The Canadian Light Source has five advisory
committees:
Each of these committees has a key role to play to ensure that the Canadian Light Source provides scientifically excellent research capability with state of the art experimental facilities, operated in a user friendly manner.
Scientific Advisory Committee
(SAC)
The CLSI Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) is advisory to the CLSI Board of Directors (Board) through the CLSI Executive Director. The mission of the SAC is to ensure that present and future scientific programs at the CLS are of the highest quality and relevant to the requirements of the Canadian scientific community, and that they support the mission of the CLS. In order to meet its mission, the SAC has two primary functions:
The SAC will have the responsibility of providing recommendations on all technical and policy issues that bear on the full and effective utilization of the CLS as a state-of-the-art national synchrotron radiation facility and on future developments required to maintain the scientific and technical productivity of the facility at the highest possible level.
The range of inquiry of the SAC will specifically include a consideration of what mix of beamlines, their ancillary laboratories and equipment, and scientific activities will ensure an appropriate utilization of the CLS as a national facility. In particular, the SAC will have the following responsibilities:
- To review current CLS operations and allocation of facility resources; utilization of the facility by beamteams, independent investigators, industrial users, and commercial activities; scientific strategic planning; and other major issues that may be relevant to its mission. The SAC will ensure that appropriate mechanisms are in place and followed for all peer review activities.
- To establish procedures for the review of proposals for the establishment of new experimental and support facilities. Criteria to be considered in the review of proposals include: uniqueness and quality of the proposed science and/or technology program, benefit to others in the scientific and technological communities, impact on other science and technology at the CLS and the ability of the proponents to carry out the proposed program successfully.
- To develop appropriate procedures for monitoring progress toward implementation of new experimental facilities.
Committee Membership:
| Committee Member |
Home Institution |
| Rafael Abela |
Paul Scherrer Institute – Swiss Light Source, Switzerland |
| Marie D’Iorio |
Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario |
| Paul Dumas |
SOLEIL Synchrotron, GIF-sur-YVETTE, France |
| Sol Gruner |
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
| Jean-Claude Kieffer |
Directeur INRS-EMT, Varennes, Quebec |
| Robert Lamb |
University of Melbourne, Australia |
| James Penner-Hahn |
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Piero Pianetta |
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California |
| John Root |
NRC-Canadian Neutron Beam Centre, Chalk River, Ontario |
| Robert Sweet |
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY |
| Associate Members: |
|
| Hafeez Hoorani |
National Centre for Physics, Quaid-i-Azam University Campus, Islamabad, Pakistan |
| Prayoon Songsiriritthigul |
The Siam Photon Laboratory of the National Synchrotron Research Centre, Thailand |
Beamline Advisory Committee
(BAC)
This committee is representative of the scientists directly involved in the development and operation of the research facilities at the CLS.
The BAC has the following duties:
- To assist the CLS in the formulation and review of policy and procedures that impact the CLS scientific user community.
- To make recommendations to the CLS management on issues related to the upgrade, development and operation of the scientific and support facilities.
- To actively promote cooperative interactions between the beamline scientists, beamteam leaders and the scientific community
Committee members include Beamteam Leaders and Staff Scientists for each beamline and CLS
| CLS Management |
Department |
| Tom Ellis (Committee Chair) |
Director of Research |
| Jeff Cutler (Committee Vice-Chair) |
Director of Industrial Science |
| Mark deJong |
Deputy Director & Director of Accelerators |
| Emil Hallin |
Director of Strategic Scientific Development |
| Robert Blyth |
Assistant Director of Research |
| Beamline |
Beamteam Leader |
Staff Scientist(s) |
| Biomedical Imaging and Therapy (BMIT-BM & BMIT-ID) |
Dean Chapman |
Tomasz Wysokinski |
| The Brockhouse X-Ray Diffraction and Scattering Sector (Brockhouse) |
Stefan Kycia |
TBD |
| Canadian Macromolecular Crystallography Facility (CMCF 1) |
Mirek Cygler |
Pawel Grochulski |
| Canadian Macromolecular Crystallography Facility (CMCF 2) |
Natalie Strynadka |
Michel Fodje |
| Far Infrared Spectroscopy (Far-IR) |
A. Robert McKellar |
Brant Billinghurst & Tim May |
| Hard X-ray MicroAnalysis (HXMA) |
De-Tong Jiang |
Ning Chen & Chang-Yong Kim |
| High Resolution Spherical Grating Monochromator (SGM) |
T.K. Sham |
Tom Regier |
| Industry, Development, Education, Applications, Students (IDEAS) |
Josef Hormes |
Kim Tan |
| Life Science Beamline for X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy at the Canadian Light (BioXAS) |
Graham George & Ingrid Pickering |
Ian Coulthard |
| Mid Infrared Spectromicroscopy (Mid-IR) |
Kirk Michaelian |
Tim May & Ferenc Borondics |
| The Quantum Materials Spectroscopy Center (QMSC) |
Andrea Damascelli |
Sergey Gorovikov |
| Resonant Elastic and Inelastic X-ray Scattering (REIXS) |
Alex Moewes & George Sawatzky |
Feizhou He |
| Soft X-ray Microcharacterization Beamline (SXRMB) |
T.K. Sham |
Yongfeng Hu |
| Soft X-ray Spectromicroscopy (SM) |
Adam Hitchcock & Stephen Urquhart |
Chithra Karunakaran |
| Synchrotron Laboratory for Micro And Nano Devices (SyLMAND) |
Sven Achenbach & David Klymyshyn |
Venkat Subramanian |
| Variable Line Spacing Plane Grating Monochromator (VLS PGM) |
T.K. Sham |
Lucia Zuin |
| Very Sensitive Elemental and Structural Probe Employing Radiation from a Synchrotron (VESPERS) |
Stewart McIntyre |
Renfei Feng |
| Board Approved Beamlines |
James Britten, Ronald Cavell, Brian Shilton, John Tse |
Business Development Advisory Committee (BDAC):
The committee advises the Executive Director on direction of the industrial science and business development programs.
The CLSI Business Development Advisory Committee (BDAC) is advisory to the Industrial Team through the Director of Business Development and Director of Industrial Science. The mission of the BDAC is to ensure that present and future industrial scientific programs at the CLS are of the highest quality and relevant to the requirements of the Canadian industrial science and technology community, and that they support the mission of the CLSI. In order to meet its mission, the BDAC has six primary functions:
- Advise the Business Development Team on opportunities for industry to be engaged in research at the CLS and the best means for promoting such opportunities;
- Identify industrial research priorities including the best way to utilize the current and future suite of beamlines and to develop the case for investment in future beamlines;
- Advise on the establishment of strategic partnerships with other international facilities and other traditional analytical laboratories thereby ensuring continuity of rapid access for industry and to expand the portfolio of techniques;
- Advise on Business Development best practice for industrial engagement with CLSI;
- Will supply advice on the CLSI marketing plan and strategy thereby helping to identify milestones and direct and indirect success factors;
- Advise on potential funding mechanisms to expand industrial opportunities.
Committee Membership:
| Committee Member |
Home Institution |
| Winnifred Brown |
Ernst & Young LLP |
| Paul Clark |
VisionGain Consulting Inc. |
| Mario D’Iorio |
Institute for Microstructural Sciences, NSERC |
| Alan Fair |
Syncrude Research & Development |
| Philip Gardner |
Advanced Applied Physics Solutions, Inc. |
| Susan Gorges |
Spring Board West Innovations Inc. |
| Engin Ozberk |
Cameco Corporation |
| Bryan Schreiner |
Saskatchewan Research Council |
| Elizabeth Shotton |
Diamond Light Source Ltd. |
| Observers: |
|
| David Katz |
Innovation & Advanced Technology, Enterprise Saskatchewan |
| Doug Jones |
Western Economic Diversification |
Machine Advisory Committee (MAC)
The Machine Advisory Committee (MAC) is advisory to the CLSI Executive Director. The mission of the MAC is to ensure that present and future technical aspects of the accelerator at the CLS are of the highest quality and relevant to the requirements of the Canadian scientific community, and that they support the mission of the CLS.
| Committee Member: |
Home Institution |
| Dr. Vic Suller, Associate Director |
Louisiana State University
Center for Advanced Microstructures & Devices |
| Mr. Greg LeBlanc |
Australian Synchrotron Company Ltd. |
| Dr. Peter Kuske |
BESSY |
| Mr. Jean-Marc Filhol |
Synchrotron SOLEIL |
| Dr. Dieter Einfeld |
CELLS - ALBA |
| Dr. Christoph Steier |
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Dr. Chaoen Wang |
National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Taiwan |
| Dr. Lia Merminga |
TRIUMF |
Last modified: 2010-03-19 15:03:18
