Programme

PL – Plenary Lecture
KN – Keynote Lecture

Applied X-ray techniques
Catalysis
Earth and environmental sciences
Instrumentation, new sources and new beamlines
Joint CXAFS/IXAS session
Life science, biology, biochemistry and medicine
Magnetism
Materials science and energy-related materials

Nanotechnology
New methods and combination of techniques
Radioactive and nuclear materials
Soft matter, Atoms & Molecules
Software, data analysis, theoretical methods
Spectroscopies at XFEL sources, time-resolved and ultrafast techniques
X-ray microscopy and tomography
X-ray scattering, electron spectroscopy, photon-in & photon-out spectroscopy

Lecture Halls

LH – Large Hall; EH-A – Exhibition Hall-A; EH-B – Exhibition Hall-B; MH-A – Medium Hall-A; MH-B – Medium Hall-B; SH – Small Hall; SRH – Seminar Hall

last update: 20th July 2018

Day 1: Sunday, 22nd July
time	details
08:00-21:00	Registration
	Workshops:
09:00-16:20	Workshop on Advances in XAFS Experimental Techniques: Bridging The Light Source Generations room: SH
09:00-16:00	An Introduction to XAFS Data Analysis with Athena and Artemis (and Larch) room: EH-A
09:00-14:00	Hands-on workshop on spectroscopy with FEFF and DFT room: EH-B
09:00-14:00	Hands-on workshop on EXAFS data-analysis with GNXAS/RMC/w-GNXAS(GUI) room: SRH

17:00-17:30	Opening/Welcome room: LH chair: Wojciech M. Kwiatek
17:30-17:55	PL Prof. Mikael Eriksson SOLARIS and MAX IV; a unique cooperation based on new accelerator concepts
17:55-18:15	PL Prof. Marek Stankiewicz Synchrotron Solaris - present and future research options
18:15-19:00	PL Dr. Sakura Pascarelli Science at High Pressure: the emerging role of X-ray absorption spectroscopies
19:00-21:00	Welcome Party

Day 2: Monday, 23rd July
time	details
9:00-9:15	PL Prof. Majed Chergui Time-resolved X-ray spectroscopic studies of solar materials and biological systems room: LH chair: Pieter Glatzel
9:15-9:30
9:30-9:45
9:45-10:00	PL Prof. Tao Yao XAFS in Energy Materials room: LH chair: Pieter Glatzel
10:10-10:15
10:15-10:30
10:30-10:45	Mark Ridgway's session Ch. Chantler, Ch. Glover, F. Boscherini room: LH chair: Pieter Glatzel
10:45-11:00
11:00-11:15	Coffee
11:15-11:30
	Spectroscopies at XFEL sources, time-resolved and ultrafast techniques		Materials science and energy-related materials	Magnetism	Earth and environmental sciences
	room: EH-A&B chair: Majed Chergui		room: MH-A chair: Andrea Di Cicco	MH-B chair: Amelie Juhin	room: SH chair: Augusto Marcelli
11:30-11:40	KN Dr. Jakub Szlachetko X-ray spectroscopy of nonlinear interactions of X-rays with matter		KN Prof. Faisal Alamgir XAFS using Combined Soft and Hard X-rays under Operando and In/Ex-situ Conditions to Solve Reaction Mechanisms in Batteries and Electrocatalysts	KN Dr. Corwin Booth XAFS at the edge of the periodic table: Determining the role of 5f-orbital delocalization in bonding and magnetism	KN Dr. Andrew Berry The quantitative determination of oxidation state ratios in minerals and melts
11:40-11:50
11:50-12:00
12:00-12:10	Prof. Gerald Seidler Ultrafast XES During XFEL Heating of Crystalline Fe3O4: Watching Magnetism Melt and Electrons Delocalize		Dr. Georg Spiekermann Valence-to-core X-ray emission spectroscopy for insight into the first and second coordination shells in crystalline and amorphous germanium oxides	KN Prof. Daniel Haskel X-ray resonant probes of magnetism at high pressures: towards realization of novel quantum spin liquids in 5d oxides	Prof. Chuanyong Jing XAFS study of antimony adsorption on faceted TiO2
12:10-12:20
12:20-12:30	Dr. Piter Miedema Excited-state RIXS of Cobaltates		Dr. Themis Sidiropoulos Attosecond dispersive soft X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy in graphite		Dr. Delphine Vantelon Characterization of the network organization of iron-organic matter nano-aggregates and its impact on arsenic uptake
12:30-12:40				Prof. Philippe Sainctavit X-ray optical activity of a tricobalt extended metal atom chain
12:40-12:50	Mr. Scott Jensen Understanding and interpreting x-ray emission data from ultrashort pulses		Mr. Salvatore Macis Correlated strain fluctuations in BaPb1-xBixO3 promoting high temperature quantum coherence by novel Scanning-Micro-XANES		Ms. Marija Krstulovic Local structural changes in amorphous NaAlGe3O8 upon compression to 50 GPa
12:50-13:00
13:00-14:30	Lunch
	session cont'd		session cont'd	X-ray scattering, electron spectroscopy, photon-in & photon-out spectroscopy	session cont'd
	room: EH-A&B chair: Christian Bressler		MH-A chair: Paola D'Angelo	MH-B chair: Jacinto Sá	SH chair: Andrew Berry
14:30-14:40	KN Dr. Wojciech Gawelda Femtosecond X-ray Experiments: new observables for chemical dynamics studies		KN Prof. Jianzhong Jiang Atomic structure changes in amorphous alloys	KN Prof. Federico Boscherini Studies of charge transfer in photocatalytic materials by resonant scattering methods	KN Dr. Joerg Goettlicher Application of X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy in Earth and Environmental Sciences
14:40-14:50
14:50-15:00
15:00-15:10	KN Dr. Gyorgy Vanko Tracking chemical transformations of transition metal complexes		Mr. Oliviero Cannelli Element selective probing of the photo-induced charge carriers in inorganic lead perovskites	Prof. Carlo Lamberti The Effect of Molecular Guest Binding on the d-d Transitions of Ni2+ of CPO-27-Ni: a Combined UV-Vis, Resonant Valence to Core XES and Theoretical Study	Dr. Ning Chen XAS characterization of nano-chromite particles precipitated on magnetite-biochar composites
15:10-15:20
15:20-15:30			Dr. Didier Grandjean Atomic-Scale Reversible Opto-Structural Switching of Few Atom Luminescent Silver Clusters in LTA Zeolites Unraveled By a Combination of XAFS and Optical Spectroscopies	Mr. Lukas Burkhardt Exploring the Sensitivity of HERFD-XANES and VtC-XES to Probe Hydride Interactions and Spin States in Transition Metal Complexes	Ms. Flora Maria Brocza Mercury speciation at a former wood preservation site
15:30-15:40	Dr. Yohei Uemura Ultrafast structural changes of photocatalysts studied by transient XAFS
15:40-15:50			Dr. Aram Bugaev Advanced characterization of palladium catalysts by in situ, operando and time-resolved X-ray absorption and scattering	Dr Piter Miedema 3d-, 3s-Partial Fluorescence yield XAS and RIXS electronic structure characterization - some insights on the L2,3-edge of 3d-metal materials	Mr. Marcel Görn Structural incorporation of Mo6+ into iron oxides
15:50-16:00
16:00-16:30	Coffee
	Applied X-ray techniques	Soft matter, Atoms & Molecules	session cont'd	session cont'd	Nanotechnology
	room: EH-A chair: Wolfgang Caliebe	room: EH-B chair: Bronisław Orłowski	room: MH-A chair: Faisal Alamgir	room: MH-B chair: Federico Boscherini	room: SH chair: Krystyna Jabłońska
16:30-16:40	Prof. Tsun Sham Synchrotron radiation in application to 19th century daguerreotypes	Dr. Robert Hauko K-edge absorption spectra of isoelectronic gaseous hydrides: a combination of atomic and molecular channels	Dr. Grigory Smolentsev Time-resolved XAS to study molecular photocatalytic H2 evolving systems	Prof. Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt Operando X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopic study of V-W-TiO2 catalysts for NOx removal from the diesel exhaust	Prof. Dirk Lützenkirchen-Hecht EXAFS investigations of Cobalt electrodeposition
16:40-16:50
16:50-17:00	Dr. Nicolas Finck Iron speciation in smectites of different charge and charge location	Ms. Bethan Evans Structural Characterization of Organic Salts by Combined X-ray Raman Scattering and Excited-State DFT Calculations	Dr. Amélie Bordage Photomagnetic Prussian Blue analogue as 5 nm-particles: Structural and electronic effects of size reduction	Ms. Laila H. Al-Madhagi Combined X-ray Raman Scattering and NEXAFS Analysis of Imidazole in Aqueous Solutions: Structural Evolution during Cooling Crystallisation	Dr. Tristan Petit Soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy of aqueous dispersions of nanoparticles in the water window
17:00-17:10
17:10-17:20	Dr. Haruaki Matsuura Local Structural Analysis of Rare Earth Complex in the Adsorbents for Extraction Chromatography	Ms. Thokozile A. Kathyola Combined operando X-ray absorption and infrared spectroscopy of multiphase multicomponent calcium carbonate crystallization processes	Dr. Emiliano Fonda Pressure induced amorphization of molecular crystals: SnI4 and GeI4	Mr. Shogo Kusano Observation of Electronic State Related to Fe Bonding in Fe-N-C Catalyst by X-ray Emission Spectroscopy	Dr. Jing Liu Reversed Nanoscale Kirkendall Effect in Au-InAs Hybrid Nanoparticles
17:20-17:30
17:30-17:40	Mr. Yakub Fam Synchrotron nanotomography studies of hierarchical nanoporous gold catalysts	Mr. Francesco Sessa Studying metal speciation in non-conventional solvents through X-ray absorption spectroscopy and molecular dynamics	Ms. Inga Jonane Low-temperature X-ray absorption spectroscopy study of CuMoO4 and CuMo0.90W0.10O4 using advanced reverse Monte-Carlo simulations	Mr. Luke Higgins Carbon K-edge X-Ray Raman Spectroscopy (XRS) of Sustainable Hydrothermal Carbons at two Popular Beamlines (APS-ID20, ESRF-ID20)	Ms. Marte van der Linden From silver ions to atomically monodisperse Ag29 clusters
17:40-17:50
17:50-18:00
18:00-20:00	SOLARIS Tour

Day 3: Tuesday, 24th July
time	details
9:00-9:15	PL Dr. Alexei Kuzmin Treatment of disorder effects in x-ray absorption spectra beyond conventional approach room: LH chair: Matthew Newville
9:15-9:30
9:30-9:45
9:45-10:00	PL Prof. Melissa Denecke X-ray speciation studies of materials and processes related to the nuclear fuel cycle room: LH chair: Matthew Newville
10:10-10:15
10:15-10:30
10:30-10:45	Ziu Wu's session S. Wei, A. Marcelli, K. Hatada room: LH chair: Matthew Newville
10:45-11:00
11:00-11:15	Coffee
11:15-11:30
11:30-14:00	Excursions
14:00-18:00
18:00-19:00	Poster Session I List of posters
19:00-20:00

Day 4: Wednesday, 25th July
time	details
9:00-9:15	PL Prof. Jason Shearer Why the “Unmakeable” Can Be Made and the “Undoable” Can Be Done - Understanding Purportedly Inaccessible Transition Metal Species Through X-ray Spectroscopies and Electronic Structure Calculations room: LH chair: Bruce Bunker
9:15-9:30
9:30-9:45
9:45-10:00	PL Prof. Hikaru Takaya XAS- and DFT-based Mechanistic Study on Homogeneous Iron Catalysis in Organic Synthesis room: LH chair: Bruce Bunker
10:10-10:15
10:15-10:30
10:30-10:45	Coffee
10:45-11:00
	Software, data analysis, theoretical methods		Catalysis	Materials science and energy-related materials	Life science, biology, biochemistry and medicine
	room: EH-A chair: Joshua Kas		room: MH-A chair: Valérie Briois	room: MH-B chair: Tsun Sham	room: SH chair: Sofia Diaz-Moreno
11:00-11:10	KN Dr. Keith Gilmore First principles Calculations of Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering		KN Prof. Kiyotaka Asakura Elucidation of local structure change of photocatalysts during the photoabsorption process by use of fs-ps pump-probe XAFS method	KN Dr. Antonella Iadecola Decoupling cationic-anionic redox processes in Li-rich cathodes using operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy	KN Prof. Jacinto Sá Atomic telemetry: in situ determination of anti-cancer drug mechanism of action
11:10-11:20
11:20-11:30
11:30-11:40	Dr. Yves Joly Ab initio simulation of Surface Resonant X-ray Diffraction		KN Dr. Ritimukta Sarangi Homogeneous Catalysis at SSRL: From Metalloenzymes to Energy Materials	Prof. Holger Meyerheim Surface doping of Bi2Se3(0001) by Cr and Au studied by EXAFS	KN Dr. Marcin Klepka XAFS studies of non-crystalline metal organic-ligand complexes
11:40-11:50
11:50-12:00	Mr. Martin Schalken Propagation of uncertainty in experiment: structures of Ni (II) coordination complexes			Dr. Henning Lichtenberg Synchrotron-based operando studies of Ni-based catalysts for methanation of CO2
12:00-12:10			Prof. Jeroen A. van Bokhoven Single particle XAS spectroscopy to elucidate fundamental processes in catalysis		Dr. Katharina Witte A Carbon K-edge NEXAFS Study of the Chlorophyll Derivative Sodium Copper Chlorophyllin and its Breakdown Products
12:10-12:20	Dr. Nadejda Bouldi Calculations of core level spectroscopies including many-body effects: influence of the model			Mr. Angelo Mullaliu The peculiar redox mechanism of copper nitroprusside disclosed by a multi-technique approach
12:20-12:30			Dr. Elisa Borfecchia XAS reveals structure-activity relationships for the methane to methanol conversion over Cu-SSZ-13 zeolites		Mr. Michał Nowakowski Attempt to determine the structure of the huPrPC-Cu(II)/Zn(II) complexes.
12:30-12:40				Dr. Augusto Marcelli The dynamics of Fe oxidation in amphiboles: electronics processes vs. local structural strain by means of simultaneous XRD and XAS experiments
12:40-12:50			Dr. Xiao Yan Liu Resolving structures of atomically dispersed M-N-C catalysts
12:50-13:00
13:00-14:30	Lunch
13:45-14:30					Special session *Technical details of the new high energy (1830-10000 eV) XAS station on SOLARIS* room: SH
	session cont'd	Instrumentation, new sources and new beamlines	session cont'd	session cont'd	Life science, biology, biochemistry and medicine
	room: EH-A chair: Keith Gilmore	room: EH-B chair: Henryk Fiedorowicz	room: MH-A chair: Hikaru Takaya	room: MH-B chair: Agnieszka Witkowska	room: SH chair: Jason Shearer
14:30-14:40	Prof. Anatoly Frenkel Advances in nanoparticle structure characterization by X-ray absorption spectroscopy	KN Prof. Birgit Kanngiesser Current and future possibilities of XAFS in the laboratory	KN Dr. Andrea Zitolo IIdentification of catalytic sites in non-precious metal electrocatalysts for PEM fuel cells	Prof. Sang-Wook Han The influence of structural disorder and phonon on the metal-to-insulator transition of VO2	KN Dr. Junko Yano Taking Snapshots of Water Oxidation Reaction in Photosystem II at X-ray Free Electron Lasers
14:40-14:50
14:50-15:00	Dr. Joshua Kas Corvus: A Workflow Tool for X-Ray and Related Spectroscopies			Dr. Lucia Amidani Oxidation and luminescence quenching of europium doped BaMgAl10O17 probed by HERFD-XANES
15:00-15:10		KN Dr. Jakob Andreasson The study of ultrafast phenomena using X-ray spectroscopy and related techniques at the ELI Beamlines facility	Dr. Fernando Vila Dynamic anomalies in the nanoscale structure and disorder of supported metal nanoparticles		Dr. Mikhail Soldatov The Insight into Td3+/Oh2+/3+ Fe Site Distribution in Iron Oxide Magnetic Nanoparticles for Medical Applications.
15:10-15:20	Prof. Alain Michalowicz Multivariate Curve Resolution with Alternating Least Square Fitting: An optimized algorithm for providing chemical speciation from time-resolved XAS data with a high time frame			Mr. Krzysztof Maćkosz Local structure of dopants in bismuth chalcogenides probed with EXAFS
15:20-15:30			Mr. Christopher Schlesiger Catalysis research with laboratory XAFS – two first application examples		Dr. Paweł Rejmak Refining the structures of novel Cu(II) bioactive complexes: XAFS spectroscopy, laboratory techniques and DFT calculations
15:30-15:40	Prof. Alain Michalowicz A tribute to Gilberto Vlaic	Dr. Mauro Rovezzi TEXS: high-efficiency in-vacuum tender X-ray emission spectrometer based on eleven cylindrically bent Johansson crystal analyzers		Dr. Gianluca Ciatto Ga clustering and Ga-H interaction in virgin and hydrogenated InGaN/GaN nanostructures addressed via Ga K-edge diffraction anomalous fine structure spectroscopy
15:40-15:50			Mr. Akihiko Kato Effect of CO2 on NOx Storage and Reduction (NSR) catalyst studied by spatio-temporal operando XAFS		Dr. Joanna Kowalska Insights into the Magnetic Coupling of Iron and Heterometal Atoms in FeMo and FeV Cofactor of Nitrogenase Enzyme
15:50-16:00
16:00-16:30	Coffee
	session cont'd	session cont'd	session cont'd	session cont'd	session cont'd
	room: EH-A chair: Anatoly Frenkel	room:: EH-B chair: Wojciech Gawełda	room: MH-A chair: Ritimukta Sarangi	room: MH-B chair: Antonella Iadecola	room: SH chair: Maciej Kozak
16:30-16:40	Prof. Keisuke Hatada Recent developments on ES2MS package	Dr. Ioanna Mantouvalou Nanosecond pump-probe soft X-ray NEXAFS spectroscopy using a laser-produced plasma source	Ms. Dzulija Kuzmenko X-ray absorption spectroscopy as a tool for in situ investigating sulfur poisoning and regeneration of ruthenium supported nanoparticles for dry biomass derived syngas methanation	Prof. Shinjiro Hayakawa Metal Chelation with Carboxylic Acids and its structure in solution as strategy to accelerate the electrodeposition of metals in nanocavities	Dr. Shino Homma-Takeda Two-dimensional μXAFS for uranium in kidney of rats exposed to uranyl acetate
16:40-16:50
16:50-17:00	Dr. Alexander Guda Multiplet ligand field approach based on Wannier functions for ab initio simulations of RIXS	Mr. William Holden A Versatile Tender X-ray Emission Spectrometer for Benchtop Analytical XES and Synchrotron RIXS Without Constraint on Source Size	Dr. Rafal Baran Dynamic changes of Mn species in MnSiBEA zeolite under NH3-SCR realistic conditions monitored by XAS and XES spectroscopies	Dr. Tomohiro Sakata In-situ observation of the adsorption species on carbon-supported Platinum catalyst in polymer electrolyte fuel cells probed by HERFD-XANES	Dr. George Cutsail High-Resolution EXAFS Supports an Open-Core Structure in the Q Intermediate of Methane Monooxygenase
17:00-17:10
17:10-17:20	Dr. Masashi Ishii Model-free determination of interatomic distance by using a new mathematical XAFS oscillation analysis	Dr. Oliver Mueller From point-to-point, to continuous and quick scanning EXAFS: achieving time resolution	Mr. Chen Liu in situ XAS study of temperature effect on the oxygen reduction reaction of Pt-Pd/C core-shell catalyst	Dr. Alexey Boubnov In-situ EXAFS/XANES Studies of Reactive Sorption of Hydrogen Sulfide by Copper Oxide Sorbents	Mrs. Maria Magdalena Grzelak Quantification of selected elements and speciation of iron in ovarian cancer tumours and their potential as a malignancies indicator
17:20-17:30
17:30-17:40	Dr. Dmitry Bocharov Interpretation of the Cu K-edge EXAFS spectra of Cu3N using ab initio molecular dynamics	Dr. Gülperi Cavusoglu Investigation of a Rh/CeO2 Catalyst and a Pd Membrane in a Micro-Structured Membrane Reactor	Dr. Husn Ubayda Islam Operando Infrared and XAS study of NO adsorption on zeolite supported palladium under complex gas feeds	Dr. Soma Chattopadhyay In situ XANES/EXAFS study of the formation of doped and undoped hollow γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles	Dr. Michael Haumann Effective Intermediate-Spin Iron in O2-Transporting Heme Proteins
17:40-17:50
17:50-18:00
19:00-23:00	Conference Dinner

Day 5: Thursday, 26th July
time	details
9:00-11:30	Excursion - Kraków Walking Tour
	Instrumentation, new sources and new beamlines	Magnetism	Radioactive and nuclear materials	New methods and combination of techniques
	room: EH-A chair: Jakob Andreasson	room: EH-B chair: Philippe Sainctavit	room: MH-A chair: Melissa Denecke	room: MH-B chair: Edmund Welter
11:30-11:40	KN Dr. Narcizio Souza-Neto X-ray spectroscopy at the Extreme condition Beamline of Sirius source: study of rare earths and actinides	KN Dr. Amelie Juhin Advanced magnetic spectroscopies for the fine characterization of magnetic nanomaterials	KN Dr. Tonya Vitova HR-XANES/RIXS structural studies of actinide materials	KN Dr. Valentina Migliorati Structural properties of disordered systems: a combined Molecular Dynamics and XAS approach
11:40-11:50
11:50-12:00
12:00-12:10	Dr. Marcin Zając PEEM/XAS beamline at SOLARIS: Status of the commissioning and first results	KN Dr. Marcin Sikora Mixed valence oxides – interplay between structure and magnetism revealed by X-ray spectroscopy	Dr. Joerg Rothe XAFS and µ-XANES/XRF investigation of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel fragments at the KIT synchrotron source	Prof. Christopher Chantler Accuracy and insight possible with advanced methods in absorption and fluorescence XAS
12:10-12:20
12:20-12:30	Dr. Wolfgang A. Caliebe XAFS at PETRA IV – What can be done?		Dr. Sergei Butorin Electronic structure of actinide compounds by high-resolution x-ray absorption spectroscopy	Dr. Steffen Witte S2XAFS@work: Customization for the Characterization of VOx based Catalysts
12:30-12:40		Dr. Michał Studniarek Slowing down magnetization relaxation of lanthanide phthalocyanine double deckers using a thin oxide film
12:40-12:50	Dr. Thomas Huthwelker XES Microspectroscopy: A new von Hamos Spectrometer for tender x-rays at the PHOENIX beamline		Mr. Evgeny Gerber High energy resolution X-ray spectroscopy and diffraction studies of plutonium oxide nanoparticles	Ms. Ellie Dann Following the Evolution of Supported PdO nanoparticle catalysts using a combined XAFS/DRIFTS method
12:50-13:00
13:00-14:30	Lunch
13:15-14:30	Meeting of the German XAFS Community room: EH-A		General Assembly of the Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society room: MH-A
	session cont'd	session cont'd	X-ray microscopy and tomography	X-ray scattering, electron spectroscopy, photon-in & photon-out spectroscopy
	room: EH-A chair: Marek Stankiewicz	room: EH-B chair: Sakura Pascarelli	room: MH-A chair: Joerg Goettlicher	room: MH-B chair: Gyorgy Vanko
14:30-14:40	KN Dr. Przemysław Wachulak Laser plasma source of the extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray radiation for NEXAFS and imaging applications	KN Dr. Gloria Subias Charge and magnetic orders in single-layer transition-metal oxides: an insight from XAS, XES and REXS	KN Prof. Alessandro Olivo Non-interferometric approaches to x-ray phase contrast imaging	KN Dr. Christoph Sahle X-ray Raman scattering spectroscopy
14:40-14:50
14:50-15:00
15:00-15:10	Mr. Nicola Di Palo Attosecond Water-Window Soft X-ray source for XANES	Ms. Hebatalla Elnaggar Dynamical local correlations in Magnetite revealed by Fe 2p3d RIXS MCD	Prof. Masao Kimura Identification of trigger sites in crack-formation during heterogeneous reduction of iron-ore sinters using persistent homology	Ms. Fukiko Ota Theoretical calculation of X-ray absorption near edge structure and photoelectron angular distribution for gas-phase molecule
15:10-15:20
15:20-15:30	Dr. Steve Heald Sector 25 at the APS-U: Two new beamlines for spectroscopy	Mr. Juliusz Kuciakowski Development of superparamagnetism in solutions of nanoparticles studied by means of 1s2p RIXS-MCD	Prof. J. Fred Mosselmans Using XANES mapping to examine the speciation of metal debris in tissue	Prof. Joaquin Garcia Charge superstructure in single-layered La2-xCaxCoO4±δ (0.4≤x≤0.7) studied by resonant x-ray scattering
15:30-15:40
15:40-15:50	Dr. Messaoud Harfouche XAFS/XRF Beamline at SESAME: First Monochromatic Light in the Middle East	Dr. S. Fatemeh Shams Characterization of Pd-decorated cobalt ferrite nanoparticles for magnetic ferrofluid hyperthermia applications	Dr. Zou Finfrock Confocal x-ray fluorescence microscopy at the Advanced Photon Source sector 20	Mr. Saleh Aghakhani Isolated Ag Cations Interacting with Luminescent Ag Clusters Confined in FAU Zeolites Identified as Highly Active Sites for CO Oxidation By a Combination of XEOL-XAFS, DRIFT and PL Spectroscopy
15:50-16:00
16:00-16:30	Coffee
	Catalysis	session cont'd	Radioactive and nuclear materials	Joint CXAFS/IXAS session
	room: EH-A chair: Kiyotaka Asakura	room: EH-B chair: Gloria Subias	room: MH-A chair: Tonya Vitova	room: MH-B chair: Christopher Chantler
16:30-16:40	Dr. Rok Bohinc Distribution of aluminum over different T-sites in ferrierite zeolites studied with aluminum valence to core X-ray emission spectroscopy	Dr. Hengli Duan Beating the exclusion rule against the coexistence of robust luminescence and ferromagnetism in chalcogenide monolayers	Dr. Akihiro Uehara High temperature reactions of UO2, ZrO2, B4C, CaO, and SiO2 under reducing and oxidizing atmospheres	Short introduction
16:40-16:50				Prof. Farideh Jalilehvand Aerobic Reactions of Antitumor Active Rh2(CH3COO)4 with Glutathione, Cysteine and Its Derivatives
16:50-17:00	Dr. Aleksandra Wandzilak STXM study of Fe-based NH3 synthesis and decomposition catalyst	Dr. Verena Ney Electric field-induced changes in the magnetic properties in doped semiconductors with lack of inversion symmetry	Mr. Aaron Beck U/Pu M4,5 edge HR-XANES investigations (i) of aqueous/colloidal Pu and (ii) at the Zircaloy cladding/spent nuclear fuel interface
17:00-17:10				Prof. Peter Krüger Transition metal L-edge spectra with ligand-field multiplet parameters from density functional theory
17:10-17:20	Dr. Yuanjie Cao Structure-activity correlations of Co single-sites photocatalyst studied by XAFS	Dr. Nadejda Bouldi Electronic and magnetic properties of iron hydride under pressure using XAS and XMCD at the Fe K-edge: a combined theoretical and experimental study	Dr. René Bes X-ray absorption spectroscopy at laboratory scale: towards new actinide research opportunities.
17:20-17:30				Dr. Hidekazu Ikeno Analyzing RIXS and RIXS-MCD of Iron Oxides by the Ab-initio Multiplet Method
17:30-17:40	Mr. Cody Wrasman Structure-activity relationships of Au-Pd single-atom alloys for selective oxidation studied by EXAFS	Dr. Hao Tan XAFS study on the ferromagnetism in Mn-doped MoS2 nanosheets	Dr. Sarah Saslow Understanding Tc-99 Retention in Ettringite for Improving Cementitious Waste Forms
17:40-17:50				Mr. Ryan Trevorah Solving Self-Absorption in Fluorescence: Stereochemical Analysis of mM solutions
17:50-18:00
18:00-19:00	Poster Session II List of posters
19:00-20:00

Day 6: Friday, 27th July
time	details
9:00-9:15	PL Prof. Andrea Di Cicco X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy investigations of disordered matter room: LH chair: Daniel Haskel
9:15-9:30
9:30-9:45
9:45-10:00	PL Dr. Małgorzata Korbas From fruit flies to whales: probing mercury toxicity across the animal kingdom with X-ray fluorescence mapping and XAS room: LH chair: Daniel Haskel
10:10-10:15
10:15-10:30
10:30-10:45	Coffee
10:45-11:00	Coffee
11:00-11:15	Tadashi Matsushita's session Hitoshi Abe, Sakura Pascarelli, Kiyotaka Asakura room: LH chair: Hiroyuki Oyanagi
11:15-11:30
11:30-11:40	Ed Stern's session Daniel Haskel, Matthew Newville, Bruce Bunker room: LH chair: Hiroyuki Oyanagi
11:40-11:50
11:50-12:00
12:00-12:10
12:10-12:20	IXAS Awards Matthew Newville, Pieter Glatzel
12:20-12:30	IXAS Awards Matthew Newville, Pieter Glatzel
12:30-12:40	Summary remarks & Closing
12:40-12:50
12:50-13:00
13:00-14:30	Lunch
14:00-16:00	SOLARIS Tour

Day 1: Sunday, 22nd July
time	details
08:00-21:00	Registration
	Workshops:
09:00-16:20	Workshop on Advances in XAFS Experimental Techniques: Bridging The Light Source Generations room: SH
09:00-16:00	An Introduction to XAFS Data Analysis with Athena and Artemis (and Larch) room: EH-A
09:00-14:00	Hands-on workshop on spectroscopy with FEFF and DFT room: EH-B
09:00-14:00	Hands-on workshop on EXAFS data-analysis with GNXAS/RMC/w-GNXAS(GUI) room: SRH

17:00-17:30	Opening/Welcome room: LH chair: Wojciech M. Kwiatek
17:30-17:55	PL Prof. Mikael Eriksson SOLARIS and MAX IV; a unique cooperation based on new accelerator concepts
17:55-18:15	PL Prof. Marek Stankiewicz Synchrotron Solaris - present and future research options
18:15-19:00	PL Dr. Sakura Pascarelli Science at High Pressure: the emerging role of X-ray absorption spectroscopies
19:00-21:00	Welcome Party

Day 2: Monday, 23rd July
time	details
9:00-9:15	PL Prof. Majed Chergui Time-resolved X-ray spectroscopic studies of solar materials and biological systems room: LH chair: Pieter Glatzel
9:15-9:30
9:30-9:45
9:45-10:00	PL Prof. Tao Yao XAFS in Energy Materials room: LH chair: Pieter Glatzel
10:10-10:15
10:15-10:30
10:30-10:45	Mark Ridgway's session Ch. Chantler, Ch. Glover, F. Boscherini room: LH chair: Pieter Glatzel
10:45-11:00
11:00-11:15	Coffee
11:15-11:30
	Spectroscopies at XFEL sources, time-resolved and ultrafast techniques		Materials science and energy-related materials	Magnetism	Earth and environmental sciences
	room: EH-A&B chair: Majed Chergui		room: MH-A chair: Andrea Di Cicco	MH-B chair: Amelie Juhin	room: SH chair: Augusto Marcelli
11:30-11:40	KN Dr. Jakub Szlachetko X-ray spectroscopy of nonlinear interactions of X-rays with matter		KN Prof. Faisal Alamgir XAFS using Combined Soft and Hard X-rays under Operando and In/Ex-situ Conditions to Solve Reaction Mechanisms in Batteries and Electrocatalysts	KN Dr. Corwin Booth XAFS at the edge of the periodic table: Determining the role of 5f-orbital delocalization in bonding and magnetism	KN Dr. Andrew Berry The quantitative determination of oxidation state ratios in minerals and melts
11:40-11:50
11:50-12:00
12:00-12:10	Prof. Gerald Seidler Ultrafast XES During XFEL Heating of Crystalline Fe3O4: Watching Magnetism Melt and Electrons Delocalize		Dr. Georg Spiekermann Valence-to-core X-ray emission spectroscopy for insight into the first and second coordination shells in crystalline and amorphous germanium oxides	KN Prof. Daniel Haskel X-ray resonant probes of magnetism at high pressures: towards realization of novel quantum spin liquids in 5d oxides	Prof. Chuanyong Jing XAFS study of antimony adsorption on faceted TiO2
12:10-12:20
12:20-12:30	Dr. Piter Miedema Excited-state RIXS of Cobaltates		Dr. Themis Sidiropoulos Attosecond dispersive soft X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy in graphite		Dr. Delphine Vantelon Characterization of the network organization of iron-organic matter nano-aggregates and its impact on arsenic uptake
12:30-12:40				Prof. Philippe Sainctavit X-ray optical activity of a tricobalt extended metal atom chain
12:40-12:50	Mr. Scott Jensen Understanding and interpreting x-ray emission data from ultrashort pulses		Mr. Salvatore Macis Correlated strain fluctuations in BaPb1-xBixO3 promoting high temperature quantum coherence by novel Scanning-Micro-XANES		Ms. Marija Krstulovic Local structural changes in amorphous NaAlGe3O8 upon compression to 50 GPa
12:50-13:00
13:00-14:30	Lunch
	session cont'd		session cont'd	X-ray scattering, electron spectroscopy, photon-in & photon-out spectroscopy	session cont'd
	room: EH-A&B chair: Christian Bressler		MH-A chair: Paola D'Angelo	MH-B chair: Jacinto Sá	SH chair: Andrew Berry
14:30-14:40	KN Dr. Wojciech Gawelda Femtosecond X-ray Experiments: new observables for chemical dynamics studies		KN Prof. Jianzhong Jiang Atomic structure changes in amorphous alloys	KN Prof. Federico Boscherini Studies of charge transfer in photocatalytic materials by resonant scattering methods	KN Dr. Joerg Goettlicher Application of X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy in Earth and Environmental Sciences
14:40-14:50
14:50-15:00
15:00-15:10	KN Dr. Gyorgy Vanko Tracking chemical transformations of transition metal complexes		Mr. Oliviero Cannelli Element selective probing of the photo-induced charge carriers in inorganic lead perovskites	Prof. Carlo Lamberti The Effect of Molecular Guest Binding on the d-d Transitions of Ni2+ of CPO-27-Ni: a Combined UV-Vis, Resonant Valence to Core XES and Theoretical Study	Dr. Ning Chen XAS characterization of nano-chromite particles precipitated on magnetite-biochar composites
15:10-15:20
15:20-15:30			Dr. Didier Grandjean Atomic-Scale Reversible Opto-Structural Switching of Few Atom Luminescent Silver Clusters in LTA Zeolites Unraveled By a Combination of XAFS and Optical Spectroscopies	Mr. Lukas Burkhardt Exploring the Sensitivity of HERFD-XANES and VtC-XES to Probe Hydride Interactions and Spin States in Transition Metal Complexes	Ms. Flora Maria Brocza Mercury speciation at a former wood preservation site
15:30-15:40	Dr. Yohei Uemura Ultrafast structural changes of photocatalysts studied by transient XAFS
15:40-15:50			Dr. Aram Bugaev Advanced characterization of palladium catalysts by in situ, operando and time-resolved X-ray absorption and scattering	Dr Piter Miedema 3d-, 3s-Partial Fluorescence yield XAS and RIXS electronic structure characterization - some insights on the L2,3-edge of 3d-metal materials	Mr. Marcel Görn Structural incorporation of Mo6+ into iron oxides
15:50-16:00
16:00-16:30	Coffee
	Applied X-ray techniques	Soft matter, Atoms & Molecules	session cont'd	session cont'd	Nanotechnology
	room: EH-A chair: Wolfgang Caliebe	room: EH-B chair: Bronisław Orłowski	room: MH-A chair: Faisal Alamgir	room: MH-B chair: Federico Boscherini	room: SH chair: Krystyna Jabłońska
16:30-16:40	Prof. Tsun Sham Synchrotron radiation in application to 19th century daguerreotypes	Dr. Robert Hauko K-edge absorption spectra of isoelectronic gaseous hydrides: a combination of atomic and molecular channels	Dr. Grigory Smolentsev Time-resolved XAS to study molecular photocatalytic H2 evolving systems	Prof. Jan-Dierk Grunwaldt Operando X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopic study of V-W-TiO2 catalysts for NOx removal from the diesel exhaust	Prof. Dirk Lützenkirchen-Hecht EXAFS investigations of Cobalt electrodeposition
16:40-16:50
16:50-17:00	Dr. Nicolas Finck Iron speciation in smectites of different charge and charge location	Ms. Bethan Evans Structural Characterization of Organic Salts by Combined X-ray Raman Scattering and Excited-State DFT Calculations	Dr. Amélie Bordage Photomagnetic Prussian Blue analogue as 5 nm-particles: Structural and electronic effects of size reduction	Ms. Laila H. Al-Madhagi Combined X-ray Raman Scattering and NEXAFS Analysis of Imidazole in Aqueous Solutions: Structural Evolution during Cooling Crystallisation	Dr. Tristan Petit Soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy of aqueous dispersions of nanoparticles in the water window
17:00-17:10
17:10-17:20	Dr. Haruaki Matsuura Local Structural Analysis of Rare Earth Complex in the Adsorbents for Extraction Chromatography	Ms. Thokozile A. Kathyola Combined operando X-ray absorption and infrared spectroscopy of multiphase multicomponent calcium carbonate crystallization processes	Dr. Emiliano Fonda Pressure induced amorphization of molecular crystals: SnI4 and GeI4	Mr. Shogo Kusano Observation of Electronic State Related to Fe Bonding in Fe-N-C Catalyst by X-ray Emission Spectroscopy	Dr. Jing Liu Reversed Nanoscale Kirkendall Effect in Au-InAs Hybrid Nanoparticles
17:20-17:30
17:30-17:40	Mr. Yakub Fam Synchrotron nanotomography studies of hierarchical nanoporous gold catalysts	Mr. Francesco Sessa Studying metal speciation in non-conventional solvents through X-ray absorption spectroscopy and molecular dynamics	Ms. Inga Jonane Low-temperature X-ray absorption spectroscopy study of CuMoO4 and CuMo0.90W0.10O4 using advanced reverse Monte-Carlo simulations	Mr. Luke Higgins Carbon K-edge X-Ray Raman Spectroscopy (XRS) of Sustainable Hydrothermal Carbons at two Popular Beamlines (APS-ID20, ESRF-ID20)	Ms. Marte van der Linden From silver ions to atomically monodisperse Ag29 clusters
17:40-17:50
17:50-18:00
18:00-20:00	SOLARIS Tour

Day 3: Tuesday, 24th July
time	details
9:00-9:15	PL Dr. Alexei Kuzmin Treatment of disorder effects in x-ray absorption spectra beyond conventional approach room: LH chair: Matthew Newville
9:15-9:30
9:30-9:45
9:45-10:00	PL Prof. Melissa Denecke X-ray speciation studies of materials and processes related to the nuclear fuel cycle room: LH chair: Matthew Newville
10:10-10:15
10:15-10:30
10:30-10:45	Ziu Wu's session S. Wei, A. Marcelli, K. Hatada room: LH chair: Matthew Newville
10:45-11:00
11:00-11:15	Coffee
11:15-11:30
11:30-14:00	Excursions
14:00-18:00
18:00-19:00	Poster Session I List of posters
19:00-20:00

Day 4: Wednesday, 25th July
time	details
9:00-9:15	PL Prof. Jason Shearer Why the “Unmakeable” Can Be Made and the “Undoable” Can Be Done - Understanding Purportedly Inaccessible Transition Metal Species Through X-ray Spectroscopies and Electronic Structure Calculations room: LH chair: Bruce Bunker
9:15-9:30
9:30-9:45
9:45-10:00	PL Prof. Hikaru Takaya XAS- and DFT-based Mechanistic Study on Homogeneous Iron Catalysis in Organic Synthesis room: LH chair: Bruce Bunker
10:10-10:15
10:15-10:30
10:30-10:45	Coffee
10:45-11:00
	Software, data analysis, theoretical methods		Catalysis	Materials science and energy-related materials	Life science, biology, biochemistry and medicine
	room: EH-A chair: Joshua Kas		room: MH-A chair: Valérie Briois	room: MH-B chair: Tsun Sham	room: SH chair: Sofia Diaz-Moreno
11:00-11:10	KN Dr. Keith Gilmore First principles Calculations of Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering		KN Prof. Kiyotaka Asakura Elucidation of local structure change of photocatalysts during the photoabsorption process by use of fs-ps pump-probe XAFS method	KN Dr. Antonella Iadecola Decoupling cationic-anionic redox processes in Li-rich cathodes using operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy	KN Prof. Jacinto Sá Atomic telemetry: in situ determination of anti-cancer drug mechanism of action
11:10-11:20
11:20-11:30
11:30-11:40	Dr. Yves Joly Ab initio simulation of Surface Resonant X-ray Diffraction		KN Dr. Ritimukta Sarangi Homogeneous Catalysis at SSRL: From Metalloenzymes to Energy Materials	Prof. Holger Meyerheim Surface doping of Bi2Se3(0001) by Cr and Au studied by EXAFS	KN Dr. Marcin Klepka XAFS studies of non-crystalline metal organic-ligand complexes
11:40-11:50
11:50-12:00	Mr. Martin Schalken Propagation of uncertainty in experiment: structures of Ni (II) coordination complexes			Dr. Henning Lichtenberg Synchrotron-based operando studies of Ni-based catalysts for methanation of CO2
12:00-12:10			Prof. Jeroen A. van Bokhoven Single particle XAS spectroscopy to elucidate fundamental processes in catalysis		Dr. Katharina Witte A Carbon K-edge NEXAFS Study of the Chlorophyll Derivative Sodium Copper Chlorophyllin and its Breakdown Products
12:10-12:20	Dr. Nadejda Bouldi Calculations of core level spectroscopies including many-body effects: influence of the model			Mr. Angelo Mullaliu The peculiar redox mechanism of copper nitroprusside disclosed by a multi-technique approach
12:20-12:30			Dr. Elisa Borfecchia XAS reveals structure-activity relationships for the methane to methanol conversion over Cu-SSZ-13 zeolites		Mr. Michał Nowakowski Attempt to determine the structure of the huPrPC-Cu(II)/Zn(II) complexes.
12:30-12:40				Dr. Augusto Marcelli The dynamics of Fe oxidation in amphiboles: electronics processes vs. local structural strain by means of simultaneous XRD and XAS experiments
12:40-12:50			Dr. Xiao Yan Liu Resolving structures of atomically dispersed M-N-C catalysts
12:50-13:00
13:00-14:30	Lunch
13:45-14:30					Special session *Technical details of the new high energy (1830-10000 eV) XAS station on SOLARIS* room: SH
	session cont'd	Instrumentation, new sources and new beamlines	session cont'd	session cont'd	Life science, biology, biochemistry and medicine
	room: EH-A chair: Keith Gilmore	room: EH-B chair: Henryk Fiedorowicz	room: MH-A chair: Hikaru Takaya	room: MH-B chair: Agnieszka Witkowska	room: SH chair: Jason Shearer
14:30-14:40	Prof. Anatoly Frenkel Advances in nanoparticle structure characterization by X-ray absorption spectroscopy	KN Prof. Birgit Kanngiesser Current and future possibilities of XAFS in the laboratory	KN Dr. Andrea Zitolo IIdentification of catalytic sites in non-precious metal electrocatalysts for PEM fuel cells	Prof. Sang-Wook Han The influence of structural disorder and phonon on the metal-to-insulator transition of VO2	KN Dr. Junko Yano Taking Snapshots of Water Oxidation Reaction in Photosystem II at X-ray Free Electron Lasers
14:40-14:50
14:50-15:00	Dr. Joshua Kas Corvus: A Workflow Tool for X-Ray and Related Spectroscopies			Dr. Lucia Amidani Oxidation and luminescence quenching of europium doped BaMgAl10O17 probed by HERFD-XANES
15:00-15:10		KN Dr. Jakob Andreasson The study of ultrafast phenomena using X-ray spectroscopy and related techniques at the ELI Beamlines facility	Dr. Fernando Vila Dynamic anomalies in the nanoscale structure and disorder of supported metal nanoparticles		Dr. Mikhail Soldatov The Insight into Td3+/Oh2+/3+ Fe Site Distribution in Iron Oxide Magnetic Nanoparticles for Medical Applications.
15:10-15:20	Prof. Alain Michalowicz Multivariate Curve Resolution with Alternating Least Square Fitting: An optimized algorithm for providing chemical speciation from time-resolved XAS data with a high time frame			Mr. Krzysztof Maćkosz Local structure of dopants in bismuth chalcogenides probed with EXAFS
15:20-15:30			Mr. Christopher Schlesiger Catalysis research with laboratory XAFS – two first application examples		Dr. Paweł Rejmak Refining the structures of novel Cu(II) bioactive complexes: XAFS spectroscopy, laboratory techniques and DFT calculations
15:30-15:40	Prof. Alain Michalowicz A tribute to Gilberto Vlaic	Dr. Mauro Rovezzi TEXS: high-efficiency in-vacuum tender X-ray emission spectrometer based on eleven cylindrically bent Johansson crystal analyzers		Dr. Gianluca Ciatto Ga clustering and Ga-H interaction in virgin and hydrogenated InGaN/GaN nanostructures addressed via Ga K-edge diffraction anomalous fine structure spectroscopy
15:40-15:50			Mr. Akihiko Kato Effect of CO2 on NOx Storage and Reduction (NSR) catalyst studied by spatio-temporal operando XAFS		Dr. Joanna Kowalska Insights into the Magnetic Coupling of Iron and Heterometal Atoms in FeMo and FeV Cofactor of Nitrogenase Enzyme
15:50-16:00
16:00-16:30	Coffee
	session cont'd	session cont'd	session cont'd	session cont'd	session cont'd
	room: EH-A chair: Anatoly Frenkel	room:: EH-B chair: Wojciech Gawełda	room: MH-A chair: Ritimukta Sarangi	room: MH-B chair: Antonella Iadecola	room: SH chair: Maciej Kozak
16:30-16:40	Prof. Keisuke Hatada Recent developments on ES2MS package	Dr. Ioanna Mantouvalou Nanosecond pump-probe soft X-ray NEXAFS spectroscopy using a laser-produced plasma source	Ms. Dzulija Kuzmenko X-ray absorption spectroscopy as a tool for in situ investigating sulfur poisoning and regeneration of ruthenium supported nanoparticles for dry biomass derived syngas methanation	Prof. Shinjiro Hayakawa Metal Chelation with Carboxylic Acids and its structure in solution as strategy to accelerate the electrodeposition of metals in nanocavities	Dr. Shino Homma-Takeda Two-dimensional μXAFS for uranium in kidney of rats exposed to uranyl acetate
16:40-16:50
16:50-17:00	Dr. Alexander Guda Multiplet ligand field approach based on Wannier functions for ab initio simulations of RIXS	Mr. William Holden A Versatile Tender X-ray Emission Spectrometer for Benchtop Analytical XES and Synchrotron RIXS Without Constraint on Source Size	Dr. Rafal Baran Dynamic changes of Mn species in MnSiBEA zeolite under NH3-SCR realistic conditions monitored by XAS and XES spectroscopies	Dr. Tomohiro Sakata In-situ observation of the adsorption species on carbon-supported Platinum catalyst in polymer electrolyte fuel cells probed by HERFD-XANES	Dr. George Cutsail High-Resolution EXAFS Supports an Open-Core Structure in the Q Intermediate of Methane Monooxygenase
17:00-17:10
17:10-17:20	Dr. Masashi Ishii Model-free determination of interatomic distance by using a new mathematical XAFS oscillation analysis	Dr. Oliver Mueller From point-to-point, to continuous and quick scanning EXAFS: achieving time resolution	Mr. Chen Liu in situ XAS study of temperature effect on the oxygen reduction reaction of Pt-Pd/C core-shell catalyst	Dr. Alexey Boubnov In-situ EXAFS/XANES Studies of Reactive Sorption of Hydrogen Sulfide by Copper Oxide Sorbents	Mrs. Maria Magdalena Grzelak Quantification of selected elements and speciation of iron in ovarian cancer tumours and their potential as a malignancies indicator
17:20-17:30
17:30-17:40	Dr. Dmitry Bocharov Interpretation of the Cu K-edge EXAFS spectra of Cu3N using ab initio molecular dynamics	Dr. Gülperi Cavusoglu Investigation of a Rh/CeO2 Catalyst and a Pd Membrane in a Micro-Structured Membrane Reactor	Dr. Husn Ubayda Islam Operando Infrared and XAS study of NO adsorption on zeolite supported palladium under complex gas feeds	Dr. Soma Chattopadhyay In situ XANES/EXAFS study of the formation of doped and undoped hollow γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles	Dr. Michael Haumann Effective Intermediate-Spin Iron in O2-Transporting Heme Proteins
17:40-17:50
17:50-18:00
19:00-23:00	Conference Dinner

Day 5: Thursday, 26th July
time	details
9:00-11:30	Excursion - Kraków Walking Tour
	Instrumentation, new sources and new beamlines	Magnetism	Radioactive and nuclear materials	New methods and combination of techniques
	room: EH-A chair: Jakob Andreasson	room: EH-B chair: Philippe Sainctavit	room: MH-A chair: Melissa Denecke	room: MH-B chair: Edmund Welter
11:30-11:40	KN Dr. Narcizio Souza-Neto X-ray spectroscopy at the Extreme condition Beamline of Sirius source: study of rare earths and actinides	KN Dr. Amelie Juhin Advanced magnetic spectroscopies for the fine characterization of magnetic nanomaterials	KN Dr. Tonya Vitova HR-XANES/RIXS structural studies of actinide materials	KN Dr. Valentina Migliorati Structural properties of disordered systems: a combined Molecular Dynamics and XAS approach
11:40-11:50
11:50-12:00
12:00-12:10	Dr. Marcin Zając PEEM/XAS beamline at SOLARIS: Status of the commissioning and first results	KN Dr. Marcin Sikora Mixed valence oxides – interplay between structure and magnetism revealed by X-ray spectroscopy	Dr. Joerg Rothe XAFS and µ-XANES/XRF investigation of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel fragments at the KIT synchrotron source	Prof. Christopher Chantler Accuracy and insight possible with advanced methods in absorption and fluorescence XAS
12:10-12:20
12:20-12:30	Dr. Wolfgang A. Caliebe XAFS at PETRA IV – What can be done?		Dr. Sergei Butorin Electronic structure of actinide compounds by high-resolution x-ray absorption spectroscopy	Dr. Steffen Witte S2XAFS@work: Customization for the Characterization of VOx based Catalysts
12:30-12:40		Dr. Michał Studniarek Slowing down magnetization relaxation of lanthanide phthalocyanine double deckers using a thin oxide film
12:40-12:50	Dr. Thomas Huthwelker XES Microspectroscopy: A new von Hamos Spectrometer for tender x-rays at the PHOENIX beamline		Mr. Evgeny Gerber High energy resolution X-ray spectroscopy and diffraction studies of plutonium oxide nanoparticles	Ms. Ellie Dann Following the Evolution of Supported PdO nanoparticle catalysts using a combined XAFS/DRIFTS method
12:50-13:00
13:00-14:30	Lunch
13:15-14:30	Meeting of the German XAFS Community room: EH-A		General Assembly of the Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society room: MH-A
	session cont'd	session cont'd	X-ray microscopy and tomography	X-ray scattering, electron spectroscopy, photon-in & photon-out spectroscopy
	room: EH-A chair: Marek Stankiewicz	room: EH-B chair: Sakura Pascarelli	room: MH-A chair: Joerg Goettlicher	room: MH-B chair: Gyorgy Vanko
14:30-14:40	KN Dr. Przemysław Wachulak Laser plasma source of the extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray radiation for NEXAFS and imaging applications	KN Dr. Gloria Subias Charge and magnetic orders in single-layer transition-metal oxides: an insight from XAS, XES and REXS	KN Prof. Alessandro Olivo Non-interferometric approaches to x-ray phase contrast imaging	KN Dr. Christoph Sahle X-ray Raman scattering spectroscopy
14:40-14:50
14:50-15:00
15:00-15:10	Mr. Nicola Di Palo Attosecond Water-Window Soft X-ray source for XANES	Ms. Hebatalla Elnaggar Dynamical local correlations in Magnetite revealed by Fe 2p3d RIXS MCD	Prof. Masao Kimura Identification of trigger sites in crack-formation during heterogeneous reduction of iron-ore sinters using persistent homology	Ms. Fukiko Ota Theoretical calculation of X-ray absorption near edge structure and photoelectron angular distribution for gas-phase molecule
15:10-15:20
15:20-15:30	Dr. Steve Heald Sector 25 at the APS-U: Two new beamlines for spectroscopy	Mr. Juliusz Kuciakowski Development of superparamagnetism in solutions of nanoparticles studied by means of 1s2p RIXS-MCD	Prof. J. Fred Mosselmans Using XANES mapping to examine the speciation of metal debris in tissue	Prof. Joaquin Garcia Charge superstructure in single-layered La2-xCaxCoO4±δ (0.4≤x≤0.7) studied by resonant x-ray scattering
15:30-15:40
15:40-15:50	Dr. Messaoud Harfouche XAFS/XRF Beamline at SESAME: First Monochromatic Light in the Middle East	Dr. S. Fatemeh Shams Characterization of Pd-decorated cobalt ferrite nanoparticles for magnetic ferrofluid hyperthermia applications	Dr. Zou Finfrock Confocal x-ray fluorescence microscopy at the Advanced Photon Source sector 20	Mr. Saleh Aghakhani Isolated Ag Cations Interacting with Luminescent Ag Clusters Confined in FAU Zeolites Identified as Highly Active Sites for CO Oxidation By a Combination of XEOL-XAFS, DRIFT and PL Spectroscopy
15:50-16:00
16:00-16:30	Coffee
	Catalysis	session cont'd	Radioactive and nuclear materials	Joint CXAFS/IXAS session
	room: EH-A chair: Kiyotaka Asakura	room: EH-B chair: Gloria Subias	room: MH-A chair: Tonya Vitova	room: MH-B chair: Christopher Chantler
16:30-16:40	Dr. Rok Bohinc Distribution of aluminum over different T-sites in ferrierite zeolites studied with aluminum valence to core X-ray emission spectroscopy	Dr. Hengli Duan Beating the exclusion rule against the coexistence of robust luminescence and ferromagnetism in chalcogenide monolayers	Dr. Akihiro Uehara High temperature reactions of UO2, ZrO2, B4C, CaO, and SiO2 under reducing and oxidizing atmospheres	Short introduction
16:40-16:50				Prof. Farideh Jalilehvand Aerobic Reactions of Antitumor Active Rh2(CH3COO)4 with Glutathione, Cysteine and Its Derivatives
16:50-17:00	Dr. Aleksandra Wandzilak STXM study of Fe-based NH3 synthesis and decomposition catalyst	Dr. Verena Ney Electric field-induced changes in the magnetic properties in doped semiconductors with lack of inversion symmetry	Mr. Aaron Beck U/Pu M4,5 edge HR-XANES investigations (i) of aqueous/colloidal Pu and (ii) at the Zircaloy cladding/spent nuclear fuel interface
17:00-17:10				Prof. Peter Krüger Transition metal L-edge spectra with ligand-field multiplet parameters from density functional theory
17:10-17:20	Dr. Yuanjie Cao Structure-activity correlations of Co single-sites photocatalyst studied by XAFS	Dr. Nadejda Bouldi Electronic and magnetic properties of iron hydride under pressure using XAS and XMCD at the Fe K-edge: a combined theoretical and experimental study	Dr. René Bes X-ray absorption spectroscopy at laboratory scale: towards new actinide research opportunities.
17:20-17:30				Dr. Hidekazu Ikeno Analyzing RIXS and RIXS-MCD of Iron Oxides by the Ab-initio Multiplet Method
17:30-17:40	Mr. Cody Wrasman Structure-activity relationships of Au-Pd single-atom alloys for selective oxidation studied by EXAFS	Dr. Hao Tan XAFS study on the ferromagnetism in Mn-doped MoS2 nanosheets	Dr. Sarah Saslow Understanding Tc-99 Retention in Ettringite for Improving Cementitious Waste Forms
17:40-17:50				Mr. Ryan Trevorah Solving Self-Absorption in Fluorescence: Stereochemical Analysis of mM solutions
17:50-18:00
18:00-19:00	Poster Session II List of posters
19:00-20:00

Day 6: Friday, 27th July
time	details
9:00-9:15	PL Prof. Andrea Di Cicco X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy investigations of disordered matter room: LH chair: Daniel Haskel
9:15-9:30
9:30-9:45
9:45-10:00	PL Dr. Małgorzata Korbas From fruit flies to whales: probing mercury toxicity across the animal kingdom with X-ray fluorescence mapping and XAS room: LH chair: Daniel Haskel
10:10-10:15
10:15-10:30
10:30-10:45	Coffee
10:45-11:00	Coffee
11:00-11:15	Tadashi Matsushita's session Hitoshi Abe, Sakura Pascarelli, Kiyotaka Asakura room: LH chair: Hiroyuki Oyanagi
11:15-11:30
11:30-11:40	Ed Stern's session Daniel Haskel, Matthew Newville, Bruce Bunker room: LH chair: Hiroyuki Oyanagi
11:40-11:50
11:50-12:00
12:00-12:10
12:10-12:20	IXAS Awards Matthew Newville, Pieter Glatzel
12:20-12:30	IXAS Awards Matthew Newville, Pieter Glatzel
12:30-12:40	Summary remarks & Closing
12:40-12:50
12:50-13:00
13:00-14:30	Lunch
14:00-16:00	SOLARIS Tour

PL – Plenary Lecture
KN – Keynote Lecture