Update History


 

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2012/1/19 [Seminar] In search of the third dimension in electron and x-ray diffraction (1/26 16:00-)
2011/10/17 [ERL2011] The 50th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on Energy Recovery Linacs will be held from Oct. 16th to 21st at Kobayashi Hall in KEK Tsukuba Campus.
2011/8/2 [Press Release]Long-time Mystery in Cobalt Oxides -Intermediate Spin State-
2011/7/29 [NSRRC News Brief]An Appreciation Party from KEK Users of Japan
2011/7/21 [Press Release]A key to interfacial conductivity revealed
2011/7/21 [SLAC Feature Story]SLAC Welcomes Displaced Japanese Scientists
2011/7/12 [Press Release]Structural origin of 'hidden state' in manganite thin film revealed by picosecond time-resolved X-ray diffraction
2011/5/16 [ACR2010]Call for user reports for Photon Factory Activity Report 2010 (Deadline: June 24th, 2011).
2011/5/13 [Press Release]
Photon Factory secures research opportunities for its users
2011/5/9 [Announcement from KEK]
Donation from CERN goes to orphans of the earthquake.
2011/4/28 [Press Release]Director of Photon Factory reports the damages of the recent earthquake and its recovery prospects
2011/4/12 [Announcement from PF]Supporting letter from the President of AOFSRR to the Director of the Office for Quantum Radiation Research, MEXT
2011/3/16 [Announcement from KEK]Realtime data of the ambient radiation level at KEK Tsukuba Campus is provided by the Radiation Science Center of KEK.
2011/2/16 [KEK Topics]India and KEK strengthen collaboration
2011/1/6 [ACR2009] Photon Factory Activity Report 2009 is now available on the web.
2010/12/21 [IMSS Seminar] Characteristics of Coherent THz Pulses Produced as Transition Radiation (1/11 2011, 16:00-)
2010/12/24 [Announcement from KEK] User Support System will be shut off from Dec. 28, 2010 18:00 till Jan. 4, 2011 9:00 (JST).
2010/12/22 [KEK Topics]KEK revitalizes collaborative partnership with Thailand
2010/12/15 [Questionnaire to the foreign visitors] Please spend a few minutes for a questionnaire by the KEK Users Office.
2010/12/15 [IMSS Seminar] Recent advances in synchrotron techniques, new opportunities in organometallics, phase systems, clusters and nanoroughness (12/16 15:00-)
2010/11/25 [Announcement from PF] Emergency / Fire Drill on November 26th from 13:30 (kek.jp only)
2010/11/9 [IMSS Seminar] Growth and properties of epitaxial Co / fluoride nanostructures on silicon (11/17 15:00-)
2010/11/1 [Announcement from PF] Access from foreign countries to KEK Tsukuba Campus
2010/10/28 [KEK Topics] India's Minister of State for Science & Technology visits Photon Factory
2010/10/22 [IMSS Seminar] The role of oligomerisation in enzyme function: Structure and evolution of an essential bacterial enzyme (11/26 10:00-)
2010/10/7 [IMSS Seminar]Pixel Array Detectors: Advanced Detectors for Synchrotron Science (10/29 15:00-)
2010/9/24 [Announcement from PF Office] Shipping to the Photon Factory
2010/9/21 [IMSS Seminar] X-ray Microscopy (10/21 13:30-)
2010/9/15 [PF-ISAC] The Executive Summary and Closing Remarks for Photon Factory International Science Advisory Committee (Jun.15th, 16th, 2010) has been available on the web.
2010/9/3   [KEK Highlights] Summer Challenge programme for young intelligence (from ilc NewsLine)
2010/6/30 [KEK Feature Story] Understanding the immune response mechanism with protein crystallography
2010/6/22 [PF-ISAC] The Summary and final report for Photon Factory International Science Advisory Committee Light Source Subcommittee (Feb. 25, 26, 2010) has been available on the web.
2010/5/25 [PF Seminar] The frontier of design and fabrication of x-ray compound refractive lens (6/9, 13:30-)
2010/5/19 [Announcement from KEK Users Office] Call for your opinions concerning various services by KEK Users Office
2010/5/17 [PF Seminar] Crystal structure of Thermococcus onnurineus NA1 Lon, the founding member of ATP-dependent proteases (5/21, 13:00-)
2010/4/16 [Announcement from PF] A new bus service has been opened between Ibaraki Airport and Tsukuba Center.
2010/4/7 [KEK Feature Story] The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and KEK's Photon Factory
2010/2/3 [IMSS Seminar] Theoretical Study on Optical Spectra of Semiconductor Quantum Wires (3/26 15:30-)
2010/2/3 [PF Seminar] A general presentation of photo electron diffraction (3/12 13:30-)
2010/1/26 [KEK Feature Story]
Watching light-induced molecular dynamics
2010/01/18 [PF Seminar] Photoemission spectra of NiO, CoO, MnO and spin-state transition in LaCoO3 (2/10, 13:30-)
2009/12/28
[KEK Press Release] Ultrafast photo-switching of molecular magnet revealed by 100-picosecond XAFS
2009/12/15
[PF Seminar] Protein structural dynamics visualized by pump-probe time-resolved X-ray crystallography and liquidography (12/22, 10:00-)
2009/12/10 [ACR2008] Photon Factory Activity Report 2008 is now available on the web.
2009/12/9
[PF Seminar] Function and structure of deubiquitinase (12/24, 11:00-)
2009/12/8
[PF Seminar] XFEL-O Seminar (12/21, 13:30-16:30)
2009/10/30 [KEK Topics] PF-AR Researchers Captured Dust-Trapping in the Storage Ring
2009/10/16 [KEK Topics] PF and 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Crystal structure analysis of ribosomal complexes -
2009/10/15
[PF Seminar] From seconds to picoseconds -selected applications of time resolved Xray diffraction in materials science and beyond (11/9, 11:00-)
2009/10/13
[PF Seminar] Production and utilisation of NEG coatings at the ESRF (11/5, 13:30-)
2009/10/13 [ERL] Progress on a next-generation X-ray source for imaging small,dynamic structures
2009/9/11 [Announcement from KEK] Information regarding the Influenza A (H1N1) (Swine Flu)
2009/7/24
[IMSS Seminar] Stuctural dynamics of photoinduced molecular switching in the solid state (8/26, 14:00-)
2009/7/7
[PF Seminar] Personal experience in structural biology: on the way toward automation (7/30, 15:00-)
2009/7/3 [Announcement from KEK] "Electronic Gofer" has been operational to deliver your message to KEK research staff.
2009/6/8
[PF Seminar] Using TINE 4.1 to Deliver the First Beam in PETRA3 (6/10 15:30-)
2009/3/26 [KEK Press Release] Triggering an immune system - Linear Ubiquitin Chains Attach to NEMO to Activate NF-κB -
2009/3/3
[IMSS Seminar] Light-induced phase separation in spin-crossover solids: a first step of the microscopic mechanism of the self-organisation under light (3/4 16:300)
2009/2/12 [KEK Press Release] First Glimpse of a Protein Molecule Breathing Caught in Action
2009/2/2
[Seminar] Time resolved simultaneous analysis of physical-chemical processes in materials science(2/12 13:30-), IKNO, a user facility for coherent THz synchrotron radiation (2/12 15:30-)
2008/12/11
[PF Seminar] Time-resolved electron cryo-microscopy revealed maturation dynamics of a pseudo T=4 viral capsid(12/22, 10:30-)
2008/10/23 [KEK Topics] Department of Science and Technology, India and Photon Factory of KEK agreed to set up a dedicated beam line in KEK
2008/8/19
[PF Seminar] Macromolecular Crystallography at Diamond Light Source (9/3, 14:00-)
2008/8/5 [KEK Press Release] Photon Factory starts the fast polarization switching project
2008/7/28
[PF Seminar] Femtosecond X-ray Crystallography of Bismuth and Tellurium:Dynamics on the Time Scale of an Optical Phonon Period (9/1, 11:00-)
2008/7/28
[IMSS Seminar] Applications of computational quantum chemistry to muonium states in matter (7/30, 14:00-)
2008/7/24
[IMSS Seminar] Modulation of Inter-Membrane Interaction and Bending Rigidity of Biomembrane Models via Carbohydrates - A Neutron Scattering Study (8/6, 16:30-)
2008/7/23
[PF Seminar] Bayes-Turchin approach to the analysis of extended x-ray absorption fine structure data (9/2, 13:30-)
2008/6/13
[PF Seminar] Construction and Commissioning of the Australian Synchrotron Facility (6/30, 14:00-)
2008/6/3
[PF Seminar] Charge-transport mechanisms in thin organic films and at interfaces studied using advanced photoelectron spectroscopies (6/17, 13:30-)
2008/4/15
[PF Seminar] NSLS II Project and Its Vacuum System Design (6/2, 13:30-)
2008/4/15
[PF Seminar] Photon Metrology using Synchrotron and FEL Radiation (6/12, 10:00-)
2008/3/6
[PF Seminar] Current status and progress of SSRF project (3/11 16:00)
2008/2/15
[PF Seminar] Status Report of Macromolecular Crystallography beamline at SSRF(2/19, 17:00-)
2008/1/17
[PF Seminar]Tracking Photoswitching Dynamics of Molecules in Materials(1/28 14:00-)
2008/1/9
[Seminar] Australian Synchrotron Research & the Australian Synchrotron (1/15, 10:00-)
NSLS and NSLS-II Update (1/15, 11:00-)
2007/12/14 [KEK Press Release]Observing shock-induced lattice deformation of CdS crystal by 100-ps time-resolved single-shot Laue diffraction
2007/11/19 [KEK Press Release] Researchers Observe Surface Orbital 'Roughness' in Colossal Magnetoresistive Oxides
2007/11/5
[Emergency Drill/Fire Drill] Emergecny Drill/Fire Drill is carried out in KEK campus from 1:30pm on Nov. 7.
2007/10/30
[PF Seminar] NSRL XAFS station and its applications to the studies of dilute magnetic semiconductors and quantum dot (11/12 16:00-)
2007/10/5 [KEK Director General's Column]"DG's corner" has been opened.
2007/9/28
[PF Seminar] Upgrade Plans for the Advanced Photon Source(APS) (10/17, 14:30-)
2007/07/20
[PF Seminar] Ordering of gold nanoparicles on solid surface and liquid interfaces(7/24, 15:00-)
2007/5/11
[Photon Factory International Scientific Advisory Committee]
"Executive Summary and Closing Remarks" of the 1st Meeting (April 3-4, 2007) of the Photon Factory International Scientific Advisory Committee together with some presentation files are available on the PF ISAC agenda page.
2007/5/10
[Job Opening] Postdoctoral Fellow[Deadline May 30]
2007/4/5
[PF Seminar] Structural plasticity in the cholinesterases (4/10 11:00)
2007/3/5
[IMSS Seminar]New Horizons for Neutron Laue Diffaction on Vivaldi (3/6 11:00-)
2007/3/1 [Announcement from KEK]New User Support System has been effective for the beamtime after the 1st of April. Reservation and the submission of forms should be done using this system.
*Access to the User Support System
*"Introduction of the User Support System"
*How to apply "Declaration of Introduction of Samples/Chemicals" for experiments at PF
2007/2/20
[PF Seminar] [TINE : The control system and its uses at DESY, Zeuthen, and EMBL] (2/22 10:00-)
2007/1/25
[PF Seminar] [Crystallographic Studies of the Purple Bacterial Photosynthetic Unit] (2/1 13:30-)
2007/1/11
[IMSS Seminar] [Can We Have BOTH high Resolution AND High Intensity? Applications of Time Focusing at Pulsed Neutron Sources] (1/30 11:00-)
2006/12/28
[GUAS] KEK-SOKENDAI is now recruiting the international students.
2006/11/30
[PF Seminar] Applications of synchrotron radiation at SSLS in Singapore (12/5 11:00-)
2006/11/28
[PF Seminar]X-ray Lenses Fabricated by LIGA Technology (12/6 11:00-)
2006/11/21
[Job Opening] Photon Factory is looking for a few postdoctoral fellows.
2006/8/31
[PF Seminar] XAS study of lithium battery materials (9/8, 15:00-)
2006/8/21
[Announcement from PF] Application form can be submitted by e-mail. Please use the latest version of the form.
2006/6/30
[PFSeminar] Future Directions for the Advanced Photon Source (7/7 11:00)
2006/6/16
[Press Release]Australian Synchrotron Pact with Japan's Photon Factory (2006/5/15)
2006/6/9
[AsCA'06/CrSJ]Joint Conference of the Asian Crystallographic Assciation and the Crystallographic Society of Japan (Nov. 20-23, 2006)
2006/6/8
[PF Seminar] Photoionization and Excitation of Molecular Clusters in the Inner-Shell Regime(6/23 14:00-)
2006/6/7
[Photon Factory Review 2006] Final Report of the Review Committee for the PF External Review held on March 2006 is now open to the public. Materials prepared by the PF for the Review together with the program are available here.
2006/5/26
[Operation Schedule] Operation schedule from Sep. 2006 to Mar. 2007 has been fixed.
2006/5/22
[PF Seminar] The PETRA-3 project and the planned EMBL facilities in Hamburg for structural biology(5/23 10:00)
2006/4/6
[AOF2006]1st Asia/Oceania Forum for Synchrotron Radiation Research will be held in KEK on Nov. 24-25
2006/4/3
[PF Seminar] Structural tales of cockroaches, tails and blue fish (4/14 10:00-)
2006/2/27
[PF Seminar] Progress in Experimental Phasing and in Structure Refinement(3/3 14:00-)
2006/1/25
[PF Seminar] Protein Crystallography at the Australian Synchrotron (2/2 16:00-)
2005/11/30
[IMSS Seminar] Present Status of SSRF Project and its Beamline Program (12/2 10:00)
 
[Announcement from Users' Office]New regulation of Cancellation for KEK accommodation
2005/11/11
[PF Seminar] Photocrystallography of complexes which undergo thermal or photo
excited phase transition : domain structure and charge density analysis (12/15 10:00-)
2005/11/11
[PF Seminar] Time-Resolved Diffraction of Molecular Excited States (12/12 9:30-)
2005/9/30
[PF Seminar] 'Present Status of INDUS-I and INDUS-II’(10/5 13:30-)
2005/9/27
[PF Seminar] 'Diamond and the Phase 1 MX Beamlines' (10/19 10:00-), 'Diamond beamline I24: An instrument for macromolecular micro-crystallography' (10/19 10:45-)
2005/9/14
[Entrance door security system] The modification work on entrance door security system at PF Main Builiding, PF Lab. and PF Experimental Hall is completed and the new system will start operating at 8pm of the 20th of September.
2005/6/10
[IMSS Seminar] NEUTRON AND X-RAY SCATTERING STUDIES OF TOXIN ASSAULT ON MODEL LIPID MEMBRANE (7/5 10:30-)(has been changed to July 4, 10:00-)
2005/6/7
[International Conference]The 5th NAREGI International Nano-Science Symposium 'Theories and Simulation Methods for Soft X-Ray Solid State Spectorscopy' (11/7〜9)
2005/2/21
[Topics] Unique Global Light Source Website launched
2005/2/1
[Seminar] Vibrationally resolved photoelectron angular distributions for K-shells of CO and N2 molecule(2/28 13:30-)
2005/1/28
[Job Opening] Professor and Associate Professor (Deadline:Mar. 31, 2005)
2005/1/24
[Job Opening] Postdoctoral Position (Deadline:Feb. 25, 2005)
2005/1/18
[Seminar] Critical and Glassy Dynamics in Non-Fermi-Liquid Heavy-Fermion Metals (2/1 14:00-)
2005/1/14
[Seminar] Present status and future prospects of Linac Coherent Light Source (1/24 14:00-)
2005/1/12
[IMSS Seminar] Interface structure of photonic multilayers prepared by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (1/13 10:30-)
2004/12/8
[Seminar]Observation of Fragile-to-Strong Liquid-Liquid Transition in Deeply Supercooled Confined Water by Quasielastic Neutron Scattering (12/21 11:00)
2004/12/7
[Seminar] Determination of crystal structures based on powder diffraction data (12/9 11:00)
2004/11/30
[Seminar] Current Status of Materials Science Research at Research and Development Centre for Materials Science and Technology, Batan (11/30 16:00)
2004/11/9
[Seminar] Femto-Second Studies of the Metal-Insulator Transition (11/22 14:00)
2004/11/2
[Beamline shutdown] PF ring will be shut down from March 2005 to September 2005 due to improvement of the straight sections.
2004/10/26
[Seminar] Observation of quantum interference arising from a superposition of macroscopically distinct tunneling states for protons in the KHCO crystal from 14 to 300 K (12/7 10:00)
2004/10/22
[Seminar] Diffraction physics with polarized x-rays:Recent developments and current challenges (11/4 10:00)
2004/10/6
[IMSS Seminar] Revealing the Nature of Double Band Superconductivity in MgB2 with Neutrons (10/20 13:30-)
2004/8/11
[Seminar] "Watching proteins function with 150-picosecond time-resolved X-ray crystallography"(9/6 13:30-)
2004/7/22
[IMSS Seminar]The recent research progress of ions self-irradiation effects and related phase transformations in nanostructues (8/3 16:00-)
2004/6/22
[IMSS Seminar] Excitations in One-Dimensional and Quasi-One-Dimensional Spin Liquids(6/30 10:00-)
2004/5/31
[PF Seminar] 'BSRF:The status, the upgrading and the research in the structure of proteins'(6/4 13:30-)
2004/3/16
[Seminar] SESAME, Synchrotron radiation for Experimental Science and Application for the Middle East (3/18 16:00-)
2004/2/20
[PF Seminar] 「Photoemission Electron Microscopy: PEEM and other tools to image catalytic surface reactions」(3/4 11:00-)
2004/1/27
[Safety Notice] "Declaration of the intended use of heating devices" form must be submitted if you wish to use heating devices in the PF.
2004/1/13
[Seminar] Protein Structure-Function Analyses; The Road from Prediction to Confirmation(1/16 16:30-)
2003/11/26
[Jobopenings]IMSS 03-10 Postdoctoral Position(Deadline:Dec.19, 2003)
2003/11/12
[PF Seminar] An insight into ADP/ATP translocation :The structure ofmitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier at 2.2 resolution (11/13 14:00-)
2003/11/4
[PF Seminar]X-ray absorption, X-Ray Magnetic circular dichroism and molecular magnetism (11/5 13:30-)
 
[Jobopenings]IMSS 03-8 Postdoctoral Position(Deadline:Nov.21)
2003/10/28
[PF Seminar] Time-Resolved Diffraction with Electron or X-ray Beam (11/18 13:30-)
2003/10/27
[PF Seminar] XAS at the ESRF: Activities on BM29 and ID24(11/7 15:00-)
2003/6/6
[Job Openings] Postdoctoral Position (Deadline:July 4,2003)
2003/5/21
[Seminar] X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy: From Biology to Archaeology (5/29 15:30-)
2003/3/24
[PF Seminar] "X-ray Detector Development at the Swiss Light Source (SLS)"(4/15 15:00-)
2003/4/23
[Job Openings] IMSS 03-3 Postdoc Position
2003/4/2
[Announcement from KEK] KEK International Center is open from April 1
2003/4/1
[PF Activity Report] PF highly welcomes contribution for its 2002 version. Deadline is expanded from May 31, 2003 to June 10, 2003.
2003/3/28
[Announcement from PF] Form 3, 9 and 10 are required to submit at the beginning of every fiscal year (April) for those who have had the beamtime followed by the previous year.
2003/3/18
[PF Seminar] "Present status of the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility
(SSRF)" (3/24 15:00-)
2003/1/28
[Job Openings] IMSS 02-5 Research Associate (Application deadline is 3/21)
2003/1/14
[Job Openings] IMSS 02-4 Associate Professor or Research Associate
2002/12/11
[Seminar] "Ultra-fast photo-induced phase transformation in TTF-CA by time-resolved X-ray diffraction"(12/16 14:00-)
2002/11/6
[Seminar] Present status of research by Magnetic Scattering Gruop (ID20) (11/8 14:00-)
2002/10/21
[Seminar]"Production and application of hard x-ray nanometer beams"(10/21) 14:00-15:00 at the Conference Room on the 2F in PF Kenkyu Building.
2002/10/10
[Seminar]Some Aspects of the SR Investigations for Industry, Biology and Medicine in the Kurchatov Synchrotron (12/3 13:30-)
[Announcement from KEK] Outside lines will be disabled on Oct. 12. 9:00-15:00
2002/7/5
[Announcement from IMSS] Prof. Atsushi Koma (Vice President of The Univ. of Tokyo) has been appointed to the candidate for the new Director of IMSS (April 1, 2003-)
2002/6/28
The Candidate for the New Director General of KEK
2002/6/13
[PF Seminar] 'Complete spectra in double photoionisation: a new technique and early results' (6/25 13:30- at Conference Room on 2F in PF)
2002/5/16
[Operation Schedule]Operation schedule from September 2002 to February 2003 is fixed.
2002/4/30
Call for Users' Reports for "PF Activity Report 2001"
2002/4/15
[PF Seminar]
'Photoionization of N2 molecule calculated in the Random Phase Approximation'(4/26 15:30- at Conference room on the 2F in PF)
2002/4/10
[Job Openings]
IMSS 01-10 Professor or Associate Professor
IMSS 01-11 Associate Professor
2002/4/9
[PF Seminar] 'Arginine kinase structure; Revisiting classical questions in enzymology' (4/17 Conference room on the 2F in PF)
2002/3/22
[PF Workshop] Program of "Materials Science by X-ray Inelastic Scattering" (Mar. 29-30, 2002 at Seminar Hall in the 4th Building)
2002/2/21
[Topics] The article of our Structural Biology Group has been carried in Nature. (Vol. 415, 937-941, 21 February 2002.)