PROGRAMME

8th June, 2004 Tuesday
Opening of the registration desk - 10.00
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Opening Session
14.00 - 14.10 Opening Address, S. Kucharski, Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, University of Silesia
14.10 - 14.20 Introductory talk, B. Orlowski, President of the Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society
14.20 - 14.30 K. Lawniczak-Jablonska, Professor Julian Auleytner - In Memoriam
14.30 - 15.00 M. Taniguchi, Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Japan, Recent progress in synchrotron - radiation photoemission spectroscopy of solids: applications of VUV, soft and hard X-ray radiation
15.00 - 15.30 E.J. Nordgren, Uppsala University, Sweden, Soft X-ray resonant inelastic scattering for materials science.
15.30 - 16.00 O. Leupold, ESRF, France, Nuclear resonance scattering of synchrotron radiation - experiments under extreme conditions
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 - 17.00 L. Gerward, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, X-ray diffraction at high pressure and high/low temperatures using synchrotron radiation. Applications in the study of spinel structures
17.00 - 17.30 H. Schober, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, Vibrations, tunneling and atomic jumps in amorphous solids
17.30 - 17.45 W. Gawelda, Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide, Ecole Polytechnique Fidirale de Lausanne and Swiss Light Source, Paul-Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland, Electronic and Molecular Structure of Excited Ruthenium Polypiridyl Complexes from Picosecond X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
17.45 - 18.00 S. Mickevicius, Semiconductor Physics Institute, Vilnius, Lithuania, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy study of MBE grown Gd/EuTe multilayers
18.00 Dinner
9th June, 2004 Wednesday
8.00 - 8.45 Breakfast
9.00 - 9.30 Hidezo Mori, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute , Japan, Micro-angiographic system using synchrotron radiation and conventional x-ray source for visualizing angiogenic vessels induced by cardiovascular regeneration therapy
9.30 - 10.00 J.H. Je, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea, Real-time microradiology using synchrotron x-rays
10.00 - 10.30 A. Cricenti, Istituto di Struttura della Materia, Rome, Italy, Infrared free electron laser nanospectroscopy in materials science and biology
10.30 - 11.00 M. Drakopoulos, RAL, Chilton, Didcot, UK, X-ray lenses: new applications for the natural sciences
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 - 12.00 H. Metzger, ESRF, Grenoble, France, Quantum dots in the light of synchrotron radiation
12.00 - 12.30 V. Holy, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Investigation of self-organized semiconductor quantum dots by synchrotron radiation scattering
12.30 - 13.00 G. Faigel, Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, Clusters in the XFEL beam
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
17.00 - 17.30 P. Fischer, Max Planck Institut fur Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany, Looking at micromagnetic structures on short length and fast time scales with magnetic transmission soft X-ray microscopy
17.30 - 18.00 V. Honkimaki, ESRF, Grenoble, France, High energy x-ray diffraction
18.00 - 18.30 K. Ellmer, Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Berlin, Germany
18.30 Dinner
19.15 - 19.30 H. Mori, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Suita, Kyushu University, Fukuoka and SPring 8, Sayo, Japan, Application of protein crystallography and in-situ x-ray diffraction measurement toward fundamental understanding and development of specific drugs for intractablemyocardial diseases
19.30 - 19.45 A. Kowalik, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, Ti interaction with GaN surface - a resonant photoemission study
20.00 Poster session
10th June, 2004 Thursday
7.00 - 7.30 Breakfast
7.30 - 13.00 Excursion
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.30 - 15.00 Y. Waseda, Tohoku University, Japan, Anomalous (resonance) X-ray scattering for materials characterisation with synchrotron radiation
15.00 - 15.30 B. Ravel, NRL, Washington, USA, A practical guide to multiple scattering theory in EXAFS analysis
15.30 - 16.00 A. Somogyi, ESRF, France, Application of synchrotron radiation excited X-ray microprobe techniques in environmental science
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 - 17.00 M. Tegze, Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, X-ray holography: atoms in 3D
17.00 - 17.30 J. Sadowski, MAXLAB, Lund, Sweden, Mn in ferromagnetic semiconductor (In, Ga)MnAs - synchrotron radiation, X-ray diffraction and scanning probe studies
17.30 - 17.45 A. Witkowska, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, Structure of partially reduced bismuth-silicate glasses: a combined EXAFS and MD study
17.45 - 18.00 I. Demchenko, Institute of Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, Studies of Ge/Si nanostructures: PL, EXAFS and TEM
19.00 Conference dinner
11th June, 2004 Friday
8.00 - 8.45 Breakfast
9.00 - 9.30 D. Raoux, Soleil, Saint Aubin, France, SOLEIL a third generation synchrotron for material, environmental and life sciences
9.30 - 10.00 G. Materlik, Diamond, RAL, Chilton, Didcot, UK, Diamond light source - a next generation synchrotron facility
10.00 - 10.30 E. Weckert, HASYLAB, Hamburg, Germany, PETRA-III: A new high-brilliance high-energy synchrotron radiation source at DESY
10.30 - 11.00 J.C. Dore, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, Structural studies of nano-structured carbons: complementary x-ray and neutron techniques using short wavelengths
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 - 12.00 D.L. Nagy, KFKI, Redearch Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Hungary, Formation and transformation of domains in antiferromagnetically coupled multilayers
12.00 - 12.30 J. Susini, ESRF, France, X-ray optics and X-ray microscopies: new challenges
12.30 - 13.00 M. Szymonski, Jagiellonian University, krakow, Poland, Towards Estabilishing of National Centre of Synchrotron Radiation in Poland
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
16.00 - 18.00 Meeting of the Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society
18.00 - 18.30 J. Majewski, LANL, USA, Synchrotron grazing incidence X-ray diffraction and reflectometry investigations of Langmuir monolayers: from simple amphiphiles to model lipid membranes and their interactions with toxines
18.30 Dinner
19.15 - 19.30 M. Sikora, AGH University of Science and Technology, XMCD stude of double perovskites (Sr,Ba,Ca)2FeReO6
19.30 - 19.45 P. Lecante, CEMES, CNRS, Toulouse, France, Combination WAXS, HREM and EXAFS structural study of bimetallic nanoparticles
19.45 - 20.00 PREVAC presentation
20.00 Poster session
12th June, 2004 Saturday
8.00 - 8.45 Breakfast
9.00 - 9.30 W.G. Stirling, ESRF, Grenoble, France X-ray and neutron scattering studies of the magnetic structures of actinide mixed crystals (UAs-USe and USb-PuSb)
9.30 - 10.00 M. Wilmanns, EMBL, Hamburg, Germany, Novel opportunities in life sciences at synchrotron sites
10.00 - 10.30 U. Mueller, BESSY, Berlin, Germany, The protein structure factory x-ray diffraction beamlines at BESSY - results from structural studies of human proteins
10.30 - 11.00 M.S. Weiss, EMBL, Hamburg, Germany, The use of longer X-ray wavelengths in protein crystallography
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 - 12.00 F. Gozzo, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villingen, Switzerland, High-resolution and time-resolved powder diffraction at the Swiss Light Source
12.00 - 12.30 F. Boscherini, University of Bologna, Italy, X-ray absorption in materials science and nanostructures: recent results and outlook
12.30 - 13.00 E. Umbach, University of Wuerzburg, Germany, Direct observation of organic layer growth by dynamic spectroscopy using high-brilliance synchrotron radiation
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
17.00 - 17.30 C. Janowitz, Humboldt University and BESSY, Berlin, Germany, Exploring the phase diagram of the Bi-cuprates by photoemission
17.30 - 18.00 L. Wcislak, Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Denver, Colorado, USA, High resolution XRD and imaging nano-, meso-, and micro-structured advanced materials by moving area detector method with high energy synchrotron radiation
18.00 - 18.30 R. Cavell, University of Alberta, Canada
18.30 - 18.45 R. Mueller, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin, Germany, The PTB Laboratory at BESSY II - radiometry with synchrotron radiation
18.45 - 19.00 P. Zajdel, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland,The influence of the concentration of Sb5+ ions onto the local crystal and electronic structures of CuCr2-xSbxS4 (x=0.3, 0.4, 0.5) studied by XANES and EXAFS measurements and LAPW numerical calculations
19.00 - 19.30 Closing session
19.30 Barbecue
13th June, 2004 Sunday
8.00 - 9.00 Breakfast
End of conference