The Brightest Lights of Science; Light Sources Accelerating Research and Applications from Biology to Technology

Location: 730 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94111

Leading scientists from the US and Switzerland describe their work with light sources, instruments that produce bright beams of light to peer into nature’s secrets. Join experts at swissnex San Francisco to explore the methods and sometimes astonishingly beautiful results of light-source science. Roger Falcone, Director of the ALS and Berkeley Lab’s Associate Laboratory Director for Photon Science, will explain how present and future light sources work. Carolyn Larabell, Director of the National Center for X-ray Microscopy at the ALS, shows how “CAT scans” of biological cells promise molecular-level knowledge of human diseases. Luc Patthey, leader of the research group of Spectroscopy on Novel Materials at the Synchrotron Radiation and Nanotechnology Laboratory at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI),  presents the Swiss Light Source (SLS) and the future the X-ray free electron laser, SwissFEL.