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Newsletter=========================================================== CLS-News Vol. 3 No. 6 August 31, 2005 www.lightsource.ca University of Saskatchewan, Canada ====================================================================
*************************************************************************** 1. Users’ Meeting online Registration now open! Early bird online registration for the 2005 Annual User’s Meeting, November 18-20, 2005 is now open at http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2005/ This years’ meeting will feature 4 workshops on Friday, November 18th including topics such as Time Resolved Experimental Programs, Microtomography, and synchrotron applications to Plant Sciences and Palaeontology and Archaeology. For more information about these workshops, including lists of speakers and abstracts visit us at: http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2005/workshops.php The main AUM will be held Saturday, November 19th. We have an exciting line-up of speakers covering a wide range of hot scientific topics! International speakers will include Paul Dumas (Synchrotron SOLEIL, France), Thomas Irving (IIT, USA), Johannes Lehman (Cornell University, USA) and Rob Lewis (Monash University, Australia). From Canada’s thriving synchrotron community Brian Mark (U Manitoba), Derek Peak, (U Saskatchewan), Elisabeth Schultke (U of Saskatchewan), Mark Sutton (McGill) and John Tse (U of Saskatchewan). This years’ meeting will also feature tours of the CLS, a wine and
cheese poster session, our annual CLS user’s banquet Saturday evening
and other associated beam team meetings Sunday. *************************************************************************** 2. Experimental Facilities Update Run 16 was highly successful. The SGM beamline is now very close to being fully commissioned, and most of its time can be devoted to users. The HXMA beamline recorded its first EXAFS spectrum and was used to perform a novel imaging experiment. The priority for Run 17 was the installation of the small-gap in-vacuum undulator for CMCF (a.k.a. protein crystallography). It was found that a longer bake-out was required, and as a result no beamtime was available for users. However, the start of Run 18 has confirmed the excellent vacuum in the new insertion device, and in its first day of operation, beam was passed through the undulator with the gap closed down to 6mm. In other developments, a chamber for solid samples with Total Electron Yielding (TEY) and Total Fluorescence Yielding (TFY) detection has been tested on SGM, and will see extensive use from now on. The ring will not operate during the month of October in order to allow for some major building and maintenance projects. Run 20 (Nov. 4 – Dec. 11) will last 5 weeks and will see the return to 24/7 operation. Although we are still building up to the point where we can accommodate a full range of users, it is rather impressive to see the rapid increase in user experiments. We have nine scheduled user projects in Run 18, and 14 scheduled user projects in Run 20. (Each project typically runs between four and eight shifts of 8 hours each). *************************************************************************** 3. Synchrotron light and Cultural Heritage Studies- Sept. 12, 2005 To celebrate the re-dedication of the University of Saskatchewan College Building, the Canadian Light Source (CLS) and the Office of the Vice-President Research invite you to attend a public lecture in Convocation Hall at 4:00 p.m., September 12 entitled, “Synchrotron Light in Cultural Heritage Studies.” Emmanuel Pantos from the Archaeometry Unit at the Synchrotron Radiation Centre in Daresbury, UK will speak about powerful synchrotron-based techniques for archaeology, art history and museum conservation. These range from identifying the type of flax fibres in textiles found in the caves of Qumran (where the Dead Sea Scrolls were hidden), to the origins of the casing stones on the Great Pyramid, to much broader conservation issues such as bronze corrosion, historic ink paper degradation and reproduction of ancient technologies. *************************************************************************** 4. Users' Meeting- Sponsors and Exhibitors The Canadian Light Source and the CLS Users' Advisory Committee would like to express their sincere gratitude to the sponsors and exhibitors of this meeting for their generous support. There is limited space available so please contact us now regarding opportunities! SPONSORS: http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2005/sponsors.php Sponsorship of the meeting will give your organization high visibility on the AUM website, in meeting announcements, on signs at meeting locations and in the meeting program. You will also be providing critical support that makes this meeting possible!
EXHIBITORS: http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2005/exhibitors.php Exhibitors of synchrotron-related equipment and supplies are invited to participate in the 8th Annual CLS Users' Meeting on November 19, 2005.
*************************************************************************** 5. CLS website survey Please help us improve our website by answering a few simple questions. Responding to these survey questions will require no more than 3 minutes of your time: http://www.lightsource.ca/survey Thank you in advance! *************************************************************************** 6. Now Hiring: Business Development Officer We are looking to fill the senior management position of Business Development Officer. Full details are available here: http://www.lightsource.ca/careers/business_development.php *************************************************************************** 7. New office wing construction limits tours Due to the start of construction of a new office wing on our mezzanine/open access area, there will be no facility tours for the public or general audiences starting September 29th 2005 until further notice. Please contact CLS Outreach to request a presentation to your group instead. *************************************************************************** 8. Au revoir Ingvar! [Ingvar Blomqvist, CLS Insertion Devices Team Leader retired last week and will be moving back home to Sweden. The following is a tribute by CLS Phase II Beamline Project Leader, Emil Hallin.] I first met Ingvar in February of 1986 when, as a Research Scientist with the Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory, I went to MIT to participate in a tritium experiment at the Bates Linear Accelerator. During that visit, and ever since, Ingvar has been a valuable colleague and friend. As the following story illustrates, it seems that every time I get to a particular point in my career, I find out that Ingvar was there a little earlier! Ingvar has always been a wealth of useful experimental information, and one of the first people I turned to for advice a little later in my career when I was building an electron scattering spectrometer at EROS. Ingvar was working at the time at the accelerator in Mainz, West Germany and was just in the process of building a better electron scattering spectrometer system there. So it wasn't really a surprise in the early days of the design of insertion devices for CLS to find that Ingvar was working in that field and had been building insertion devices with Danfysik. Fortunately, we were able to pry Ingvar loose from Danfysik and bring him to the CLS. I am very grateful to Ingvar that he delayed his retirement to make sure that he was leaving us with all of the known magnetic structure problems solved and almost all of the phase I insertion devices operational. Through the almost twenty years that I have known him, every time I turn to Ingvar, he delivers over and above whatever I've asked. The CLS will miss Ingvar; filling his shoes will not be easy. Fortunately, once again, he's helped us out by already having trained some very good people to help us go on. And each time we finish a new and exciting experiment using one of his world class insertion devices, we'll know whom to thank! I will miss Ingvar. No one is more deserving of a long, healthy and stress free retirement than him. I hope, though, that I will be able to interrupt it from time to time with phone calls or emails to southern Sweden! *************************************************************************** 9. CLS Accommodation - Lutheran Seminary Residence On your next visit to the CLS plan to stay at the Lutheran Seminary Residence. The residence is a 5 minute walk to the CLS situated on the University of Saskatchewan campus with a scenic view of the campus, the South Saskatchewan River and downtown Saskatoon. Guests have enjoyed the quiet, comfortable ambience and convenience of its location. Visit http://www.lightsource.ca/uso/housing.php for more details. *************************************************************************** 10. New Staff & Now Hiring CLS is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Dominique Appadoo as Staff Scientist for the Far IR beamline effective July 1, 2005. Dominique joined the CLS in August of 2004 as a Science Associate on the beamline. Dr. Ian Coulthard has accepted a transfer to design and build the Phase II Soft X-ray for Michrocharacterization of Materials Beamline (SXRMB). Ian previously was the Staff Scientist on the SGM beamline. CLS is pleased to welcome Lyndon Cowles, the newest member of the Health, Safety & Environment department. Lyndon joined the CLS at the beginning of August as a Health Safety and Environment Technician. Effective August 1st, Diony Medrano accepted a one-year term position as a Controls Systems Analyst/Engineer with the Controls and Instrumentation Department. Recently convocated from the University of Saskatchewan, Diony was a returning summer student before accepting this term appointment. Ingvar Blomqvist, the Insertion Devices Team Leader, retired at the end of August and will be moving back home to Sweden. CLS would like to wish Ingvar all the best and say thank you for his many years of hard work in helping CLS become what it is today. As the summer draws to a close, CLS would like to say thank you to our summer students and wish them all the best as they return to their studies this fall: Ryan Arsenault, Daniel Bater, Ashley Currie, Isobel Johnston, Jodi Olchowy, and Jennifer Paulsen. CLS is currently looking to fill the following positions: http://www.lightsource.ca/careers/ ==================================================================== CLS E-News is an electronic newsletter designed to keep users informed about developments at the Canadian Light Source, the national synchrotron user facility located at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK. Current and past issues of CLS E-News are available on the CLS web site: http://www.lightsource.ca/enews/archives.php To unsubscribe please go to http://www.lightsource.ca/enews/signup.php. We welcome suggestions for topics and content.Contact us at clsi@lightsource.ca =========================================================== Last modified: 2009-05-11 11:05:05 |
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