The present British associate director, Alan
Leadbetter, will retire in the UK, whereas the
French director, Philippe Leconte, will return
to CEA-Saclay in Paris. We wish them well
for the future.
Alan Leadbetter(left) Colin Carlile (right)
The CLRC Lab News for July 1999 reported that the EPSRC has agreed to fund a
new beamline for the SRS; costing £2 million the facility should be
ready for use in 2001. The work will be carried out by the Daresbury
Laboratory in collaboration with the Universities of Aberystwyth, Cambridge,
Sheffield and Birkbeck College London. The beamline will enable scientists
to see how the molecular structure of a material changes as an industrial
process happens. The sample, for example a plastic used in packaging, is
subjected to the process, heating, cooling or stretching for example, within
the X-ray beam, and the structure determined as it changes. The facility
should enable industry to choose the most efficient and environmentally
friendly manufacturing techniques.
WHERE TO GET THE LATEST INFORMATION
The DIAMOND website
at http://srs.dl.ac.uk/top/diamond.html will be
up-dated with official news and links to documents as they are released. For
the latest information on what's happening, please feel free to contact your
colleagues at Daresbury directly.
UK-FRANCE CO-OPERATION
ON NEW SYNCHROTRON RADIATION SOURCE ANNOUNCED
The French Ministry of National Education, Science and Technology announced on
2 August 1999 that the UK and French Governments have agreed to co-operate
upon the new UK SR source and its exploitation. The French commitment is for
350 MFF ( £35m) over seven years for construction and 60-80 MFF (
£6-8m) per annum for operations. French scientists and engineers will
be involved "in the definition and the design of the apparatus" and create a
"reception laboratory" on the UK site. No comment is made about the location
of the UK site in the French statement, other than that it is for the UK
Government to decide. More details are given in Nature Vol 400 5
Aug 1999 p 489 and 'Physics World' Sept 1999 p7 'French fury at
synchrotron deal'.
The opinions of French Crystallographers can be read in the
site at LURE .
You can also read about the efforts of the IPMS to get
'Diamond at Daresbury'
USER CONSULTATION OUTCOMES
The outcome of the Life and Health Sciences user consultation exercise has
been produced by MRC. A copy can be accessed via the DIAMOND web page (URL
above) alternatively contact Dr Mark Palmer at the MRC. The outcome of the
Physical Sciences consultation is already available on the same web site or
via Dr Fiona Wild of the EPSRC.
1999 SR USER MEETING
The next SR Users' meeting will be held at Daresbury Laboratory on 14-15
September. The Director General of the Research Councils (DGRC), Dr John
Taylor, is due to attend and give a presentation on future SR provision in
the UK. There will be an opportunity for discussion after his
presentation.
Editor's Note: These notes were summarised from the notes for the SR user meeting sent out by the Daresbury Laboratory. The publication of the UK location where Diamond is to be built is expected during September 1999, so you will probably know which site has been chosen by the time you read this newsletter.
Queen's Birthday Honours
Congratulations to Dr Andrew Taylor, Director of ISIS since 1993, on the
award of an OBE for 'services to neutron scattering'. Other recipients of
honours included Brian Fender from the HEFCE who received a Knighthood for
'services to the University of Keele and the Higher Education Funding
Council for England' and David Phillips, head of the Department of Chemistry
at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine who received an OBE
for 'services to science education'.
From the ILL Newsletter (no. 31 June 1999)
This summer, ILL welcomes its two new associate directors from France and the UK. On 18 August 1999, Dr. Colin Carlile will arrive and will take over as head of the projects and techniques division on Dr. Philippe Leconte's departure in October. Dr. Christian Vettier replaces Professor Alan Leadbetter, head of the science division, on 13 September 1999.
The present British associate director, Alan
Leadbetter, will retire in the UK, whereas the
French director, Philippe Leconte, will return
to CEA-Saclay in Paris. We wish them well
for the future.
Alan Leadbetter(left) Colin Carlile (right)
Currently, Colin Carlile is division head at the ISIS pulsed neutron-source of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK. Colin is an expert in the design and exploitation of advanced neutron spectrometers. His scientific interests are the study of diffusion and tunnelling processes using neutron spectroscopy. Colin worked in Ispra, Italy, as a post-doc. A few years later, he came to the ILL where he was involved in the running of IN4 and in the design of IN6. After his return to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, he remained a regular visitor of the ILL carrying out experiments and serving on ILL committees.
At present, Christian Vettier is group leader at the neighbouring European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, ESRF, in Grenoble, France. There, he set up the magnetic scattering group which now forms a world centre in magnetic x-ray scattering. During the 80s, Christian was staff scientist in the three-axis group at the ILL. For extended periods he lived in the United States, working at AT&T Bell Labs and the National Synchrotron Light Source in Brookhaven. After his departure to the ESRF, Christian continued to carry out experiments at the ILL; he also was member of various ILL committees.
Herma G. Büttner, Institut Laue-Langevin - Scientific
Coordination Office
BP 156 - 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9 - France
Editor's Notes:
1. Colin has suggested that we carry a regular news item for UK ILL
crystallographic users. Herma has promised an article on the ILL
instruments for our next issue.
2. There is to be a meeting in Abingdon October 22 - 23, 1999 'Science Facilities and Facilitating Science' to mark the retirement of Alan Leadbetter organised jointly by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Physics. (details on meetings pages later)
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