SPring-8, the large synchrotron radiation facility

Following the successful conference at San Francisco (2003), the ninth International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation (SRI 2006) will be held on May 28 - June 2, 2006 at EXCO Center, Daegu, Korea. The conference will be hosted by Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL) which has been operating PLS - a 2.5 GeV third-generation synchrotron radiation facility and has recently started construction of a 3.0 GeV Linac-based FEL. SRI 2006 will be also co-hosted by Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), operator of the world largest third-generation machine, SPring-8.
SRI 2006 is the largest and the most important international forum which will seek to promote international exchange and collaboration among all scientists and engineers around the world involved in the developments of new concepts, techniques, and instruments related to the production and utilization of synchrotron radiation. It will feature new developments in synchrotron radiation sources and free electron lasers at photon energies from the infrared to hard X rays, beamline instrumentation to transport the radiation to experimental stations, and experimental techniques to utilize it. Special emphasis will be given to the new and forefront challenges and opportunities provided by recent progresses and expanding interests worldwide in sciences and technologies related to nano dimensions and femto seconds, which have been putting tremendous pressure on our SRI community to realize new levels of stability, resolution, detectability and accountability.

Topics:

 SR-Sources and advanced Sources / Insertion Devices / Beamlines and Optics / Detectors

 Time-Resolved Techniques / Microscopy and Nanoscopy / Nano Science and technology

 Lithography and Micromachining / Surface and Interface Analysis / Life and Medical Science

 Magnetism and Spintronics / Chemistry and Material Science / Industrial Applications