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;
- Elastic and inelastic X-ray scattering;
- Imaging and tomography;
- X-ray Microscopy;
- Photoelectron spectroscopy, microscopy and imaging;
- THz and IR spectroscopy and microscopy;
- Dedicated lectures will cover applications and recent research achievements in the fields of materials science, nanoscience, magnetism and catalysis, as well as Earth, environmental, and biological sciences, cultural heritage, and medicine.
The program includes data analysis sessions covering X-ray absorption spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction.
A full day will be dedicated to visit FERMI facility and its beamlines.
To promote networking and collaboration, participants are invited to present their research in a poster sessions, eventually highlighting the role of synchrotron radiation in their work. Participants are also encouraged to accompany the poster with a 3-minute, single-slide oral flash presentation.