Our EXSA event, the Virtual Conference in X-ray Spectrometry, is slowly taking shape. As you know, it will take place June 21-24 this year. This online event is in line with the now well-established series of workshops EXSA initiated in 2017.  

This digital conference aims at bringing together experts and younger scientists from academia and industry to present and discuss recent advances, research results, and perspectives in the following fields:

• XRS in environmental applications
• XRS for novel materials including batteries, nanostructures, etc.
• Instrumental developments in XRS and its applications
• Fundamental parameters

We are happy that we could convince distinguished scientists (in alphabetic order below) to give invited talks at the conference (please check the conference website for updates).

RENÉ BES (Center for X-ray Spectroscopy, Helsinki Accelerator Laboratory & Helsinki Institute of Physics, Finland)

The Center for X-ray Spectroscopy at the University of Helsinki: Latest Developments and Applications of Laboratory scale XAS

GRAHAM GEORGE (Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

Title to be defined (environmental applications session)

CHRISTOPHER M. HEIRWEGH (Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA), Pasadena, California, U.S.A.)

Practical Considerations for X-ray Instrument Development for Mars 2020 and Beyond

CLAUDIA S. SCHNOHR (Felix Bloch Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Leipzig, Germany)

Structural and Compositional Inhomogeneity in Thin-film Solar Cells

HIKARI TAKAHARA (Application laboratory, X-ray instruments division, Rigaku Corporation, Osaka, Japan)

Quantitative Analysis of Environmental Samples with a Laboratory GIXRF Spectrometer

Our sponsoring member X-ray Spectrometry will edit a special issue with the proceedings of EXSA's conference. You may find further information about the Call for Proceedings on our website.

Furthermore, we are happy to announce the Wiley EXSA Poster Prize and the Wiley EXSA Oral Presentation Prize. These prizes are endowed with prize money by our sponsor X-ray spectrometry, and are aimed to put spotlight on young scientists presenting their work at our conference. The winners will be selected in the course of #EXSA2021 by the prizes' selection committee.

Our EXSA event will give a forum to interact with and within the community. It will allow for discussion between academic and industrial scientists and is, therefore, an excellent platform for networking and knowledge exchange. The event will conclude with a session on fundamental parameters and the meeting of the fundamental parameter initiative. 

Contributions for oral and poster presentations are very welcome. The Abstract submission is open on the EasyChair platform.

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The Abstract submission deadline is April 30, 2021. For further information please check the event’s website at www.exsa.hu/conf2021 or contact us (conf2021@exsa.hu).