Sincrotrón ALBA
Dr. Salvador Ferrer, associate director of the ALBA Synchrotron
The lecture will cover the
history and the understanding of light across the last 25 centuries
with a focus on the discovery of the synchrotron radiation.
It will particularly introduce the contributions of Maxwell's and Faraday's to the field complemented with a few examples of applications of synchrotron light in the research nowadays.
Finally a brief description of 4th generation sources will be presented.