ACTOP11 | Programme

Sunday 3 April

Welcome drinks reception and early registration (Atrium at Diamond House): 5pm - 7pm

Monday 4 April

8:15am - 9:00am Registration (Atrium)
9:00am - 9:05am Welcome (Kawal Sawhney)
9:05am - 9:20am Introduction and Overview of Diamond (Andy Dent)
 "Bimorphs and KB mirrors" (Chair: Daniele Cocco)
9:20am - 9:50am Bob Fischetti (Invited), APS, USA
  Bimorph mirrors at the APS
9:50am - 10:10am Simon Alcock, Diamond Light Source, UK
  Metrology testing of active, bimorph mirrors at Diamond Light Source
10:10am - 10:30am Shunji Kitamoto, Rikkyo University, Japan
  The EUV Normal-Incident Telescope with an Adaptive Optics 
10:30am - 10:50am Ray Barrett, ESRF, France
  Developments in Mechanically Bent Mirror Systems at the ESRF
10:50am - 11:10am Frank Siewert, HZB, Germany
  Characterization and optimization of adaptive bimorph-mirrors by use of the BESSY-NOM
11:10am - 11:40am Tea and coffee break & Exhibition
 "Metrology I" (Chair: Simon Alcock)
11:40am - 12:10pm Lahsen Assoufid (Invited), Argonne National Lab, USA
  Metrology for Adaptive and Active X-ray Optics
12:10pm - 12:30pm Ralk Geckeler, PTB, Germany
  Autocollimator calibration for synchrotron metrology: Advancing from plane to solid angle
12:30pm - 12:50pm Tom McCarville, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA
  LCLS X-ray mirror measurements using a large aperture visible light interferometer
12:50pm - 1:10pm Hirokatsu Yumoto, SPring-8, Japan
  Surface figure metrology system for hard x-ray sub-10-nm focusing mirrors  
1:10pm - 2:00pm Lunch (Sponsored by Incoatec), Exhibition, and Posters (Sponsored by IDT)
2:00pm - 3:15pm Tours of Diamond (B16 Test beamline and Metrology lab) & Exhibition
3:15pm - 3:30pm Tea and Coffee
 "At-wavelength Metrology" (Chair: Kawal Sawhney)
3:30pm - 4:00pm Eric Ziegler (Invited), ESRF, France
  At-wavelength metrology of X-ray optics
4:00pm - 4:20pm Christian Svetina, Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy
  A beam shaping system for TIMEX beamline
4:20pm - 4:40pm John Sutter, Diamond Light Source, UK
  Automated in-situ optimisation of bimorph mirrors at Diamond Light Source
4:40pm - 5:00pm Hongchang Wang, Diamond Light Source, UK
  At-wavelength metrology with grating based shearing interferometer at Diamond Light Source
5:00pm - 5:30pm Bus to Oxford
5:30pm - 7:00pm Free time to explore the Historic centre of Oxford - maps here
7:00pm - 10:00pm Dinner at Trinity College, Oxford (Sponsored by FMB Oxford)
10:15pm Bus departs from Oxford, dropping off at Coseners House (Abingdon) and Diamond Light Source


Tuesday 5 April

 "Metrology II" (Chair: Mourad Idir)
8:40am - 9:10am Ruben Reininger (Invited), Brookhaven National Lab, USA
  Requirements and major challenges for x-ray optics at NSLS-II
9:10am - 9:30am Josep Nicolas, ALBA, Spain
  First results with the NOM-LTP at the Alba Optics Laboratory
9:30am - 9:50am Daniele Spiga, INAF, Italy
  From X-ray mirror surface metrology to the Point Spread Function: a self-consistent approach
9:50am - 10:10am Lorenzo Raimondi, Universita’ degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy
  X-ray mirror Point Spread Function computation: impact of different spatial wavelengths
10:10am - 10:40am Tea and coffee break and Exhibition
 "Fabrication Technology" (Chair: Ray Barrett)
10:40am - 11:10am Kazuto Yamauchi (Invited), Osaka University, Japan
  Single-nanometer focusing of hard x-rays using novel adaptive optical system
11:10am - 11:30am Philippe Godefroy, WinlightX, France
  Ultra precise figuring of aspherical mirrors (with or without bender)
11:30am - 11:50am Reiner Dietsch, AXO, Germany
  Multilayer mirrors – potentials for imaging, monochromating, collimating or focusing optics
11:50am - 12:10pm Akihiko Ueda, JTEC, Japan
  Fabrication of Osaka Mirror for Synchrotron Application
12:10pm - 12:30pm Uwe Heidorn, Incoatec, Germany
  Trends on X-ray Optics for synchrotron Beamlines: Large, nested, flat, curved, one or two dimensional, monolayer, multilayer or stripe multilayer
12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch (sponsored by Diamond Light Source)
 "Future requirements for Active Optics" (Chair: Frank Siewert)
1:30pm - 2:00pm Haruhiko Ohashi (Invited), SPring-8, Japan
  An overview of the requirements and the challenges for beamline optics at the next-generation sources; XFELs and state-of-the-art synchrotron radiations
2:00pm - 2:20pm Kawal Sawhney, Diamond Light Source, UK
  Characterisation of a novel super-polished bimorph mirror 
2:20pm - 2:40pm Liubov Samoylova, European XFEL, Germany
  Challenges of Optics for a High Repetition Rate XFEL Source
2:40pm - 3:00pm Daniele Cocco, Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy
  FERMI@Elettra Free Electron Laser: First commissioning results and active optics projects
3:00pm - 3:30pm Discussion Forum
3.30pm - 4:00pm Tea and coffee & End of workshop