We have 15 slots to visit two very interesting facilities in Hamburg – European XFEL and DEZY from 19 to 21 June. The organizers will cover 2 night accommodation, meal and local transportation. Journalists have to take care of their traveling to and from Hamburg.

19 June is arrival day with welcome meeting in the evening.

At 20 June there will be a full day program dedicated to European XFEL with a series of short talks from the scientists introducing their instruments and research. In the afternoon a tour of the facility and tunnels will be organised.

At 21 June journalists will take a look at the facilities of DEZY. The trip will end late afternoon of 21-th after lunch. The detailed program will be sent out shortly.

Send your applications to violae@mail.ru by June 1: name, association, media, e-mail, mobile.

About European XFEL

The European XFEL in the Hamburg area is a new international research facility of superlatives: 27,000 X-ray flashes per second and a brilliance that is a billion times higher than that of the best conventional X-ray sources open up completely new opportunities for science. Research groups from around the world are be able to map the atomic details of viruses, decipher the molecular composition of cells, take three-dimensional “photos” of the nanoworld, “film” chemical reactions, and study processes such as those occurring deep inside planets. The operation of the facility is entrusted to European XFEL, a non-profit company that cooperates closely with its main shareholder, the research centre DESY, and other organisations worldwide. European XFEL has a workforce of more than 300 employees and started user operation September 2017. With construction and commissioning costs of 1.22 billion euro (at 2005 price levels) and a total length of 3.4 kilometres, the European XFEL is one of the largest and most ambitious European new research facilities to date. At present, 12 countries have signed the European XFEL convention: Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. For more information on European XFEL go towww.xfel.eu.

About DEZY

The Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (English German Electron Synchrotron) commonly referred to by the abbreviation DESY, is a national research center in Germany that operates particle accelerators used to investigate the structure of matter. It conducts a broad spectrum of inter-disciplinary scientific research in three main areas: particle and high energy physics; photon science; and the development, construction and operation of particle accelerators. Its name refers to its first project, an electron synchrotron. DESY is publicly financed by the Federal Republic of Germany, the States of Germany, and the German Research Foundation (DFG). DESY is a member of the Helmholtz Association and operates at sites in Hamburg and Zeuthen.
http://www.desy.de/