Local Sponsors

Monday, March 11

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Welcome

Speakers: Lara Gigli (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.), Matteo Amati (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste)

9:30 AM → 10:20 AM Frontier Science at FERMI

Speaker: Claudio Masciovecchio (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

abstract_Bencivenga_Hercules2024.pdf

10:20 AM → 10:50 AM Coffee Break

10:50 AM → 11:40 AM Tunable UV Resonant Raman Scattering: a powerful way to investigate the chemical and structural conformation of peptides, proteins, nucleic acids, carbonaceous systems and organic semiconductors

Speaker: Dr Francesco D’Amico (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)

abstract_Damico_Hercules2024.pdf

11:40 AM → 12:30 PM Xpress – Diffraction at Extreme Conditions

Speaker: Boby Joseph (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

abstract_Joseph_Hercules2024.pdf

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch Break (canteen)

2:00 PM → 2:50 PM Visit: FERMI

Convener: Mauro Trovò (Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)

2:50 PM → 3:00 PM Break

3:00 PM → 3:50 PM Visit: Elettra experimental hall

Convener: Michele Zacchigna (CNR IOM Trieste - Italy)

3:50 PM → 4:00 PM Break

4:00 PM → 4:50 PM Visit: Elettra accumulation ring

Convener: Stefano Cleva (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)

Tuesday, March 12

9:00 AM → 9:50 AM Basic Aspects of X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Speaker: Dr Luca Bignardi (Department of Physics, University of Trieste, via Valerio 2, 34127 Trieste, Italy)

abstract_Bignardi_Hercules2024.pdf

9:50 AM → 10:40 AM Imaging surfaces using the photoemission electron microscope

Speaker: Dr Andrea Locatelli (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)

abstract_Locatelli_Hercules2024.pdf

10:40 AM → 11:10 AM Coffee Break

11:10 AM → 12:00 PM Ultrafast phenomena in condensed matter explored through extreme ultraviolet sub-picosecond pulses

Speaker: Dr Emiliano Principi (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)

abstract_Principi_Hercules2024.pdf

12:00 PM → 1:50 PM Lunch Break (canteen)

1:50 PM → 2:00 PM Group Picture

2:00 PM → 5:00 PM Practicals - 1: Lab/Beamline

2:00 PM Atomic Force Microscopy: morphomechanical imaging at the nanoscale

Practical at the NanoInnovation LAB laboratory

Speakers: Loredana Casalis (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste), Pietro Parisse (CNR IOM Trieste - Italy)

2:00 PM Imaging surfaces using low energy electrons: basic principles, methodology and data analysis

Practical at the Nanospectroscopy Beamline

Speakers: Andrea Locatelli (Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.), Tevfik Onur Mentes (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

2:00 PM SAXS Data Analysis on biomembranes

Tutorial held by SAXS beamline staff

Speakers: Alessandro Mariani (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste), Heinz Wilfried Amenitsch (Graz University of Technology)

2:00 PM Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy experiment

Practical at the TeraFERMI Beamline

Speakers: Andrea Perucchi (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste), Johannes Schmidt (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste), Paola Di Pietro (Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste)

2:00 PM Time-Resolved ARPES of quantum materials

Practical at the T-ReX laboratory

Speakers: Federico Cilento (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste SCpA), Wibke Bronsch (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)

Wednesday, March 13

9:00 AM → 9:50 AM Small Angle X-ray Scattering: The answer to dynamics in matter?

Speaker: Dr Heinz Amenitsch (Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, A-8010 Graz, Austria)

abstract_Amenitsch_Hercules2024.pdf

9:50 AM → 10:40 AM Soft X-ray Microscopy at TwinMic (Elettra)

Speaker: Dr Alessandra Gianoncelli (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)

abstract_Gianoncelli_Hercules2024.pdf

10:40 AM → 11:10 AM Coffee Break

11:10 AM → 12:00 PM Structural biology: past achievements and future perspective

Speaker: Dr Silvia Onesti (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)

abstract_Onesti_Hercules2024.pdf

12:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch Break (canteen)

2:00 PM → 5:00 PM Practicals - 2: Lab/Beamline

2:00 PM Fabrication of microfluidic circuits and diffraction gratings through UV lithography and soft-polymer casting

Practical at the DXRL beamline

Speaker: Benedetta Marmiroli (Graz University of Technology)

2:00 PM Introduction to multivariate analyses for spectral datasets

Tutorial held by SISSI beamline staff

Speaker: Giovanni Birarda (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

2:00 PM Metal-organic networks on metal substrate: LEED and photoemission tomography studies

Practical at the NanoESCA beamline

Speaker: Vitaly Feyer (Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI-6), Forschungszentrum Jülich)

2:00 PM Protein crystalization

Practical at the Structural Biology Lab laboratory

Speaker: Dr Silvia Onesti (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste - Italy)

2:00 PM Time-Resolved Optical Spectroscopy of Transition Metal DiChalcogenides

Practical at the T-ReX laboratory

Speakers: Federico Cilento (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste SCpA), Wibke Bronsch (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)

Thursday, March 14

9:00 AM → 9:50 AM Probing the electronic structure of solids by photoemission spectroscopy

Speaker: Dr Polina Sheverdyaeva (Istituto di Struttura della Materia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Trieste, Italy)

abstract_Sheverdyaeva_Hercules2024.pdf

9:50 AM → 10:40 AM Archaeologists at Elettra: From the field to the beamline

Speaker: Dr Simone A.M. Lemmers (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)

abstract_Lemmers_Hercules2024.pdf

10:40 AM → 11:10 AM Coffee Break

11:10 AM → 12:00 PM Funding opportunities for young researchers

Speaker: Dr Cecilia Blasetti (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)

abstract_Blasetti_Hercules2024.pdf

12:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch Break (canteen)

2:00 PM → 5:00 PM Practicals - 3: Lab/Beamline

2:00 PM Atomic force Microscopy: high speed imaging

Practical at the NanoInnovation LAB laboratory

Speakers: Loredana Casalis (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste), Pietro Parisse (CNR IOM Trieste - Italy)

2:00 PM Crystallography in Action: A Practical Approach to Small Molecular Structures

Tutorial held by XRD1 beamline staff

Speaker: Pradip Kumar Mondal (Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)

2:00 PM From Synchrotron- to laboratory-based X-ray computed microtomography: prcatical aspects

Practical at the TomoLab laboratory

Speaker: Diego Dreossi (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)

2:00 PM s-SNOM nanoscopic analysis for the sub-surface chemical identification of thin samples

Practical at the SISSI beamline

Speaker: Federica Piccirilli (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)

2:00 PM XRF data analisys

Tutorial held by XRF beamline staff

Speaker: Ilaria Carlomagno

Friday, March 15

9:00 AM → 9:50 AM CERIC-ERIC the multi-technique research infrastructure for materials research in Central-Eastern Europe

Speaker: Dr Marcello Turconi (CERIC-ERIC - S.S. 14 – km 163,5 in AREA Science Park 34149 Basovizza, Trieste - Italy)

abstract_Brzosko_Hercules2024.pdf

9:50 AM → 10:40 AM NFFA-Europe: your Research Infrastructure for Nanoscience

Speakers: Dr Cristina Africh (CNR-IOM, Trieste (Italy)), Dr Roberto Gotter (CNR-IOM, Trieste (Italy))

abstract_Africh_Hercules2024.pdf

10:40 AM → 11:10 AM Coffee Break

11:10 AM → 12:00 PM Feedback meeting

Speakers: Lara Gigli (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.), Matteo Amati (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste)

12:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch Break (canteen)

2:00 PM → 8:00 PM Social Event

8:00 PM → 10:30 PM Social Dinner

Ristorante Joia
Riva Tommaso Gulli, 4/a, 34123 Trieste TS