Name: The 2nd Workshop on Science Opportunities with Diffraction-Limited Soft X-rays
Start: 2026-04-15T09:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-04-16T21:00:00-07:00
Location: Berkeley, CA, USA

The 2nd Workshop on Science Opportunities with Diffraction-Limited Soft X-rays

from Wednesday 15 April 2026 (09:00) to Thursday 16 April 2026 (21:00)

Monday 13 April 2026
Tuesday 14 April 2026
Wednesday 15 April 2026

09:00 Welcome

09:00 - 09:30
09:30 Facilities
09:30 - 10:30
Contributions

09:30 MAX IV Laboratory - Olof Karis (MAX IV)

09:45 MAX IV Laboratory - Joachim Schnadt (Division of Synchrotron Radiation Research, Lund University)

10:00 LBNL - ALS - Andreas Scholl (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

10:15 Synchrotron SOLEIL - Amina Taleb-Ibrahimi (Synchrotron SOLEIL)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Beamlines, overview
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Xray OAM Studies at the ALS - Sujoy Roy (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11:30 Recent results and update of instrumentation for soft x ray resonant scattering and coherent imaging at ALBA synchrotron light source - Manuel Valvidares (ALBA Synchrotron Light Source)

12:00 Coherent methods at SoftiMAX - Jörg Schwenke (MAX IV Laboratory)

12:15 Questions / Discussions
12:30 Group photo
Group photo
12:30 - 12:40

12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 14:00
14:00 Session 3: Optics
Optics
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 OAM advancements in soft REXS - Claudio Mazzoli (BNL)

14:30 X-ray spin-orbit conversion with resonant magnetic scattering - Margaret McCarter (University of Kentucky)

15:00 Manipulation of the orbital angular momentum of soft X-ray beams - Valery Kiryukhin (Rutgers University)

15:30 Questions / Discussions
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 Applications
16:30 - 18:00
Contributions

16:30 Probing Chiral Condensed Matter with Coherent X‑ray OAM Beams - Andi Barbour (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

17:00 Fractional, Dynamic X-ray OAM from Coherent Magnetic Scattering - Todd Hastings (University of Kentucky)

17:30 Questions / Discussions
18:00 Brainstorming

18:00 - 18:45

19:00 Dinner at hotel
Dinner at hotel
19:00 - 21:00
Thursday 16 April 2026
08:45 Applications II
08:45 - 10:30
Contributions

08:45 Coherent x-ray studies of spontaneous fluctuations in correlated systems - Roopali Kukreja (UC Davis)

09:15 Probing Protein Dynamics on Microsecond and Nanometer Scales with X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy - Fivos Perakis (Physics Department, Stockholm University)

09:45 Imaging Magnetism at the Nanoscale with Dichroic Spectro-ptychography - Marina Raboni Ferreira (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids)

10:15 Questions / Discussions
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Applications II
11:00 - 12:45
Contributions

11:00 Soft x-rays with orbital angular momentum for resonant scattering experiments at the SOLEIL synchrotron - Maurizio Sacchi (CNRS - INSP and Synchrotron SOLEIL)

11:30 OAM soft x-rays for ARPES - Chris Jozwiak (Advanced Light Source)

12:00 Orbital Angular Momentum Beams for Probing Chiral Fluctuations - Sophie Morley (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

12:30 Questions / Discussions
12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:00
14:00 Session 7: Optics & Instrumentation
Optics & Instrumentation
14:00 - 15:45
Contributions

14:00 Recent progress in high resolution photon counting detectors with Microchannel Plates - Anton Tremsin (University of California at Berkeley)

14:30 Recent OAM Experiments at the ALS - Ryan Evenson (LBNL - ALS)

15:00 Develeopment of x-ray adaptive optics at the Advanced Light Source - Antoine Islegen-Wojdyla (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

15:30 Questions / Discussions
15:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:15
16:15 Session 8
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:15 X-ray spectroscopy using OAM beams - David Prendergast (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:45 Design and fabrication of OAM zone plates - Bernhard Luttgenau (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

17:15 Questions / Discussions
17:45 Brainstorming

17:45 - 18:30

18:30 Closing

18:30 - 18:40

19:00 Dinner at Restaurant “Gather"
Dinner at Restaurant “Gather"
19:00 - 21:00

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