Greater Caribbean Light Source / Latin American International Synchrotron for Technology, Analysis, and Development (GCLS/LAMISTAD) Conference

from Monday, 8 June 2026 (09:00) to Wednesday, 10 June 2026 (23:30)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
8 Jun 2026
9 Jun 2026
AM
10:00
Opening Plenary Session (until 11:00) ()
10:00 Science and User Programs at the Brazilian Light Source - Dr Harry Westfahl Jr. (Director Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS))   ()
11:00
Science and Engineering Research (until 12:00) ()
11:30 NSF-PREM Student to Synchrotron User: A Scientific Journey Through CHESS - Brenda Lee Vargas Pérez (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus)   ()
09:00
UNESCO Opening Address (until 09:30) ()
09:30
Future-scaping Synchrotron Light Sources (until 11:30) ()
09:30 Overview of High Energy Photon (HEP) Facility - tbd   ()
10:00 DESY and Trans-Atlantic Science Dipomoacy - Frank Lehner (DESY)   ()
11:00 A Staged Pathway Toward Establishing an Advanced Science Center in Mexico and the Greater Caribbean - Patrick Krejcik (SLAC)   ()
11:30 --- Break ---
11:45
Education and Training (until 13:45) ()
11:45 Building a renewable energy, electrochemistry, and materials research community in Puerto Rico - Dr Jorge L. Colón (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras)   ()
12:15 LAAAMP - Prof. Michele Zema (University of Bari, Italy)   ()
12:30 Global South Synchrotrons Project: Update and Prospects - Michele Zema (University of Bari, Italy) Galileo Violini (Centro Internacional de Física, Bogotá)   ()
12:45 Open Discussion with ISC Unions and their Regional Adhering Bodies   ()
PM
12:00
UNESCO-IUPAP Colloquium (until 13:00) ()
12:00 Steven Chu opens 2026 IUPAP–UNESCO Colloquia - TODAY - 18h CEST (GMT+2)   ()
13:00
Science and Engineering Research (until 14:00) ()
13:00 Macromolecular X-ray Crystallography Studies of S. mansoni GAPDH in the Discovery and Design of Novel Anti-Schistosomal Compounds - Naledi Pilusa (University of johannesburg)   ()
13:30 Recombinant Production and Biophysical Characterization Towards Structural Determination of Aspergillus niger RING finger domain - Ms Mary George (University of Johannesburg)   ()
14:00 --- Break ---
14:15
Future-scaping Synchrotron Light Sources (until 16:00) ()
14:15 Synchrotron Radiation : A Trillion Dollar Enterprise - Prof. Giorgio Margaritondo (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT))   ()
14:45 The Puerto Rican Light Source (PULS) Initiative - Dr Jorge L Colón (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras)   ()
15:15 Commissioning of the STAR Compact Light Source Toward High-Brightness ICS X-Ray Generation - Luigi Faillace (INFN-Frascati)   ()
13:45 --- Break ---
14:00
Science and Engineering Research (until 14:45) ()
14:00 Structural and Functional Characterization of Novel Carbohydrate Deacetylase from Bacteroides - Krystle McLaughlin (Vassar College)   ()
14:45 --- Break ---
15:00
Science and Engineering Research (until 16:20) ()
15:00 Phototransferred Thermoluminescence Properties of CaGa2O4:Pr3+ Prepared by Solution Combustion Method, Analytical methods and applications. - Clement Sichangi (University of South Africa)   ()
15:20 Rectangular Cuboid Metamaterial Emitter at High Temperatures with Enhanced Spectral Efficiency for Low-Bandgap Energy Conversion. - Tesfaye Hurrisa (Adama science and Technology university)   ()
15:40 Electrical Activity of Aluminum-, Boron-, and n-Type Impurity–Defect Complexes in Germanium: Implications for Enhanced Ge-Based Devices - Dr Emmanuel Igumbor (University of Johannesburg)   ()
16:00 Cross-Dataset EEG Workload Decoding Using Riemannian Deep Learning and Self-Supervised Representation Learning - Dr Chitaranjan Mahapatra (Institute for Basic Science (IBS),Daejeon 34126, South Korea)   ()
16:20 --- Break ---
16:30
Future-scaping Synchrotron Light Sources (until 17:00) ()
16:30 Update on the Iranian Light Source Facility (ILSF) - Dr Arash Sadeghipanah (Iranian Light Source Facility (ILSF))   ()
17:00
Closing Session (until 17:30) ()