News & Updates

• Oct 28, 2025, X-lites Network Welcomes i-ALFA
• Registration for the X-lites User & Facilities online seminar is now open!
  • October 21, 2025, Introduction to the ELI Beamline, ELI ALPS, & Central Laser Facilities
• Petra Fromme, “Femtosecond Crystallography” has been rescheduled for Sept 30, 2025 - registration is still open
• Registration for the X-lites Science & Technology online seminar is now open!
  • May 30th 2025, Petra Fromme, “Femtosecond Crystallography”
• Registration for the X-lites User & Facilities online seminar is now open!
  • April 29th 2025, Introduction to the NSF CXFEL, NeXUS, & ZEUS facilities
• Registration for the X-lites Early Career Workshop at the ELI User Meeting is now open!
  • June 17th 2025, X-lites Early Career Development at ELI User Mtg 2025
• Registration for the X-lites Early Career Workshop is now open!
  • March 26th 2025, From Big Picture to Details: Using the Ladder of Abstraction in Team Science
• Feb 5, 2025, X-lites Launches Working Groups & Welcomes NEXT
• July 25, 2024, NSF Awards Funding for AccelNet's X-lites Project
• Oct 4 2023, The recording for X-lites Technology Talk: Enabling Technologies for X-ray FELs, Attosecond Science and THz Strong-Field Physics has been posted
  • Watch the recording here
• Co-leaders of X-lites Network (CXFEL) awarded $90.8M from NSF to Advance X-ray Science
• Registration for the X-lites Implementation  Workshop is now open!
  • May 14th, 15th, 16th 2023, X-lites Implementation Workshop
• Registration for X-lites Discussion Panel: User Community is now open!
  • March 29th 2023, 10-11:30am EDT, X-lites Discussion Panel: User Community
• Feb 9 2023, Two New Events from the X-lites Network!
• Registration for Early Career Working Group Gathering is now Open!
  • April 19th 2023, 10-11:30am EDT, X-lites Early Career Working Group Gathering
• Jan 25 2023, New Shareable Flyers for the X-lites Network!
  • Feel free to email to your colleagues/groups, post on your websites, and in your newsletters, etc.
• The recording for the Panel Discussion on "Supporting user and facility needs for “big data” and custom software" has been posted
  • Watch the recording here
• Panel Discussion Registration is Open!
  • December 7th 2022, 10-11:30am EDT - X-lites Panel Discussion: Supporting user and facility needs for “big data” and custom software
• Oct 28 2022,  Several "Save the Dates" event postings have now been published on our events page
• Science Talk Registration is Open!
  • November 9th 2022, 10-11:30am EDT - Anne L'Huillier (Lund, Sweden) - Attosecond light pulses for the study of electron dynamics in matter
• Sept/Oct 2022,  Official Website Launch
• Sept 30 2022,  Announcement of the X-lites Kickoff Meeting
• Aug 5 2022,  Official Press Release published: NSF funds Ohio State as the epicenter of an international collaboration at the extremes of laser science