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UXSS 2014: X-ray Free Electron Lasers

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2014 90:44


Claudio Pellegrini discusses the physical principles and main characteristics of X-ray Free Electron Lasers. Talk given on June 16, 2014.

UXSS 2014: Hard X-ray Spectroscopy

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2014 89:13


Pieter Glatzel from ESRF Grenoble discusses the interaction of X-rays with matter, X-ray emission spectroscopy, and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering. Talk originally given on June 16, 2014 during the Ultrafast X-ray Summer Seminar (UXSS 2014) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

UXSS 2014: Electronic structure and ultra-fast solution dynamics seen with X-ray vision through theoretical spectacles

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2014 75:12


Michael Odelius from the University of Stockholm discusses the electronic structure and ultra-fast solution dynamics seen with X-ray vision through theoretical spectacles. Talk originally given on June 19, 2014 during the Ultrafast X-ray Summer Seminar (UXSS 2014) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

UXSS 2014: Coherent X-ray Scattering at Ultrafast Timescales

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2014 87:21


Oleg Shpyrko from UC San Diego discusses coherent X-ray scattering at ultrafast timescales. Talk originally given on June 18, 2014 during the Ultrafast X-ray Summer Seminar held at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

UXSS 2014: Soft X-ray General and Solid State Aspects

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2014 91:24


Alexander Föhlisch from Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin discusses soft x-ray general and solid state aspects during the 2014 Ultrafast X-ray Summer Seminar at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Talk was given on June 18, 2014.

UXSS 2014: Ultrafast Molecular Spectroscopy with X-rays: Experiment

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2014 62:04


Philippe Wernet from Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin discusses ultrafast molecular spectroscopy with X-rays. Talk originally given on June 19, 2014 during the Ultrafast X-ray Summer Seminar held at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

SSRL: Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2012


(October 3, 2012) John Popie looks at small-angle X-ray scattering and helps the audience understand when this technique might be useful to one's research.

SSRL: Nano-Scale X-Ray Imaging with Elemental/Chemical Sensitivity

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2012


(October 3, 2012) Yijin Liu talks about X-ray imaging that is now being done on very small scales to better understand three dimensional structures.

SSRL: Extended X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Fin Structure

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2012


(October 3, 2012) John Bargar discusses why X-ray absorption technology is so valuable in terms of analysis of structure, reaction dynamics, and many other properties.

SSRL: X-Ray Scattering

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2012


(October 3, 2012) Apurva Mehta looks at how some of the basics of research structure and design that can be applied when using the synchrotron. He keeps his discussion very high level, working to give more intuition to the understanding of the synchrotron.

SSRL: Role of Light Sources in Research

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2012


(October 3, 2012) Uwe Bergmann gives a bit of an overview about how some of these technologies are being used to conduct groundbreaking research.

SSRL: Moving to the LCLS

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2012


(October 3, 2012) Joshua Turner talks about moving to the LCLS and discusses some of the basics about the technology behind the revolutionary facility.

SSRL: Getting from Proposal to Experiment

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2012


(October 3, 2012) Sarah Hayes talks about how those approved for beam time can move around some of the red tape that is involved in the research process.

SSRL: Proposal Review, Rating, and Beam Time Allocation

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2012


(October 3, 2012) Cathy Knotts talks about the process through which individual researchers can submit proposals and work to get beam time at LCLS.

SSRL: Writing a Good Proposal

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2012


(October 3, 2012) Serena Debeer gives a presentation about how you can write the best and most effective proposal. A good proposal will be necessary to securing synchrotron time for your project.

SSRL: Tips on Getting Started with Research at SLAC

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2012


(October 3, 2012) Sarah Hayes and Sam Webb gives some insight to the audience about how you can get started in your research involving SLAC and the technologies that come with it.

UXSS: Surface Femtochemistry and Catalysis

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2012


(July 5, 2012) Anders Nilsson (SLAC Nat Acc Lab) discusses the basic ideas behind catalysis. He explains how useful catalysts are and attempts to introduce the field of Femtochemistry. Nilsson then highlights its benefits and illustrates how Femtochemistry is conducted in his lab.

UXSS: Matter Under Extreme Conditions at X-ray Free-Electron Lasers

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2012


(June 21, 2012) Bob Nagler discusses the definition of "extreme" conditions, how certain matter acts under these circumstances, the experiments making progress in this field, and why X-ray Free-Electron Lasers (XFEL) are such a valuable tool in studying this.

UXSS: Ultrafast Opto-Magnetism

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2012


(June 21, 2012) Theo Rasing talks about light and how it can be utilized to manipulate and control magnetism. He describes the steps needed to gain optical control of magnetism and discusses how light can reverse magnetization.

UXSS: Terahertz Science

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2012


(June 20, 2012) Aaron Lindenberg examines terahertz fields and the possibilities of combining them with X-rays and using these pulses to engineer and enhance the functional properties of materials.

UXSS: Ultrafast Correlated Material Science

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2012


(June 20, 2012) John Hill discusses ultrafast studies of strongly correlated electron systems in elements, why they are important, and the motivation for running ultrafast experiments using the Linear Coherent Light Source at SLAC.

UXSS: TIme-Resolved X-ray Scattering from Phonons

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2012


(June 19th, 2012) David Reis talks about Phonon spectroscopy and its utilization of X-rays. He explains what Phonons are and discusses how they can be visualized after interacting with X-rays.

UXSS: Nanocrystallography

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2012


(June 19, 2012) Henry Chapman talks about how diffractive imaging using crystals and X-ray free-electron lasers helps produce higher resolution images of molecular protein structures.

UXSS: X-ray Quantum Optics

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2012


(June 19, 2012) Nina Rohringer discusses recent research as she describes how SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) was used to ultimately pump an atomic X-ray laser.

UXSS: X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2012


(June 18, 2012) Marcin Sikorski talks about the usefulness of X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy in material science research, gives a brief history of X-Ray sources, discusses examples from his research, and talks about the new capabilities and science areas opened up to experiment with X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy at SLAC.

UXSS: Theory of X-Ray Spectroscopy

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2012


(June 18, 2012) Maurits Haverkort gives a theory overview of X-ray spectroscopy, the interaction of photons with matter, including measurements of different orbitals, spins, and charges of electrons, and X-ray absorption spectroscope and its relation to electron excitations.

UXSS: X-ray Free Electron Lasers

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2012


(June 18, 2012) Zhirong Huang covers the basics of X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFEL), XFEL projects, research and development areas, and new opportunities opened up by the Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC, which produces bright pulses of X-rays that can capture images of atoms and molecules in motion.

UXSS: Photon Science at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2012


(June 18, 2012) Joachim Stöhr talks about the founding and history of science and experimentation at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in addition to what is happening now at SLAC and in the future.

UXSS: Ultrafast X-ray Summer School Introduction

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2012


(June 18, 2012) Phil Bucksbaum gives an introduction to the Ultrafast X-ray Summer School conference, which aims to appoint students and post-docs with exciting new research opportunities that are available because of the presence of ultra fast X-ray free electron lasers.

XLDB: Functional Annotation of the Protein Sequence Universe

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2012 21:20


Eugene Kolker of Seattle Children's Hospital looks at how extremely large databases are used and worked with when it comes to sequencing proteins. Kolker looks at the future of this technology and how it can be improved. (October 19, 2011)

XLDB: Managing the Data Bonanza - Generating, Analyzing, and Sharing Data for Megasequencing Projects

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2012 26:18


Narayan Desai looks at how the enormity of databases has created an interesting problem when it comes to moving and sharing data across and between projects. (October 19, 2011)

XLDB: Sequence Read Archive - Validation, Archival, and Distribution of Raw Sequencing Data

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2012 33:58


Eugene Yaschenko looks at the history of sequencing and its relationship to software development. She looks at how the future of many fields relies on this growing technology and how it will be implemented in the future. (October 19, 2011)

XLDB: Extremely Large Data Challenges - What R Can and Can't Do

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2012 29:12


Susan Holmes of the Stanford statistics department discusses how R has certain limitations when it comes to dealing with extremely large sets of data. She looks at how it can be incredibly powerful in many situations. (October 18, 2011)

XLDB: YouTube's Data Warehouse

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2012 37:20


Biswapesh Chattopadhyay of Google discusses some of the latest technology that YouTube has worked to implement. He discusses the unique challenge the YouTube faces of storing such a data that is as taxing as video. (October 18, 2011)

XLDB: Data Infrastructure at LinkedIn

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2012 27:52


LinkedIn Software engineer Shirshanka Das discusses his work on distributive data transport and storage technology during 2011 Extremely Large Databases Conference hosted by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory. (February 21, 2012)

XLDB: Extreme Analytics at eBay

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2012 22:33


Thomas Fastner of eBay discusses how they use server technology to streamline the incredible amount of data turnover that occurs across the eBay network. (October 18, 2011)

XLDB: Real-time Analytics at Facebook

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2012 32:53


Facebook Software Engineer Zheng Shao discusses the importance of software analytics and real-time solutions in social networking technology at the 2011 Extremely Large Databases Conference and Invitational Workshop hosted by the Stanford University. (February 21, 2012)

XLDB: Large Database Storage - Reference Cases from Industry

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2012 3:57


Kian-Tat Lim gives an overview of large database storage industries that will be introduced at the 2011 Extremely Large Databases Conference and Invitational Workshop hosted by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory. (February 21, 2012)

XLDB: 2011 Extremely Large Databases Conference Introduction

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2012 8:32


Jacek Becla introduces the 2011 Extremely Large Databases Conference and Invitational Workshop hosted by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory. Becla discusses the main goals of the conference and gives an overview of events. (February 12, 2012)

XLDB: Cloud Computing at Scale

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2012 10:47


Roger Barga of Microsoft discusses large scale projects can be computed on the cloud. When dealing with projects of scale precautionary measures must be taken to make sure that efficiency is kept at a maximum. (October 19, 2011)

XLDB: One Billion Rows a Second - Fast, Scalable OLAP in the Cloud

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2012 12:54


Michael Driscoll of Metamarkets continues the discussion of how data systems can be scaled more efficiently on the cloud. (October 19, 2011)

XLDB: Quora - Scaling Up Quickly on the Cloud

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2012 10:04


Edmond Lau of Quora discusses some of the unique challenges and opportunities that come with scaling up data structures that are kept on the cloud. (October 19, 2011)

XLDB: Architectural Building Blocks for Extremely Large Analytic Systems

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2012 11:39


Andrew Lamb of Vertica Systems discusses how large analytic systems are built and managed in order to maintain inefficiency. He focuses on the technology that makes these data processing feats possible. (October 19, 2011)

XLDB: In-situ Scientific Data Processing for Extreme Scale Computing

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2012 36:19


Scott Klasky discusses how data processing works in situations with extreme scale computing. He details some of the difficulties that arise in these cases with huge amounts of information. (October 19, 2011)

XLDB: Value of Training Scheduling

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2012 8:59


Daniel Wang of SLAC discusses how train scheduling can be implemented to increase efficiency when working with incredibly large data sets. He focuses on how bandwidth can be shared over multiple projects. (October 19, 2011)

XLDB: Drug Discovery in the Era of Big Data

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2012 30:09


Computational Biologist Gregory McAllister discusses how the pharmaceutical industry is trying to take advantage of the incredible data technology that has presented itself over the past couple decades. (October 19, 2011)

SSRL: Fossil Imaging and Uranium Mobility in the Surface

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2012 26:37


Roy Wogelius offers an overview of synchrotron-based research into the chemical traces left behind in fossils, previously thought to contain nothing but bone and rock. (October 24, 2011)

SSRL: Research on Materials for Sustainable Energy at SSRL and SLAC

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2012 29:15


Mike Toney offers an overview on research for materials that could be used in the field of sustainable energy. He co-leads the Materials Sciences Division at SSRL. (October 24, 2011)

SSRL: Understanding Nature's Assembly of Molecules to Improve Tomorrow's Electrons

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2012 29:08


Stefan Mannsfeld describes his award winning research on high sensitivity flexible pressure sensors and on the molecular packing of organic semiconductor molecules in single-layer thin films. (October 24, 2011)

SSRL: Implications of Disorder on Charge Transport in High Performing Organic Semiconductors

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2012 24:32


Jonathon Rivnay describes his award winning research on organic semiconductors, which enable flexible and low-cost electronics such as light-emitting displays, smart sensors, and photovoltaic solar cells. (October 24, 2011)

SSRL: LCLS Instruments and Experiments

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2012 58:25


Bill Schlotter introduces the free-electron laser in the last session dedicated to the discussion of lightsource technologies. The series is geared toward scientists new to the field, as well as those considering new techniques. (October 23, 2011)

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