4GLS: the next steps :: 8th September 2006:: index

4GLS: the next steps
An information and interaction meeting for potential users following publication of the Conceptual Design Report (www.4gls.ac.uk/documents.htm)

09:15Registration and Coffee
10:00John Wood (CEO CCLRC): Welcome
10:05Wendy Flavell (University of Manchester & CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory): Introduction and Current Status of 4GLS
10:25Gwyn Williams (Jefferson Laboratory): The Scientific Programme at the Jefferson Lab 4th Generation Light Source
10:50Markus Drescher (Universität Hamburg & DESY): Probing Ultrafast Dynamics with Synchronized VUV/laser Pulses
11:20Cheuk-Yiu Ng (University of California, Davis): Vacuum Ultraviolet Probes: From Fundamental Chemical Dynamics to Reaction Mechanisms of Combustion, Catalysis, and Interstellar Chemistry
11:50Breakout Sessions: (refreshments provided during these sessions)
13:00Lunch: Opportunity to tour ERLP and view 4GLS VR tour
14:00Norman Tolk (Vanderbilt University): Studies of Ultra-Fast Carrier/Spin Transport and Non-Thermal IR Resonant Surface Bond-Scission
14:30Antonio Cricenti (ISM-CNR Roma): Infrared Free Electron Laser Nanospectroscopy Studies of Material Science and Biological Samples
15:00John Sutherland (East Carolina University): How Can Next Generation Light Sources Impact Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics?
15:30Breakout Sessions: (refreshments provided during these sessions)
16:30General Discussion
17:30Close