Symposium: Exploring the ultrafast and ultrasmall

Friday 21 Jun 2019, 08:00 → 17:00 America/New_York

Physical Sciences Building, room 401, Cornell University

J. Ritchie Patterson, Joan Curtiss, Michele van de Walle (CBB)

Symposium Location: Physical Sciences Building, room 401, Cornell University.

Electron accelerators are an indispensable tool for capturing the dynamics of matter on the atomic scale. Electron beams enable angstrom spatial resolution both in the venue of electron microscopy, wherein the electron beam is the probe itself, and in the venue of synchrotron light sources, wherein a high energy electron beam is used the generating medium for synchrotron radiation. Beyond just spatial resolution, high brightness laser-driven electron sources coupled with efficient acceleration techniques and brightness preserving transport has led to several new forms of high spatial resolution probes with sub-picosecond time resolution. This has unlocked the era of the “molecular movie”, wherein conformational changes in matter can be mapped on their intrinsic time scales. This symposium highlights several of these time-resolved atomic probes, particularly the X-ray free electron laser and ultrafast electron diffraction and microscopy. The role of the underlying accelerator technologies in both current and future time-resolved atomic dynamics experiments will be discussed.

08:00 → 08:30 Breakfast

08:30 → 09:00 Overview of the Center for Bright Beams (20'+10')

Speaker: J. Ritchie Patterson

09:00 → 09:40 Yimei Zhu "Seeing Matter from Ultra-small to Ultra-fast with Electrons (20' + moderated discussion 20')

Speaker: Yimei Zhu

09:40 → 10:20 Lena Fitting Kourkoutis "Sub-Angstrom electron beams for understanding quantum materials" (20' + 20' moderated discussion)

Speaker: Lena Kourkoutis

10:20 → 10:50 Poster Blitz

10:50 → 12:10 Poster Session

12:10 → 13:00 Discussion and Lunch

13:00 → 13:40 John Spence "Dynamics at the atomic scale - what brighter beams can give us" (20' + moderated discussion 20')

"Dynamics at the atomic scale - what brighter beams can give us"

Speaker: John Spence

13:40 → 14:20 Jom Luiten "Laser-cooled electron source for ultrafast nanoscience". (20' + moderated discussion 20')

Speaker: Jom Luiten

14:20 → 14:30 Break

14:30 → 15:30 Industry Panel Discussion

15:30 → 15:40 Adjourn