PSI/LTP colloquium announcements

[Frank Meier <frank.meier AT psi.ch>]

Please find below the details on this week's colloquium at PSI. If 
someone wants to connect using EVO please drop an email to this list.

Kind regards,

Frank

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Subject: PSI/LTP Thursday Colloquium
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 12:57:48 +0200 (CEST)
From: Michael Spira <Michael.Spira AT psi.ch>
To: Alexander Mueck <alexander.mueck AT psi.ch>


Dear Colleague,

This is to remind you of this week's Thursday colloquium at PSI.

speaker:      B. D. Patterson, PSI
title:        The X-Ray Free Electron Laser Project at PSI: Fundamentals,
              Implementation and Possible Applications
date:         Thursday, May 28, 2009
time:         4 p.m.
place:        WHGA Auditorium
WWW URL:      http://ltpth.web.psi.ch/colloquium/abstractpatterson.html

Abstract:
Third generation synchrotrons provide an average X-ray brightness 10^9
times that of a laboratory source, making trivial many experiments which
were formerly impossible. But standard short-wavelength synchrotron light
is also incoherent and is limited to pulse lengths in excess of 100 ps. A
hard X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) will produce a peak brightness 10^10
times that of a synchrotron, with full lateral coherence and 20 fs pulse
lengths. I briefly present the operating principle of an XFEL and
technical innovations proposed by PSI for a national XFEL facility [1].
Possible coherent scattering and time-resolved applications of the XFEL
are discussed, in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, structural
biology, magnetism and correlated electron systems.

[1] http://fel.web.psi.ch

With best regards,
Michael Spira and Alexander Mueck