Diamond Annual Review 2020/21

132 133 D I A M O N D L I G H T S O U R C E A N N U A L R E V I E W 2 0 2 0 / 2 1 D I A M O N D L I G H T S O U R C E A N N U A L R E V I E W 2 0 2 0 / 2 1 Date Event Participants 22 June 2020 MX BagTraining 26 7, 10 July 2020 Infrared AnalysisTraining 26 13, 14, 20, 21 July 2020 Basic Small Angle ScatteringTraining School 18 30 July 2020 Mini MX Data ProcessingWorkshop 42 9 September 2020 ePSIC User Meeting 110 14 - 19 September 2020 Introduction to Machine Learning Course 26 17 September 2020 Diamond-IIWebinar: New Beamline for Fast Operando Spectroscopy (SWIFT) 97 21-22 September 2020 S4SAS Conference 2020 205 14 October 2020 Diamond-IIWebinar: New Beamline for X-ray Raman Scattering and pink-beam XES (BERRIES) 131 22 October 2020 Diamond Seminar 45 26 October 2020 Diamond-IIWebinar: New Nanofocus Extreme Conditions Undulator Beamline (NExCUBe) 79 26 - 30 October 2020 Early Career Scientist Symposium 200 28 October 2020 Diamond-IIWebinar: New Beamline for Coherent Soft X-Ray Imaging and Diffraction (CSXID); I16 and I21 Upgrades 89 2 November 2020 Diamond-IIWebinar: Upgrade to I15: reconfiguration to a high energy microfocus beamline (µ15) 99 3 November 2020 Diamond-IIWebinar: I24 KMX – kinetics and microfocus upgrade 99 4 November 2020 Diamond-IIWebinar: New Beamline for Fast Operando Spectroscopy (SWIFT) 86 5 November 2020 Diamond-IIWebinar: UpgradeVerSoX: An undulator source for Ambient Pressure XPS 69 5 November 2020 Diamond Seminar 54 9 November 2020 Diamond-IIWebinar: New Beamline for nano-ARPES 118 10 November 2020 Diamond-IIWebinar: New LargeVolume Nanoscale BioImaging Beamline 205 12 November 2020 Diamond Seminar 36 13 November 2020 Diamond-IIWebinar: I13L Upgrade 145 16 November 2020 Diamond-IIWebinar: K04 Rebuild for XChem 159 19 November 2020 Diamond Seminar 78 30 Nov - 11 Dec 2020 Diamond-CCP4 Data Collection & Structure SolutionWorkshop 20 3 December 2020 Diamond Seminar 54 10 December 2020 Diamond Seminar 18 12 February 2021 Diamond Data Store Seminar 96 18 February 20221 Diamond Seminar 41 4 March 2021 Diamond Seminar 57 15 - 17 March 2021 CONEXS (Collaborative Network for X-ray Spectroscopy)Workshop 32 17 - 19 March 2021 CONEXS (Collaborative Network for X-ray Spectroscopy) Conference 188 22, 23, 25 March 2021 Advanced Infrared Microspectroscopy AnalysisTraining 32 were offered the opportunity to join the 2021 cohort. We were able to transfer three students to start on the 2021 Summer Placement programme. For the thirteen 12-month Year in Industry students, the decision was made to delay the start of the placement from June to September of 2020.We were delighted to welcome the students to Diamond via a series of virtual events, and all students who needed to have been able to access Diamond when required for their project. The projects undertaken by the Year in Industry students ranged from scientific software and computing projects to life and physical science projects. These 12-month Year in Industry projects are ongoing. As well as the main student projects, Diamond also provides undergraduate students with training on presentation skills, media and public engagement. Student visits were impacted quite heavily due to the pandemic, being affected both by access to site and a change in teaching arrangements at universities. However, Diamond managed to support 11 virtual visits from undergraduate and postgraduate groups, offering a range of talks and training. Scientific workshops and conferences In linewith Diamond'sVision to drive and support science at UK universities and research institutes, the facility organises a broad portfolio of scientific and technical workshops, training courses and conferences tailored towards the needs of our staff and user community, with whom we continue to train, inform and learn from. Due to the pandemic, several on-site events organised between March and May 2020 were cancelled or postponed. We worked swiftly to adapt them into virtual-friendly formats and began running online events from June 2020 onwards using Zoom’s Webinar and Meeting licenses. Since then we have delivered seminars, conferences, training courses and even practical workshops requiring remote access to beamlines, and welcomed an increase in attendance up 57% on 2019/20. This was an overall fantastic workshop. To date, I think this is the most valuable training I could have obtained as someone who is earning their PhD based in X-ray crystallographic research. - PhD student attending the Diamond-CCP4 Data Collection and Structure SolutionWorkshop, Dec 2020 In addition, we delivered 13 community engagement webinars as part of the Diamond-II proposed upgrade programme. User Working Groups for each Diamond-II flagship beamline project presented their proposals and outline science cases to their respective user communities. Webinar attendees were able to glean further insight into these flagship projects through scientific case studies, as well as having the opportunity to feed into the proposals through interactive question and answer sessions. Access to very well maintained labs as well as being situated close to beamlines day to day enabledme to performhigh quality work in a pleasant environment. The professional environment worked well for me and I feel is not only very conducive to individual achievement but also provides opportunity for advice and potential collaboration with experts in their respective fields. - A Diamond PhD student sharing their thoughts on working within Diamond during their PhD studies Zoom attendees of the Diamond-CCP4 Data Collection and Structure Solution Workshop, late 2020.