User Information and Discussion Meeting on the ESRF Upgrade Programme
| What | Meeting |
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| When |
24-10-2007 from 08:30 to 18:30 |
| Where | ESRF Auditorium, Grenoble |
| Coordinator Contact(s) | |
| Event Email | upgrade@esrf.fr |
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Provisional Agenda of the
User Information and Discussion Meeting on the
ESRF Upgrade Programme
Wednesday 24 October 2007
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Download the poster for the meeting (pdf, 0.3 mb) |
- Inform Community on project status, the new science and technology
- Gather feedback, validate ideas, directions and perspectives
- An indication of priorities (areas, directions)
2. Draft Agenda
Session I: A Flavour of the ESRF Upgrade (ESRF Auditorium)
09:00 – 09:10 Welcome from Directors, SAC and Council Representatives
09:10 – 09:25 Why, when, what, how?
09:25 – 09:40 Accelerator and source
09:40 – 09:55 Support facilities and beamline engineering
09:55 – 10:10 X-ray detectors: A door to new synchrotron radiation based science
10:10 – 10:25 Computing Challenges
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee and move to parallel session rooms
Session II: Perspectives for New Science at the ESRF (separate rooms)
(AIM: show new science, discuss; respond to key questions set by Chairs)
11:00 – 16:00 Parallel Sessions
Chaired by prominent external scientists with up to three additional experts. Individual agendas will be co-ordinated by this programme group but following the general outline of presentations first and then time for discussion led by Chair with clear questions to the community and ESRF scientists. The Purple Book will act as a discussion document at the basis of the parallel sessions.
- Parallel Session 1: Science at the Nanometre Scale
- Parallel Session 2: Structural/Functional Biology
- Parallel Session 3: Soft Condensed Matter and Biopolymers
- Parallel Session 4: Materials Science and Chemistry
- Parallel Session 5: Dynamical Properties and Electronic Structure of Matter
- Parallel Session 6: Emerging Applications (Environmental Science, Medical Applications, Cultural Heritage/Palaeontology)
- Parallel Session 7: New Techniques for Synchrotron Research
(Nano-Imaging, Time-Resolved Studies, High Pressure, High Magnetic Fields, Extreme Conditions)
16:00 – 16:30 Move to ESRF auditorium and coffee
Session III: Round-up (ESRF Auditorium)
16:30 – 18:00 Reports back from the parallel session Chairs (summarise sessions)
- Conference Dinner for those staying –
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