IXS2019 Conference Talks

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Monday, June 24, 2019

• Welcome and Opening Remark
  Yong Cai (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
• Inelastic X-ray Scattering: Past, Present and Future
  John Hill (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Session: [Quantum Materials 1] A

• RIXS beyond cuprates: an overview
  Young-June Kim (University of Toronto)
• Looking at low energy excitations in the lanthanides with RIXS: current status and opportunities
  Kurt Kummer (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)

Session: [Quantum Materials 1] B

• RIXS characterization of the giant crystal field, multiplet mixing and magnetism of CeRh3B2
  Andrea Amorese (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids)
• Nematic Fluctuations and Lattice Coupling in Ba(Fe0.97Co0.03)2As2 and FeSe
  Adrian Merritt (University of Colorado, Boulder)
• Topological Phononic Excitations Revealed by Inelastic X-Ray Scattering
  Mark Dean (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
• High Performance Soft X-ray RIXS and Applications to Magnetic Materials
  Jun Miyawaki (University of Tokyo)

Session: [Theory] A

• X-ray core level spectroscopy, what do we learn and which level of theory do we need
  Maurits Haverkort (Heidelberg University)
• First-principles modelling of RIXS in liquid water: Core-excited nuclear dynamics and the distribution of local potential energy surfaces
  Vinicius Vaz Da Cruz (University of Potsdam )
• Systematic Calculations of RIXS for the 3d Transition Metal Oxides by the Ab-initio Multiplet Methods
  Hidekazu Ikeno (Osaka Prefecture University)
• Spin and Charge Excitations in Stripe-Ordered Cuprates
  Takami Tohyama (Tokyo University of Science )

Session: [Theory] B

• Unbiased simulations of the Hubbard model and ow to see collective charge modes
  Tom Devereaux (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
• Computing Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering Spectra Using The Density Matrix Renormalization Group Method
  Alberto Nocera (University of British Columbia)
• LDA+DMFT approach to calculation of RIXS spectra
  Jan Kuneš (TU Wien)
• RIXS for 5d spin-orbit coupled oxides in the strong Mott-insulator limit
  Arun Paramekanti (University of Toronto)

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Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Session: [Functional Materials] A

• Studies of Phonons with Inelastic X-Ray / Neutron Scattering and First-Principles Simulations
  Olivier Delaire (Duke University)
• Magnetic dynamics of a Sr₂IrO₄/Sr₃Ir₂O₇ Superlattice
  Joel Bertinshaw (Max-lanck-Institut für Festkörperforschung)
• Estimation of phonon lifetime in epitaxial films
  Hiroshi Uchiyama (Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), SPring-8)
• Spin and lattice correlations in quantum magnets and the full elasticity tensor from thermal diffuse scattering
  Björn Wehinger (University of Geneva )

Session: [Functional Materials] B

• Advanced magnetic spectroscopies for the fine characterization of magnetic nanomaterials
  Amélie Juhin (Sorbonne Université)
• Imaging sub-micrometer length scales with RIXS on complex oxides
  Martin Beye (DESY)
• Lattice dynamics of epitaxial strain-free interfaces
  Svetoslav Stankov (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT))
• Magnetic circular dichroism in x-ray florescence
  Toshiya Inami (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology)

Session: [Time-Domain Spectroscopy] A

• Nonequilibrium Lattice Dynamics in photoexcited bismuth
  David Reis (Stanford University)
• Resonant inelastic EUV scattering at a seeded free electron laser
  Marco Malvestuto (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)
• Ultrafast diffusive dynamics in a charge-ordered cuprate superconductor
  Matteo Mitrano (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Time-resolved Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering on Quantum Materials
  Thorsten Schmitt (Paul Scherrer Institute)

Session: [Time-Domain Spectroscopy] B

• Tracing the active atomic sites in photochemistry with soft X-ray resonant inelastic X-ray scattering
  Alexander Föhlisch (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie)
• Stimulated X-ray Emission Spectroscopy with hard X-rays
  Thomas Kroll (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
• Dynamics study in time scales between nano-second and micro-second by quasi-elastic scattering based on synchrotron radiation
  Makina Saito (Kyoto University)
• Nanoscale lattice dynamics probed by extreme ultraviolet transient gratings
  Filippo Bencivenga (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

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Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Session: [Quantum Materials II] A

• Charge fluctuations and electron phonon coupling studied by very high resolution RIXS
  Giacomo Ghiringhelli (Politecnico di Milano)
• Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering on ultrathin FeSegrown on SrTiO3
  Jonathan Pelliciari (MIT)
• Evolution of the magnetic excitations in high Tc cuprates
  Yingying Peng (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Ubiquitous charge density wave excitation and local commensurability
  Hu Miao (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Session: [Quantum Materials II] B

• Probing CDW phenomena and charge excitations in cuprates via RIXS
  Wei-sheng Lee
• Direct imaging of orbitals using inelastic X-ray scattering
  Hasan Yavas (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
• Uniaxial pressure control of competing orders in the cuprates
  Mathieu Le Tacon
• High-resolution momentum-resolved RIXS at Taiwan Photon Source
  Di-Jing Huang (National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center)

Session: [Novel Instrumentation & Methods] A

• Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering at SIX of NSLS II: An update on the beamline status and its performances
  Valentina Bisogni (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
• High energy resolution RIXS study on Orbital Ordered KCuF3
  Ke-Jin Zhou (Diamond Light Source)
• Opportunities for resonant elastic and inelastic x-ray scattering studies at the SCS instrument at the European XFEL
  Justine Schlappa (European XFEL)
• Soft X-ray scattering instrumentation at LCLS-II
  Georgi Dakovski (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
• Double-dispersion RIXS (QERLIN) at the ALS
  Yi-De Chuang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Session: [Novel Instrumentation & Methods] B

• High spectral and focal resolution RIXS with state-of-the-art flat crystal spectrometer
  Jungho Kim (Argonne National Laboratory)
• IRIXS: an intermediate x-ray energy RIXS spectrometer at P01, DESY
  Hlynur Gretarsson (DESY)
• The Inelastic X-ray Scattering beam line ID20 at the ESRF
  Christoph Sahle (ESRF)
• Ultrahigh resolution Compton scattering
  Nozomu Hiraoka (National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center)
• Recent Progress in Non-Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering
  Alfred Baron (RIKEN SPring-8 Center)

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Thursday, June 27, 2019

Session: [Energy Materials & Catalysis] A

• A spectroscopic journey into the critical electron states in batteries
  Wanli Yang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
• Hyperspectral Imaging with X-ray Raman Scattering
  Jean-Pascal Rueff (Synchrotron SOLEIL)
• Ex-situ and in-situ scattering and spectroscopic study of oxygen evolution catalysts
  Gihan Kwon (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
• High-Energy X-ray Compton Scattering for Non-destructive and Quantum Characterization in Batteries
  Kosuke Suzuki (Gunma University)

Session: [Energy Materials & Catalysis] B

• The Evolution of Electronic Complexity in Biology: K-alpha HERFD and 2p3d RIXS of Iron Sulfur Clusters
  Serena DeBeer (MPI CEC)
• CF scheme of UO2 measured with NIXS
  Martin Sundermann (University of Cologne)
• NRIXS studies of halide perovskites
  Michael Hu (Argonne National Laboratory)
• What experiments can we do with 2p3d RIXS?
  Frank de Groot (Utrecht University)

Session: [Soft, Biomaterials & Extreme Conditions]

• Directional cuts through potential energy surfaces
  Annette Pietzsch (Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin)
• High-resolution Inelastic X-Ray Scattering as a probe of the dynamic in complex and hybrid materials
  Alessandro Cunsolo (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
• Inelastic X-ray scattering at extreme conditions and its geophysical applications
  Eiji Ohtani (Tohoku University)
• New insight into biophysics of lipid membranes with high resolution IXS
  Mikhail Zhernenkov (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

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Friday, June 28, 2019

Session: [Awards]

• Poster Award Winners
  • Ultrafast dynamics of spin and orbital correlations in layered iridates
    Daniel Mazzone (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  • X-ray Raman scattering study of hydrothermal fluids: The case of aqueous sodium chloride solutions
    Mirko Elbers (Technische Universität Dortmund)
  • Lattice tuning and magnetic frustration in Sr2IrO4 and Sr3Ir2O7 as seen by two-magnonRaman scattering
    Ekaterina Paerschke (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
  • The Origin of Ising Magnetism in Ca3Co2O6 Unveiled by Orbital Imaging
    Brett Leedaht (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids)
• IUCR Awards
  • Thermal acoustic excitations with atomic-scale wavelengths in amorphous silicon
    Jaeyun Moon (California Institute of Technology)
  • Tracking Collective Spin and Charge Excitations through Time-Resolved Raman and RIXS Spectra
    Yao Wang (Harvard University)

Session: [Future of IXS]

• New developments in Inelastic X-ray Scattering at the Advanced Photon Source
  Thomas Gog (Argonne National Laboratory)
• IXS Opportunities offered by High Repetition Rate X-ray Free Electron Lasers
  Chi-Chang Kao (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
• IXS 2019: Conference Summary
  Arun Bansil (Northeastern University)