Seminars Archive

Photon Science Seminars
Extreme Beams and Extreme Light -- Research and Results

Claudio Emma

SLAC

Wednesday, August 5, 2026 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
From Atoms to Performance: Bridging Structure and Catalytic Evolution

Frank Abild-Pedersen

SLAC

Tuesday, August 4, 2026 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
PolFEL - A New Integrated Platform for Ultrafast Science

A CW superconducting accelerator facility under construction at NCBJ Swierk, Poland

Professor Agnieszka Pollo, National Center for Nuclear Research, Poland

Monday, August 3, 2026 | 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Non-equilibrium electron, spin, and lattice dynamics in ultrafast laser-excited metals

Baerbel Rethfeld

RPTU University Kaiserslautern

Wednesday, July 29, 2026 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Unraveling and applying quantitative cross-scale understanding of energy storage systems

Hans-Georg Steinruck

Institute of Sustainable Hydrogen Economy, Institute of Physical Chemistry

Tuesday, July 28, 2026 | 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Toward a Rational Understanding of Polariton Chemistry

Wei Xiong

University of California, San Diego

Wednesday, June 24, 2026 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Emergent science at edge of physics and artificial intelligence

Yasaman Bahri

Google Deepmind

Wednesday, June 3, 2026 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Time-resolved structural biology approaches to visualise photoreceptor proteins at work

Martin Weik

Institut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble, France

Wednesday, May 27, 2026 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Visualizing photoinduced electron transfer during photocatalysis via ultrafast x-ray spectroscopy

Amy Cordones-Hahn

SLAC

Wednesday, May 13, 2026 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Destruction during diffraction: radiation damage in macromolecular structure determination

Elspeth Garman

Oxford University

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Towards Ultrafast, Energy-Efficient, Intelligent X-ray Detectors

Angelo Dragone

SLAC

Wednesday, April 29, 2026 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Discovery of a New Critical Point in Water that Explains its Strangeness

Anders Nilsson

Stockholm University/SLAC

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
P450s, Photons, and Pixels: Mapping Enzyme Dynamics Across Space, Time and Data

Alec Follmer

UC Davis

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
How well do we really understand the matter side of light-matter interactions?

Joseph Subotnik

Princeton University

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Transient changes of x-ray optical constants of XFEL generated warm dense matter

Nina Rohringer

DESY

Wednesday, March 18, 2026 | 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Connecting Ultrafast Spectra to Ultrafast Dynamics

Prof. Ben Levine

Stony Brook University

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Fast and Furious: Ultrafast Collisional Dynamics in Plasmas

Sam Vinko

Oxford University

Wednesday, February 25, 2026 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Visualizing and optimizing material pathways

Aaron Lindenberg

SLAC/Stanford

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Atomistic Modeling of Fusion Materials with Enhanced Accuracy

Mary Alice Cusentino

Sandia National Lab

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Supression of the metal-to-insulator transition and jamming transition revealed in metal-oxides by nano-focused and coherent x-rays

Nicolo D'Anna

University of California, San Diego

Wednesday, January 21, 2026 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
High-power femtosecond lasers and XUV sources enabled by advanced non-linear technologies

Robert Riedel

CEO and Co-Founder of Class 5 Photonics

Thursday, January 15, 2026 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Current and future efforts in measuring far-from-equilibrium properties using single shot THz spectroscopy

Prof. Benjamin Ofori-Okai

SLAC

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Probing local lattice distortions by resonant total x-ray scattering

Valeri Petkov

Central Michigan University

Thursday, December 4, 2025 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Probing Electron Dynamics Through Molecular Frame Photoelectron Angular Distributions and Time Delays

Robert Lucchese

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Investigating Quantum Emission in hBN

Jonathan Pelliciari

Brookhaven National Lab

Thursday, November 6, 2025 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
X-ray Optical mixing: Imaging Optically-driven Valence-Electron Motion in Crystals on the Angstrom Scale

Chance Ornelas-Skarin

Stanford University

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Probing extreme states of matter using high resolution inelastic X-ray free electron lasers

Dr. Adrien Descamps

Queen's University Belfast

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT

B901-108AB Redtail Hawk Conference Room
Photon Science Seminars
Direct measurement of ion temperature in warm dense matter: surviving the entropy catastrophe in superheated gold

Dr. Bob Nagler

LCLS, SLAC

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Tackling Working Surfaces with Machine Learning

Prof. Karsten Reuter

Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society

Friday, October 17, 2025 | 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Photon Science Seminar: "In pursuit of high average power XUV sources," Mary Matthews, Imperial College, London England

Tuesday, October 7, 2025 | 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT

B53-2002 Berryessa Conference Room
Photon Science Seminars
Photon Science Seminar: "Time-resolved crystallography captures light-driven DNA repair," TJ Lane, DESY

Wednesday, October 1, 2025 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT

B901-108AB Redtail Hawk Conference Room
Photon Science Seminars
Photon Science Seminar: Dr. Peter Hosemann, University of California Berkeley, "From materials selection to deployment and degradation in nuclear applications"

Wednesday, July 9, 2025 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT

B901-108AB Redtail Hawk Conference Room
Photon Science Seminars
Dynamic Fracture Processes in Hydrogen Charged Metals and Alloys

Dr. Wendy Gu

Stanford University

Wednesday, May 28, 2025 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
X-Ray Molecular Movie of a Conical Intersection

Dr. Markus Guehr

Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY and Physical Chemistry, Chemistry Department University of Hamburg

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Unraveling Wave-packet Dynamics and Associated Structural Changes by Spectroscopic and Diffractive Methods

Dr. Hong-Guang Duan

Ningbo University

Monday, April 14, 2025 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Beyond the Surface: Non-Conservative Forces in Coupled Electron-Ion Dynamics

Alfredo A. Correa

Quantum Simulations Group, Physics Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Some Emerging Opportunities in High-Harmonic Generation from Condensed Matter

Jicai Zhang

The University of Hong Kong

Thursday, March 27, 2025 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Time-Correlated Single-Photon Counting Raman Spectroscopy: A Tool for Investigating Non-Equilibrium Many-Body Interactions

Dr. Omer Yeffe

Weizmann Institute

Thursday, March 20, 2025 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
"Making Molecular Movies with Inner Shell Ionization

Dr. Ruaridh Forbes

UC Davis

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
2D Semiconductors: a platform for ultrafast photonics

Dr. Giulio Cerullo

Polytechnic University of Milan

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Extreme Environments, Extreme Insights: From Functional Materials to Nuclear Nonproliferation

Sulgiye Park

Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation

Wednesday, February 19, 2025 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Watching enzymes at work: Using X-ray lasers to decipher reaction mechanisms

Dr. Jan Kern

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Wednesday, February 12, 2025 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Compact Femtosecond X-Ray Source

Samuel Teitelbaum

Arizona State University

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Watching real catalysis happening

Dr. Martin Beye

Stockholm University

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Electronic state of a manganese oxide clusters revealed by soft x-ray spectroscopy

Dr. Olesya Ablyasova

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin

Tuesday, January 21, 2025 | 11:00am - 12:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Attosecond Metrology at FEM FERMI

Praveen Kumar Maroju

Lund University

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Future Compact Light Sources Using Laser Plasma Accelerators

Dr. Samuel Barber

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Star-Wars In Structural Biology with X-Ray Free Electron Lasers

Dr. Petra Fromme

Arizona State University

Wednesday, December 4, 2024 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Floquet Engineering of Black Phosphorus

Shuyun Zhou

Department of Physics, Tsinghua University

Monday, December 2, 2024 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Making Fusion Happen: Evaluating the Performance of Next Generation Plasma-Facing Materials

Robert D. Kolasinski

Sandia National Laboratories

Friday, November 8, 2024 | 10:30am - 11:30am PST
Photon Science Seminars
Introduction to the LUXE Experiment

Antonios Athanassiadis

Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY

Wednesday, November 6, 2024 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Separating processes in molecular photoionization studies: Mining coincidence momentum imaging data

Eric Wells

Augustana University

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Visualizing the ultrafast chemical dynamics occurring upon the electron-impact ionization of molecules

Marcos Dantus

Michigan State University

Saturday, September 28, 2024 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Dichotomous Electrons: Travelling without Moving

Marc Janoschek

Paul Scherrer Institute & Universitat Zurich

Wednesday, July 10, 2024 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Nanoscale Transient Grating Beyond Thermoelasticity

Laura Foglia

Elettra

Wednesday, June 5, 2024 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Control of Attosecond Entanglement and Coherence

Marc Vrakking

Max Born Institut (MBI)

Wednesday, May 8, 2024 | 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Bonus Seminar: Characterization and Control of Next-Generation Quantum Systems

Quynh L. Nguyen

SLAC

Monday, April 29, 2024 | 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Bonus Seminar: Three different charge orders in Kagome lattice quantum materials

Mingu Kang

Kavli Nanoscience Institute, Cornell University

Thursday, April 25, 2024 | 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Unveiling hidden states of matter: Investigating strongly coupled materials using single-shot terahertz spectroscopy

Benjamin Ofori-Okai

SLAC

Tuesday, April 16, 2024 | 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Bonus Seminar: Combining cryogenic fluorescence and electron microscopy: New methods with applications from biology to physical chemistry

Peter Dahlberg

SLAC CRYO-EM

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 | 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Bonus Seminar: Tracking catalysis in in product/substrate tunnel-containing multi enzyme systems with advanced structural analysis tools

Matthias Wilmanns

EMBL/UKE (Hamburg)

Friday, March 1, 2024 | 11:00am - 12:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Controlling Photoinduced charge transfer pathways with infrared pulses

Julia Weinstein

University of Sheffield

Wednesday, January 31, 2024 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Femtosecond laser-induced crystallization processes in metallic glasses

Larissa Boie

Paul Scherrer Institute

Friday, January 26, 2024 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
From classical to quantum nature of high harmonic generation

Hamed Merdji

Ecole Polytechnique

Wednesday, January 17, 2024 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Illuminating Charge Density Wave in Cuprate High-Tc Superconductor La2-xSrxCuO4

Jiajia Wen

SLAC

Wednesday, January 10, 2024 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Novel Proves for Molecular Structure and Dynamics using Ultrashort Twisted X-rays

Haiwang Yong

UCSD

Thursday, December 14, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Quantum trajectory selector: clocking recollision physics

Yaguo Tang

OSU

Wednesday, December 6, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Heat transport at warm dense matter interfaces

Thomas White

UNR

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Time-Resolved Structure-Function Coupling of Increasingly Complex Porous Materials

Andrew FT Leong

LANL

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Depth-resolved studies of electronic and magnetic properties of oxide heterostructures

Jay Ram Paudel

Temple University

Friday, September 22, 2023 | 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Interference and Ionisation in Ultrafast X-ray Scattering

Adam Kirrander

University of Oxford

Wednesday, August 30, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Nitrobenzene as a playground for theoretical and experimental photophysics/photochemistry

Angelo Giussani

University of Valencia

Wednesday, August 23, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Nanoscale X-ray Microscopy at BESSY II for life and materials sciences

Gerd Schneider

Helmholtz Zentrum Merlin fur Materialien und Energie GmbH Institute of Physics, Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin

Tuesday, August 22, 2023 | 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast photochemical dynamics of pyruvic acid in the gas phase and in aqueous solution

Basile F.E. Curchod and Andrew J. Orr-Ewing

University of Bristol

Wednesday, August 16, 2023 | 11:00pm - Thursday, August 17, 2023 | 12:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Few-fs electron transfer in prototypical donor-acceptor molecules

Federico Vismarra

Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI)

Wednesday, August 16, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Bonus Photon Science Seminar Series: Positive Outlooks on Imaging Photoelectron Circular Dichroism in Negatively-Charged Chiral Molecules

Mallory Green

FHI-Berlin

Tuesday, August 15, 2023 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast Structural Dynamics of Elementary Water-Mediated Proton Transport Processes

Erik T.J. Nibbering

MBI-Berlin

Friday, August 11, 2023 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Evidence of suppressed beam-plasma instabilities in a laboratory analogue of blazar's pair jets

Gianluca Gregori

University of Oxford

Tuesday, August 1, 2023 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
The role of phase in attosecond photoionization experiments: Carbon dioxide as a case study

Daniel Tuthill

Ohio State University

Wednesday, July 5, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Excitation-Wavelength Dependent Photophysics of Binuclear d8d8 Complexes

Tony Vlcek

Queen Mary University of London and J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague

Wednesday, June 28, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Electron and Electronic Dynamics in Hydropgen Bonded Liquids

Stephen E. Bradforth

USC

Thursday, June 22, 2023 | 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Dynamics at conical intersections in liquids and gases

Max Waters

Stanford University

Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Attosecond optical spectroscopy of solid targets

Matteo Lucchini

Politecnico de Milano

Wednesday, May 31, 2023 | 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Attosecond Electron Microscopy: imaging the electron motion in action

Mohammed Hassan

University of Arizona

Wednesday, May 24, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Attosecond bunching and streaking of sub-relativistic electron beams for ultrafast diffractive imaging

Yuya Morimoto

RIKEN

Wednesday, May 10, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Mass-selected Ion-molecule Cluster Beam Apparatus for Ultrafast Photofragmentation Studies: CF3I·I- as an example

Xiaojun Wang

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Wednesday, April 26, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
"Nanoscale Control of Light and Energy"

Dan Congreve

Stanford University

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Microstructural Design Principles for Achieving Stable Metal Anode Interphases with Liquid and Solid-State Electrolytes

David Mitlin

Materials Science Program and Texas Materials Institute, University of Texas at Austin

Wednesday, April 12, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Controlling Electrolysis by Reaction Environment Programming

F. Pelayo Garcia de Arquier

ICFO - The Institute of PHotonic Sciences

Wednesday, April 5, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Tunable Few-to-Many-Cycle Sources for High-Order Harmonic Generation and Time Resolved Spectroscopy

John Beetar

University of California, Berkeley

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Attochemistry Control of Charge Migration

Aderonke Simi Folorunso

Louisiana State University

Wednesday, March 15, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Probing the quantum vacuum via photon-photon scattering

Wendell T. Hill, III

University of Maryland

Friday, February 24, 2023 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Probing High-Energy-Density Matter with X Rays

Suxing Hu

Laboratory for Laser Energetics (University of Rochester)

Wednesday, February 22, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Generating Relativistic Electrons with mJ-class Lasers

Jeffrey Alan Powell

Institute National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS-EMT)

Wednesday, February 1, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Digital Twin for Corelevel Spectroscopy & real-space KS-DFT

Jin Qian

LBL

Wednesday, December 7, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Making movies of irreversible microstructure evolution within bulk specimens

Henning Friis Poulsen

DTU

Wednesday, November 30, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Fast and Ultrafast Time-Resolved Studies on Photoactive Systems for Clean Energy Applications

Anam Fatima

Universite Paris-Saclay

Wednesday, November 23, 2022 | 10:00am - 11:00am PST
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast photoexcitation dynamics in tri-nuclear metal-metal bonded M-PtPOP (M=AG, Tl) transition-metal complexes

Philipp Lenzen

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

Friday, November 18, 2022 | 10:00am - 11:00am PST
Photon Science Seminars
Photolysis production and precision measurement of the high vibrational states H2, HD and D2

Kenneth Lai

Vrije Unversiteit Amsterdam

Wednesday, November 16, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Probing Thermal Ph0nons using Inelastic X-ray Scattering

Zhiting Tian

Cornell

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Spectral Splitting in Phase-Mismatched Harmonics

Raz Halifa Levi

Tel-Aviv University (TAU)

Wednesday, October 19, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Time resolved x-ray spectroscopy at the MALOJA endstation at SwissFEL

Andre Al-Haddad

Paul Scherrer Institute

Wednesday, October 12, 2022 | 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Time resolved studies of CO2 molecules by XUV pump and IR probe at FLASH2

Atia Tul Noor

DESY

Tuesday, October 11, 2022 | 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Accurate prediction of core-level spectra from orbital optimized density functional theory: Theory and Applications

Diptarka Hait

Stanford University

Wednesday, October 5, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Development of ultrafast spectroscopy based on high-order harmonic generation sources

Caterina Vozzi

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

Wednesday, September 14, 2022 | 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Accurate Ab-initio Soft X-ray Spectroscopy Simulation of Molecules: Method, Examples and Insight

Francesco Segatta

UNIBO

Wednesday, August 10, 2022 | 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
First results from the SwissFEL Maloja endstation for atomic, molecular, non-linear and chemical sciences

Kirsten Schnorr,

Paul Scherrer Institut

Wednesday, July 27, 2022 | 10:00pm - 11:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
BETTER THAN CAMERA, CLOCK OR RABBIT: A NOVEL TOOL FOR ATTOSECOND METROLOGY AT FEL

Anatoli Kheifets

Australian National University

Saturday, July 23, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Strong field interactions in liquids: are they gases or solids?

Mary Matthews

Imperial College

Wednesday, July 20, 2022 | 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Computing solution space properties of combinatorial optimization problems via generic tensor networks

Jinguo Liu

Harvard University

Friday, July 15, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
X-ray coherent diffractive imaging of superfluid helium nandroplets

Alexandra J. Feinberg

USC

Friday, June 10, 2022 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Control of resonant absorption in atoms and molecules with intense XUV electric fields

Christian Ott

Max Planck Institute

Wednesday, June 8, 2022 | 10:00pm - 11:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Tackling longstanding challenges in ultrafast nonlinear optics via foreign but familiar physics

Jeffrey Moses

Cornell University

Friday, May 13, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Soft X-ray attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy at 400eV

Jiro Itatani

University of Tokyo

Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Rescattering Resonances in Multiphoton Ionization

Cosmin Blaga

Kansas State University

Wednesday, April 13, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Generating and Characterizing Few-Cycle Laser Waveforms

Michael Chini

UCF

Wednesday, March 23, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Exploring x-ray interactions beyond single-atom response: propagation and radiolysis in dense media

Linda Young

Argonne National Laboratory

Wednesday, March 16, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast XUV of Nanomaterials to Answer Questions in Solar Energy

Ilana Porter

Berkeley

Wednesday, March 9, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast Imaging of Isolated Molecules with Electron Diffraction

Martin Centurion

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Exotic phases upon doping quantum spin liquids

Cheng Peng

Stanford University

Tuesday, February 15, 2022 | 11:00pm - Wednesday, February 16, 2022 | 12:00am PST
Photon Science Seminars
How do fluctuations stabilize order in a "strange" metal?

Zach Porter

UCSB

Friday, February 11, 2022 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Enabling soft x-ray attosecond science in novel materials using high-harmonic generation sources

Adam Summers

SLAC

Wednesday, February 9, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Spontaneous fluctuations in quantum materials probed by coherent x-rays

Lingjia Shen

Lund University

Wednesday, February 2, 2022 | 10:00am - 11:00am PST
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast electron dynamics in chiral molecules probed by a variety of polarization schemes at the attosecond and femtosecond timescale

Sandra Beauvarlet

University of Bordeaux

Wednesday, January 19, 2022 | 10:00pm - 11:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Review of the Single Particle Imaging Initiative

Andy Aquila

SLAC

Wednesday, January 12, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
When X-rays go Quantum: From Cavity QED to Quantum Imaging

Ralf Röhlsberger

DESY

Friday, January 7, 2022 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Electrocyclic photochemistry imaged in real space and time

Thomas Wolf

SLAC

Wednesday, December 1, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
X-ray study of electronic structure and emergent orders in correlated nickelates

Jiarui Li

MIT

Wednesday, November 10, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Multiscale microstructural design and engineering of lithium-ion battery electrodes

Xuekun Lu

UCL

Wednesday, October 27, 2021 | 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Quantum interferometric spectroscopy: revealing "which pathway?" information

Shahaf Asban

UC Irvine

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Shock trains in liquid jets and their impact on MHz serial crystallography

Claudiu A. Stan

Rutgers University-Newark

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Can we block the center of an objective lens from crystallography to telecentric microscopy?

Tsumoru Shintake

OIST

Thursday, September 23, 2021 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Observation of the Layer Hall Effect in Topological Axion Antiferromagnet MnBiTe4

Prof. Sun-yang Xu

Harvard University

Wednesday, September 1, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Dynamic Transformation to Tailor the Conversion Pathway

Gang Wan

SLAC

Wednesday, August 25, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Nickel/cobalt-free battery chemistries

Feng Lin

Virginia Tech

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Programmable Nanosponges for Next-Generation Solar Energy conversion Technologies

Monica C. So

CSU Chino

Wednesday, July 7, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Petahertz optoelectronics via sub-cycle photo-excitation in solids

Dmitry Zimin

Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics/ Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Wednesday, June 23, 2021 | 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Synchrotron Characterization of Solid State Batteries

Kelsey Katzell

Vanderbilt University

Wednesday, June 9, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Non-equilibrium dynamics in functional materials

Andrej Singer

Cornell University

Wednesday, June 2, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Fast and Slow Permittivity Control of Materials for Dynamic Nanophotonic Applications

Soham Saha

Purdue University

Wednesday, May 19, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Computation Accelerated Design of Materials and Interfaces for Solid-State Batteries

Yifei Mo, Associate Professor

University of Maryland

Wednesday, May 12, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
X-ray induced acoustic computed tomography (XACT)

Prof. Liangzhong (Shawn) Xiang

University of California, Irvine

Wednesday, May 5, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Mechanical Constriction Design for Advanced Performance of Solid-state Batteries

Xin Li

Harvard University

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
All-solid-state lithium batteries: materials, processing and diagnosis

Prof. Yan Yao

University of Houston

Wednesday, April 21, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Understanding the Birth of the Catalyst during Pyrolysis Using Synchrotron X-rays

Irtna V. Zenyuk

University of California, Irvine

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Coulomb explosion imaging of chemical structures and dynamics

Michael Burt

University of Oxford

Wednesday, April 7, 2021 | 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Does Mg2+ reversibly intercalate into transition metal oxides?

Jordi Cabana

University of Illinois, Chicago

Wednesday, March 31, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Understanding the bulk and Interphase structure in advanced Li-ion batteries and beyond

Xiaolin Li

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Thursday, March 25, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Electrochemical memory for low-energy computing

Yiyang Li

University of Michigan

Wednesday, March 17, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
operando X-ray Tomography of Solid-State Batteries

Prof. Matthew T. McDowell

Georgia Institute of Technology

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Material Characterizations and Designs for Energy Storage and Thermal Management

Yuan Yang

Columbia University

Wednesday, March 3, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Catalyzing Emergence in Quantum Materials with Light

Richard D. Averitt

University of California, San Diego

Wednesday, February 17, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Adsorption and Self-Assembly of Surfactants at Air-Liquid and Liquid-Solid Interfaces

Md Rubel Khan

Ohio State University

Wednesday, February 10, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Interface Driven Functionalities in Complex Oxide Heterostructures

Sanaz Koohfar

North Carolina State University

Tuesday, February 9, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast dynamics of coupled electrons, phonons and excitons from first principles

Marco Bernardi

Caltech

Wednesday, February 3, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Driven Quantum Materials

Andrea Cavalleri

Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Mattter, Hamburg and Department of Physics, University of Oxford

Wednesday, January 20, 2021 | 10:00am - 11:00am PST
Photon Science Seminars
Femtosecond Molecular Dynamics Enabled by Multi-Model Probes

Yusong Liu

Stony Brook

Wednesday, December 2, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Capturing Elusive Intermediates with X-rays

Anne Marie March

Argonne National Laboratory

Wednesday, November 18, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Using Photostability to Help Select Life

Gregory Gate

University of California Santa Barbara

Wednesday, October 28, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Micro- and nanoscale thermal transport dynamics investigated with optical and extreme-ultraviolet transient grating techniques

Ryan A. Duncan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Keith Nelson Group)

Wednesday, October 14, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Exploitation of the potential of Free Electron Lasers through innovative experiment

Danny Fainozzi

Elettra

Monday, October 12, 2020 | 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Discovery, synthesis and neutron scattering of layered quantum magnets and metallic antiferromagnets

Manohar H. Karigerasi

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Wednesday, October 7, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
A route to idealized topological semimetals: from design to characterization

Shiming Lei

Princeton University

Wednesday, September 30, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Resonant structures unveiled by the non-linear interaction with X-rays

Tommaso Mazza

European XFEL

Wednesday, September 23, 2020 | 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Towards high-speed high-resolution X-ray ptychography

Junjing Deng

Argonne National Laboratory

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Coherent short wavelength light for applications in probing highly-excited dynamics in nanoparticles and molecules

Quynh L. Nguyen

JILA/ University of Colorado Boulder

Tuesday, September 15, 2020 | 3:00am - 4:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Explore Collective Charge Dynamics in Cuprate Superconductors using Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering

Wei-Sheng Lee

SLAC

Wednesday, September 2, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Time Resolved X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Organic Semiconductors

Douglas Garratt

Imperial College

Wednesday, August 26, 2020 | 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Exploring electron-electron correlation and continuum electronic structure in atoms and molecules

Kirk Larsen

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Wednesday, August 19, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
X-ray induced Coulomb Explosion Imaging as Structural Probe of Complex Molecules

Rebecca Boll

XFEL

Wednesday, August 5, 2020 | 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Attosecond metrology at Free Electron Lasers

Giuseppe Sansone

Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat

Wednesday, July 22, 2020 | 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Facile Diamond Synthesis From Diamondoids

Yu Lin

SLAC

Wednesday, July 15, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Next Generation Computational Imaging and Massively Multiplexed Metrologies

Daniel Adams

Colorado School of Mines

Wednesday, July 8, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
High-speed X-ray imaging of metal additive manufacturing

Andrew Kiss

Brookhaven National Lab

Wednesday, July 1, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast IR Spectroscopy Reveals the Structural and Dynamical Heterogeneity in Glassy Materials

David J. Hoffman

Stanford University

Wednesday, May 27, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
High-speed X-ray diagnostics of Li-ion batteries

Donal Finegan

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Wednesday, May 20, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
High Speed Imaging Detector Technology for the European XFEL- Imaging the Invisible

Markus Kuster

European XFEL

Wednesday, May 13, 2020 | 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast X-ray measurements with HHG & the UK XFEL Project

Jon Marangos

Imperial College London

Wednesday, May 6, 2020 | 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Mechanical reliability of Li-ion batteries: Operando experiments and theoretical modeling

Kejie Zhao

Purdue University

Wednesday, April 29, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Advancing lithium-ion battery with insight from synchrotron characterization

Enyuan Hu

Brookhaven National Lab

Wednesday, April 22, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Multi-modal and multi-scale imaging with nano-focus x-rays

Xiaojing Huang

Brookhaven National Lab

Wednesday, April 15, 2020 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Multidimensional spectroscopy and ultra-fast dynamics in nanoclusters

Frank Stienkemeier

University of Freiburg

Wednesday, February 19, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Carrier and spin dynamics monitored by attosecond X-ray pulses

Michael Zuerch

University of California Berkeley

Wednesday, February 12, 2020 | 3:30pm - 4:30pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Effect of hydrostatic pressure on phase transitions and microstructures in polycrystalline materials

Sebastien Merkel

University Lille, France

Wednesday, January 29, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Multimodal in situ monitoring of halide perovskite synthesis

Carolin M Sutter-Fella

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Wednesday, January 15, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
The NIST NeXT System for truly simultaneous neutron and X-ray tomography

Jacov LaManna

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Wednesday, December 11, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Optical attosecond pulses and bright ultraviolet generation from soliton dynamics

John Travers

Heriot-Watt University

Tuesday, December 3, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Exotic silicon-based materials from high-pressure synthesis" hexagonal Si-4H for photovoltaic applications

Silvcia Pandolfi

Sorbonne Universite (IMPMC)

Friday, November 15, 2019 | 11:00am - 12:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Attosecond Spectroscopy - From University to Singularity

Gal Orenstain

Weizmann Institute

Wednesday, November 6, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
into the dark world of excitons & their quantum psychology: The case of the traumatic sudden separation

Keshav Dani

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Time- and angle-resolved photoemission of quantum materials

Fabio Boschini

University of British Columbia

Wednesday, October 23, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast X-ray Spectroscopy for chemical dynamics and material science

Caterina Vozzi

POLIMI

Tuesday, October 22, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Emergent States in Photoinduced Charge-Density-Wave Transitions

Alfred Zong

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Friday, October 18, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Attosecond imaging of molecular dynamics: electronic coherence and curve-crossing dynamics

Yuki Kobayashi

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Dynamic Crystallography

Bo Iversen

University of Aarhus

Wednesday, September 18, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Transient dipole-interactions on sub-cycle timescales

Lorenz Drescher

Max Born Institute (Berlin)

Friday, August 30, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Pump-probe simulation methods with application to XUV signatures of ultrafast photodissociation in alkyl halides

Han Wang

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Wednesday, August 28, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Charge, spin and lattice modes of cuprates studied by high resolution RIXS

Giacomo Ghiringhelli

POLIMI

Wednesday, August 21, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Time Resolved XPS of solids: from the synchrotron to FEL's

Wolfgang Eberhardt

DESY-CFEL

Wednesday, August 14, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
The Road to a Fully Coherent X-ray Free-Electron Laser - from RAFEL to XFELO

Dinh Nguyen

Los Alamos National Lab

Thursday, August 1, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Angular Momentum Coherences in the Ultrafast Dynamics of Isolated Molecules

Varun Makhija

University of Mary Washington

Wednesday, July 31, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Photonic Computing - Using light to surpass electronics

Lucas Zipp

SRI International

Wednesday, July 24, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
New Dimensions of Angle resolved Photoemission from Solids; Attosecond physics without an attosecond laser

Wolfgang Eberhardt

DESY

Friday, July 19, 2019 | 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast molecular and electronic dynamics to be studied by high repetition-rate XFELs

Kiyoshi Ueda

Tohoku University

Friday, June 28, 2019 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Observing topological phases and transitions with high harmonic generation

Alexis Salazar

Los Alamos National Lab

Wednesday, June 12, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Structure evolution of complex materials in extreme environments

Chenxu Wang

Stanford University

Wednesday, May 22, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Rational Design of Photoactive Molecules: From Molecular Electronics to Photoredox Catalysis

Christopher B. Larsen

University of Basel

Monday, May 13, 2019 | 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Interfacial Evolution in Oxide Thin Films: A Look into Coupled Diffusion and Transformation

Gang Wan

SLAC

Wednesday, May 8, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Nonlinear spectroscopy based on parametric down-conversion of X-rays into ultra-violet radiation

Sason Sofer

Tuesday, May 7, 2019 | 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Structural and Morphological Characterization for Lithium/Sodium Batteries

Xin He

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast spectroscopy of aromatic amino acids and their chromophores in the condensed phase

Gaurav Kumar

USC

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Engineering redox-active materials from electrocatalysis to pseudocapacitance

Xueli (Sherry) Zheng

Stanford University

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Rational design of silicon structures for remotely-controlled multiscale biointerfaces

Dr. Yuanwen Jiang

Wednesday, March 27, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Photocatalytic NADH-analog systems for fuel-forming reactions

Ksenija D. Glusac

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Validation, cross-validation and bi-cross-validation

Art Owen

Stanford University

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Molecular structure and Phase Transition of Supercritical Fluids

Matthias Ihme

Wednesday, February 13, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Attosecond multidimensional spectroscopy and investigation of molecular core-hole dynamics

Hugo Marroux

Wednesday, February 6, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Measuring attosecond x-ray pulses with angular streaking

Siqi Li

Wednesday, December 12, 2018 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Simulating Femtochemistry with Multiscale Methods - On the Road to Polarizable Embedding

Asmus Ougaard Dohn

Science Institute UICE

Wednesday, December 5, 2018 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Ion microscopy of Attosecond Nonlinear Inner-Shell Interactions in Atoms

Bons Bergues

Max Planck Institute

Wednesday, November 28, 2018 | 1:30pm - 2:30pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Exploiting the high repetition rate of the European XFEL for structure determination: The SPB/SFX instrument from first light, to first users, and beyond

Adrian Mancuso

European XFEL

Tuesday, November 13, 2018 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Investigation of Formation Mechanism of Meta-Stable Ni-rich Spinels from Layered Compounds through in-situ Neutron Diffraction

Jack Kan

China Spallation Neutron Source

Wednesday, October 3, 2018 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Understanding Crystallization Pathways Leading to Manganese Oxide Polymorph Formation

Bor-Rong Chen

SLAC

Wednesday, September 5, 2018 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
2D Mass Spectrometry: applying statistics developed or FEL research to proteomics

Taran C. Driver

Imperial College

Wednesday, July 25, 2018 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Momentum imaging spectroscopy probing strong-field molecular dynamics and surface dynamics

Lin Fan

Wayne State University

Wednesday, July 11, 2018 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Recent Progress at the "BOREAS" Beamline 29 at the ALBA Synchrotron Light Source

Eric Pellegrin

CELLS-ALBA

Monday, July 9, 2018 | 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Common Interest and Needs of High Brightness Synchrotron and Laboratory Sources

Wenbing Yun

Sigray, Inc

Tuesday, June 5, 2018 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Applications of Parametric-Down Conversion of X rays

Aviad Schori

Bar-Ilan University

Wednesday, May 16, 2018 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Widely Tunable Cavity-Enhanced Ultrafast Spectroscopy

Yuning Chen

Stony Brook

Wednesday, May 9, 2018 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Photons at high energies in intense fields

Ulrik. I. Uggerhoj

Aarhaus

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Thermodynamics of melting, freezing, and glass formation at high pressure

Zachary Geballe

CIW

Thursday, March 15, 2018 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Imaging Shock Waves to Study Initiation in Molecular Explosives

Leora Dresselhaus-Cooper

MIT

Monday, March 5, 2018 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Compressed Ultrafast Photography and Microscopy: redefining the limit of passive ultrafast imaging

Liang Gao

University of Illinois Urbana Champagne

Wednesday, January 31, 2018 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Exploring Non-equilibrium Phases in Quantum Materials

John W. Freeland

Thursday, January 25, 2018 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Rational Design of Advanced Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries and Beyond

Kisuk Kang

Seoul National University

Wednesday, January 24, 2018 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Understanding the role of oxide interfaces in battery conversion reactions using real-time x-ray scattering

Tim Fister

Argonne National Laboratory

Wednesday, January 24, 2018 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
From electromagnetically induced transparency to Autler-Townes splitting with x-rays

Xiangjin Kong

Max Planck Institute

Monday, January 22, 2018 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Building the next generation ultrafast electron microscope

Chong-Yu Ruan

Michigan State University

Wednesday, January 17, 2018 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Attosecond physics at the nanoscale

Matthias F. Kling

Max Planck Institute

Tuesday, January 9, 2018 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
The Discovery of Excitonium

Peter Abbamonte

Wednesday, December 13, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Sow's Ears to Silk Purses: Pitchblende as a Quantum Mineral

Steven Conradson

NEqCST/Labrys Corporation

Wednesday, November 15, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Status of the LCLS Optics and Metrology Laboratory

May Ling Ng

SLAC

Wednesday, November 1, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Formation Mechanisms of nanocrystals studied by real-time in situ X-ray scattering

Liheng Wu

SLAC

Wednesday, October 11, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Attosecond dynamics through Fano resonances

Lou Barreau

CEA

Monday, October 9, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Comb based microwave photonics

Martin Fermann

IMRA America, Inc.

Thursday, October 5, 2017 | 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Photoelectron spectroscopy of size-selected metal boride and gold alloy clusters

Tian Jian

Brown University

Tuesday, September 5, 2017 | 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast manipulation of electronic and crystal structure

Urs Staub

Paul Scherrer Institute

Wednesday, August 30, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Metal-Organic Frameworks and Opportunities for in situ Characterization

Hexiang Deng

Wuhang University

Friday, July 28, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast Polarization Spectroscopy in Molecules: Adapting an Old Method for a new Regime

Niranjan Shivaram

LBL

Wednesday, July 26, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy to study molecular photocatalytic systems

Grigory Smolentsev

Paul Scherrer Institute

Wednesday, July 12, 2017 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
"Can PAX help RIXS? An alternative method to measure Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering"

Georgi Dakovski

SLAC

Wednesday, June 28, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Nanoscale Functional Imaging of Materials for Energy Harvesting and Storage

Marina S. Leite

University of Maryland

Wednesday, June 14, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Strong-Field probes of Ultrafast Molecuilar Dynamics

Ruaridh Forbes

University College London

Monday, June 12, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Laser-induced echoes: from molecular alignment to harmonics generation in free electron lasers

Ilya Sh. Averbukh

Weizmann Institute

Wednesday, May 31, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Investigating ultrafast processes in photoexcited molecules with x-rays and electrons

Thomas Jacob Wolf

SLAC

Wednesday, May 24, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Generating and Characterizing Isolated, Low-Energy (10-20 eV) EUV Sources for Molecular Spectroscopy

Donnie Keathley

Weizmann Institute

Wednesday, May 17, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
FLASH - Today and Tomorrow

Wilfried Wurth

DESY

Wednesday, May 17, 2017 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Double Blind Holography of Attosecond Pulses

Oren Pedatzur

Weizmann Institute

Tuesday, May 16, 2017 | 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Spectroscopic Analysis to understand x-ray scattering of quantum materials

Hoyoung Jang

SLAC

Wednesday, May 10, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Two-dimensional Materials: Structures, Defects and Functionalities

Mingwei Chen

John Hopkins University

Wednesday, May 3, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Microsecond-resolved views by SAXS and WXS on the very early stages of quantum dot formation

Andreas Magerl

University Erlangen-Nurnberg

Wednesday, April 26, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Operando X-Ray Diffraction for Characterization of Photovoltaic Materials

Laura T. Schelhas

SLAC

Wednesday, April 19, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Terahertz light-matter interactions: Revealing nonlinear dynamics of molecular rotations, spins, and lattice vibrations

Jian Lu

MIT

Wednesday, April 12, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Using X-ray scattering and transient absorption to probe global and local structural dynamics

Robert Hartsock

SLAC

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
The sexy and messy parts of realistic photoexcited dynamics: motion, decoherence, and going beyond Marcus theory

Joe Subotnik

University of Pennsylvania

Wednesday, March 29, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast non-adiabatic molecular photo-dynamics studied using VUV/XUC pulse pairs

Elio Champenois

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 | 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Generalizing Time-Resolved X-ray Experiments for Structural Biology: Perturbing Protein Dynamics with Infrared Laser-Induced temperature-Jump

Michael Thompson

University of California San Francisco

Wednesday, March 15, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Opportunities and challenges for quantum dynamic imaging at the sub-Angstrom and femtosecond scales

Adi Natan

SLAC

Tuesday, March 14, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
XUV/X-ray pulse duration measurement with temporal single-shot cross-correlation (and additional short update on the LCLS-2 pump-probe laser development)

Franz Tavella

SLAC

Thursday, March 9, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Emergent chirality in magnetic and electronic textures

Padraic Shafer

LBNL

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Progress in Halide Perovskite Solar Cells: Developing a scalable and stable photovoltaic technology

Joseph Berry

NREL

Wednesday, March 1, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
A new multi-beam, multi-PW Extreme Field Laser at UT Austin – Science and Prospects

Bjorn M. Hegelich

UT Austin

Wednesday, February 22, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
European XFEL: the first high repetition-rate XFEL is ready to start

Massimo Altarelli (visiting Scientist)

LCLS/SLAC

Wednesday, February 15, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Attosecond science at LCLS and LCLS-II

Agostino Marinelli

SLAC

Wednesday, February 8, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
The angular momentum of light in High Harmonic Generation

Romain Geneaux

CEA

Tuesday, February 7, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Carbon Monoxide with Frequency Reference Delivered over Fiber Link

Giacomo Insero

Tuesday, February 7, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Metal-halide perovskites for photovoltaic and light-emitting devices

Samuel D. Stranks

Cambridge University

Wednesday, February 1, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Bonus Thursday Seminar: Charge Order Domain Walls in Superconductive TiSe2

Gilberto de la Peña

University of Illinois

Thursday, January 26, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Yb:YAG thin disk amplifiers - aiming for peak powers beyond the GW level based on industry ready technology

Jörg Neuhaus

Dausinger Giesen GmbH

Wednesday, January 25, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Why a condensed matter nonlinear optical spectroscopist finds coherent x-rays irresistible!

Keith Nelson

MIT

Wednesday, January 18, 2017 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Using Neutron and High Energy X-ray Diffraction to Probe Additively Manufactured Materials Over a Range of Length and Time Scales

Donald Brown

LANL

Wednesday, December 14, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Vortex pinning from conformal pinning arrays in type-II superconductors: Time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau dynamical simulations

Qing-Hu Chen

Zhejiang University

Wednesday, November 23, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Understanding Self-assembly and Functional Materials in Model Systems

Hans-Georg Steinrück

SSRL

Wednesday, November 9, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Self Referenced Diffraction or Herding Schroedinger’s Cat

Mike Glownia

LCLS

Wednesday, October 26, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Discovering New Metallic Glasses Faster

Fang Ren

SSRL

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Light-driven superconductivity in K3C60 at elevated temperature

Alice Cantaluppi

Max Planck Institute

Wednesday, October 12, 2016 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering of transition metal systems

Frank de Groot

Utrecht University

Wednesday, September 28, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
X-Ray Spectroscopy with Superconducting Spectrometers at SSRL and LCLS-II

Kent Irwin

Stanford

Wednesday, September 14, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Battery intercalation strategy: in-situ electrochemical liquid cell TEM study and high quality single layer nanosheets preparation

Zhiyuan Zeng

LBL

Wednesday, September 7, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Time Domain Phonon Spectroscopy at LCLS

Tom Henighan

PULSE

Wednesday, August 31, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Gas Dynamics in an X-ray FEL Gas Attenuator under High Repetition Rate Operation

Bo Yang

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington

Wednesday, August 17, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Atomic, molecular, and nuclear quantum dynamics and control in (strong) visible to x-ray (laser) fields

Thomas Pfeifer

MPIK Heidelberg

Wednesday, July 20, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Magnetic Correlations: A (Momentum) Space-Time Odyssey

Yue Cao

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Wednesday, July 6, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Bimolecular Imaging with femtosecond X-ray pulses

Marvin Seibert

Uppsala University

Wednesday, June 22, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Probing Fullerenes from Within using LCLS

Nora Berrah

University of Connecticut

Wednesday, June 15, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Dynamics of Competing Reaction Pathways during Catalytic CO Hydrogenation on Ruthenium

Jerry LaRue

Chapman University

Wednesday, June 8, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Widely tunable two-color FEL pulses at FERMI

Maurizio Sacchi

Paris Institute of Nanoscience and Sychrotron SOLEIL

Wednesday, June 1, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
The Role of Three-Dimensional Microstructure in Electrochemical Device Performance

Professor Wilson K. S. Chiu, Ph.D.

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut

Wednesday, May 25, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Successful Letters in Physical Review Letters: An Editor's Perspective

Serena Dalena

Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters

Wednesday, May 18, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Universal Charge Order in the High-Tc Superconductors

Eduardo H. da Silva Neto

UBC

Wednesday, May 4, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Pico - Nano - Mikro: Going small, fast and dilute with soft x-rays

Hendrik Ohldag

Stanford University

Wednesday, April 27, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Extracting Electronic Structure and Bond Strength Information from 1s2p RIXS: Electron Transfer and Apoptosis in the Cytochrome c protein

Thomas Kroll

SSRL

Wednesday, April 20, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Supercharging a Superconductor: Understanding the Tc enhancement of FeSe

Rob Moore

SIMES

Friday, April 8, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Achieving atomistic understanding of solvation dynamics from X-ray free-electron laser measurements

Kasper, Kjaer

PULSE

Wednesday, April 6, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
DNA repair photomachine: Dynamics and mechanism

Dongping Zhong

The Ohio State University

Wednesday, March 30, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Measurement and control of the carrier-envelope phase of laser pulses

Günter Steinmeyer

Max Born Institute

Thursday, March 24, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Fresh-slice double-pulses X-ray Free Electron lasers

Alberto Lutman

Accelerator Directorate

Wednesday, March 23, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Macromolecular Diffractive Imaging using Disordered Crystals

Henry Chapman

Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY

Wednesday, March 9, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Electron dynamics in intense laser fields with Bohmian trajectories

Hossein Z. Jooya

University of Kansas

Wednesday, March 2, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
How Low Can Synchrotron Studies Go - Synchrotron Studies Below 1 K

Clement Burns

Western Michigan University

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Attosecond delays in above-threshold ionization and the uncoupling of electrons from the molecular frame

Lucas Zipp

PULSE

Wednesday, February 17, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast Demagnetisation at 20

Christian Dornes

ETH Zurich

Wednesday, February 10, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Synchrotron X-ray fluorescence and absorption of rare earth elements in fossils: implications for anatomical and taphonomical studies

Pierre Gueriau

Synchrotron SOLEIL

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Probing nonlinear QED with strong laser fields

Sebastian Meuren

Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics

Wednesday, January 20, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Observing Interactions as they happen: Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopies of Quantum Materials

Giacomo Coslovich

LCLS

Wednesday, January 13, 2016 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Single particle imaging: opportunities and challenges

Ivan Vartaniants

DESY

Thursday, December 17, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Towards High-Flux Isolated Attosecond Pulses with a 200 TW CPA

Eric Cunningham

University of Central Florida

Wednesday, December 16, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Understand morphology of organic semiconductors, for better tailoring it

Hongping Yan

SSRL

Wednesday, December 9, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Science Driver Requirements for Seeded Soft X-ray Free Electron Lasers

Fulvio Parmigiani

Elettra-SincrotroneTrieste

Wednesday, December 2, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Dynamic pathway of the photoinduced magnetic phase transition of multiferroic TbMnO3

Elisabeth Bothschafter

Paul Scherrer Institute

Wednesday, November 25, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Probing high-energy spin fluctuations in iron pnictide superconductors and the metal-insulator transition in rare-earth nickelates by soft X-ray RIXS

Thorsten Schmitt

Paul Scherrer Institute

Wednesday, November 18, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Stimulated X-Ray Emission for Spectroscopy

Clemens Weninger

Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex System

Wednesday, November 11, 2015 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Cavity-Enhanced Transient Absorption Spectroscopy: Ultrafast Spectroscopy goes Ultra-Sensitive

Melanie Reber

Stony Brook University

Wednesday, November 11, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Femtosecond X-ray Scattering as a Spatiotemporal Probe of Chemical Reactions in Isolated Molecules

James Budarz

Brown University Program Description

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Mitochondrial complex I - energy conversion by a giant proton pump

Volker Zickermann

Goethe University of Frankfurt

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Synchrotron Studies for Nuclear Security

David Clark

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Towards three-dimensional and attosecond x-ray imaging at the nanoscale

Thomas Fennel

University of Rostock, Germany

Wednesday, October 21, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Light, Molecules, Action: Toward Cobalamin (Vitamin B12) Compounds as Light-Activated Molecular Devices

Roseanne J. Sension

Departments of Chemistry, Physics, and Biophysics, University of Michigan

Wednesday, October 14, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
‘D’++: Going Beyond LDA via GW and Vertex Corrections

Robert Markiewicz

Northeastern University

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast hard x-ray studies of intra- and inter-molecular dynamics following photoexcitation of molecules in solution

Tim Brandt van Driel

Technical University of Denmark

Wednesday, September 23, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Research for the Energy System of the Future

Wolfgang Eberhardt

TU Berlin

Wednesday, September 16, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Bio-Imaging With Liquid-Metal-Jet X-ray Sources

Daniel Larsson

Stanford University

Wednesday, September 9, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Electronic many-body physics on an ultrafast time scale

Stefan Pabst

Harvard University

Wednesday, September 2, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Attosecond electron interferometry in atoms and molecules

Hadas Soifer

SIMES

Wednesday, August 26, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
The mystery of milk: SAXS, anomalous SAXS, and resonant soft X-ray scattering studies

Bridget Ingham

Callaghan Innovation (Wellington, New Zealand)

Wednesday, August 19, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Charge Correlations in the Cuprates and their Relation to Superconductivity

Vivek Thampy

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Wednesday, August 12, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Light Induced Superconductivity

Daniele Nicoletti

Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter

Wednesday, August 5, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Femtosecond X-ray Scattering and Spectroscopy Unravels Key Excited States of Light-harvesting Systems

Tobias Harlang

Lunds University

Wednesday, July 29, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
A site-specific look at ultrafast interfacial electron dynamics

Stefan Neppl

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Wednesday, July 22, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Stimulated Electronic X-Ray Raman Scattering in atomic and molecular gases

Nina Rohringer

Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg Germany

Wednesday, July 15, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Dawn of x-ray nonlinear optics

David Reis

PULSE

Wednesday, July 8, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Experimental Possibilities in Material Science enabled by FEL Sources

Joerg Hallmann

XFEL

Wednesday, July 1, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Recent advances in reflective optics for EUV/x-ray light sources

Regina Soufli

LLNL

Wednesday, June 24, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
An ultrafast look at quantum materials

Jake Koralek

LCLS

Wednesday, June 17, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
A Technical and Operational Perspective on the DOE Energy Innovation Hub in Fuels from Sunlight, the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis

Nathan S. Lewis

California Institute of Technology Program Description

Wednesday, June 10, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Exploring Ultrafast Chemistry with Long Pulses: Beyond Pump-Probe

Dan Slaughter

Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Wednesday, June 3, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Slow electrons and fast protons from activation of matter with intense light pulses

Jan M. Rost

PULSE Institute, Max Planck Institute

Wednesday, May 27, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Surface Science of Biosensors and Biointerfaces

Ram Prasad Gandhiraman

NASA Ames Research Center

Wednesday, May 20, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Probing attosecond electron dynamics at solid surfaces

Jürg Osterwalder

Department of Physics, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Wednesday, May 13, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
X-ray Transient Absorption of Transition Metal Complex Excited States and Catalyst Intermediates

Amy Cordones-Hahn

LBNL

Friday, May 8, 2015 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Photochemical reactions in solution studied by ultrafast (ps) X-ray scattering and XAS

Qingyu Kong

Argonne National Laboratory

Wednesday, May 6, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Advanced temporal and spectral x-ray pulse shaping for ultrafast science

Agostino Marinelli

AD

Monday, May 4, 2015 | 12:30pm - 1:30pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Electronic Phase Control with an Electric Field

Hongtao Yuan

Stanford University

Wednesday, April 29, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Almost six years of AMO physics at LCLS – a personal review

Christoph Bostedt

LCLS

Wednesday, April 22, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
From Creation to Operation: A Closer Look at the Crystallinity of MAPbI3 Perovskite Photovoltaic Films

Kevin Stone

SSRL

Wednesday, April 15, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Imaging Quantum States with X-ray Compton Scattering

Yoshiharu Sakurai

Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, SPring-8

Wednesday, April 8, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Amyloid diffraction at XFELs

Meng Liang

LCLS

Wednesday, April 1, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Laboratory Astrophysics, Electron Beam Ion Traps, and the Fe XVII Saga

Greg Brown

LLNL

Wednesday, March 25, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
DOE FESAC Chair Mark Koepke Presents Special Seminar, ‘Partnering on Grand-challenge Opportunities at the Fusion Energy Sciences Frontiers’

Prof. Mark Koepke

West Virginia University

Wednesday, March 18, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Nanofabrication of Diffractive X-ray Optics for Synchrotrons and XFELs

Christian David

Paul Scherrer Institute

Wednesday, March 11, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Electronic and structural dynamics in transition metal complexes – recent results from synchrotron and XFEL experiments

Kristoffer Haldrup

Technical University of Denmark

Wednesday, March 4, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast X-ray Spectroscopy of Warm Dense Matter

Kyle Engelhorn

UC Berkeley

Wednesday, February 25, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Streaking spectroscopy for femtosecond applications and FEL development

Adrian Cavalieri

Max Planck Institute

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
How Can X-ray Transient Absorption Spectroscopy Aide Solar Energy Research?

Lin X. Chen

Northwestern

Wednesday, February 11, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Tackling Big Challenges Using Tiny Crystals

Matteo Cargnello

Stanford University

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Probing chemical reactions on surfaces in real time

Jerry LaRue

SUNCAT

Wednesday, January 28, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Towards attosecond measurement in molecules and at surfaces

Jon Marangos

Imperial College London

Wednesday, January 21, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Switching quantum materials properties with light

Alessandra Lanzara

University of California, Berkeley

Wednesday, January 14, 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Experimental Demonstration of a Tunable Microwave Undulator

Sami Tantawi

Stanford University/SLAC

Wednesday, December 17, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Computational imaging for 3D phase and coherence retrieval

Laura Waller

UC Berkeley

Wednesday, December 10, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
X-rays only when you want them: Report on Pseudo-single-bunch operation of the Advanced Light Source

David Robin

LBNL

Wednesday, December 3, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Launching magnetic soft x-ray spectromicroscopy into new dimensions

Peter Fischer

LBNL, UCSC

Wednesday, November 19, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Molecular architecture and functionalization of graphene surface; Synthesis and characterization

Ki-jeong Kim

Pohang Accelerator Laboratory

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Inducing superconductivity by modifying crystal structures with light

Roman Mankowsky

Max Planck Institute

Wednesday, November 5, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Relativistically Oscillating Mirrors for the Generation of Intense Attosecond Pulses

Christian Roedel

Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Femtosecond-scale x-ray FEL diagnostics with an X-band transverse deflector

Tim Maxwell

Accelerator Directorate

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Resonant soft x-ray scattering: elemental/chemical specific probe of reciprocal space and ordered structure

Hoyoung Jang

SSRL

Wednesday, October 15, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Science Driven Requirements for Seeded Soft X-ray Free Electron Lasers

Fulvio Parmigiani

Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste

Wednesday, October 1, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
X-ray Fluorescence Imaging: From Archimedes to Archaeopteryx and Beyond

Uwe Bergmann

LCLS

Wednesday, September 24, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
The heterogeneity at different length scales: Studies of Li-ion batteries and Sandstone with X-ray microscopy

Feifei Yang

National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory / University of Science & Technology of China

Wednesday, September 17, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
SLAC Bioscience Strategy and applications of XFEL to structural biology: the MFX project and two-color mode

Soichi Wakatsuki

Stanford University/SLAC

Wednesday, September 10, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Entropy, Phonons, and Nuclear Resonant X-ray Scattering

Brent Fultz

California Institute of Technology

Wednesday, September 3, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording for High Density Data Storage of the Future

Tiffany Santos

HGST, a Western Digital Company

Wednesday, August 27, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Exotic properties of magnetic systems with helical spin structure

Sujoy Roy

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Wednesday, August 20, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
ARPES study of phase competition in high-Tc cuprate superconductors

Makoto Hashimoto

SSRL

Wednesday, August 13, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Studying Collective Excitations in Correlated materials via RIXS

Wei-Sheng Lee

SIMES Research

Wednesday, August 6, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
A Global View of The Protein Structure Universe and Beyond

Sung-Hou Kim

University of California, Berkeley

Wednesday, July 30, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
A Coherent look at nano- and meso-scale dynamics

Jesse Clark

Stanford PULSE Institute

Wednesday, July 16, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Status of Soft X-ray Self Seeding at LCLS

Daniel Ratner

LCLS

Wednesday, July 9, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Serial femtosecond crystallography – the first five years

Ilme Schlichting

Max Planck Institute for Medical Research

Wednesday, July 2, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
A simple device to do serial femtosecond crystallography at XFELs

Irimpan Mathews

SSRL

Wednesday, June 25, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Dendrochemistry (Elements in Tree Rings): Applications and Measurement Issues

Paul Sheppard

Arizona State University

Wednesday, June 18, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
LCLS Detector Program: Status and Possibilities

LCLS Detector Team

LCLS

Wednesday, June 11, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Double bunch operation for high-intensity two color x-rays at the linac coherent light source

Agostino Marinelli

Accelerator Directorate

Wednesday, May 28, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Iridates on ultrafast time scales, and Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording

Oleg Krupin

Western Digital

Wednesday, May 21, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
The World According to X-ray Scatterers Revisited

Jerry Hastings

LCLS

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast atomic-scale processes in nanoscale materials

Aaron Lindenberg

SIMES

Wednesday, May 7, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
ALBA: the Spanish synchrotron light source. Description of the project and recent achievements.

Salvador Ferrer

ALBA Synchrotron Lightsource

Wednesday, April 30, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Resonant X-ray Diffraction and an X-ray viewpoint on All-Optical Switching

Alexander Reid

SIMES Research

Wednesday, April 23, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Investigating metal-ligand interactions with time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy

Nils Huse

Max Planck Institute

Wednesday, April 16, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Coherent phonon spectroscopy at LCLS: extreme frequency and momentum resolution with broadband pulses

Mariano Trigo

PULSE Institute

Wednesday, April 9, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Goniometer-based femtosecond protein crystallography: a concerted effort between SSRL and LCLS

Yingssu Tsai

SSRL

Wednesday, April 2, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Imaging of single bioparticles with LCLS

Marvin Seibert

Uppsala University

Wednesday, March 26, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Imaging Molecular Motions in Space and Time: Ultrafast X-Ray Diffraction of Electrocyclic Chemistry at the LCLS

Michael Minitti

LCLS

Wednesday, March 19, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Phase Recovery: Very New Results on a Very Old Problem

Alex d'Aspremont

CNRS & École Normale Supérieure, Paris

Wednesday, March 12, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Future Trends in Energy Research for e-Mobility & Challenges of High Energy Battery Research

Timm Lohmann

BOSCH

Wednesday, March 5, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Photosynthetic water oxidation catalyzed by the Mn4CaO5 cluster in Photosystem II: X-ray spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography

Junko Yanko

LBNL

Wednesday, February 26, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
How Do Lithium-Ion Battery Materials Transform during Electrochemical Cycling?

Feng Lin

Enviornmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Wednesday, February 19, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Stimulated x-ray emission in molecular gases

Victor Kimberg

Max Planck Institute

Wednesday, February 12, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Attosecond VUV Coherent Control of Molecular Dynamics and Prospects of Using ELI-ALPS User Facility

Ranitovic Predrag

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Wednesday, February 5, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Interpreting X-ray spectroscopy for a molecular-scale understanding of energy-relevant processes

David Prendergast

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Wednesday, January 29, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Microscopic Heat Transport in Thermoelectrics: Investigations with Scattering Experiments and Computer Simulations

Olivier Delaire

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Wednesday, January 22, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Sustainable Energy Materials Research at SSRL

Mike Toney

SSRL

Wednesday, January 15, 2014 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Probing surface chemistry using ‘Operando’ and ‘Ultrafast’ soft x-ray spectroscopies

Hirohito Ogasawara

SSRL

Wednesday, December 18, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Small Angle X-ray Scattering in Structural Biology

Thomas M. Weiss

SSRL

Wednesday, December 11, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Ultra-miniature lensless computational imagers and sensors

David Stork

Rambus Labs

Wednesday, December 4, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Phasing Native Biological Molecules at SSRL

Tzanko Doukov

SSRL

Wednesday, November 20, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Water an Unusual Liquid; LCLS Provides New Insights

Anders Nilsson

SUNCAT

Wednesday, November 13, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Organic thin film prehistory: looking towards solution phase aggregation

Christopher Tassone

SSRL

Wednesday, November 6, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Some Interrelations Between Different Imaging Modalities

J.W. Goodman

Stanford University

Wednesday, October 30, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Biological Solution Scattering with an FEL: challenges and opportunities

Peter Zwart

LBNL

Wednesday, October 23, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Frontiers in optical control and characterization of living systems

Jan Liphardt

Stanford University

Wednesday, October 16, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Science Challenges & Opportunities for an Advanced X-ray Free-electron Laser

Robert Schoenlein

LBNL

Wednesday, October 2, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Two-Color Self-Seeding at LCLS

Franz-Josef Decker

Accelerator Directorate

Wednesday, September 18, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
The Next Challenge in X-Ray Science: Control of Resonant Electronic Processes

Joachim Stöhr

LCLS

Wednesday, September 11, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Superbugs and Antibiotic Resistance

Clyde Smith

SSRL

Wednesday, September 4, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Why Vascular Stents Sometimes Break

Apurva Mehta

SSRL

Wednesday, August 28, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Phase-contrast X-ray angiography with gas as a contrast agent

Ulf Lundstrom

Royal Institute of Technology

Wednesday, August 21, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Electron acceleration & laser pulse compression using a laser-plasma accelerator

Andreas Walker

Oxford University

Wednesday, August 14, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Measuring and detecting electronic textures in strongly correlated electron systems

Stuart Wilkins

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Wednesday, August 7, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Commissioning the New LCLS X-Band Transverse Deflecting Cavity with Femtosecond Resolution

Yuantao Ding and Patrick Krejcik

Accelerator Directorate

Wednesday, July 31, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
4D-HD for high energy density plasmas: shedding light into rapidly changing, opaque plasmas

Marta Fajardo

Instituto Superior Tenico (IST)

Wednesday, July 24, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Observation of Dynamic Phenomena of Laser Peening with XFEL at SACLA

Yuji Sano

Toshiba

Wednesday, July 17, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
A Soft X-ray Split and Delay System for LCLS

Brendan Murphy

LCLS

Wednesday, July 10, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast electron and lattice dynamics of the THz electric-field-induced insulator-to-metal transition in VO2 thin films

Alexander Gray

SIMES

Wednesday, July 3, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Adiabatic frequency conversion

Haim Suchowski

University of California, Berkeley

Wednesday, June 26, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Why Are Some Proteins Better at C-H Bond Activation Than Others? Connecting Reactivity and Electronic Structure.

Courtney Krest

SSRL

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Clearing the High Bar: Structure & Function of Enzyme Reactive Intermediates

Allen M. Orville

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Coherent X-ray photons for studies of structural dynamics in condensed matter

Anders Madsen

XFEL

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
3D/4D/5D visualization of material at nano-scale using Transmission X-ray Microscopy

Yijin Liu

SSRL

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Two pulses, two colors; ultrafast interactions in time and frequency domains

Ryan Coffee

LCLS

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Heterogeneous Chemistry at the Nanoscale: Observing Transformations in Individual Aerosol Particles

Stephen Kelly

LBNL

Wednesday, May 8, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Progress in understanding uranium redox processes in biologically reduced sediments

John Bargar

SSRL

Wednesday, April 24, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
On-Surface Magnetochemistry

Christian Wäckerlin

Paul Scherrer Institute

Wednesday, April 17, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Progress towards inertial confinement fusion on the National Ignition Facility

Siegfried H. Glenzer

LLNL and SLAC

Wednesday, April 10, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
XANES in heterogeneous catalysis

Frank de Groot

Utrecht University

Thursday, April 4, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Controlling materials with photons: real-time watching of photoinduced phase transition

Eric Collet

University of Rennes

Wednesday, April 3, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast charge rearrangement and nuclear dynamics upon X-ray ionization of molecules

Artem Rudenko

Kansas State University

Wednesday, March 27, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Ligand and Solvent Manipulation of Electronic Excited State Spin Dynamics in Iron Coordination Complexes

Kelly J. Gaffney

PULSE, SLAC, Stanford University

Wednesday, March 20, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Coherent imaging using seeded FEL pulses with variable polarization at FERMI@Elettra: present status and research opportunities

Maya Kiskinova

Elettra Synchrotron

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Visualising ultrafast structural changes in photosynthetic reaction centres

Richard Neutze

University of Gothenburg

Wednesday, March 6, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Organocatalytic Solar Water Splitting

Ksenija D. Glusac

Bowling Green State University

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
X-ray spectroscopy of warm and hot dense matter

Philip Heimann

LCLS

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
The Upgrade of the ESRF: Science with Synchrotron Radiation from a 6 GeV Source

Harald Reichert

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 | 3:30pm - 4:30pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
New techniques for probing and controlling nonadiabatic molecular dynamics

Vladimir Petrovic

Stanford University

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Exploring High Dimensional Complex Data For Hidden Structure

Marvin Weinstein

SLAC Theoretical Physics

Wednesday, January 16, 2013 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
The Next Decade of Single Particle Diffraction with X-ray Lasers: Opportunities in Climate Science and Structural Biology

Michael Bogan

PULSE

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast Charge Transfer and Ligand Isomerization of Metal Complexes Studied With Transient X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

Matthew Strader

LBNL

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
What's all that x-ray detector stuff, anyhow?

Sven Herrmann

SLAC/PPA

Wednesday, November 14, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Nonlinear X-ray Matter Interaction Processes

Stefan Hau-Riege

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Ultra-fast domain wall dynamics

Mathias Kläui

The Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

Wednesday, October 17, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Intensity Dependent Nonlinear Changes in X-ray Diffraction using LCLS

Benny Wu

SIMES Research

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Mapping Ultrafast Dynamics of Highly Excited D+2 by XUV Radiation

Leigh Martin

The University of Colorado Boulder

Wednesday, September 19, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
EUV and soft X-ray multilayer optics

Torsten Feigl

Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF

Wednesday, September 12, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
The Higgs Boson: From Expectation to Reality

Michael Peskin

SLAC, LHC

Wednesday, September 5, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Mechanisms of Charge Carrier Trapping and Fluorescence Intermittency in Single Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Amy Cordones

UC Berkeley

Wednesday, August 29, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Most recent results from the commissioning of the FERMI@Elettra FEL

Marco Zangrando

ELETTRA and FERMI Lightsources

Wednesday, August 8, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Aerosols and Morphology

Duane Loh

PULSE Institute

Wednesday, July 25, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Using X-ray Emission Spectroscopy to Study How Plants Split Water

Roberto Alonso Mori

LCLS

Wednesday, July 18, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Seeing is Believing: Shining Light on Electrochemistry

Will Chueh

Stanford University

Wednesday, July 11, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Explosions of Clusters Driven by Intense X-Ray FEL Pulses

Nirmala Kandadai

The University of Texas, Austin

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Tracing Electron Dynamics with Femtosecond Time-Resolved ARPES

Georgi L Dakovski

LCLS

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Coherent Diffraction Imaging and Resonant Magnetic Scattering: DiProI Beamline on the FERMI@Elettra Seeded FEL

Emanuele Pedersoli

Elettra and FERMI Lighsources

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Attosecond imaging with x-rays

Peter Abbamonte

University of Illinois

Wednesday, June 6, 2012 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Using Light to Convert Water into Oxygen and Fuel

Johannes Messinger

Umea University

Wednesday, June 6, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Nanoscale resistive switches (memristors) based on transition metal oxides

John Paul Strachan

Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

Wednesday, May 30, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
THz wave air photonics: bridging the “gap” and beyond

Xi-Cheng Zhang

The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Probing Matter from Within using Ultra-Intense and Ultra-Fast X-Rays from the LCLS Free Electron Laser

Nora Berrah

Physics Department, Western Michigan University

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Active Sites in Catalysis: Catch Me If You Can!

Bert Weckhuysen

U Utrecht

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Femtosecond X-ray imaging of airborne nanoparticles: from correlations in spatial frequency domain to single particle structure

Dmitri Starodub

PULSE Institute

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
The Stellar Potential of LCLS

Justin Wark

University of Oxford

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Mott Physics in the Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling Limit: Using Resonant X-Ray Scattering to Probe Novel Magnetic States

Bum Joon Kim & Narcizo Souza-Neto

Argonne National Laboratory & Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 | 3:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Directing Polymers Using Nanoparticles

Geoff Mitchell

University of Reading

Wednesday, April 11, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Controlling the strongly correlated oxide properties: bulk, interfaces and surfaces

Suman Hossain

SIMES Research

Wednesday, April 4, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Storage Ring Light Sources, Past, Present and Future

James Safranek

SSRL

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Of Ancient Pottery and Modern Batteries – X-ray Spectroscopy at the Nano-scale

Florian Meirer

FBK Trento

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
The LCLS as a Tool for X-Ray Cross Correlation Analysis on Water

Jan M. Feldkamp

SLAC/LCLS

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Introducing Synchrotrons into the High School Classroom

Antonio Lanzirotti

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Investigating extreme states of matter by x-ray absorption spectroscopy

S.Pascarelli

ESRF, BP220, F-38043 Grenoble, France

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
SESAME – A light source for the Middle East

Herman Winick

SSRL

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
THE FIRST 300 FS: AN X-RAY VIEW OF CHARGE, SPIN AND LATTICE DYNAMICS

Hermann A. Dürr

SLAC

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
X-rays and DFT Cross-examine Fuel Cell Catalysts

Daniel Friebel

SSRL

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Manipulating the Electrostatic Boundary Conditions in Oxide Heterostructures

Harold Y. Hwang

Departments of Applied Physics and Photon Science, Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Understanding and Controlling Strong-Field Laser-Molecule Interactions

Professor Marcos Dantus

Department of Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy - Michigan State University

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Window on Deep Geological Time: Exceptional Fossils Studied Using New Methods

Roy Wogelius

The University of Manchester

Wednesday, January 18, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Dinosaurs, Space-shuttles and Synchrotrons

Phillip Manning

The University of Manchester

Wednesday, January 11, 2012 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
From the nanoscale into clinics: cutting-edge phase contrast X-ray imaging

Stampanoni

ETH Zürich and Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland

Wednesday, December 7, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Synchrotron radiation based electron spectroscopy: a probe for fundamental properties of isolated species

Catalin MIRON

Synchrotron SOLEIL

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
The power of high resolution Resonant Inelastic soft X-ray Scattering

Giacomo Ghiringhelli

CNR/SPIN and Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
In situ TXM and XRD on Li-ion Batteries

Johanna Nelson & Sumohan Misra

SSRL

Wednesday, November 9, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Photosynthesis – Powered by the Sun

Junko Yano

LBNL

Wednesday, November 2, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Statistical properties of a Self Amplified Spontaneous Emission Free Electron Laser

Alberto Lutman (3pm) & Tony F. Heinz (4pm)

Accelerator Directorate, Departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering (Columbia University)

Wednesday, October 19, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Hollow-core photonics: From single-molecule optofluidics to ultraslow light on a chip

Holger Schmidt

UC Santa Cruz

Wednesday, October 12, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
X-ray Lasers and the Coherent X-ray Imaging Data Bank and The Status of SSRF and its user operation

Filipe Maia & Jianhua He

LBNL, Deputy Director, Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility

Wednesday, September 28, 2011 | 3:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Lasers for Future FEL Light Sources

Alan Fry

LCLS

Wednesday, September 21, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Detector developments at Soleil: from the hardware to the experiments with XPAD, an X-ray counting area detector

Stephanie Hustache

Synchrotron SOLEIL, Detector Group

Wednesday, September 14, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Concerted electron spectroscopy studies of atoms and molecules

Raimund Feifel

Uppsala University

Wednesday, September 7, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Sample Injectors for Biological Imaging with X-ray Free Electron Lasers

Daniel DePonte, Uwe Weierstall, Bruce Doak

CFEL; DESY, Hamburg, Germany; ASU Department of Physics, Tempe, AZ

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Transition metal 2p3d resonant inelastic X-ray scattering: another bit of X-ray enlightening of the surface-adsorbate bond

Matti van Schooneveld

Utrecht University

Wednesday, August 24, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
X-ray Views of Biological Mineralization: not your usual bone x-ray!

Elaine DiMasi

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Wednesday, August 17, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Mystery of Iron-based Superconductors: the Story from APRES

Donghui Lu

SSRL

Wednesday, August 10, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
First realization of a photo-ionization based atomic inner-shell x-ray laser at the Linac Coherent Light Source

Nina Rohringer

Theoretical physicist Max-Planck Advanced Study Group

Wednesday, August 3, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Probing Magnetic Interfaces with Coherent X-rays

Sujoy Roy

Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Wednesday, July 27, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Two sides of the same coin: Ultrafast dynamics and interactions of electrons and lattice

Julia Stähler

Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society

Wednesday, July 20, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Exploring the High-energy Universe

Stefan Funk

KIPAC

Wednesday, July 13, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Solving Protein Structures with LCLS X-ray Pulses

Henry Chapman

Free-Electron Laser Science (DESY)

Wednesday, July 6, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Synchrotrons, Catalysts and UOP: from Imaging to in situ Spectroscopy

Simon R. Bare

UOP LLC, a Honeywell Company

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Structural Insights into the Action of New Anti-Cancer Drugs

Dong Wang

UCSD

Wednesday, June 22, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Ultrafast laser-induced electron emission from Hafnium Carbide tips

Catherine Kealhofer

Stanford University

Wednesday, June 15, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Thin Film Structure of Organic Photovoltaics

Chad Miller

SLAC/Stanford Materials Science and Engineering

Wednesday, June 8, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Attosecond Electron Beams from an Accelerator on a Chip

Eric Colby

SLAC

Wednesday, June 1, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Catalytic nanoparticles as observed with x-ray and electron spectromicroscopy

Frank de Groot

Utrecht University

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
New Insight into the Deep Earth from High Pressure Experiments

James Badro

Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Soft X-ray Materials Research at the LCLS: The Case of Strongly Correlated Electrons

Josh Turner

LCLS

Wednesday, May 11, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
First Steps Toward a Time-domain X-ray Spectroscopy

Ryan Coffee

LCLS

Wednesday, May 4, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Introducing: Carbon – Always Good for a Surprise!

Hendrik Ohldag

SSRL

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Toward Unbiased 3D Reconstruction of Flexible Single-Particle

Hans Olof Elmlund

Stanford Postdoctoral Research fellow, Structural Biology

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
The Origins of Sudden Cardiac Death: A Structural Study of the Ryanodine Receptor

Filip Van Petegem

University of British Columbia

Wednesday, April 13, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
X-Rays Shine Light on the Water Mystery

Anders Nilsson

SLAC and Stanford University

Wednesday, April 6, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
An Easy Road to High-NOON: The Photonic Schrödinger’s Cat

Yaron Silberberg

The Harry Weinrebe Professor of Laser Physics Weizmann Institute of Science

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
X-ray Reflectometry and Grazing Incidence Diffraction Studies of Model Bio-Membranes

Erik Watkins

U.C. Davis

Wednesday, March 23, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
Structural Mechanisms of Uranium Incorporation in Iron Oxides: Clean Soil through Iron Oxides?

Juan Lezama-Pacheco

SSRL

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Photon Science Seminars
High-order Harmonic Generation in a Bulk Crystal

Shambhu Ghimire

PULSE Institute

Wednesday, March 9, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Femtosecond X-ray Imaging

Marvin Seibert

LCLS Research Associate, Coherent X-ray Imaging Instrument

Wednesday, March 2, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
Photon Science Seminars
Biogeochemical Dynamics: Controlling Uranium Mobility and Bioremediation in Contaminated Aquifers

Philip E. Long

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm PST

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