Date: Friday, 21 January 2022
Time: 09:00 - 16:30
Organizer: Chris Milne
Water is fundamental to life on Earth, which has long made it an intense area of research across many disciplines, and yet many of its physical properties are still not well understood. With the ultrashort, intense, and spatially coherent X-ray pulses available at X-ray free electron lasers there is the potential for rapid advances in our understanding of molecular water. In order to support and encourage this important area of research the European XFEL will issue a special Call for Proposals focussed on molecular water research and this satellite meeting will introduce and define the initial Expression of Interest phase of this call.
The satellite meeting is a one day virtual workshop scheduled for January 21 and will include:
- plenary lectures from preeminent water researchers focussed on providing an overview of their fields and the important open questions
- presentations from the European XFEL instruments on current water research and future perspectives
- an introduction to the Center for Molecular Water Science, a pan-European consortium of international key partners from different fields of science with the common goal of achieving a detailed molecular understanding of water