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Newsletter=========================================================== CLS-News Vol. 3 No. 4 May 31, 2005 www.lightsource.ca University of Saskatchewan, Canada ====================================================================
*************************************************************************** 1. Bill’s Bulletin: A Royal Visit and Our First User! May 2005 will be a memorable month for us all. On May 19th we had the honour of hosting Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh. Over a period of 45 minutes I led a tour where the Queen met several synchrotron scientists conducting research associated with cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and zoonotics, areas of research she is particularly interested in. His Royal Highness met CLS scientists who showed him images of a protein structure mapped using SR as well as a simulation of an environmental sample being analyzed at our hard x-ray beamline. It was a very successful event- an estimated 1,000 people came to view the royal couple upon their exit from the CLS and newspapers around the world (from Canada to Qatar!) reported on their visit to our synchrotron. Last week we also welcomed our first SR user: Allen Pratt, from NRCAN's CANMET Labs. In addition to helping us christen the Plane Grating Monochromator beamline, Dr. Pratt's research could lead to more environment-friendly ways to separate gold from raw ore. For more information on this important milestone please go to: http://www.lightsource.ca/media/media_release_20050527.php Bill Thomlinson *************************************************************************** 2. First beam out of the Far Infrared beamline port The first call for proposals for the infrared beamlines in the second cycle was sent out and several groups have submitted experiment requests. The commissioning phase will begin soon as the remaining beamline components are placed and aligned. The infrared beamlines had bellows spool chambers and diamond UHV windows installed in the two weeks prior to the Queen's visit. These were the last parts needed to connect the beamline UHV chambers to the ring and its IR mirror chambers. Upon restarting the ring May 19th, the first beam on a positioning target was observed in the Far IR beamline. The Far IR beamline had its first light from the synchrotron steered out of the UHV port on May 21 at 12:20 pm. This is a major milestone on the way to completing the beamline for commissioning. The Mid IR beamline is expected to see its first light within a week as control systems to move the mirrors and targets are completed. *************************************************************************** 3. First monochromatic light in Hard X-ray Micro-Analysis (HXMA)
beamline In the first week of this month the Hard X-ray Micro-Analysis (HXMA) beamline staff obtained monochromatic x-rays at the end of the beamline. A preliminary Cu K-edge spectrum was obtained. This is a major milestone in facility development for the beamline staff and the XAFS/microprobe/powder diffraction user community. This success was achieved through the hard work and dedication of many members of the CLS staff who assisted in the commissioning efforts. *************************************************************************** 4. First Synchrotron Summer Workshop for Teachers CLS Educational Outreach is preparing to present the first Synchrotron Summer Workshop for Teachers featuring presentations by several CLS staff and Users, as well as providing lessons and activities to make synchrotron science accessible in the classroom. More details, including registration information, can be found at http://www.lightsource.ca/education. *************************************************************************** 5. 8th Annual CLS Users' Meeting - November 19th 2005 Plan now to attend the 8th Annual CLS Users' Meeting and Associated Workshops to be held November 18-20th, 2005, on the University of Saskatchewan campus. If you are interested in holding an Associated Workshop to highlight your favourite field of synchrotron research or current and future beamlines at the CLS, the time to start planning is now! The Users’ Advisory Committee of the CLS (UAC) will provide support for approved workshops, including space and food as well as funding up to $5,000. Contact the UAC TODAY for more details – contact information is available at http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/ *************************************************************************** 6. Lightsources.org newsflash- sign-up today! Keep up to date with news from the world light-source community by subscribing to News Flash at lightsources.org, the Web site about and for the international light-source community. News releases about the latest results from light-source research are sent to your e-mail inbox. All contact information gathered is kept confidential. To sign up, please go to: http://www.lightsources.org/cms/?pid=1000069 *************************************************************************** 7. New staff CLS would like to welcome Carl Finlay, a Research Technologist with a background in Computer Engineering Technology. Carl joined the Controls and Instrumentation Group May 2 and was previously with the Canadian Armed Forces. CLS is pleased to welcome the following summer students who started May 2nd and will be with us until the end of August: Ryan Arsenault - HSE Assistant Jeff Harms, a Marketing student from the Co-operative Education Program at the University of Regina, will be with us until the end of December on an eight-month work placement. Venkat Subramanian, a scientist seconded from TRLabs, has recently joined CLS to begin work on the SyLMAND beamline (Synchrotron Laboratory for Micro and Nano Devices). To check on future CLS job openings please go to: 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: 2008-07-29 14:07:30 |
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