Round table: Branch B brainstorm
Round-table: Branch B brainstorm
ICMM Auditorium - Thursday 30th May from 17:00 to 18:00
A round-table meeting will be carried out between beamline management bodies, users and beamline staff, concerning with the science policy priorities, technical requirements, wishes and upgrades for SpLine-BM25B to ensure that the beamline maintains the high level of competitiveness and its scientific primacy in the key research disciplines that the beamline support.
Round-table panelist:
José Juan Sánchez Serrano
Carmen García
Carlos Prieto de Castro
Marcos Zayat Souss
María Gloria Subías Peruga
Asociación de Usuarios de Sincrotrón de España - AUSE
Topics to be discussed:
- Science policy priorities associated to the beamline
- Spanish beamtime allocation policy: public vs private.
- Critical discussion about beamline operation and technical aspects
- Demanding requests by users concerning upgrading of existing experimental stations and optical components in order to increase the technical capabilities.
- Increasing sample environment capabilities
- Improvement on detectors.
- Incorporation of additional experimental techniques.
- Incorporation of a third experimental station (empty hutch from BM25A).
- Collaboration opportunities between users and beamline (Short and long-term PhD, junior and senior scientist stays; joint technical developments; joint long-term scientific projects,...)