14 May 2012
19:00: Welcome Cocktail at Adriatico Terrace
15 May 2012
8:30: Registration
9:00 - 9:30: Opening and Welcome
9:00 - 9:10: C. Rizzuto, President of Sincrotrone Trieste S.c.p.A.: Opening
9:10 - 9:20: R. Cosolini, Mayor of Trieste: Welcome
9:20 – 9:30: M. Colomban, Australian Honorary Consul in Venice: Welcome Address
1. Medical Imaging: the Australian perspective
Chair: K. Prince
9:30 - 10:00: Steve Wilkins: Some recent developments in phase-contrast imaging and materials determination using SR 
10:00 - 10:30: Chris Hall: Opening soon! Preparing for bio-medical imaging experiments on the IMBL at the Australian Synchrotron
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee break
2. Cultural heritage: artworks, archaeology and palaeontology
Chair: C. Tuniz
11:00 - 11:30: Franco Zanini: X-ray microstructural analysis at SYRMEP: applications in cultural heritage, archaeology and paleoanthropology
11:30 - 12:00: Mark Tobin: Synchrotron FTIR microanalysis of art materials from Europe and Australasia at the Australian Synchrotron
12:00 - 12:30: Clément Zanolli: Hominid biodiversity in Southeast Asia during the Early-Middle Pleistocene: Evidence from high-resolution dental structural analyses
12:30 - 13:00: Simon James: High Definition X-ray Fluorescence Elemental Mapping of Historic Paintings
13:00 -14:30: Lunch
3. Advances in imaging techniques, instrumentation and new light sources
Chair: G. R. Morrison
14:30 - 15:00: Daniele Pelliccia: Grating interferometry for phase contrast mammography: preliminary result
15:00 - 15:30: Ralf Menk: Detector developments for Elettra and Fermi
15:30 - 16:00: Mac Luu: Multi-wavelength elemental contrast imaging
16:00 - 16:30: Coffee break
Chair: C. Hall
16:30 - 17:00: William Fawley: Some personal perspectives on future directions for short wavelength FELs
17:00 - 17:30: Flavio Capotondi: Resonance Coherent Diffraction Imaging: new opportunities for free electron laser science
19:30: Dinner
16 May 2012
4. Imaging and spectromicroscopy applications in Life sciences
Chair: S. Wilkins
9:00 - 9:30: Giuliana Tromba: Progress in Biomedical Imaging at the SYRMEP beamline of Elettra
9:30 - 10:00: Maria Cova and Maura Tonutti: Mammography program at ELETTRA: clinical conclusions of the first protocol
10:00 - 10:30: Alessandra Gianoncelli: Life science applications of Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy at Elettra
10:30 - 11:00: Coffee break
Chair: M. Kiskinova
11:00 - 11:30: Lorella Pascolo: The trick of Asbestos and Iron revealed by Synchrotron radiation X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy
11:30 - 12:00: Michael Jones: High resolution coherent diffractive imaging of the malaria parasite P. falciparum
12:00 - 12:30: Stefano Pesaro: Ornithological applications of phase contrast imaging and tomography
12:30 - 13:00: Lisa Vaccari: Synchrotron Radiation InfraRedMicroSpectroscopy (SR-IRMS) for life sciences at SISSI beamline
13:00 - 13:10 Closing remarks
Afternoon: participants wishing to visit Elettra or our sponsor Kyma should contact the registration desk during the workshop and transport and a guide will be arranged.