Scope of the event
EXSA's main objective to promote innovation and cooperation of X-ray spectroscopists and analysts within Europe will be pursued by this international event, which takes place online June 21st-24th this year.
There will be four half day sessions including a meeting of the FP initiative. The sessions will start shortly after noon in central Europe allowing our colleagues around the world to join at a more or less convenient time in their respective time zones.
Giving a forum at the virtual conference to interact within the community will allow for discussion between, academic and industrial scientists.
- XRS in environmental applications
- XRS for novel materials including batteries, nanostructures, etc.
- Instrumental development for XRS and its applications
- Fundamental parameters
The Conference targets scientists from academia and industry as well as PhD students and PostDocs with understanding of X-Ray Spectrometry facing challenges in application of X-ray spectrometry. Beside the presentation of experts the event will give a platform for discussions between the participants.
Thanks to Wiley X-ray Spectrometry journal, two awards, one for the best oral presentation and one for the best poster presentation, will be bestowed to young scientists (e.g., Ph.D., post-doc level). These prizes will consist of a cash honorarium as well as a certificate. We look forward to receiving excellent contributions from our younger colleagues!
We organize as part of the virtual conference a panel discussion on
Towards market-ready products: Transferring techniques from large experimental facilities into innovation labs
This panel will be moderated by Bernhard Nensel, and we are happy we could convince experienced colleagues from academia and companies to join this discussion.
- Gerald Seidler
- Ioanna Mantouvalou
- Bruno Vrebos
- Andreas Pahlke
- Dirk Wissmann
You will find the Flyer of #EXSA2021 here.
Invited speakers
EXSA Virtual Conference 2021 on X-ray Spectrometry
This event gives a forum to interact with the community and will allow for discussion between academic and industrial scientists.
Sessions including the following topics will be organized:
- XRS in environmental applications
- XRS for novel materials including batteries, nanostructures, etc.
- Instrumental development for XRS and its applications
- Fundamental parameters
Thanks to Wiley's X-RAY SPECTROMETRY journal, two awards, one for the best oral presentation and one for the best poster presentation, will be bestowed to young scientists (e.g., Ph.D., post-doc level). These prizes will consist of a cash honorarium as well as a certificate. We look forward to receiving excellent contributions from our younger colleagues!
The abstract submission for regular contributions is closed, but you still can submit an abstract for a post-deadline poster on the EasyChair platform.
- Diane Eichert - chair
- Michael Kolbe - chair
- Burkhard Beckhoff
- Jens Kessler
- Marie-Christine Lépy
- Ioanna Mantouvalou
- János Osán
- Charalampos Zarkadas
- May 12, 2021: extended abstract submission deadline
- June 15, 2021: registration deadline
- June 21 - 24, 2021 EXSA virtual conference
- October 1, 2021: submission deadline for proceedings
The registration fee for the event is 40 € (free for EXSA members).
- In-situ metrology (for bio and energy materials)
- High-resolution (local) μ-XRF
- High-resolution (angular) GI/E-XRF
- Quantification with Monte Carlo methods
- Quantification with fundamental parameter approach
- Fundamental parameters
You will find the Call for Abstracts here.
The registration fee for the virtual conference is 40 € (free for EXSA members).
Scientific contributions accepted for poster presentation should be prepared as a single sided pdf. You can provide as well a two minutes pitch video presenting your poster.
Instructions to prepare your talk or poster
In case your abstract submission is accepted as a poster contribution, please prepare your poster as a pdf file. We recommend doing it in the usual portrait format. Furthermore, you are welcome to provide a video file (mp4 preferred) of about 2 minutes as a pitch talk presenting your poster. Both files will be available on the conference website for the whole duration of the conference. These files will be accessible only to the participants of #EXSA2021 and will be deleted one week after the end of the conference.
These files need to be sent by email to conf2021@exsa.hu as soon as possible, at the latest by June 18, 2021. If your email system has a limit for accommodating attachments, we kindly ask you to send us a link to the cloud storage system of your choice, from which we can download the files. If you are facing a problem, please contact us.
In case your abstract submission is accepted as an oral contribution, your presentation will be live in the designated time slot. The duration of your talk will be of about 20 minutes including 15 minutes presentation and 5 minutes of discussion time. Please prepare your slides accordingly.
We will use a Webex system. You can try it at a test meeting following this link.
Call for Proceedings to be published in X-Ray Spectrometry
Peer-reviewed contributions will be published in a special issue of X-Ray Spectrometry (Wiley Analytical Science).
Registered authors of accepted contributions are invited to submit one manuscript for publication. Please note that no more than one manuscript per participant will be considered.
Manuscripts should be prepared in the strict format of X-Ray Spectrometry. No maximum number of pages has been specified.
Manuscripts should be submitted between June 10th and October 1st, 2021 following the instructions below.
Instructions for manuscript submission to X-Ray Spectrometry
- Connect to the Manuscript Central of X-Ray Spectrometry here: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/xrs.
- Log in using your XRS credentials or create a new account and select the ✎Author tab.
- At the Author's dashboard, Start a New Submission and follow the online procedure which will guide you through.
- The procedure requires the introduction of different types of data from authors' names and affiliations, to title and abstract, to the upload of files for the manuscript, tables, and figures. You can interrupt the procedure and complete it in a successive session. Please, remember to save the last input data.
- To specify that the manuscript is a candidate for the EXSA2021 special issue, you need in the lower part of Step 1 to choose our conference proceedings where you select the special issue.
- In Step 5, you can select an editor and should write there "Guest editor".
Event schedule*
The event takes place in the week starting June 21, 2021. The scientific talks and discussions will be Monday afternoon to Wednesday afternoon. On Thursday afternoon there will be the
Meeting of the Fundamental Parameter Initiative
This last session of the virtual conference will be organized together with the FP Initiative and continues with scientific FP presentations and discussions on joint collaborative initiatives on FP validations.
FP Initiative
14:15 - 14:35 Laboratory (E)XAFS with HAPG von Hámos based spectrometers
14:35 - 14:55 Current application fields of laboratory-XAFS at the Technische Universität Berlin
14:55 - 15:15 Laboratory optical pump soft X-ray probe NEXAFS spectroscopy for thin film analysis
15:15 - 15:35 Compressive signal collection for dynamic XAFS in the home lab
16:05 - 16:25 Illustrating sensitivity gradients within the detector field of view in TXRF using picoliter droplet residues
16:25 - 16:45 Properties of polycapillary optics dedicated to low-energy parallel-beam wavelength-dispersive spectrometer for synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence study
17:15 - 17:35 Machine Learning based element sensitive reconstruction of periodic nanostructures from Grazing incidence X-ray fluorescence measurements
17:35 - 17:55 Nondestructive characterization of light elements in nanomaterials with GIXRF in the laboratory
Towards market-ready products: Transferring techniques from large experimental facilities into innovation labs
14:00 - 14:20 Traceable and reliable chemical analysis of aerosols by reference-free X-ray spectrometry
14:20 - 14:40 Characterization of unique aerosol pollution episodes in urban areas using X-ray fluorescence and absorption methods
14:40 - 15:00 Simplifying the control of inorganic pollutants in water: the combined use of smart materials and XRF detection
15:40 - 16:00 WDXRF and TXRF analysis of continental and lacustrine ferromanganese nodules
16:00 - 16:20 Geometry optimization for a portable XRF analyzer of Hg contamination in wet sediments using an isotope source
17:00 - 17:20 Characterization of aerosols dispersion and depositions generated for calibrating a laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy prototype by means of total reflection X-ray fluorescence
17:20 - 17:40 Do anthropogenic activities threaten the Naica’s giant crystals?
15:30 - 15:50 Development of spatially and time resolved X-ray fluorescence-based quantification for energy materials
15:50 - 16:10 Spectroscopy and in-situ X-ray diffraction analysis on the corrosion process of the negative electrode by using a low-cost lead-acid electrochemistry cell
16:10 - 16:30 Structural investigation of Fe3+-doped ZnO via XANES spectroscopy
17:10 - 17:30 Exploring a new semi-quantification procedure of the coloring matters used in the complex systems of prehistoric paintings
13:35 - 13:55 Set-up and upgrade of an electrical-substitution radiometer for absolute calibration of photon fluxes
14:00 - 14:20 A high-energy resolution metallic magnetic calorimeter dedicated to the metrology of the X-rays emitted by nuclides below 10 keV
14:30 - 14:50 METHODOLOGIES FOR THE DETERMINATION OF FP VALUES AT PTB AND RECENT RESULTS
15:00 - 15:20 Spectral shapes of selected L transitions in rare earth metals
Thanks to Wiley's X-RAY SPECTROMETRY journal, two awards, one for the best oral presentation and one for the best poster presentation, will be bestowed to young scientists (e.g., Ph.D., post-doc level). These prizes will consist of a cash honorarium as well as a certificate.
- joint reflection on the study groups
- discussion on joint collaborative initiatives on FP validations
- follow-up activities and future workshops
*The schedule is still preliminary and subject to changes on short notice. Moving the mouse over the given times should show them to you in your timezone.