Invited Speaker
 Institution Country 
 Title of Lecture
 
Emad Aziz BESSY Germany Charge transfer to solvent identified via dark channel fluorescence yield L-edge spectroscopy
Oliver Bunk
 Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute
 Switzerland  Multimodal imaging: bright-field, phase contrast and dark-field imaging of tissue samples
Claire Berger CNRS, and Physics, Georgia Tech France and USA Epitaxial graphene as a nearly ideal graphene band structure system
Majed Chergui
 ETH-Lausanne 
 Switzerland 
 Probing ultrafast molecular dynamics in solutions from the UV to the hard X-ray range
Andrea Damascelli
 University of British Columbia 
 Canada 
 ARPES on correlated and superconducting oxides
Hermann Duerr
 LCLS, SLAC, Stanford
 USA 
 Femtosecond spin-orbit excitations in ferromagnets
Hubert Ebert
 Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
 Germany 
 Calculation of angle-resolved photo emission spectra within the one-step model of photo emission - recent developments
Donglai Feng
 Fudan Univeristy
 China 
 Unconventional spin density waves in iron-based superconductors and their parent compounds
Peter Fischer
 CXRO, ALS, LBNL
 USA 
 Magnetic soft X-ray microscopy – achievements and future opportunities to image fast spin dynamics in nanomagnetism
Alexander Föhlisch
 Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie Germany 
 Transient phases and phase transitions probed with ultrafast X-ray scattering and spectroscopy
Giacomo Ghiringhelli
 Politecnico di Milano Italy 
 Momentum dependent excitations in cuprates studied by high resolution RIXS
Akiyoshi Hishikawa
 Institute for Molecular Sciences  Japan 
  Visualizing ultrafast chemical reactions by intense ultrashort laser pulses
Nobuhiro Kosugi UVSOR, Institute for Molecular Science
 Japan 
 Molecular inner-shell spectra of weakly bonding and interacting systems 
Catalin Miron
 SOLEIL France 
 Decay dynamics and nuclear motion of core-excited species probed by high resolution soft X-ray electron spectroscopy
Jürg Osterwalder 
 University of Zürich
 Switzerland 
 Surface states as a bonanza for spin-polarized electrons
Beatriz Roldán Cuenya
 University of Central Florida
 USA 
 Atomic Vibrations in Metal Nanostructures
Tsumoru Shintake
 SPring-8 Japan 
 Status of the X-ray Free Electron Laser SCSS Project in Japan
Yasutaka Takata
 SPring-8 Japan 
 Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Amina Taleb-Ibrahimi
 SOLEIL France 
 Novel electronic properties of layered compounds and tunnel junctions: Prospects for superconductivity and magnetism
John Tse
 University of Saskatchewan  Canada 
 Molecular Mott-Hubbard transition - pressure induced insulator-metal transition of main group organometallics
David Velleneuve
 Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, NRC  Canada 
 Using high harmonic spectroscopy to learn about molecular structure and dynamics