11th International Conference on X-ray Microscopy (XRM2012)

• Published in: Journal of physics. Conference series Vol. 463; no. 1; p. 11001
• Main Authors: Xu, Hongjie, Wu, Ziyu, Tai, Renzhong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 25.10.2013
• Subjects: Awards & honors; Diamonds; Emittance; Image contrast; International conferences; Light sources; Microscopy; Physics; Radiation; Synchrotron radiation; Synchrotrons; X ray microscopy; X-ray scattering; Zone plates
• ISSN: 1742-6596; 1742-6588; 1742-6596
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/463/1/011001

The Eleventh International Conference on X-ray Microscopy (XRM2012) was held on 5–10 August 2012 at the Hope hotel in Shanghai. Historically, for the first time the XRM conference took place in China. The conference was jointly hosted by the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) and the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (NSRL). The series of XRM conferences dates back to 1983 in Göttingen, Germany. Since the Zürich conference, XRM2008, it has been held every two years, showing its increasing popularity among the x-ray microscopy communities around the world. Research in the area of x-ray microscopy is advancing very fast with the development of synchrotron radiation techniques, especially the emergence of third generation light sources with low natural emittance which has significantly pushed forward the development of technologies and applications in this area. This has been fully demonstrated in presentations from this and previous XRM conferences. XRM2012 was attended by 295 people including 21 invited speakers, 53 contributing speakers, 55 students, and 13 industry exhibitors. Over 232 abstracts were submitted for oral or poster presentation and 56 original, peer-reviewed papers are published in these proceedings. The conference was sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11210301016/A0802), and three gold sponsors active in industrial and technological fields related to x-ray microscopy. An exhibition booth was offered free to Australia synchrotron, the host for XRM2014, to promote the next conference which will be held in Melbourne, Australia in 2014. An unforgettable memory for most conference participants might be the charming night cruise along Pujiang river which was part of the welcome reception on the first evening. The Werner Meyer-Ilse Award (WMIA) prize this year was awarded to Irene Zanette (TU-München) and Stephan Werner (HZB-Berlin), the former for her pioneering new work in high-sensitivity phase-contrast and dark-field (small-angle x-ray scattering) images, the latter for his outstanding accomplishments in the field of on-chip zone plate stacking. The location for the XRM2016 conference was voted for by all conference attendees, and Diamond Light Source in the United Kingdom was chosen. A tour of SSRF was attended by nearly 100 participants who got a close look at the seven beamlines in operation before the close of the meeting. We would like to thank all the participants for their active involvement and excellent contributions during the conference and poster session, and the International Program Committee for their guidance, and outstanding support of local organizating committee for a successful XRM2012. Hongjie Xu, Ziyu Wu and Renzhong Tai Proceeding Editors The PDF file also contains a number of photographs taken at the conference and lists of committes and participants.