Light Source Enable Science Focus Topics: The LS focus topic is focused on cutting-edge science and technology enabled by synchrotrons and free-electron lasers. We invite users, beamline scientists, instrument developers, data/software teams, and early-career researchers to share results, new capabilities, and disciplines. The program will highlight the “cool science” made possible by light sources — along with the cutting-edge beamline developments, novel detectors, and data analysis approaches which are driving breakthroughs in materials science, catalysis, microelectronics, and quantum information science.
Areas of Interest: The LS focus topic encourages abstracts that showcase either breakthrough science or enabling advances, including (but not limited to):
- In situ/operando studies in energy storage, catalysis, corrosion, and manufacturing
- Quantum materials, magnetism, superconductors, and strongly correlated systems
- Soft matter, polymers, complex fluids, and biomaterials
- Environmental/geoscience, critical minerals, and climate-relevant processes
- Hierarchical materials
- Ultrafast, time-resolved, and dynamic experiments
LS1: Light Sources Enabled Science Oral Session
Invited Speakers:
- Andi Barbour, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Alexander Gray, Temple University
- Juanita Hidalgo, New York University
- Lucia Perez-Ramirez, CEA Saclay, France, “Reliable Quantification of Oxygen Vacancies in Ferroelectric Hafnia Using Synchrotron-Based X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy”
- Philip Ryan, Argonne National Laboratory
- Nicholas Strange, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
LS2: Light Sources Enabled Science Poster Session