As Director of the ALBA Synchrotron, President of the Spanish Synchrotron User Organization - AUSE - and Chair of the Local Organizing Committee, we want to invite and welcome you to the joint 11th AUSE conference and VI ALBA User Meeting at the town of Oviedo. In a time of new funding opportunities and the need to address the big challenges of our time, the meeting will give you a platform for celebrating great scientific success, exchange and align within the community and learn more about what is planned to make your X-ray research infrastructures ready for your needs. Perhaps even more important, it will give you a voice to communicate your needs as well as ideas to improve the services.
This conference joins, as usual in the last decade, the biannual AUSE meetings with the ALBA User meeting, reflecting a long success story of community growth and community engagement with its X-ray research infrastructures. Alternating between hosting universities and ALBA as venue, the meeting series is a symbol and expression for the great integration of the facility with its user community and the open welcome culture to new communities.
In 2024 we will profit from the renown hospitality of the town of Oviedo, where we expect to deliver a full and exciting program. This is a very interesting period for ALBA to meet with the community, since the foundations for its future, ALBA II, are being laid down, and the constructive exchange with its users is of outmost importance.
The meeting is connecting three building elements: the first one dedicated to the AUSE activities, including an update on the Spanish ESRF CRG beamline SpLine, the second focused on ALBA and its upgrade ALBA II, and the last session dedicated to the Spanish XFEL Hub activities.
The conference is expected to bring together a group of about 150 researchers, where we anticipate a high number of students and post-docs who will be shaping the future of X-ray science. Several plenary lectures by key-note speakers, a significant amount of oral contributions as well as extended poster sessions are planned. Several prizes will be awarded to the best posters presented by young researchers.
Looking forward to meeting you all in Oviedo!
