LINXS moves into The Loop – an inaugural conference at Science Village!
When: June 17-18, 2025
Where: LINXS, The Loop, Rydbergs torg 4, 224 84 Lund
Registration: Please note that for registrations after 13/6 we cannot guarantee lunch.
Tours: For those who have registered for a MAX IV or ESS tour, please make sure to arrive at the entrance and begin check-in at your assigned time. You will receive a separate email with practical information.
Description
LINXS will hold an inaugural conference in its new premises in Science Village on 17-18 June 2025. The programme will host a broad range of high profile speakers including Nobel Laureates and aims to set in place a vision for the scientific landscape over the coming decade: the role that the large facility infrastructures will play and the needs of the wider user community.
The conference will be followed by The Mini-Symposium: “45 Years of Soft Matter and Scattering”, dedicated to Prof. Peter Schurtenberger, to be held in the same venue (please register separately).
Background
LINXS will finally move into The Loop in March 2025, after an extended period of planning, bidding, and negotiations. The new location will place us in purpose-designed premises, adjacent to ESS and MAX IV. It will be amongst the first institutes to arrive on Science Village and the move will mark a very significant development for LINXS activities and operations – just as a wide range of academic centres, research institutes, and companies are planning their moves onto this exciting new science environment.
LINXS operates as an advanced studies institute aimed at maximising the exploitation of state-of-the-art synchrotron and neutron beam facilities, developing synergies between them and promoting interactions with user communities of all types in the local, national and international contexts. Its core mission relates to the development of interdisciplinary science covering science areas over hard matter, soft condensed matter, and life sciences. It funds targeted scientific Themes and attracts world-leading scientists for focused research visits and the creation of international networks that impact well beyond the sum of their parts. It is also strongly committed to several young researchers initiatives that are designed to help stimulate the next generation of researchers and users of research infrastructures.
Click on agenda below to expand.
-
Day 1 - 17 June
08:30 – 09:30 MAX IV tour
08:30 – 10:00 ESS tour
9:00 – 10:00 Registration and coffee at Lokal 4, The Loop
Welcome Session
Welcome - Chair: Trevor Forsyth, Director of LINXS
10:00-10:10 – Tom Erixon, Alfa Laval and and Deputy Chair of the Lund University Board
10:10-10:40 – Stages of LINXS and the future – Peter Schurtenberger, Stephen Hall, Trevor Forsyth, Moderated by Trevor Forsyth
10:40-10:45 – Announcement on behalf of the Crafoord Foundation
10:45-11:15 – The astonishing impact of large-scale research facilities worldwide, Martin Stankovski, LINXS and Franz Hennies, Lund University
11:15-11:30 Break
Science session 1
Chair: Trevor Forsyth, Director of LINXS
11:30-11:50 – The Renaissance of X-ray Imaging: from Synchrotron Nanoscale to Clinical Breakthroughs, Marco Stampanoni, Paul Scherrer Institut11:50-12:10 – Illuminating quantum materials at the ESS and MAX IV, Andrew Boothroyd, University of Oxford
12:10-12:30 – From Models to Meaning: Digital 3D Archives and Emerging Research Practices in Archaeology, Nicolò Dell'Unto, Lund University
12:30-13:30 Lunch
Science session 2
Chair: Anna Stradner, Lund University13:30-13:35 – Welcome to the French-Italian session, Yan Pautrat, Attaché for scientific and academic cooperation at the French Embassy in Sweden and Augusto Marcelli, Scientific Attaché at the Italian Embassy in Sweden
13:35-14:05 – A journey towards a billionth of a billionth of a second, Anne L’Huillier, Lund University
14:05-14:35 – Kristina Djinovic, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
14:35-15:05 – Computational studies of the liquid-liquid transition in supercooled water and colloidal models, Francesco Sciortino, Sapienza University of Rome
15:05 – 15:30 Break
Science session 3
Chair: Emanuel Larsson, Lund University15:30-15:50 – New Materials: LINXS between magnetic materials, catalysts and light-harvesting materials, Elizabeth Blackburn, Lund University
15:50-16:10 – The science of gooey, sticky, gluey, squidgy,… stuff, Roland Kádár, Chalmers University of Technology
16:10-16:30 – Synchrotron-based 3D imaging of the pulmonary vasculature, Karin Tran Lundmark, Lund University
16:30-16:50 – Multiscale Biological Imaging to Unravel the Role of Haem in Circadian Timekeeping, Andrew Hudson, University of Leicester
16:50 – 18:00 Poster Session and Mingle
18:00 Dinner at Lokal 4, followed by a brass band
Day 2 - 18 June
08:30 – 09:00 Coffee
09:00 – 09:10 Welcome from Stig Svensson, Deputy Mayor, Adam Sandgren, Head of Business Development for Lund Municipality, and Christian Lindfors, Science Village Scandinavia AB
Science Session 4
Chair: Trevor Forsyth, Director of LINXS
09:10-09:30 – Lise Arleth, University of Copenhagen09:30-09:50 – The importance of water in biology - an example of receptor function and implications for optogenetics, Anthony Watts, University of Oxford
09:50-10:10 – Model systems for tau filament formation in neurodegenerative diseases, Sofia Lövestam, University of Cambridge
10:10-10:25 – Ludvig Duregård, BEAMS project
10:25 - 10:45 Break
10:45 – 12:00 Interactive sessions in Atrium
Young Researchers Initiative (YRI) – Hard Matter, Soft Matter, Life Science
Visualising Science and Data with Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality – InfraVis infrastructure
‘Pokémon-Go’ technology for beamline experiments – Roland Kádár, Chalmers University of Technology
A virtual guided tour of MAX IV Laboratory - MAX IV
Information stand - ESS
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:30-14:30 MAX IV tour
13:30-14:30 ESS tour
invited speakers
An image of how Science Village will look in the future. LINXS is in The Loop. Render: WEC360/Science Village
LINXS’ new premises in The Loop.
Sponsors
Contact:
For practical questions, please contact Shandana Mufti shandana.mufti@linxs.lu.se or josefin.martell@linxs.lu.se
If you don’t receive a registration confirmation please check your spam mail or email shandana.mufti@linxs.lu.se or josefin.martell@linxs.lu.se
Please note that if you register for physical participation and do not attend without informing us, a no-show fee of 400 SEK per missed day will be charged to offset the cost of ordered food/refreshments etc.
During our events we sometimes take photographs and short film clips to profile our activities. Please let us know if you don’t want to be in any photos/films before we start the event. Some webinars are recorded to be used for educational purposes in the LINXS website.
By registering to our events you give your permission to LINXS, according to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), to register your name and e-mail address to be used for the sole purpose of distributing newsletters and communications on LINXS activities.