The Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS) will host the first Sirius Workshop on X-ray Nanospectroscopy, Nanodiffraction and Nanoimaging (CARNAÚBA Workshop). The workshop will be held at the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) campus on October 8^th and 9^th, 2019.

This seminal workshop will bring together the LNLS community – external users, staff scientists and engineers – and experts working in the field of X-ray spectroscopy, diffraction and imaging at leading facilities around the world to present and discuss the new scientific opportunities offered by X-ray nanoprobes with scanning energy capabilities.

The CARNAÚBA Workshop will consist of plenary and contributed talks with the participation of international and local experts:

• Gema Martinez-Criado (ICMM, CSIC, Spain)
• Andrew Ulvestad (Tesla Inc., USA)
• Dean Hesterberg (NCU, USA)
• Felix Requejo (UNLP, Argentina)
• Paula Sucerquia (UFPE, Recife)
• Mariana Stelling (IFRJ, Rio de Janeiro)
• Angelo Malachias (UFMG, Belo Horizonte)
• Lucas Rodrigues (USP, São Paulo)
• Liane Rossi (USP, São Paulo)
• Hudson de Carvalho (CENA-USP, Piracicaba)
• Mateus Cardoso (LNNano-CNPEM, Campinas)
• Hozana de Castillo (LNBio-CNPEM, Campinas)
• Flavia Caleffo (LNLS-CNPEM, Campinas)
• Amelie Rochet (LNLS-CNPEM, Campinas)
• Carlos Sato B. Dias (LNLNS-CNPEM, Campinas)
• Douglas Galante & Lara Maldanis (LNLS-CNPEM, Campinas)
• Eduardo Miqueles & Giovanni Baraldi (LNLS-CNPEM, Campinas)
• Hélio C. N. Tolentino (LNLS-CNPEM, Campinas)
• Harry Westfahl Jr. (LNLS-CNPEM, Campinas)

LNLS is building a 4^th generation synchrotron source, Sirius, that should be commissioned by the 2^nd semester of 2019 and beginning of 2020.

The CARNAÚBA beamline will be the first Sirius X-ray nanoprobe exploring the coherence and the spatial resolution to study a wide range of materials. This instrument will offer X-rays in the 2 to 15 keV energy range, with a beam spot down to 30 nm, for multimode analysis including techniques such as: X-ray fluorescence – XRF, X-ray absorption spectroscopy – XAS, X-ray excited optical luminescence – XEOL, X-ray diffraction – XRD and ptychographic X-ray coherent diffractive imaging – ptyCDI – in small angle scattering and Bragg geometries. When coming into operation in 2020, this beamline will offer state-of-the-art research tools for nanoscience and nanotechnology.

The Book of Abstracts is available here.

Registration begins:	July 5th
Abstract submission period:	July 5th to August 12th
Abstract acceptance	August 19th
Registration ends:	September 9th
Registration Fee Payment period:	August 30th to September 10th
Carnaúba Workshop	October 8th and 9th

Abstracts are welcome in any of the disciplines covered by the CARNAÚBA beamline. A few abstracts will be selected as flash oral presentations.

CARNAÚBA is multidisciplinary covering a vast range of applications:

• biology, medicine and toxicology
• environment, geophysics and geochemistry
• plant and soil science
• paleontology and cultural heritage
• energy and functional materials
• semiconductor, photonic and magnetic materials

Students and young post-docs are eligible for financial support (up to 10). Along with the abstract, a link to the CV and a letter of recommendation of the advisor/supervisor is required for the application.