Name: NICE2026 Nonlinear Imaging and Coherent Effects
Start: 2026-05-20T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-21T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Latisana, Italy

NICE2026 Nonlinear Imaging and Coherent Effects

from Wednesday, May 20, 2026 (8:00 AM) to Thursday, May 21, 2026 (6:00 PM)

Monday, May 18, 2026
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

8:30 AM Registration
Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

9:00 AM Welcome
Welcome
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
9:15 AM Coherent-based Diffractive Imaging
9:15 AM - 10:50 AM
Contributions

9:15 AM Exploring the Limits of Coherent Diffractive Imaging - Henry N. Chapman (CFEL DESY)

9:50 AM Broadband ptychography for soft X-ray imaging with a high-order harmonic source - Wilhelm Focko Eschen (CU Boulder, JILA)

10:25 AM Using the longitudinal coherence of a seeded free electron laser to enable single-shot videography - Abraham L. Levitan (Paul Scherrer Institute)
10:50 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM
11:10 AM NonLinear Spectroscopy
11:10 AM - 12:45 PM
Contributions

11:10 AM Unlocking Hidden Worlds in Quantum Materials: Metastability Controlled by Textured EUV Excitation - Igor Vaskivskyi (Jozef Stefan Institute)

11:45 AM Probing nonlinear effects at X-ray and EUV wavelenghts - Christina Boemer (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

12:20 PM Laser-driven XUV and X-ray sources for coherent imaging, ultrafast dynamics, and emerging nonlinear methods - Jaroslav Nejdl (Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC)
12:45 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM
2:15 PM Novel Coherent-based Diffractive Imaging
2:15 PM - 4:10 PM
Contributions

2:15 PM X-ray Coherent Diffractive Imaging with Nonlinear Wavemixing - Allan Johnson (IMDEA Nanoscience)

2:50 PM Ultrafast single-shot computational imaging - Daniel E. Adams (Colorado School of Mines)

3:25 PM Ultrafast subwavelength imaging of magnetic domain walls with extreme ultraviolet radiation - Hung-Tzu Chang (Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences)

3:50 PM Imaging Electric-Field-Driven Nanotexture Dynamics in V2O3 - Alessandra Milloch (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)
4:10 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Advanced Computational Methods
4:30 PM - 5:40 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Deep learning for 3D/4D X-ray image reconstruction at high-brilliance sources - Yuhe Zhang (Paul Scherrer Institute)

5:05 PM Magnetic X-ray Imaging using Single Polarization and Multimodal Ptychography - Marisel Di Pietro Martínez (LCPMR - CNRS Paris)
6:00 PM Poster Session

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

8:30 PM Social Dinner
Social Dinner
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Room: Precenicco
Thursday, May 21, 2026
8:45 AM Multidimensional Spectroscopic
8:45 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

8:45 AM Linear and non-linear X-ray studies of chirality in liquid solutions - Majed Chergui (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

9:20 AM Amplification of weak spontaneous emission from low-lying doubly excited states in helium gas - Matjaz Zitnik (Jozef Stefan Institute)

9:55 AM Attosecond momentum-resolved resonant x-ray scattering of photo-excited molecules: observing charge in motion. - Maksim Radionov (Brandenburg University of Technology)

10:20 AM Sum-Frequency Generation Spectro-Microscopy using the FHI-FEL - Dorothee Mader (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Structured illumination – Multidimensional Imaging
11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Structured Light in Nonlinear Spectroscopy: Breaking Selection Rules and Engineering Chiral Response - Kayn Forbes (University of East Anglia)

11:35 AM Magnetization Dynamics probed with Helicoidal Dichroism - Thierry Ruchon (LIDYL, CEA-Saclay)

12:10 PM From Focusing to Structured Light: The Evolution of KAOS at the FERMI FEL - Michele Manfredda (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)
12:45 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM
2:15 PM Sample Environment and Instrumental Developments
2:15 PM - 4:20 PM
Contributions

2:15 PM Diffractive X-ray optics for ultra-fast science – design, fabrication and experiments - Christian David (Paul Scherrer Institut)

2:50 PM Nonlinear X-Ray Spectroscopy of Interfaces - Jake Koralek (Stanford / SLAC)

3:25 PM Soft X-ray hybrid detectors using LGAD sensors - Anna Bergamaschi (Paul Scherrer Institut)

4:00 PM Nanoscale coherent surface phonon XUV spectroscopy of optically-induced phase transition in FeRh - Naman Agarwal (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)
4:20 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:20 PM - 4:40 PM

4:40 PM Round Table on Source, Science, and End Stations for the Future FERMI Seeded FEL

4:40 PM - 5:50 PM

5:50 PM Conclusion remarks
Conclusion remarks
5:50 PM - 6:00 PM