Events and E-News

Newsletter

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CLS E-News               Vol. 4   No. 10             April 26, 2007
www.lightsource.ca     University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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  1. Results of Call for Proposals
  2. CISR Synchrotron Usage Survey
  3. Phase II beamlines update
  4. Users’ Meeting 2007 – Early Registration Deadline is May 1!
  5. MASR 2007, Saskatoon – Registration Now Open!
  6. Phase II beamlines update
  7. Users' Meeting 2007- Sponsors and Exhibitors
  8. New staff and now hiring

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1. Results of Call for Proposals
Contact: clsuo@lightsource.ca

CLS received 65 proposals, plus 21 renewals during the last Call for Proposals.
These are currently undergoing the review process.

The Peer Review Committee (PRC) will meet in mid-May and applicants will be notified of the results thereafter.
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2. CISR Synchrotron Usage Survey
Contact: idziak@uwaterloo.ca

The Canadian Institute for Synchrotron Radiation (CISR) invites you to participate in an online survey regarding synchrotron usage, both at the CLS and at out of country facilities. Results from this survey will be discussed at the CISR annual meeting to be held on Friday, June 15 in Saskatoon.

The survey can be found at http://www.cisr.ca/survey/survey.html

To reduce spam you must login. Please contact Stefan Idziak (idziak@uwaterloo.ca) for login and password details.

For more information please go to http://www.cisr.ca/news/message-survey.html
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3. Phase II beamlines update
Contact: emil.hallin@lightsource.ca or terry.johnson@lightsource.ca

CLS staff made significant progress on Phase II beamline and building development this last month.
 
 Accomplishments include:

Thank you to everyone for their hard work and dedication.
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4. Users’ Meeting 2007 – Early Registration Deadline is May 1!
Contact: clsuo@lightsource.ca  

Early registration deadline for the Users’ Meeting is May 1, 2007: http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2007

You are invited to submit posters about your recent or planned synchrotron work. Abstract submission deadline is May 15, 2007: http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2007/poster_submission.php

Keynote Scientific speakers for the AUM include Janos Kirz (Advanced Light Source), Dean Chapman (University of Saskatchewan), Serge Desgreniers (Université d'Ottawa), Andrew MacMillan (University of Alberta), and Kenneth Kemner (Argonne National Laboratory).

Featured also will be a special presentation by Christine Fitzgerald, Executive Vice-President, Canadian Institutes of Health Research titled ‘The CLS – View from the CIHR’.

This year’s meeting will be held in conjunction with the 62nd Annual Congress of the Canadian Association of Physicists June 17-20, 2007—joint sessions will be held on June 17:
http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2007/workshops.php

For more information about the meeting and associated events visit us at: http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2007
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5. MASR 2007, Saskatoon – Registration Now Open!
Contact: cls@lightsource.ca

The International Meeting for Medical Applications of Synchrotron Radiation (MASR) will be held August 26 – 30, 2007 in Saskatoon, Canada. Confirmed speakers include, Jacques Balosso (INSERM, France), Fulvia Arfelli (INFN, Italy), Alberto Bravin (ESRF, France), Diego Dreossi (INFN, Italy), Francois Esteve (INSERM, France), Ralf Menk (Elettra, Italy), Elisabeth Schültke (CLS, Canada) and Naoto Yagi (Spring-8, Japan).

Abstract submissions are invited for all techniques used to enhance better understanding, diagnosis and therapy of human or veterinary disease. Topics include technical basics, X-ray imaging, SAXS, IR microspectroscopy, pathology, oncology, radiation biology and radiology.

We look forward to seeing you in Saskatoon, for a celebration of science and life with the medical synchrotron community.

Please register now: http://www.lightsource.ca/masr2007
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6. Users' Meeting 2007- Sponsors and Exhibitors
Contact: clsuo@lightsource.ca

THANK YOU to our wonderful sponsors:
http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2007/sponsors.php

Your critical support makes this meeting possible:

EXHIBITORS:

Exhibition space is now SOLD OUT
Thank You to all of our participating vendors:
http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2007/exhibitors.php
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7. New staff & now hiring
Contact: nancy.fetch@lightsource.ca

CLSI welcomes Chamundi Selvaraj as receptionist. Chamundi comes to us with over 15 years of administrative experience and will be a wonderful asset to the Administrative and Finance Group. She has great passion for working with people and is very active in our community.

CLSI also welcomes Jennifer Robb, Industrial Science Research Associate.  Jennifer has been hired for a one-year term position and will be working with the Business Development Group.  Jennifer has worked in experimental research labs at several universities, including the Ultrafast Magneto-optic Laboratory at Dalhousie University, the High Intensity Gamma Source in the Free Electron Laser Laboratory at Duke University, and the Subatomic Physics Institute at the University of Saskatchewan.

We are currently accepting applications for several vacancies.  For more information please visit http://www.lightsource.ca/careers

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