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.
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.