| vol. 2 | |||
| CONTENTS | |||
| E A. Görlich, M. Stankiewicz, M. Szymonski | Project of the national centre of synchrotron radiation | 1 | |
| Extended Abstracts from the Workshop on New Methods of Low-Dimensional Structures Characterization: VUV and X -Ray Free Electron Lasers, 15-17 November 2002, Warsaw | |||
| J. Krzywinski | Program of the Workshop on New Methods of Low-Dimensional Structures Characterization: VUV and X-Ray Free Electron Lasers, Warsaw 15-17 November 2002 | 9 | |
| G. Margaritondo | The future of X-ray sources: new ideas and new plans | 10 | |
| J. Krzywinski | Properties of the X-VUV FEL radiation | 12 | |
| I. Lindau | X-ray free-electron lasers: scientific opportunities and technological challenges – a perspective from the Linac Coherent Light Source at Stanford | 15 | |
| J.C. Dore, A. Burian | Structural studies of nanoscale materials with synchrotron x-rays | 17 | |
| A. Goldoni, R. Larciprete, L. Petaccia, S. Lizzit | Ghost and real effects of gas adsorption on the electronic properties of single-wall carbon nanotubes: interference of sample contaminants | 20 | |
| B. Palosz | Limitations of powder diffraction analysis in studies of the atomic structure of nanocrystals | 22 | |
| T. Gregorkiewicz, M. Forcales, M. Klik, I..V. Bradley, J.-P.R. Wells | Free-electron laser spectroscopy of optically doped semiconductors | 27 | |
| E. Holub-Krappe, A. Hahlin, K. Removic-Langer, D. Arvanitis, H. Maletta, J. Hunter Dunn | Spin reorientation transition in thin magnetic films | 30 | |
| K. Lawniczak-Jablonska, I.N. Demchenko | Use of x-ray absorption for estimation of internal strains inside the buried low dimensional structures | 32 | |
| C. Heske | Studying buried interfaces with soft X-ray spectroscopy | 35 | |
| E-MRS Fall Meeting, Warsaw 2003 | |||
| Development of Methods for Characterizing the Microstructure of Novel Materials (Symposium B of the EMRS 2003 Fall Meeting) | 37 | ||
| Program of the Pre-school of the Symposium B | 40 | ||
| Abstracts of the Pre-school of E-MRS Fall Meeting 2003, Symposium B | |||
| K. Lawniczak-Jablonska | Synchrotron radiation – sources and properties | 41 | |
| Ĺ. Kvick | The diffraction phenomenon in radiation andparticle interaction | 41 | |
| S. Pascarelli | The x-ray absorption and emission spectroscopy, x-ray fluorescence | 41 | |
| J. Ghijsen, R.L. Johnson, A. Elschner, N.Koch | The use of synchrotron radiation in photoelectron spectroscopy: The example of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) | 41 | |
| R. Przenioslo, I. Sosnowska | Neutron scattering in magnetic materials | 42 | |
| J. Härtwig | X-ray imaging | 42 | |
| W. Neumann | Structural and chemical characterization of crystals by TEM | 42 | |
| News and events | |||
| W. Paszkowicz | Ten years of ISSRNS symposia | 43 | |
| D. Zymierska | News from the Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society | 44 | |
| 7th International Symposium on Synchrotron Radiation in Natural Science, ISSRNS’2004 | 45 | ||
| Conference “Experimental and Computing Methods in High Resolution Diffraction Applied for Structure Characterization of Modern Materials” (HREDAMM) | 46 | ||
| Symposium on Applications of Linear and Area Detectors for X-ray and Neutron Diffraction and Spectroscopy (ALADINUS) | 46 | ||
| Conference proceedings of meetings co-organised by Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society in the period 1992-2003 | 46 | ||
| Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society | cover | ||
| Informacja o Walnym Zebraniu PTPS | cover | ||
| Useful addresses | cover | ||