18–22 Aug 2025
HARBOR
Europe/Berlin timezone

Scientific Programme

  • Developer/Instrument Scientist-Focused

    Monday, Tuesday and Friday (18, 19 and 22 Aug) will be structured around challenges and advancements in hardware and software from the perspective of the people building the tools, broadly defined. Topics covered will include:

    • Aligning experiment methods with data handling and analysis
    • Cross-facility hardware portability
    • Handling high data rates and data volumes
    • Metadata and coordination of related datasets
    • Data deposition and archival
    • Sample delivery and sample handling
    • Remote beam time
    • Nitty-gritty data processing challenges
    • Responding to the needs of the users of our tools
  • User-Focused

    Wednesday and Thursday (20-21 Aug) will highlight user experiences. This includes opportunity for beam time users to communicate to instrument scientists and developers what is and isn't working in their current workflows, what they see as the most important problems to solve, and what they are most excited to see made possible. Topics covered will include:

    • Transitioning experienced crystallographers from rotation to serial crystallography and from static to time-resolved methods
    • Synthesizing multimodal and multicrystal data for deposition
    • Shortcomings of existing integration and scaling processes
    • Fast feedback during beam time
    • Small molecule serial crystallography, including time-resolved
    • Modeling time resolved experiments
    • Quantum refinement
    • Ambitions for new types of experiments