IWP-RIXS 2026 Full Program
16:00 - 18:00 Registration
17:00 - 19:00 Welcome reception
🥐 08:00 - 08:30 Breakfast
08:30 - 08:45 Welcome
Session 1: Quantum Systems: From Atoms to Chemistry
08:45 - 09:30 Plenary Speaker: Linda Young (Argonne National Laboratory / University of Chicago)
09:30 - 10:00 Invited Speaker: Anatoli Kheifets (Australian National University)
☕ 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00 Invited Speaker: Reinhard Doerner (Goethe University Frankfurt)
11:00 - 11:30 Invited Speaker: Nora Berrah (University of Connecticut)
11:30 - 12:00 Invited Speaker: Laurent Nahon (Synchrotron SOLEIL)
🍽️ 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:00 Invited Speaker: Thomas Pfeifer (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)
14:00 - 14:30 Invited Speaker: Christoph Bostedt (Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and EPFL)
14:30 - 15:00 Invited Speaker: Till Jahnke (Goethe University Frankfurt and European XFEL)
15:00 - 15:30 Invited Speaker: Gilles Doumy (Argonne National Laboratory)
☕ 15:30 - 16:00 Break
Session 2: From Spectroscopy to Imaging and Operando Approaches
16:00 - 16:30 Invited Speaker: Jiemin Li (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
16:30 - 17:00 Invited Speaker: Yoshishisa Harada (University of Tokyo)
17:00 - 17:30 Invited Speaker: Amke Nimmrich (University of Washington)
17:30 - 18:00 Invited Speaker: Yujian Xia (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
18:00 - 18:15 Oral Speaker: Yonghee Lee (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
🍽️ 18:15 - Dinner On Your Own
🥐 08:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Session 3: Short-wavelength Sources (FEL, Synchrotrons, HHG)
08:45 - 09:15 Invited Speaker: Andreas Scholl (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
09:15 - 09:45 Invited Speaker: Zhirong Huang (SLAC)
09:45 - 10:00 Oral Speaker: Shengzhe Pan (East China Normal University)
☕ 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00 Invited Speaker: Ralph Püttner (FU Berlin)
11:00 - 11:30 Invited Speaker: Lingjia Shen (SLAC / Stanford)
11:30 - 11:45 Oral Speaker: Hamid Rostami (University of California, Riverside)
11:45 - 12:00 Oral Speaker: Robert Lucchese (LBNL)
12:00 - 12:05 Invited Speaker: Oscar Conroy (Tibidabo Scientific)
12:05 Group Photo
🍽️ 12:05 - 13:30 Lunch
Session 4: Quantum Materials & Systems
13:30 - 14:00 Invited Speaker: TBD
14:00 - 14:30 Invited Speaker: Ruihua He (Westlake University)
14:30 - 15:00 Invited Speaker: Yifeng Cao (BNL)
15:00 - 15:30 Invited Speaker: Chris Thomas Parzyck (Stanford University)
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
Session 5: Quantum Materials & Systems
16:00 - 16:30 Invited Speaker: Ke-Jun Xu (University of California, Berkeley)
16:30 - 17:00 Invited Speaker: Mark Dean (Brookhaven National Lab)
17:00 - 17:30 Invited Speaker: Eli Diego Kinigstein (CHESS, Cornell University)
17:30 - 17:45 Oral Speaker: Byron Freelon (University of Houston)
17:45 - 18:00 Oral Speaker: Gihyeok Lee (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
18:00 - 18:15 Oral Speaker: Tianying Liu (Stanford University)
🍽️ 18:15 - Dinner On Your Own
🥐 08:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Session 6: Attosecond Dynamics
08:45 - 09:30 Plenary Speaker: Ursula Keller (ETH Zürich)
09:30 - 10:00 Invited Speaker: Fernando Martín (UAM Madrid)
☕ 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00 Invited Speaker: James Cryan (SLAC/LCLS)
11:00 - 11:30 Invited Speaker: Bernd Schütte (Max Born Institute)
11:30 - 12:00 Invited Speaker: Meng Han (Kansas State University)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Session 7: Attosecond Dynamics
13:30 - 14:00 Invited Speaker: Taran Driver (SLAC/Stanford)
14:00 - 14:30 Invited Speaker: Federico Vismarra (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
14:30 - 15:00 Invited Speaker: Adrian J. Suñer-Rubio (University of Liège)
15:00 - 15:30 Invited Speaker: Douglas Garratt (SLAC)
☕ 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
🚌 15:45 - 18:00 Tour to the ALS
🍽️ 18:15 - Dinner On Your Own
🥐 08:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Session 8: Chemistry & Catalysis & Energy Materials
08:45 - 09:30 Plenary Speaker: Alexander Föhlisch (University of Potsdam)
09:30 - 10:00 Invited Speaker: Niri Govind (PNNL)
☕ 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00 Invited Speaker: Erik Nibbering (Max Born Institute)
11:00 - 11:30 Invited Speaker: Manuel Smeu (Binghamton University)
11:30 - 12:00 Invited Speaker: Lucas Cornetta (Univ. of São Paulo)
🍽️ 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Session 9: Chemistry & Catalysis & Energy Materials
13:30 - 14:00 Invited Speaker: David Prendergast (LBNL)
14:00 - 14:30 Invited Speaker: Coleman Kronawitter (UC Davis)
14:30 - 15:00 Invited Speaker: Chungli Dong (Tamkang University)
15:00 - 15:30 Invited Speaker: Alexander Moewes (Univ. of Saskatchewan)
☕ 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Invited Speaker: Chunjing Jia (U. Florida)
16:30 - 17:00 Invited Speaker: Eder Lomeli (Stanford & LBNL)
17:00 - 17:30 Invited Speaker: Cheng Wang (LBNL)
17:30 - 17:45 Oral Speaker: Benjamin Poulter (SLAC)
17:45 - 18:00 Oral Speaker: Lothar Weinhardt (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
18:00 - 18:15 Oral Speaker: Jau-Wern Chiou (National University of Kaohsiung)
🍽️ 18:30 - 21:00 Conference Dinner @ Anna Head Alumnae Hall - 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
🚌 08:00 - 12:00 Tour to SLAC (LCLS)