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Newsletter=========================================================== CLS-News Vol. 2 No. 2 June 12, 2003 www.lightsource.ca University of Saskatchewan, Canada ====================================================================
*************************************************************************** 1. User Services Office- Open for business! (Contact: Lavina Carter: 657-3523) We look forward to working with you to provide exceptional service. - Please let us know you are coming at least two weeks in advance clsuo@lightsource.ca On your visits to the CLS facility, 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 University campus, the South Saskatchewan River and downtown Saskatoon. Effective June 1, 2003 CLS has 18 rooms available for users. The dormitory style residence, is available immediately, however, over the next few months we will be upgrading to include internet and phone service as well as providing coffee pots and mini fridges in some of the rooms. - Basic room $35/night Reservations: *************************************************************************** 2. Officials visit Ottawa to promote CLS as part of government's Innovation Agenda (Contact: sandra.ribeiro@lightsource.ca) CLS Executive Director Bill Thomlinson and U of S President Peter MacKinnon, along with a few staff, descended on Ottawa from April 28 to May 2, holding a blitz of meetings with dozens of political, government, diplomatic, and national research agency leaders. The trip's purpose was to raise the profile of both the U of S and the CLS among senior decision-makers and policy advisors. The Ottawa visit included meetings with five federal government ministers or secretaries of state, nine deputy ministers, four granting council presidents, and senior diplomats from 25 countries. The U of S and CLS group also hosted receptions for political leaders and U of S alumni. Some of the people MacKinnon and Thomlinson met included Industry Minister Allan Rock, Opposition Leader Stephen Harper, House of Commons Speaker Peter Milliken, national New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton, Human Resources Minister Jane Stewart, and the heads of the Canada Foundation for Innovation, National Research Council (NRC), National Sciences and Research Engineering Council (NSERC), and Genome Canada. An article in the May 6 edition of Research $ magazine stated in part: "A source close to the discussions says the message delivered by the CLS delegation in a series of meetings, lunches, dinners and receptions was well received by government officials." The U of S delegation included MacKinnon, Thomlinson and Cindy Paquette, U of S Director of Governments Relations. For certain other functions the group also included Gordon Thiessen, U of S Board of Governors Chair, Rob Slinger, CLS Business Development Officer, Sandra Ribeiro, CLS Public Relations & Marketing and Rob Norris, U of S International Co-ordinator of Communications and Program Development. For the complete story please go to: http://www.usask.ca/communications/ocn/current_issue/news04.shtml *************************************************************************** 3. CFI proposals for next set of CLS Beamlines Submitted (Contact: mike.bancroft@lightsource.ca) All eight proposals have been submitted to the Canada Foundation for Innovation. More than ten letters of support from universities across Canada were obtained for each proposal. The various proposals were lead by four different Universities in three different provinces, and coordinated by the CLS. The proposals (lead University and Project leader) submitted were: Canadian Centre for Advanced X-ray Diffraction Studies (U. Sask., De-Tong Jiang), 2) Biomedical Imaging and Therapy Beamline (U. Sask., Dean Chapman), 3) Canadian Synchrotron Nanostructures Facility (U. Sask., David Klymyshyn), 4) Resonant Elastic and Inelastic Soft X-ray Scattering (UBC, George Sawatzky), 5) Canadian Macromolecular Crystallography #2 (UBC, Natalie Strynadka), 6) Soft X-ray Beamline for Microcharacterization of Materials, (UWO, T.K. Sham), 7) VESPERS (UWO, Stewart McIntyre), 8) XPS Endstation (UWO, Mike Bancroft). *************************************************************************** 4. Storage Ring update (Contact: dan.lowe@lightsource.ca) The vacuum system has been installed in 11 of 12 cells. Dipole magnets and orbit correctors are also installed in 11 of 12 cells. All other magnets are now mounted and realigned in all 12 storage ring cells. Of the 12 cells, the magnets on five are now connected to the DC power supplies. The main water system is being flushed to clean up after assembly, and water-cooling should start to be connected to the magnets in a week's time. Kicker magnets have arrived and will be set-up shortly. The Super-conducting Radio Frequency Cavity has also been installed, its related mechanical and electrical connections are progressing, and testing will be completed in early July. Installation of all storage ring components is expected to be complete by mid-July. *************************************************************************** 5. Notes from the UAC (Contact:tiedje@physics.ubc.ca) The UAC is planning the Annual User Meeting in Saskatoon on November 14-16. Jeanne Percival (NRCan), Brett Moldovan (U of S/Cameco) and Farideh Jalilehvand (U Calgary) are taking the lead in organizing a WinXAS workshop. Two other workshops are in the discussion stage. If you are a recently appointed faculty member or government/industry researcher with a research program related to synchrotron radiation science and would like to give a brief presentation at the AUM please contact Tom Tiedje at tiedje@physics.ubc.ca. The UAC is pleased to have representation on key CLS committees in the new committee structure. The UAC has emphasized the importance of developing policies and procedures that will make the CLS an attractive and productive place for users to do their research. ==================================================================== 6. Now Hiring: Science Associates, Research Associate (Contact: jobs@lightsource.ca) The Canadian Light Source (CLS) is seeking qualified individuals to fill Science Associate positions. The successful individual will be part of the team that will further develop and operate a range of X-ray optical beamlines to service the diverse experimental requirements of our users. For full description please go to: http://www.lightsource.ca/careers/ CLSI is also seeking a Research Associate with a background in environmental sciences or geochemistry (aqueous, low-temperature), preferably with microbeam-based synchrotron applications (SXRF, SXRD) and x-ray absorption spectroscopy techniques. For full description please go to: http://www.lightsource.ca/careers/ ==================================================================== 7. New CLS staff We'd like to welcome 3 new members to the CLS team: Jordan Hamel will be the new CLS receptionist and she will also assist in the development of the new User Services Office, Dean Orosz is our new accountant, and Craig Cowper joined the Health, Safety and Environment Team as HSE Technician. ==================================================================== 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. =========================================================== Last modified: 2008-10-08 14:10:49 |
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