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Stanford University's PULSE Center, located at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is hosting the 2007 Ultrafast Summer School.

The Ultrafast Summer School will present comprehensive lectures about free electron lasers (FEL), x-ray FEL, different detection methods, and a broad range of scientific applications. The program will cover both fundamentals of soft x-ray, and hard x-ray FEL and their use in spectroscopy and diffraction. Science applications will be given in physics, chemistry and material science. Lectures will be presented by expert scientists in the various aforementioned fields. The attendees will be expected to participate in the discussions since we plan to offer these lectures in an interactive style mode to make it effective and interesting to the audience.

The goal of the school is to disseminate information about scientific opportunities in ultrafast science and train students and posdocs on the new FEL facilities. This includes discussing the new experimental techniques which need to be developed and built due to the different nature of the LCLS compared to ultrafast lasers or synchrotron sources.