The 9th International School and Symposium on Synchrotron Radiation in Natural Science (ISSRNS'2008) will be held in the Ameliówka Hotel (M¹chocice Kapitulne near Kielce) on June 15-20, 2008.

ISSRNS is a series of meetings, organised every two years, devoted to recent advances and new techniques employing synchrotron radiation in physics, chemistry, materials science, biology and medicine. The 9th meeting will be organised by the Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society with cooperation with Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw, Poland).

Specialists from synchrotron centres will be invited to deliver lectures on hot topics related to wide applications of these new sources of electromagnetic radiation in various domains. Poster sessions will be organised to present recent achievements and results. The collected abstracts will be published in a volume of Synchrotron Radiation in Natural Science, and the proceedings in a reputable international journal.

The meeting language is English.

The topics of the meeting include:

synchrotron and alternative radiation sources - instrumentation,

synchrotron radiation in life sciences,

macromolecular crystallography,

x-ray absorption, fluorescence and photoelectron spectroscopies,

magnetic dichroism,

x-ray diffraction,

nanocrystals and nanostructures,

applications of free electron lasers.

Tentative List of Invited Speakers:

José Baruchel, ESRF, France
Advances and trends in hard X-ray SR-base imaging

Rachid Belkhou, SOLEIL, France
Nanospectroscopy - XPEEM applied to nanomagnetism

Christian Bressler, LSU, ISIC, EPFL, Switzerland
Time-resolved XAFS

Wolfgang Eberhardt, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Electronic structure of nanomaterials

Andrew Fitch, ESRF, France
High resolution powder diffraction

Pieter Glatzel, ESRF, France
Hard X-Ray Photon-In-Photon-Out Spectroscopy with Lifetime Resolution; XAS, XES, RIXS and HERFD

El¿bieta Guziewicz, IF PAN, Poland
Localized and itinerant 5f states in actinide materials as seen by photoemission spectroscopy

Jung Ho Je, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
Imaging in the nanoworld

Pawe³ Korecki, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Real-space imaging of atomic structure

Settimio Mobilio, Universita' Roma TRE, Italy
to be announced

Bogdan Pa³osz, Institute of High Pressure Physics, PAS, Poland
Nanocrystals under high pressure

Daniel Rolles, ALS, USA
Imaging nanoscale objects by femtosecond x-ray diffraction with a soft x-ray free electron laser

George A. Sawatzky, University of British Columbia, Canada
High-energy and high-resolution spectroscopies of electronic structure of nanostructured strongly correlated materials

O. Shimomura, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), Japan
Physcis of phase transitions at high pressure

Thomas Tschentscher, HASYLAB, Germany
Scientific Applications of X-ray Free-Electron Laser Sources

Tolek Tyliszczak, ALS, USA
Application of Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy in natural sciences

György Vankó, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Temperature and pressure-induced spin-state transitions: applications of high-resolution x-ray spectroscopy

Edmund Welter, HASYLAB, Germany
A Monolithic 7 Cell Silicon Drift Detector Module for X-Ray Spectroscopy


The meeting will be held in a comfortable hotel Ameliówka (10 km from the district capital Kielce) located in the middle of the Œwiêtokrzyskie (Saint Cross) Mountains, a wooded mountain range in central Poland (the oldest mountains in Poland and one of the oldest in Europe).

Late contributions (after the deadline) may be considered