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Femtosecond pulses from linac-based free-electron lasers are unique tools for future time-resolved experiments. In March 2004, BESSY published the Technical Design Report (TDR) for a free-electron-laser user facility that covers the VUV to soft X-ray range (BESSY FEL) [1]. This second-generation FEL facility is seeded and uses the High-Gain Harmonic-Generation (HGHG) [2] scheme to produce coherent radiation down to the 1 nm range. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reports that more than 90 participants from Europe, the U.S. and Japan gathered from April 27 to 29, 2005, in Berlin, Germany, to hold a lively international meeting on time-resolved soft X-ray science. The meeting continued the series of preceding workshops held in 2002 in Napa, California and in 2003 in Montreux, Switzerland. The aim of the workshop was to bring together the existing ultrafast laser community and the emerging ultrafast X-ray community in order lo discuss recent scientific highlights from both fields and to outline new directions for the application of ultrafast X-rays. In turn, it was hoped that this would help define the source characteristics of future ultrafast X-ray sources such as X-ray Free Electron Lasers.

Information about several topics and events transpired during the Synchrotron Radiation in Art and Archeology workshop held in Berlin, Germany on September 27 to 29, 2006 is presented. The workshop's aim is to discuss and explore new and potential applications of synchrotron science and problems in archeology and art conservation. It also featured a talk by Zhi Liu on the composition and minerals and pigments.

Information about the International Workshop on Nanoscale Spectroscopy and Nanotechnology held in Germany on September 17 to 21, 2006 is presented. Almost 60 participants from 10 countries gathered to discuss spectroscopy in the nanometer regime. The talks and posters revolved on structural and electronic properties of different classes of nanostructures such as nanotubes, semiconductor quantum dots, and magnetic nanoparticles. Some of the invited speakers were Chris Jacobsen and Naoki Yamamoto.