List of abstracts: Oral contributions

Monday 28/10

11:00-12:30 Registration
12:30-14:00 Welcome lunch
14:00-14:15 Welcome and opening remarks
14:15-14:40 Institutional Welcome - A. Franciosi


Mirrors and gratings: design and realization

  • 14:40-15:10 K.-W. Chan – NASA (Goddard) - INVITED
    Fabrication and Testing of Lightweight X-ray Optics for Future Astronomical Missions
  • 15:10-15:30 Y. Emi – Osaka Univ.
    Development of a full-field hard X-ray imaging microscope based on Advanced Kirkpatrick-Baez mirror optics
  • 15:30-15:50 F. Siewert – HZB
    Status of the grating production facility at the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin


15:50-16:05 H. Okada – Jtec


16:05-16:35 Coffee break + poster session


Mirrors and gratings: design and realization - cont.

  • 16:35-16:55 R. Barrett – ESRF
    Reflective optics developments for ESRF Upgrade Beamlines
  • 16:55-17:15 B. Salmaso – INAF/Brera Observatory
    Direct hot slumping of thin glass foils for future generation X-ray telescopes


17:15-17:30 M. Rossi – Media Lario


17:30-17:45 G. Giorgi – PI miCos


Tuesday 29/10

Photon diagnostics

  • 8:30-9:00 M. Braune - DESY - INVITED
    Tools for non-destructive wavelength monitoring at FLASH
  • 9:00-9:20 N. Mahne - Elettra
    Recent results from PADReS at FERMI@Elettra
  • 9:20-9:40 M. Richter – PTB
    The impact of FEL photon metrology on multiphoton ionization experiments
  • 9:40-10:00 W. Jark – Elettra
    On the transmission of X-rays through Kirkpatrick-Baez mirrors: What to do with grazing incidence X-ray dioptrics


10:00-10:30 Coffee break + poster session


Standard and deformable optics


11:20-11:35 R. Signorato – Cinel


11:35-11:50 M. Ackermann – Cosine


11:50-12:05 P. Wallington – Q-Sys


12:05-12:20 COST presentation – P. Zeitoun



12:20-13:20 Lunch


13:20-13:40 Group photo



Standard and deformable optics - cont.


14:20-14:35 F. Nowak – ZygoLot


14:35-14:50 E. Braidotti – Caenels



In- and ex-situ metrology

16:10-16:40 Coffee break + poster session


  • 16:40-17:00 B. Menz – MPI Garching
    Characterising X-ray optics with a collimated X-ray beam: The zone plate approach
  • 17:00-17:20 A. Vivo – ESRF
    Current status of micro-stitching at ESRF
  • 17:20-17:40 M. Thomasset – SOLEIL
    Latest results in Phase-Shifting interferometry at SOLEIL


17:40-18:15 Giovanni Sostero dedicated session




19:30-23:00 Transfer to dinner and back to ICTP


Wednesday 30/10

Wavefront sensing: simulations, instrumentation, and measurements


10:00-10:15 G. Dovillaire – Imagine Optic


10:15-10:45 Coffee break + poster session


Optical system design and modeling

  • 10:45-11:15 M. Sanchez del Rio - ESRF - INVITED
    The current situation of optical simulation codes for X-ray beamlines
  • 11:15-11:35 R. Reininger – APS/ANL
    The short pulse x-ray beamlines at APS
  • 11:35-11:55 X. Shi – Argonne
    Optics Modeling and Simulation at APS
  • 11:55-12:15 V. Burwitz – MPI Garching
    The PANTER X-ray test facility, past, present and future


12:15-13:15 Metrology database round table


13:15-13:30 Closing remarks


14:30-18:30 Visit to Elettra