Newsletter
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CLS E-News Vol. 8 No. 5
www.lightsource.ca April 28, 2011
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- 14th Annual CLS Users' Meeting - Early Registration Deadline May 24th!
- Canadian synchrotron summer school, June 19 - 23, 2011, Saskatoon
- Change in access policy effective July 1, 2011
- SES V Registration Is Now Open!
- Research Highlight: Synchrotron Infrared Radiation...
- Accepting Nominations for Users' Advisory Committee- Deadline July 4, 2011
- New Staff & Now Hiring
1. 14TH ANNUAL CLS USERS' MEETING - EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE MAY 24TH!
Contact : clsuo@lightsource.ca
The Canadian Light Source Annual Users' Meeting will be held in Saskatoon, on June 24-25, 2011. The meeting is a great opportunity to learn about progress at the Canadian Light Source, present your recent synchrotron work and meet fellow users. Please register online NOW, before the early registration deadline of Tuesday, May 24th.
This year's event will feature a day of workshops on exciting new topics and scientific presentations including a beamline and facility update, latest results from the CLS, as well as talks by young scientists and guest speakers from around the globe. Other events include a vendor exhibition, poster session with a wine and cheese reception, and a closing banquet.
You are invited to submit posters about your recent or planned synchrotron work. Submit your abstract before Monday, May 16: http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2011/poster_session.php
This year the Canadian Institute for Synchrotron Radiation (CISR) will offer three $300 prizes for the best synchrotron related posters, one for each of the following categories: Life Sciences, Environmental and Earth Sciences and Materials Science and Instrumentation, presented by a graduate student or post-doctoral fellow.
Funding is also available for travel subsidies to students or post-docs attending the meeting who are presenting a poster at the Annual Users' Meeting on June 25, 2011.
Visit our website for program and registration information: http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2011/
We look forward to seeing you this June!
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2. CANADIAN SYNCHROTRON SUMMER SCHOOL, JUNE 19 - 23, 2011, SASKATOON
Contact: summerschool@lightsource.ca
APPLICATION DEADLINE APRIL 30th!
Held in conjunction with SES V and the AUM, this year's theme is Synchrotron Techniques in Environmental Sciences. Information to be presented through lectures, case studies, as well as practical hands-on experience on beamlines, collecting and analyzing data.
Please visit http://www.lightsource.ca/education/summerschool/ for more information.
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3. CHANGE IN ACCESS POLICY EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2011
Contact: clsuo@lightsource.ca
Please note that effective July 01, 2011 all new registrants needing access to the CLS will be required to provide a government issued photo ID, such as Driver's License for Canadian residents and passport for Non-Canadian residents, before they get issued a CLSI Access Card. Users who are currently registered will be required to provide a government issued photo ID at the time of renewal of their CLSI Access Card.
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4. SES V REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
Contact: jeff.warner@lightsource.ca
The fifth Synchrotron Environmental Science (SES V) conference will be held in Saskatoon on Thursday, June 23 and Friday, June 24, 2011 at the University of Saskatchewan. Registration is now open at http://www.lightsource.ca/sesv/registration.php. SES V will be held in conjunction with CS3 and the AUM.
The SES V Poster Session will be on Thursday, June 23 from 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Every attendee is invited to submit posters about your recent or planned synchrotron work. http://www.lightsource.ca/sesv/abstract.php
Please visit our website http://www.lightsource.ca/sesv/ for more information about this important event.
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5. RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT: SYNCHROTRON INFRARED RADIATION FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL EXTERNAL REFLECTION SPECTROSCOPY
Contact: ian.burgess@usask.ca
Synchrotron infrared radiation has been successfully coupled through an infrared (IR) microscope to a thin-cavity external reflectance cell to study the diffusion controlled redox of a ferrocyanide solution. Excellent signal-to-noise ratios were achieved even at aperture settings close to the diffraction limit. Comparisons of noise levels as a function of aperture size demonstrate that this can be attributed to the high brilliance of synchrotron radiation relative to a conventional thermal source. Time resolved spectroscopic studies of diffusion controlled redox behaviour have been measured and compared to purely electrochemical responses of the thin-cavity cell. Marked differences between the two measurements have been explained by analyzing diffusion in both the axial (linear) and radial dimensions. Whereas both terms contribute to the measured current and charge, only species that originate in the volume element above the electrode and diffuse in the direction perpendicular to the electrode surface are interrogated by IR radiation. Implications for the use of ultramicroelectrodes and synchrotron IR (SIR) to study electrochemical processes in the submillisecond time domain are discussed.
The work reported in this paper was conducted at the Mid-IR beamline 01B1-1 by researchers from the University of Saskatchewan's Department of Chemistry and the CLS IR beamline staff.
S.M. Rosendahl, F. Borondics, T.E. May, T.M. Pedersen, I.J. Burgess. 2011. Synchrotron Infrared Radiation for Electrochemical External Reflection Spectroscopy: A Case Study Using Ferrocyanide. Analytical Chemistry (Accelerated Article), doi: 10.1021/ac200250s.
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6. ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FOR USERS' ADVISORY COMMITTEE (UAC) - DEADLINE JULY 4, 2011
Contact: sdesgren@uOttawa.ca
The Users' Advisory Committee (UAC) is seeking nominations from the CLS user community for the election of five new members for the September 2011 to August 2014 term. The UAC is currently composed of 12 members from various locations, disciplines, scientific sectors, and techniques. The committee would like to achieve a balanced representation of the user community. This year, five members are leaving the committee, and we would especially like to encourage diversity in terms of broader national representation. We would also like to encourage nominees from government or industrial sectors, as well as environmental and earth sciences communities, from across Canada. To view current membership demographics, please go to http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/election/
The UAC provides advice to the Executive Director on the operation and management of the synchrotron and beamlines; represents the interests of CLS users; provides feedback to CLS management on various aspects of the development and operation of CLS; assists CLS in providing feedback to users about CLS-related issues and plans, and hosts the CLS Users Meetings with assistance from CLS.
Details on current UAC membership, terms of reference, elections, past meeting minutes and meetings are available at http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/
Nominations will be accepted until Monday, July 4th, 2011. Please forward your nominations to Derek Peak, UAC Vice Chair (derek.peak@usask.ca), any member of the UAC (http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/membership.php) or clsuac@lightsource.ca.
We look forward to hearing from you! Elections will be held July 19-23, 2011 and details regarding the election process are forthcoming.
Users' Advisory Committee
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7. NEW STAFF & NOW HIRING
Contact: jobs@lightsource.ca
We are pleased to welcome the following new employee who started with us recently:
Andrew Lockwood, Mechanical Engineer - Andrew is no stranger to the CLS, having previously spent time working at several facility beamlines while employed by Loken Engineering Services. Most recently, Andrew worked for March Consulting Associates Inc. where he was under secondment to the Maintenance Engineering Department at PotashCorp Allan Division.
The following job postings are currently available at CLS:
* Job No. 640 - Controls Analyst
* Job No. 638 - BioXAS Science Associate
* Job No. 637 - Staff Scientist - Green Mining
* Job No. 636 - Electrical Engineer
For a list of current opportunities at the CLS, please check our website regularly: http://www.lightsource.ca/careers/
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