Participants in the DESY auditorium during the Users´ Meeting 2025. (Photo: DESY, Marta Mayer)
High level of participation once again at the users' meetings 2025 of the Hamburg X-ray light sources. More than 1100 scientists have registered to discuss latest research performed at the DESY's X-ray light source PETRA III and free-electron laser FLASH as well as at the X-ray laser European XFEL and to inform themselves about new developments and future prospects over the course of the three-day event, which started this Tuesday. The jointly organised users' meetings of DESY and European XFEL are the largest gathering of this kind worldwide.
“There is a huge interest in the Users’ Meeting from national and international scientists to discuss research and future opportunities at the light sources in Hamburg. It is an inspiring atmosphere and the enthusiasm is contagious,” says DESY's new Director for Photon Science, Britta Redlich, who took over the lead on 1 January 2025. She is Professor for experimental physics and was previously Director of the FELIX free-electron laser and the HFML high-field magnet laboratory at Radboud University in Nijmegen (Netherlands).“The annual users´ meeting still is the most important gathering to forster collaborations in the scientific community helping to advance the field of X-ray science and developments at DESY.”
In addition to several plenary sessions, the whole week is filled with 18 satellite workshops on special topics on Monday and Friday (20-24 January 2025), three poster session with together more than 330 posters and an exhibition with 30 exhibitors from industry. Participants benefit from cutting-edge scientific presentations and latest information on planned ultra-low-emittance upgrade of the existing PETRA III storage ring to PETRA IV as well as the upgrade of FLASH to FLASH2020+ which is in full swing. New this year: A jointly organised session on data science with feature topics such as high throughput and real time data analysis as well as machine learning and the use of AI in the context of the light sources.
Of particular importance is the participation of the representatives of the user organisations, the European Synchrotron and FEL User Organisation (ESUO), the German Committee for Research with Synchrotron Radiation (KFS), and the DESY Photon Science User Committee (DPS-UC). They represent the interdisciplinary user community with a broad spectrum of research at DESY´s light sources and beyond and report on their activities at the users’ meetings. Sharing expertise and infrastructures and thereby strengthening the research is becoming more and more important for all.
(from DESY News)
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