Physics of, and Science with, the X-ray Free- Electron Laser

The workshop brought together scientists working on the development of x-ray free-electron lasers and their applications. X-ray free-electron lasers produce high intensity, subpicosecond long, coherent, x-ray pulses, and will open a new frontier to study the structure of matter at the molecular and atomic level. Some fields of interest are structural changes in chemical reactions, single biological molecules, warm plasmas, nanosystems.