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John Denham, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, will today present an honorary CBE to Professor Gerhard Materlik, Chief Executive of Diamond Light Source Ltd for services to science.
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Over one hundred members of the Oxfordshire Federation of Woman’s Institutes (WI) gathered together at Diamond Light Source this week to mark the finale of one of the largest art/science projects in the UK.
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The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) has joined forces with 100 of the UK’s leading engineering companies, universities and colleges, including Diamond Light Source, in a drive to crack a skills shortage in the profession.
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The first paper to be published on research carried out at Diamond has appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Scientific links between Diamond Light Source Ltd, the UK's new synchrotron science facility, and two Russian science institutes – the Kurchatov Institute and the Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography - were strengthened this week when these partners signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on collaborative research.
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Her Majesty The Queen, accompanied by His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, officially opened Diamond Light Source, the UK’s new national synchrotron facility today (Friday 19 October 2007). Diamond is the largest science facility to be built in the UK for 40 years and is set to play a major role in facilitating ground breaking science that is carried out in this country over the coming decades.
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Synchrotron-based Earth and Environmental Science Research Initiative (Enirosynch2): Travel and Subsistence Funding
Applications are invited for travel and subsistence awards to fund research trips to international synchrotron radiation facilities. This small initiative is jointly funded by the NERC and Diamond Light Source (DLS) and aims to build and develop the use of synchrotron radiation techniques in all fields of Earth and Environmental sciences research.
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The first users on the I22 Non-Crystalline Diffraction beamline, Professor Tim Wess and his team at the University of Cardiff, have been able to analyse the state of the collagen within parchment and its degenerative change to gelatine.
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Diamond has appointed a trio of artists to have a presence on site and work with members of the science team over the next 12 months.
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This week marks the dawn of a new era of scientific endeavour as Diamond Light Source, the UK’s brand new synchrotron facility, opens its doors for business and welcomes its very first scientific users. Top academic teams from Durham, Oxford, Leicester and London have been selected to be the first users of one of the brightest sources of light in the world that will enable them to find out more than ever before about the secret structure of the world around us.
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Three short months after celebrating the first generation of synchrotron light, Diamond Light Source announced today that it has reached the final milestone in the construction of a facility that is destined to change the landscape of UK science.
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Diamond Light Source Ltd is now eligible for funding from Facility Development Project Grant Scheme, managed by STFC. This scheme was developed to encourage academic researchers and others to put forward innovative and creative ideas for development of facility instrumentation, detectors, analytical capabilities and sample environments among others.
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On the night of September 4th 2006 Diamond succeeding in circulating the first electrons in the storage ring at 3 GeV.
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At 2.00am on Tuesday 30th May 2006 (Spring Bank Holiday Monday night shift!), Diamond's accelerator team achieved stored beam in the 561.6 metre Storage Ring, which in turn allowed the first observation of synchrotron light.
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Diamond's accelerator team had a fantastic reason to celebrate last night, Thursday 4th May 2006.
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60 delegates from the Medical Research Council (MRC) gathered at Diamond for a Medical Sciences Workshop on 26th April 2006 (pictured left). The audience included MRC funded scientists, senior representatives from MRC regional centres and the HQ.
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On Saturday 22nd April, leading textile artist and renowned Oxfordshire ‘super-stitcher’, Anne Griffiths will lead a mammoth dyeing session with eight Women’s Institute (WI) Leaders for ‘Designs for Life’ and scientists from Diamond, in Oxford. (Left hand image: Rohannah Hussain, Diamond Beamline Scientist -left- and Anne Griffiths WI -right- with panel designs and material samples)
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On the night of 3/4 April 2006 the first electrons were extracted from the second of Diamond's three particle accelerators - the booster synchrotron - towards the main storage ring, taking Diamond one step closer to completion.
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Scientific links between Diamond Light Source Ltd, the UK's next generation synchrotron facility, the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), and the RIKEN Harima Institute will be strengthened today when these three partners sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on collaborative research.
