International Conference on X-Ray Microscopy

The International Conference on X-Ray Microscopy (XRM) is a biennial international conference on X-ray imaging. The scope includes a range of topics in X-ray imaging, both in the soft and hard X-ray spectrum. Imaging by synchrotron light sources is the dominant topic, but small scale laboratory imaging is also included in many talks and posters. A number of subtopics are covered, including but not limited to X-ray microtomography, Phase-contrast X-ray imaging, Ptychography, and X-ray optics. The conference is typically five days long and held in summer. The conference is organized by an international committee and a local host organization. This local host is in most cases a synchrotron facility or an institute closely connected to a synchrotron. The host of the conference is decided two conferences in advance with a majority vote by all conference attendees. For example, the 14th XRM (2018) was decided during the 12th XRM (2014).

International Conference on X-Ray Microscopy (XRM)
Genre	Physics Conference
Location(s)	changes every time
Inaugurated	Göttingen 1983
Most recent	Lund 2024
Next event	Campinas 2026
Attendance	300-400
Website	XRM2024

History

The initiators of XRM were the German physicist Günter Schmahl and the Hungarian-American physicist Janos Kirz. Schmahl hosted the first conference in Göttingen in 1983.^[1][2]

XRM was for several years triennial, but has been biennial since 2008.

The 2020 installment of XRM in Taiwan was postponed two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Werner Meyer-Ilse Memorial Award

Werner Meyer-Ilse was the chair of the International Program Committee for XRM99, but died in a car accident days before the conference.^[3][4] In his memory XRM hands out the Werner Meyer-Ilse Memorial Award to "young scientists for exceptional contributions to the advancement of X-ray microscopy".^[5]

Previous Recipients

• 1999: Daniel Weiss and Jianwei Miao
• 2002: Michael Feser
• 2005: Weilun Chao
• 2008: Anne Sakdinawat and Pierre Thibault
• 2010: Christian Holzner
• 2012: Irene Zanette and Stephan Werner
• 2014: Kevin Mader
• 2016: Junjing Deng and Matias Kagias
• 2018: Claire Donnelly and Marie-Christine Zdora
• 2020: Jumpei Yamada (awarded 2022)
• 2022: Yanqi Luo and Jisoo Kim
• 2024: Takenori Shimamura and Yuhe Zhang^[6]

List of XRM conference

#	year	name	city	country	attendance[a]	proceedings	comment
1	1983	XRM I	Göttingen	Germany	50 [2]	[7]	First conference
2	1987	XRM II	Brookhaven, NY.	US		[8]
3	1990	XRM III	London	UK		[9]
4	1993	XRM IV	Chernogolovka	Russia		[10]
5	1996	XRM V	Würzburg	Germany		[11]
6	1999	XRM99	Berkeley, CA.	US		[12]	First WMIM award
7	2002	XRM2002	Grenoble	France	239	[13]
8	2005	XRM2005	Himeji	Japan		[14]	First conference outside Europe and US
9	2008	XRM2008	Zürich	Switzerland	300	[15]
10	2010	XRM2010	Chicago, Il.	US	344	[16]
11	2012	XRM2012	Shanghai	China	295	[17]
12	2014	XRM2014	Melbourne	Australia	336	[2]
13	2016	XRM2016	Oxford	UK	380	[5]
14	2018	XRM2018	Saskatoon	Canada		[18]
15	2022	XRM2022	Hsinchu	Taiwan		[19]	Virtual, originally planned as XRM2020
16	2024	XRM2024	Lund	Sweden			Originally planned as XRM2022
17	2026	XRM2026	Campinas	Brazil

See also

• X-ray microscope
• Phase-contrast X-ray imaging
• Synchrotron
• Ptychography
• Günter Schmahl

Notes

^a Attendance numbers are taken from their respective proceedings.