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Description
Based on the operational excellence, ALBA had gained over the past 15 years, the current upgrade of ALBA to a 4th generation light source is pushing the required sample size for spectroscopic and scattering techniques to the micrometer and sub-micrometer level and allows to strengthen imaging capabilities by optimizing existing instruments and adding coherent based techniques. The upgrade of the existing beamlines in combination with three new beamlines, to be operational after the one-year shutdown in 2032, is also adding high throughput and data analytics capabilities to the user program. Combined with enhanced operando and in-situ capabilities, ALBA is adding to the standard user program a high-resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy as well as a Scanning Surface Microscopy platform.
To give our users the full benefit of an optimized suite of instrumentation and integrating these tools into the Artificial Intelligence (AI) ecosystem, ALBA currently develops new ways of accessing these tools and collaborate with the facility to gain the methodologies you will need for your research or developments. A central part will be multimodal workflows for target areas, providing the user with a tool to reach the research goals in shorter time and in systems of increased complexity and inhomogeneity. Building on shared data spaces and data analytics, allowing not only the data provenance of data produced at ALBA, but correlating these with other data sets including proprietary data, will largely benefitting the connection between basic science and innovation; with an integrated IP generation- and access- management, workflows can be scaled and integrating various resources, promoting and optimal utilizing the Spanish and European innovation ecosystem.
Based on examples, the talk will explain the concept of workflows, demonstrating not only the power of this new tool but also showing the basic concepts of data and software management. It will also focus on the impact on existing and planned access modes as well as new ways to collaborate with the facility, independent if you are a researcher, a representant of a technology- or research-infrastructure, or an industrial player.