Pivotal Elections in U.S. History

On September 27, 2016, scholars and professors Katherine Unterman, George Edwards, Bill Brands and Terry Anderson discuss pivotal past elections in U.S. history. The presentations focus on elections of 1896, 1932, 1948 and others.Scowcroft Institute of International Affair

SwissFEL: The Swiss X-ray Free Electron Laser

The SwissFEL X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) facility started construction at the Paul Scherrer Institute (Villigen, Switzerland) in 2013 and will be ready to accept its first users in 2018 on the Aramis hard X-ray branch. In the following sections we will summarize the various aspects of the project, including the design of the soft and hard X-ray branches of the accelerator, the results of SwissFEL performance simulations, details of the photon beamlines and experimental stations, and our first commissioning results