{"id":637387,"date":"2026-05-11T22:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/637387\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T22:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:38:07","slug":"high-energy-x-ray-workshop-trains-next-generation-of-synchrotron-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/637387\/","title":{"rendered":"High-energy x-ray workshop trains next generation of synchrotron researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) will host its annual\u00a0High Energy X-ray Techniques\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chess.cornell.edu\/public\/high-energy-x-ray-techniques-school-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(HEXT)<\/a> School\u00a0next week, bringing graduate students and early-career researchers together for an intensive introduction to synchrotron science and high-energy x-ray research methods.<\/p>\n<p>The school runs May 19th &amp; 20th, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The school, which is designed to help train the next generation of synchrotron users and x-ray scientists, combines lectures from CHESS staff scientists with facility tours, beamline demonstrations, and instruction on writing successful proposals for beamtime at CHESS.<\/p>\n<p>Participants will learn the fundamentals of synchrotron techniques including x-ray scattering, diffraction, imaging, spectroscopy, and crystallography, while gaining insight into how these tools are applied across materials science, chemistry, biology, energy research, and engineering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to make synchrotron science approachable and practical for students from a wide range of scientific backgrounds,\u201d said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chess.cornell.edu\/about\/staff-directory\/chris-pollock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Pollock<\/a>, CHESS staff scientist and organizer of the school. \u201cWe want participants to leave with a strong understanding of the core techniques and the confidence to begin thinking about how these methods can support their own research.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The school also includes hands-on beamline demonstrations where participants observe how synchrotron experiments are conducted, from sample preparation and data collection to data processing and interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>Interest in this year\u2019s HEXT school has been especially strong, with the in-person portion of the school now fully booked. Remote participation remains available for students and researchers interested in attending virtually.<\/p>\n<p>CHESS, located at Cornell\u2019s Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory, welcomes more than 1,000 users annually from Cornell and institutions around the world to conduct x-ray research using one of the nation\u2019s premier synchrotron facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers interested in participating remotely can still\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_do5oGIYvR9egqtE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">register online.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) will host its annual\u00a0High Energy X-ray Techniques\u00a0(HEXT) School\u00a0next week, bringing graduate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[199,79],"class_list":["post-637387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-physics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}