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Delighted with the outcome of the collaborative beamtime 20244077 between LUXEM and DiProI Teams at the FERMI Free Electron Laser. The beamtime, which took place on 21-25 September in Trieste (IT), focused on XUV ptychographic measurements with orbital angular momentum beams for imaging dynamics in metallic nanostructures.

LUXEM is grateful to SHARPER (SHAring Researchers’ Passion for Education and Rights, EU) for including our stand “LASER, diffrazione, immagini” at the European Researchers’ Night (ERN), held on September 26th 2025 at the University of Pavia. ERN aims to engage citizens of all ages in discovering the researcher’s profession and the crucial role researchers play in shaping the future of our society. The event is part of the SHARPER project, funded by the European Commission under the European Researchers’ Night projects – Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions. GA 101162370. Find out more

The 2025 Optica Imaging Congress [Seattle, USA, 18-21 August 2025] addresses all aspects of 2-D and 3-D image acquisition, processing and display, imaging through scattering media and turbulence and the application of machine learning to image processing. Antonio Mazzarone presented his current PHD thesis work with a talk entitled: “Focusing Delivery Schemes: a Comparative Analysis for Extreme UltraViolet Ultrafast Tabletop Ptychography”. We thank the organizers of the Session “Super-Resolved Imaging and Ptychography” withing the Computational Optical Sennsing and Imaging (COSI) Meeting for this wonderful opportunity. Find out more

The "Advancements in High-Resolution Imaging Using Next-Generation Light Sources" symposium aims to foster an in-depth discussion among internationally recognized experts in the field, exploring the potential of the FEL facility to drive new research directions in imaging of structure and transient states of condensed matter, soft matter, and low-density matter. Prof. Mancini was invited speaker, with a talk entitled “Structured Beams and Focusing Delivery Schemes: a Comparative Analysis for Extreme UltraViolet Ultrafast Tabletop Ptychography”. Antonio Mazzarone presented the poster “Focusing Delivery Schemes: a Comparative Analysis for Extreme UltraViolet Ultrafast Tabletop Ptychography”. Find out more

The annual meeting of COST Action ‘NEXT’, of which Prof. Mancini is Vice-chair, organizer, and speaker, took place at the Institute of Physics of Zagreb (HR), on July 14-18, 2025. During the workshop, whose aim was to promote the discussion of novel approaches ultrafast non-linear EUV/X-rays methods, Claudia Schrama presented  a talk entitled “Ultrafast ptychographic imaging of order-disorder correlations in hybrid nanoparticle topologies”. Find out more

Prof. Mancini and Antonio Mazzarone acknowledge Flavio Capotondi and the DiProI team for collaborative experiments at the in-house beamtime on July 5-7, 2025. On July 7-8 2025 Prof. Mancini attended the FISMAT 2025 – CNISM symposium: "From ultrafast magnetism to quantum materials: new insights with new instruments", of which she was organizer and chair. Find out more

The SPICE workshop "Characterization and control of quantum materials with optical vortex beams" took place in Ingelheim (D) 10-12 June 2025. Prof. Mancini served as main organizer & chair. Antonio Mazzarone presented a poster titled “Focusing Delivery Schemes: a Comparative Analysis for Extreme UltraViolet Ultrafast Tabletop Ptychography”. Find out more

This ERC in Italy event took place in Naples on May 22-23 at the University of Naples Federico II. Prof. Mancini joined to discuss ERC projects as panelist, learn from peers and share mentorship tips & tricks with young applicants. Find out more

Also this year, LUXEM opens its facilities LUXEM 1 and LUXEM 2 to show research aims &activities to High School students with practical demonstrations! A special thanks to Federico Bertelli and Domenico Compagnini for participating to the activities that took place on Saturday May 17, 2025!

Nicola Giani, here working on the Ultrafast Laser System maintenance with KMLabs Engineers, has obtained a permanent appointment as Laboratory Engineer at LUXEM. Congratulations to him for this achievement, and to the University of Pavia for supporting LUXEM research.