Programme

Thursday 19th June 2003

08:00

Registration

08:50

Welcome by Francesco Sette (ESRF Grenoble, France)

Session I

09:00

"Ultrafast X-ray Science at the Advanced Light Source: Recent Results and Future Plans" 

Robert W. Schoenlein - Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA

09:45

"Observing Transient Chemical Changes by Picosecond-resolved X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy"

Rafael Abela - Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland

10:05

Coffee Break (35 mins)

10:40

"Excited State Molecular Structures Captured by Pump-probe XAFS"

Lin X. Chen - Argonne National Laboratory, U.S.A.

11:25

"In-Solution local structure and chemical reaction kinetics by X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy"

Diaz Moreno - ESRF Grenoble, France

11:50

Lunch

Session II

13:30

"Utilising the unique properties of a bent monochromator to understand the in situ behaviour of working catalysts: Dispersive EXAFS studies of supported Rh and Pd systems"

Mark Newton - University of Southampton, UK

14:05

"In-situ XAS Characterization of Catalysts"

Rolf Jentoft - Fritz-Haber-Institut Berlin, Germany

14:40

"The use of in situ dispersive XAS in the study of catalysts in OPERANDO conditions"

Carlo Lamberti - Università di Torino, Italy

15:15

Coffee Break and Poster Session (1h30)

Session III

16:45

"Structure and photo-induced structural changes in amorphous chalcogenides: basic science and industrial applications"

Alexander Kolobov - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Ibaraki, Japan

17:30

"X-Ray absorption spectroscopy applied to industrial products and processes"

Michael Hagelstein - Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Germany

18:05

"Oxidation of natural groundwater from Bangladesh: As-Fe interactions assessed by XAS"

Jérôme Rose - CEREGE, Europole Mediteranéen de l'Arbois, France

18:25

Apéritif and Poster Session (1H05)

19:30

Bus Departure for Dinner at "Le Pudding"  - Le Sappey en chartreuse

Friday 20th June 2003

Session IV

08:45

"Third Generation sources and environmental interests: new insights"

François Farges - Université de Marne-la-Vallée, France

09:30

"Probing Natural Systems With Combined Micro XAS, XRF and XRD"

Matthew A. Marcus - Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA

10:05

"Micro-X-ray Absorption Spectrometry at the ID22 beamline of the ESRF"

Andrea Somogyi - ESRF Grenoble, France

10:25

Coffee Break and Poster Session (35 mins)

11:00

"The Microfocus Spectroscopy beamline at Diamond"

Andrew Dent- Diamond Light Source Ltd Didcot, UK

11:35

"A study of transition metal K absorption pre-edges by resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS)"

Pieter Glatzel - Utrecht University, The Netherlands

12:10

"Experimental difficulties in XAS related to 3rd generation synchrotron sources"

Thomas Neisius - ESRF Grenoble, France

12:35

"µXRF and µXAFS Study of Cu in Quartz fluid Inclusions at Hydrothermal Conditions with the GSECARS S-ray Microprobe"

Matthew Newville  - Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources, University of Chicago

12:55

Lunch

 Session V

14:30

"Pressure-induced polymorphic phase transition in liquid GeO2"

Osamu Ohtaka - Osaka University, Japan

15:05

"XAS in extreme conditions: recent results, progress and limitations"

Alfonso San Miguel - Université Claude Bernard Lyon-I, France

15:40

"The XAS view of the solvation of a non-polar solute"

Daniel Bowron - ISIS Facility Didcot, UK

16:15

Coffee Break (30 mins)

Session VI

16:45

"High-energy X-ray absorption spectroscopy: a tool to determine the hydration structure of lanthanides ions"

Paola D'Angelo - Università La Sapienza di Roma, Italy

17:20

"Polymorphism in amorphous Ge: a XAS study"

Simone De Panfilis - ESRF Grenoble, France

17:45

"Structure of molecules in sub-and supercritical aqueous solutions: a XAS investigation"

Denis Testemale - Laboratoire de Cristallographie - Grenoble, France

18:05

Concluding Remarks