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The first Ultrafast X-ray Summer School, organized and chaired by Nora Berrah (WMU), was held June 18-22, 2007, at the Stanford University's PULSE Center, located at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). With the advent of 4th generation X-ray light sources, and in particular, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) under construction at SLAC, it was timely to begin the process of building a competitive community of scientists. It was also primordial to communicate to everyone the excitement many of us have about these new tools and to help raise awareness of the opportunities in ultrafast X-ray research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the topics and events discussed on the workshop conducted by chemical physics and physics communities at Berkeley Lab in California. The workshop aimed at discussing new science with the potential use of a vacuum ultraviolet-soft X-ray free electron laser and was attended by several researchers. Christoph Steier of Berkeley Lab began the workshop with a presentation of a potential facility that would provide photons in the 5- to 1000-eV range.