A NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Brilliant Light Facilities and Research in Life and Material Sciences was held from July 17 to July 21, 2006. The workshop was hosted by the Center for the Advancement of Natural Discoveries using Light Emission, Yerevan - the newly established institute in Armenia with the aim to create a synchrotron radiation facility, CANDLE, as an international laboratory for advanced research in life and material sciences. About 50 researchers from NATO, partner countries and Armenia gathered at Yerevan to discuss modern trends in developments of advanced light sources with high spectral brilliance and applications in basic and applied research in a wide range of fields. Research with high brilliant photon beams are used, for example for practical applications in pharmacy, electronics and nanotechnology. Such practical relevance promoted the design and construction of now more than 50 such facilities worldwide. Overview and specialized talks on the status and highlights of newly constructed light sources (ALBA, SPEAR3, European XFEL Facility, Siberian Synchrotron Radiation Center, CANDLE), on instrumentation and development of experimental techniques, and frontier research in life and material sciences using synchrotron radiation have been presented. More than 60% of the program was devoted to application of synchrotron radiation in biophysics, biochemistry, biomedicine, material and environmental investigations. The workshop brought together scientists from a wide spectrum of research fields emphasizing the wide application and demand of synchrotron radiation and underlining the necessity of user involvement in the early design stages of a new project.

The modern trends in new X-Ray brilliant light facilities development The highlights of the brilliant light application in biology, chemistry and medicine The research frontiers in material and environmental sciences Advanced experimental technique and instrumentation

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A NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Brilliant Light Facilities and Research in Life and Material Sciences was held from July 17 to July 21, 2006. The workshop was hosted by the Center for the Advancement of Natural Discoveries using Light Emission, Yerevan - the newly established institute in Armenia with the aim to create a synchrotron radiation facility, CANDLE, as an international laboratory for advanced research in life and material sciences. About 50 researchers from NATO, partner countries and Armenia gathered at Yerevan to discuss modern trends in developments of advanced light sources with high spectral brilliance and applications in basic and applied research in a wide range of fields. Research with high brilliant photon beams are used, for example for practical applications in pharmacy, electronics and nanotechnology. Such practical relevance promoted the design and construction of now more than 50 such facilities worldwide. Overview and specialized talks on the status and highlights of newly constructed light sources (ALBA, SPEAR3, European XFEL Facility, Siberian Synchrotron Radiation Center, CANDLE), on instrumentation and development of experimental techniques, and frontier research in life and material sciences using synchrotron radiation have been presented. More than 60% of the program was devoted to application of synchrotron radiation in biophysics, biochemistry, biomedicine, material and environmental investigations. The workshop brought together scientists from a wide spectrum of research fields emphasizing the wide application and demand of synchrotron radiation and underlining the necessity of user involvement in the early design stages of a new project.

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Brilliant Light Facilities and New Projects.- SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCES, STATUS AND NEW PROJECTS.- THE EUROPEAN XFEL PROJECT.- SPEAR3 SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCE.- STATUS OF THE ALBA PROJECT.- STATUS AND HIGHLIGHTS OF SIBERIAN SYNCHROTRON AND TERAHERTZ RADIATION CENTER.- CANDLE SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCE PROJECT.- SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE CANDLE LIGHT SOURCE PROJECT CANDLE project impact.- KHARKOV X-RAY GENERATOR NESTOR.- Research in Biophysics and Biochemistry.- X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY IN BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY.- BIOLOGICAL APPLICATION OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION: FROM ARTEM ALIKHANYAN TO NOWADAYS.- RECENT ADVANCES IN AUTOMATION OF X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC BEAMLINES AT THE EMBL HAMBURG OUTSTATION.- 3D MACROMOLECULAR STRUCTURE ANALYSES: APPLICATIONS IN PLANT PROTEINS.- ALIGNMENT OF MOLECULS IN SOLUTION.- STRUCTURAL INVESTIGATION OF ORDERING IN BIOPOLYMERS.- RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ELECTRON TRANSPORT CHAIN OF SECRETORY GRANULE MEMBRANE.- EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY IN BIOPHYSICAL MACROMOLECULAR RESEARCH.- INFLUENCE OF LOWINTENCITY ELECTROMAGNETIC IRRADIATION ON THE WHEAT SEEDLINGS CHROMATIN FRACTIONS.- CORRELLATION BETWEEN AQUOES PORE PERMEABILITY AND SURFACE CHARGE OF WHEAT SEEDLINGS NUCLEI.- THERMODYNAMIC PROFILE OF INTERACTION OF PORPHYRINS WITH NUCLEIC ACIDS.- SOME ASPECTS OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION EFFECTS IN RADIOBIOLOGY.- Biomedical Research.- THE BIOMEDICAL PROGRAMS AT THE ID17 BEAMLINE OF THE EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY.- NOVEL CHEMOTYPES IN PHARMACOCHEMICAL APPROACHES.- GENETIC EFFECTS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES.- SYNCHROTRON FT-IR SPECTROSCOPY OF HUMAN BONES. THE EFFECT OF AGING.- MICRO-FT-IR SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES OF BREAST TISSUES.- PRIMARY MECHANISM OF EM INTERACTION WITH THE LIVE TISSUES.- DYE SENSITIZING AND PROTECTIVE PROPERTIES DURING ELECTROMAGNETICIRRADIATION OF LIVING SYSTEMS.- CRYOGLOBULINS IN ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE.- LEVEL AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF CRYOGLOBULINS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA.- Material and Environmental Sciences.- RECENT ADVANCES IN IMAGING WITH SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS AT ELETTRA.- ADVANCED MATERIALS RESEARCH WITH 3RD GENERATION SYNCHROTRON LIGHT.- DYNAMICS OF DIMERS AND ADATOMS AT SILICON AND GERMANIUM SURFACES.- IMPURITY STATES IN QUANTUM WELL WIRES AND QUANTUM DOTS WITH COATING.- VUV SPECTROSCOPY OF WIDE BAND-GAP CRYSTALS.- X-RAY DIFFRACTION IMAGING OF NANOSCALE PARTICLES.- X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY.- HARD X-RAY HOLOGRAPHIC METHODS.- NATURAL ZEOLITES AND APPLICATION IN LIQUID WASTE TREATMENT.- STUDY OF MEMORY IN SOLIDS STATES UNDER SYNCHROTRON RADIATION EXCITATION.- Instrumentation and Experimental Technique.- HOM DAMPED CAVITIES FOR HIGH BRILLIANCE SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCES.- REVIEW OF ELECTRON AND PHOTON BEAM DIAGNOSTICS IN ADVANCED LIGHT SOURCES.- PRODUCTION OF FEMTOSECOND-PICOSECOND ELECTRON AND X-RAY PULSES IN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION SOURCES.- BUNCH TIME STRUCTURE DETECTOR WITH PICOSECOND RESOLUTION.- AUTO-CALIBRATING BASED DISPERSOMETER FOR HIGH-ACCURACY ALIGNMENT SYSTEMS.- THIN WIRE SECONDARY EMISSION TARGET FOR PICO-FEMTO SECOND RF TIMING TECHNIQUE.- VIBRATION WIRE MONITOR FOR PHOTON BEAMS DIAGNOSTICS: PRELIMINARY TESTS ON LASER BEAMS.- USE OF MULTI-BEAM SCATTERING RADIATION FOR THE ABSOLUTE X-RAY ENERGY CALIBRATION.- GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS CANDLE CASE.- RUBY BASED DETECTOR IN UV AND VUV SPECTRAL REGION.- TWO-LAYER ULTRA-HIGH DENSITY X-RAY OPTICAL MEMORY.