The program will cover all aspects of the physics of electromagnetic radiation from the ultraviolet to the hard X-ray, with an emphasis on theory, experimental methods, novel results and applications of these energy ranges to probe the electronic, geometric and magnetic structure of matter. Topics to be discussed include:

• Generation and detection of VUV and X-rays, including lasers & fourth generation SR
• X-ray absorption spectroscopies
• VUV and X-ray optical properties measurements
• Soft x-ray emission as well as resonant elastic and inelastic x-ray scattering
• Electron spectroscopies excited by VUV or X radiation
• High kinetic energy photoemission
• VUV and X-ray spectro-microscopies and micro-spectroscopies
• Excitation cross-sections, relaxation effects, and many-electron phenomena
• Linear and circular dichroism, spin detection, time resolved studies
• Coincidence spectroscopies
• X-ray holography, lens-less imaging
• New theoretical approaches for interpreting VUV and X-ray experiments
• Femtosecond and attosecond electron dynamics.
• Applications of the above to atoms, molecules, liquids, surfaces/interfaces, nanostructures, clusters, catalysts, environmentally relevant problems, novel and complex materials, strongly correlated and magnetic materials, biological systems, and industrial analytical problems.