Name: Workshop on Frontiers in Ultrafast Scattering of Electrons
Start: 2025-08-27T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-08-29T17:30:00-07:00
Location: SLAC

Workshop on Frontiers in Ultrafast Scattering of Electrons

from Wednesday, 27 August 2025 (08:00) to Friday, 29 August 2025 (17:30)

Monday, 25 August 2025
Tuesday, 26 August 2025
Wednesday, 27 August 2025

08:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
08:00 - 08:30
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood Rooms
08:30 Welcoming Remarks
08:30 - 09:30
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood Rooms
Contributions

08:30 Welcoming Remarks - Alexander Reid (SLAC)

08:40 Historical Perspectives and Outlook for MeV-UED - Pietro Musumeci (UCLA)

09:10 Logistics and Workshop Charge - Joel England (SLAC)
09:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
09:30 - 10:00
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood Rooms
10:00 UED Facilities
10:00 - 12:30
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood Rooms
Contributions

10:00 3D atomic structure determination with MeV electron diffraction - Alke Meents

10:30 The Future RUEDI (The Relativistic Ultrafast Electron Diffraction and Imaging) UK facility - Julian McKenzie

11:00 MeV UED facility at SJTU - Dao Xiang (SJTU)

11:30 KAERI MeV-UED: Setup and Applications to Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics - Jun Heo (KAERI)

12:00 SLAC MeV-UED R&D Upgrade Plans - Joel England (SLAC)
12:30 Lunch (Provided)
Lunch (Provided)
12:30 - 14:00
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood Rooms
14:00 MeV-UED Enabled Ultrafast Chemical Science in Gas and Liquid Phases
14:00 - 17:15
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood Rooms
Contributions

14:00 Speaker Introductions and Session Overview - Yusong Liu (SLAC, LCLS)

14:05 Gas-phase Ultrafast Electron Diffraction: Achievements, challenges and opportunities - Pedro Nunes (Diamond Light Source, Ltd)

14:35 Studying the UV-induced isomerization and dissociation dynamics of gas-phase oxazole and isoxazole - Daniel Rolles (Kansas State University)

15:05 UED Studies of the UV Photochemistry of Isolated and Solvated Bromoform - Oliver Gessner (LBNL)

15:40 Capturing Chemical Motion in Solution: Insights from Femtosecond X-ray and Electron Scattering - Elisa Biasin

16:10 Laser-Induced Streaking in Liquid-Phase Ultrafast Electron Diffraction - Jie Yang (TsingHua University)
Thursday, 28 August 2025

08:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
08:00 - 08:30
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood Rooms
08:30 Solid State & Quantum Materials
08:30 - 10:30
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood Rooms
Contributions

09:00 Structural contribution to light-induced gap suppression in Ta2NiSe5 - Alfred Zong (Stanford)

09:30 X-ray diffuse scattering studies of structural dynamics in quantum materials - Mariano Trigo (SLAC)

10:00 Visualizing Energy Transfer and Phonons During Charge Transfer at 2D van der Waals Heterojunctions Using Ultrafast Electron Diffraction - Archana Raja (LBNL)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood Rooms
11:00 Electron Sources & Beam Optics
11:00 - 13:00
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood Rooms
Contributions

11:00 Pushing the limits of Ultrafast Electron Diffraction and Imaging at Tsinghua University - Renkai Li (Tsinghua University)

11:30 Novel Cathodes for Dark Current Mitigation in LCLS-II Injector Gun - Tianhuan Luo (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

12:00 C-band high-gradient photoinjector R&D at LANL CARIE facility - Haoran Xu (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:30 Design of the RUEDI ultrafast electron diffraction beamline at Daresbury Laboratory - Ben Hounsell (STFC UKRI)
13:00 Lunch (Provided)
Lunch (Provided)
13:00 - 14:30
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood Rooms
14:30 Supporting Technologies & Diagnostics
14:30 - 16:30
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood Rooms
Contributions

14:30 Towards programmable XFELs: linking adaptable photoinjector laser shaping to tailored X-ray production - Sergio Carbajo (UCLA)

15:00 Direct electron detectors for robust structural characterization with four-dimensional STEM - Steven Zeltmann (Cornell)

15:30 Advanced THz structures for accelerator timing diagnostics - Mohamed Othman (SLAC)

16:00 Versatile Photoelectron Sources for Ultra-low Intrinsic Emittance Electron Beams - Michael Kaemingk (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
16:30 Poster Session (Building 53 Lobby)

16:30 - 18:30

18:30 No-Host Dinner -- Dutch Goose, 3567 Alameda de las Pulgas, Menlo Park, CA
No-Host Dinner -- Dutch Goose, 3567 Alameda de las Pulgas, Menlo Park, CA
18:30 - 20:30
Friday, 29 August 2025

08:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
08:00 - 08:30
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood Rooms
08:30 Materials at Extreme Conditions
08:30 - 10:00
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood Rooms
Contributions

08:30 Investigating ultrafast structural changes of warm dense matter – connecting atomistic details with transport properties - Benjamin Ofori-Okai (SLAC)

09:00 Radiation induced damage in nuclear materials studied with UED and modeling - Artur Tamm (University of Tartu)

09:30 Ultrafast electron-diffraction studies of materials under extreme conditions - Mianzhen Mo (SLAC)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood Rooms
10:30 Cross-Cutting UED Science
10:30 - 12:00
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood Rooms
Contributions

10:30 Probing in-operando device dynamics and atomic-scale energy flows with UED - Aditya Sood (Princeton University)

11:00 Imaging photoexcited carriers and heat transport in nanoscale materials using ultrafast EELS - Scott Cushing (Caltech)

11:30 (CANCELLED) Evolving UED Capabilities for Materials Research: Advances in In-Situ experiments - Sharon Philip (SLAC)
12:00 Workshop Closeout

12:00 - 12:30
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood Rooms

12:30 Lunch (On Your Own)
Lunch (On Your Own)
12:30 - 14:00
Room: 48/1-112A/B/C/D - Redwood Rooms

14:00 Advisory Board Meeting (Closed Door): Advisory Board Meeting
Advisory Board Meeting
14:00 - 17:30
Room: 41/2-2162 - Sonoma

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