Previous User Meetings

The 16th BESSY@HZB User Meeting took place 11 to 12 December 2024 at the WISTA Event Center in Berlin-Adlershof.

Highlight of the meeting was the Public Lecture given by Dr. Christopher Pöhlker (Max Planck Institut für Chemie, Germany) on Atmospheric Research in the Amazon: Photons, Aerosols, Clouds and a Flavor of Adventure.

We also set up a “Market Place of Innovations” to give room for intense discussions in a “Christmas atmosphere”. 

The User Meeting was accompanied by the country of honour Romania and we invited 12 Romanian scientists from different Romanian Universities to participate in the meeting and a twinning programme.

For more detailed information on the 16th BESSY@HZB User Meeting please download the Programme 2024 and the Booklet 2024.

The 15th BESSY@HZB User Meeting took place on 22 to 23 June as a summer meeting in Berlin-Adlershof.

Highlight of the meeting was the Public Lecture, a Public Panel Discussion on "Science Diplomacy, International Collaboration and the Contribution of Light Sources to Cooperative Solutions" with Prof. Dr. Rolf-Dieter Heuer (former General Director of CERN), Prof. Dr. Sekazi K. Mtingwa (Co-Founder and Chair, LAAAMP Executive Committee), Dr. Gihan Kamel (SESAME), Dr. Lucy Ombaka (Technical University of Kenya) and Dr. Yazmin Lucero Cobos Becerra (Strategy Dept. Energy and Information, HZB). The Moderation was done by Prof. Dr. Rutger Schlatmann (PVcomB, HZB).

The User Meeting was the first one with a new feature – it was accompanied by a country of honour. The first country of honour was Kenya.

For more detailed information on the 15th BESSY@HZB User Meeting please download the Programme 2023 and the Booklet 2023.

The 14th BESSY@HZB User Meeting took place as a virtual meeting on December 8.

Highlight of the meeting was the Public Lecture on "Thoughts About the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit" presented by Dr. Seth R. Marder (Director of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, a joint between the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU-Boulder) and the NREL, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy).

For more detailed information on the 14th BESSY@HZB User Meeting please download the Programme 2022 and the Booklet 2022.

The 13th BESSY@HZB User Meeting took place as a virtual meeting on December 9.

Highlight of the meeting was the Public Lecture on “Sustainable Fuels: BESSY enables conceptual approaches” presented by Prof. Dr. Robert Schlögl.

For more detailed information on the 13th BESSY@HZB User Meeting please download the Programme 2021 and the Booklet 2021 (Participants in Poster Slam 2021).

The twelfth BESSY@HZB User Meeting took place as a virtual meeting on December 10.

The highlight of the meeting was the Public Lecture on “Structure-based discovery of inhibitors of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease” presented by Prof. Dr. Rolf Hilgenfeld, a globally renowned biochemist and structural virologist. The lecture is still available on the HZB YouTube channel.

For more detailed information on the twelfth BESSY@HZB User Meeting please download the Programme 2020 and the Booklet 2020.

The Eleventh Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting took place December 4 to 6, 2019.

The Neutron and Young Scientists Day was held at Berlin-Wannsee on December 4. The Young Scientists and Synchrotron Day as well as the Science Day was held at Berlin-Adlershof on December 5 and 6.

Satellite Workshop
The Eleventh Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting was accompanied by the Foresight Workshop 'Materials metrology'. A lunch-to-lunch workshop organized in cooperation with the National Metrology Institute of Germany (PTB) held in Berlin-Adlershof on December 3 to 4, 2019.

For more detailed information on our Eleventh Joint BER II and BESSY II User meeting please download the Programme 2019 and the Booklet 2019.

The Tenth Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting took place from December 5 to 7, 2018.

The Young Scientists and Synchrotron Day as well as the Science Day was held at Berlin-Adlershof on December 5 and 6. The Young Scientists and Neutron Day was held at Berlin-Wannsee on December 7.

The Tenth Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting was accompanied by the 'Celebration of 20 Years of Beam and Light at BESSY II' at Berlin-Adlershof on December 5.

For more detailed information on our Tenth Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting please download the Programme 2018 and the Booklet 2018.

The Ninth Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting took place December 13 to 15, 2017.

The Young Scientists and Synchrotron Day as well as the Science Day was held at Berlin-Adlershof on December 13 and 14. The Neutron Session was held in Berlin-Wannsee on December 15.

Satellite Workshop
The Ninth Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting was accompanied by the Satellite Workshop 'Diffraction Data Processing using DIALS' on December 15 at the Wilhelm-Conrad-Roentgen-Campus in Berlin-Adlershof.

For more detailed information on our Ninth Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting please download the Programme 2017 and the Booklet 2017.

The Eighth Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting took place December 7 to 9, 2016.

The Young Scientists and Synchrotron Day as well as the Science Day was held at Berlin-Adlershof on December 7 and 8. The Neutron Day at Berlin-Wannsee on December 9 was crowned by a HFM/EXED session and a HFM/EXED lab tour.

Satellite Workshop
The Eight Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting was accompanied by the Satellite Workshop 'Challenges in diffraction data processing - How to get the most out of your data' on December 9 at the Wilhelm-Conrad-Roentgen-Campus in Berlin-Adlershof.

For more detailed information on our Eighth Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting please download the Programme 2016 and the Booklet 2016.

The Seventh Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting took place December 9 to 11, 2015.

The Young Scientists and Synchrotron Day as well as the Science Day was held in Berlin-Adlershof on December 9 and 10. The Neutron Session was held in Berlin-Wannsee on December 11.

Satellite Workshops
The Seventh Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting was accompanied by two HZB Foresight Workshops

• Tender X-rays in MX (Dec. 7, 2015)
• THz to Soft X-ray (Dec. 7 to 8, 2015)

For more detailed informtion on our Seventh Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting please download the Programme 2015 and the Booklet 2015.

The Sixth Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting took place December 3 to 5, 2014.

The Synchrotron Session was held at Berlin-Adlershof and the Neutron Session was held at Berlin-Wannsee.

Satellite Workshops
The Sixth Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting was accompanied by two Satellite Workshops at the Wilhelm-Conrad-Roentgen-Campus in Berlin-Adlershof.

• BESSY II Tender X-ray workshop (Dec. 1 to 2, 2014)
• Fragment Screening by Crystallography (Dec. 3, 2015)
  

For more detailed information on our Sixth Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting please download the Programme 2014.

The Fifth Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting took place December 4 to 6, 2013.

The Synchrotron Session was held at Berlin-Adlershof and the Neutron Session was held at Berlin-Wannsee.

Satellite Workshops
The Fifth Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting was accompanied by two Satellite Workshops at the Wilhelm-Conrad-Roentgen-Campus in Berlin-Adlershof.

• Workshop on Industrial Research Using Synchrotron and Neutron Methods
• Crystal dehydration as a new method in MX

For more detailed information on our Fifth Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting please download the Programme 2013 and the Booklet 2013.