Diamond-II Community Webinar

Sep 03.

Science for the User Community

We are delighted to announce our upcoming Diamond-II Community Webinar – focused on the practicalities of the upgrade programme on our scientific facilities, and the impact on our user community. We will be hosting a series of presentations tailored to the life and physical sciences communities together with a panel discussion on the Diamond-II upgrade.

We will share some of the latest progress and what to expect in the lead up to the upgrade, the dark period, and the science beyond.

Date
03/09/20242024-09-03T15:00:00
Time
15:00
Location
Online, via Zoom
Link
Register for the Webinar

Provisional Agenda

 

3rd September, 2024
15:00 Welcome
15:05

Gianluigi Botton – Senior Responsible Owner Diamond-II and CEO Diamond

The science case, funding allocation and overall organisation of the upgrade, update on beamlines on hold and scope for further investment, followed by questions.
15:20

Matt Fletcher – Diamond-II Project Director

Overview of progress for machine, computing, infrastructure, and overall management, followed by questions.
15:30-15:40

 Break

 

After the break, the webinar will resume with two parallel sessions, giving an update on the science programme of flagship beamlines and upgrades as follows:

 

Parallel sessions:

 

Physical Sciences Life Sciences
15:40 Welcome 15:40 Welcome
15:45

Fast Operando Spectroscopy (SWIFT)

Giannantonio Cibin – Principal Beamline Scientist SWIFT

15:45

Ultra-high throughput beamline for MX and XChem (K04)

Dave Hall – Science Group Leader MX
15:55

Coherent Soft X-Ray Imaging and Diffraction (CSXID)

Andrew Walters – Senior Beamline Scientist for CSXID

 15:55

Three front-end changes (B22, B23 and B24)

Rob Rambo – Science Group Leader Soft Condensed Matter

16:05

A general update on beamlines upgrades relevant to the Physical Sciences

Andy Dent - Deputy Director Physical Sciences

 16:05

A general update on beamlines upgrades (including flagship upgrades) relevant to the Life Sciences 

Gwyndaf Evans – Deputy Director Life Sciences

16:25

User experience in the upgrade – dark period last call for users, navigating the dark period, principles of the beamline return to operations, scientific  events coming up relevant to user community

Adrian Mancuso - Physical Sciences Director

 16:25

Industry users in the upgrade

Elizabeth Shotton – Head Industry Liaison
16:30

Academic user experience in the upgrade – dark period last call for users, navigating the dark period including user programme during dark period, principles of the beamline return to operations, user meetings.

Dave Stuart – Life Science Director 
16:40 Panel discussion and Q&As 16:40 Panel discussion and Q&As
17:00 Close 17:00 Close

 

 

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