Ultrafast Special Interest Group

Contact: Jin Wang, APS
Eric Dufresne, APS

Past 2012 agendas

  • Thursday January 26, 2012 at noon in conference Room 432C
    Introduction and Announcements. 

Investigation of lattice dynamics and nanoscale thermal transport in FePt/Ag heat assisted 
magnetic recording (HAMR) media films using psec time-resolved x-ray diffraction
Dr Chengjun Sun, XSD Sector 20.

  • Thursday February 16, 2012 at noon in conference Room 432C
    Introduction and Announcements. 

Young's double slit interference using a dissociating molecule
Antonio Picon Alvarez, X-ray Science Division, AMO group
    Antonio presented research published in Picon et. al. Phys. Rev. A, (2011)

  • Next meeting, Thursday March 22, 2012 at noon in conference Room 432C
    Agenda: 

Introduction and Announcements. 

Thermalization dynamics in semiconductornanocrystals, 
Richard Schaller Argonne Center of Nanomaterials (CNM).

Richard presented research published in PRL v107 177403 (2011).

  • Thursday April 19, 2012 at noon in conference Room 432C
    Agenda: 

Introduction and Announcements. 

Toward ultrafast control of complex oxides -- Case studies of BiFeO3 and VO2 thin films
Hadan Wen, X-ray Science Division
  • Thursday May 17, 2012 at noon in conference Room 432C
    Agenda: 

Introduction and Announcements. 

Ultrafast lattice dynamics probed with time-resolved X-ray diffraction
Dr Peter Gaal, Helmholtz-Zentrum for Materials and Energy Berlin

His abstract is also attached.
  • Thursday June 21, 2012 at noon in conference Room 432C
    Agenda: 
The meeting was cancelled.
    A mailing list announcement advertised a talk by D. Rolles from CFEL.
  • Thursday July 26, 2012 at noon in conference Room 432C
    Agenda: 

Introduction and Announcements. 

Time- and momentum-resolved phonon spectroscopy using x rays
Dr Mariano Trigo, Stanford University.
  • Thursday August 16, 2012 at noon in conference Room 432C
    Agenda: 

The August Ultrafast SIG was cancelled. See the cancellation note and
the User Science seminar announcement for Friday August 17
  • Thursday Semptember 20, 2012 at noon in conference Room 432C
    Agenda: 

Introduction and announcements

The APS Upgrade Short Pulse Hard X-ray beamlines (Argonne access only, available upon request)
Eric Dufresne, X-ray Science Division
  • Thursday October 18, 2012 at noon in conference Room 432C
    Agenda: 

Introduction and announcements

Time-Resolved Spray Diagnostics at the APS
Alan Kastengren, X-ray Science Division
  • Thursday November 15, 2012 at noon in conference Room 432C
    Agenda: 

Introduction and announcements

Tracking electron flows in energy materials using time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy
Xiaoyi Zhang, X-ray Science Division, Sector 11
  • Thursday December 20, 2012 at noon in conference Room 432C
    
The December 2012 meeting was cancelled.