Yasuji Muramatsu , University of Hyogo, 2167 Shosha, Himeji, Hyogo, JP, 671-2201 | Hisanobu Wakita | Jun Kawai | Dennis Lindle | Louis Terminello | Clemens Heske | Anthony Buuren | Rupert Perera | Alexander Moewes | Frank Larkins | Chris Glover | Jinho Ahn | Bong Soo Kim

This symposium focuses on analytical applications and the new technical developments in soft X-ray spectroscopy such as X-ray absorption (XAS), X-ray emission (XES), photoemission (PES), and photon-in photon-out scattering techniques (RIXS). The number of analytical applications that use soft X-ray spectroscopy has been exploding in the last years. Analytical applications range from physical/chemical materials such as metals, semiconductors, superconducting materials, ceramics, to energy-related materials, to nano-structured materials to biological materials such as DNA, soft matter, liquids, and include even food and environmentally important materials. On the instrumental side the field of soft X-ray spectroscopy has flourished as well. New developments include liquid cells that allow better understanding liquid systems and a push for either high resolution or ultra-fast measurements. New X-ray sources, optics, and detector systems complement the new technology in soft X-ray spectroscopy and allow rather new analytical approaches such as microspectroscopy, 3D-imaging and time-resolved measurements for dynamical diagnostics. This symposium will bring together analytical and physical chemists, X-ray physicists, and material scientists and showcase the hot topics in soft X-ray spectroscopy. Potential invited speakers are J. Nordgren (Uppsala Univ.), F. Larkins (Univ. Melbourne), D. Lindle (UNLV), and H. Wakita (Fukuoka Univ.) et al.