Media Release
Canadian Light Source 8th Annual Users' Meeting Media Tip Sheet
Close to 300 researchers from across Canada and around the world will be meeting on the University of Saskatchewan campus to participate in the Canadian Light Source Eighth Annual Users’ Meeting November 18 and 19.
Synchrotron researchers from North America, Britain, Australia and France will participate in workshops Friday, November 18 and a plenary meeting Saturday, November 19, sharing information regarding the latest applications in synchrotron research from a variety of scientific fields, from plant sciences and medical imaging to metallurgy and archaeology.
Media interested in attending the meeting, workshops sessions or to arrange to interview a presenter should contact:
Matthew Dalzell
CLS Communications Coordinator
Tel: (306) 657-3739 Cell: (306) 227-0978
matthew.dalzell@lightsource.ca
www.lightsource.ca
Suggested General Interest Talks:
Associated Workshops Friday,
November 18
College of Commerce Building, University of Saskatchewan, 25 Campus Drive.
Applications of Micro-Tomography
in Science
0800 – 1100 Room 18, Commerce Building
Complete schedule at: www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2005/workshop1.php
X-ray computed tomography—better known as CT scanning—was originally developed for medical imaging with millimetre-scale resolution. Developments in CT using synchrotrons as the x-ray source has resulted in imaging with resolutions at the micrometre scale and has been applied to a number of fields including metallurgy, the geosciences, palaeontology and life sciences.
| 0815 | Mark Rivers, Advanced Photon Source (Argonne National Lab, USA) “Geoscience Applications of Synchrotron Computed Microtomography” |
| 0900 | Dean Chapman, University of Saskatchewan “Biomedical Imaging at the Canadian Light Source” www.usask.ca/anatomy/people/chapman.shtml |
| 0925 | Paul Tafforeau, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble France “Advances in Microtomography at the ESRF” Dr. Tafforeau will also be presenting at 1425 Friday afternoon in the Palaeontology and Archaeology Workshop. http://www.esrf.eu |
Pioneering Research in Plant Sciences Using Synchrotron
Light
1330 – 1615 Room 45, Commerce Building
Complete schedule at: www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2005/workshop2.php
Synchrotron light is a powerful new tool for the study of plants, so new in fact that most studies are producing fundamental pioneering papers in new fields of research. Analysis of plants with synchrotron light is improving knowledge of plant biochemistry, genetics, physiology and anatomy.
| 1415 | Graham George, University of Saskatchewan “Sulphur X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy as an in situ Probe of Plant Biochemistry” Dr. George, a Canada Research Chair in the Department of Geological Sciences, will describe ways that synchrotron light can be used to identify nutraceutical compounds in food plants. www.usask.ca/geology/nfaculty/gg/intro.htm |
| 1530 | Lester Young, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada “Visualizing Plant Structures using Diffraction Enhanced Imaging” Dr. Young will describe how he is using synchrotron imaging to screen seeds from the Canadian Seed Bank for varieties with optimum metal content. |
Synchrotron Applications in Palaeontology and
Archaeology
1320 – 1700 Room 18, Commerce Building
Complete schedule at: www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2005/workshop3.php
Synchrotron techniques are being used to better answer a variety of questions in archaeology and palaeontology, from preserving the Tudor warship Mary Rose to learning more about mummies from their teeth, to developing new ways to look at fossils and artifacts.
| 1325 | Christopher Hall, University of Edinburgh “Synchrotron Energy Dispersive Diffraction and Imaging Methods for Rock, Stone and Ceramics” |
| 1515 | Ingrid Pickering, University of Saskatchewan “Synchrotron Imaging of Fossils from the Burgess Shale” www.usask.ca/geology/nfaculty/ip/index.htm |
| 1605 | Farideh Jalilehvand, University of Calgary “Sulphur in Marine Archaeological Wood: A Concern for the Mary Rose” www.esrf.fr/files/press/MARYROSEENGLISH2609.pdf www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/102/40/14165 |
| 1630 | Ivan Kempson, University of South Australia Visiting Scientist, Canadian Light Source “Investigating the habits and lifestyles of Peruvian mummies” |
Building Time Resolved Experimental Programs at the Canadian Light
Source
Full day, Room 46 Commerce Building
Complete schedule at: www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2005/workshop4.php
This workshop will look at developing a ‘time resolved’ experiments—observing phenomena that occur in fractions of a second--at the CLS. Experts in accelerator operation and time resolved experiments will discuss the challenges and opportunities of this kind of cutting-edge research.
| 1110 | Richard Rosenberg, Advanced Photon Source (Argonne National Lab, USA) “Time Resolved X-ray Excited Optical Luminescence (XEOL) and it’s Application to the Study of Nanostructures” |
| 1410 | Yves Acreman, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (Stanford University) “Ultra-fast Magneto-dynamics seen through X-ray Microscopy” |
Plenary Session Saturday, November 20
Biology Room 106 and Museum of Natural Sciences, Biology-Geology Building, University
of Saskatchewan
Complete schedule at: www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2005/agenda.php
| 0830 | William Thomlinson, Executive Director, Canadian Light Source Inc. “General Update” |
| 1315 | Rob Lewis, Monash University, Melbourne Australia “Lungs Revealed: Phase Contrast X-ray Imaging” http://www.physics.monash.edu.au/staff/academic/lewis.html http://www.synchrotron.org.au/ |
| 1410 | Thomas Irving, Illinois Institute of Technology “Time-resolved x-ray diffraction studies of indirect flight muscle of living Drosophila (fruit flies)” www.bio.aps.anl.gov/~irving/ |
For more information contact:
Matthew Dalzell
Communications Coordinator
Canadian Light Source Inc
Ph: (306) 657-3739 Fax: (306) 657-3535
Cell: 227-0978
matthew.dalzell@lightsource.ca
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