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UM2016: Davide Orsi wins best poster award

09-02-2016

At the User Meeting dinner, traditionally held on the 2nd day of the event, Paola Coan, Chair of the User Organisation, presented the best poster award to Davide Orsi from the Department of Physics, University of Parma, Italy.

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Davide Orsi's poster carries the title of “2D dynamical arrest transition in nanoparticle-phospholipid layers studied in real and momentum spaces", and won the prize over more than 150 posters in the competition.

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Davide Orsi receiving the prize from the hands of Paola Coan during the dinner. ESRF/C. Argoud.

 

Microsymposia, maxiscience

On Day 3 of the ESRF User Meeting, all heads are down with three scientific conferences organised around the site.

Ana Diaz, from the Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland is the keynote speaker and first to talk during the Nanoscience: X-ray diffraction and coherence symposium. She presented work carried out on “Quantitative high-resolution X-ray imaging with ptychography".

The conference on Dynamics of Complex Systems aims to disseminate new results to show advances made by users from different fields and to explore new directions in the study of the dynamics of complex systems by means of synchrotron techniques. The three sessions of the conference will each kick-off with keynote lectures and continue with user talks.

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Members of the Symposium on Dynamics of Complex Systems. ESRF/C. Argoud

The third symposium, on the subject of The future of (time resolved) room temperature protein X-ray crystallography, will combine a series of plenary talks from invited speakers with shorter talks from users and will examine the current state-of the-art in RT-MX, looking forward to a future in which the extremely intense X-ray beams that will be available at 4th generation synchrotron sources will lead to a boom in RT MX and the renaissance of time-resolved MX experiments on the micro- to milli-second timescale.

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Day 2 of the User Meeting in images

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Liane Benning delivers her talk "The Birth and Life Cycle of a Nanoparticle: or how to make crystals from ions" to a full house at the 2016 ESRF User Meeting. Credit: ESRF/P. Jayet

 

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During the social sessions on Day 2. Photos P. Jayet and C. Argoud.

 

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Members of the ESRF User Organisation thank ESRF staff for their excellent organisation of the meeting and logistics. ESRF/K. Colvin

UM2016 in full swing!

09-02-2016

Tuesday, 9 February. Today is the busiest day at the ESRF User Meeting.

The plenary session played to a full house with keynote lectures from Emmanuelle Gouillart, Andrew L. Goodwin and Liane Benning.

Any remaining ice was broken at the cheese and wine evening yesterday, and the User Meeting is in full swing. Fruitful exchanges abound during the talks and social occasions.

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The traditional "Wine and Cheese" evening during the UM2016. All photos ESRF/C. Argoud.

Poster clips had young scientists queuing along the walls of the ESRF's impressive auditorium, patiently waiting in turn to present, in 3 minutes, the posters they submitted to the competitive poster session later in the afternoon. The variety of posters reflects the research being carried out at the ESRF, from fundamental physics to medical research with applications for the development of new drugs or therapies to combat cardiac pathologies.

“It’s my first time at the ESRF User Meeting. I came to make contact with other scientists and discuss their results, my results. There’s a good combination here of talks and social activities. It was easy to make contact with other scientists at yesterday’s cheese and wine evening!” Nico Oliver CARL, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

I’m hoping to meet people here who can help me for my next project. I came especially for the tutorial on EXAFS. It was really very good and will be helpful in my work.” Petr CEJPEK, University of Charles, Prague, Czech Republic.

At 4 p.m., Paola Coan, chairwoman of the ESRF User Organisation, handed the microphone to Professor Massimo Altarelli to announce the winner of this year's Young Scientist Award: Dr Andrew Cairns, for his outstanding work on negative linear compressibility. Dr Cairns gave a talk on this fascinating subject which has earned him much recognition over the last few years. See the full article.

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Andrew Cairns, Young Scientist Award winner 2016, during his talk at the ESRF User Meeting. Credit: ESRF/P. Jayet.

Ready, steady ... ESRF prepares for Users

05-05-2016

The large white marquee that stands proud in front of the ESRF main building announces the imminence of the 2016 edition of the ESRF User Meeting, the annual event dedicated to the user community.

From Monday to Wednesday next week, the event will draw together more than 350 synchrotron-inspired people for three days of tutorials, keynote lectures, dedicated symposia, poster clips and sessions.

Not only is the User Meeting an excellent opportunity to learn more about the exciting science taking place at the ESRF, the social programme offers participants a variety of informal opportunities for networking.

The plenary session, which will take place all day on Tuesday, includes keynote lectures from

  • Liane Benning, German Research Center for Geosciences GFZ, Germany / University of Leeds, UK
  • Andrew Goodwin, University of Oxford, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford, UK
  • Emmanuelle Gouillart, CNRS UMR125/Saint-Gobain, Surface du verre & Interfaces, Aubervilliers, France.

On Wednesday, three user-dedicated micro-symposia will be held with the following topics:

The symposia will include talks from users in the related disciplines. In addition, each user-dedicated microsymposium will host keynote talks and the opportunity to meet and discuss with the ESRF Staff.

Get the full programme of the User Meeting 2016 (pdf file).

Follow the activities of the ESRF User Meeting 2016 on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

If you are tweeting at the meeting yourself, don’t forget to add the hashtag #ESRFUSERS

 

Happy User Meeting to all!

Top image: Explanations during the poster session - Day 2 of the User Meeting. Credit: ESRF/P. Jayet