Interactions News Wire #12-05
17 February 2005
http://www.interactions.org
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Source: Light Source Communicators Group
Content: Press Release
Date
Issued: 17 February 2005
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Unique Global Light Source Website Launched
For immediate release -
February 17th/2005
Washington, D.C. -- Today the international light
source community launched the first website dedicated to providing the media,
general public and scientific community with the latest news and information on
the world’s accelerator-driven light sources (synchrotrons and free-electron
lasers) and the science they produce.
The web site --
http://www.lightsources.org -- was
developed and is jointly maintained by the Light Source Communicators Group,
whose members represent the world's light source facilities in Europe, North
America and Asia. Funding for the project is provided by science funding
agencies of many nations.
Accelerator-driven light sources can be large,
roughly circular machines or linear machines (usually about the size of a
football field to much larger) that accelerate electrons to almost the speed of
light. It acts like a gigantic microscope that generates intense beams of
brilliant light to view the microstructure of materials.
Light sources
around the world are advancing research and development in fields as diverse as
medicine, drug design, environmental science, agriculture, minerals
explorations, advanced materials, forensics, engineering, and materials
fabrication.
Visit
http://www.lightsources.org for the
latest news releases on cutting-edge areas of advanced light source applications
for science and technology from facilities around the world. Anyone can
subscribe free of charge to"News Flash" which will email subscribers when news
releases and other light source information is posted to the website.
Also available on the website are an image bank of light source-related
photos and graphics, clippings of news stories, links to light source facility
websites, and relevant articles and presentations.
Educators will find
links to websites relating to light sources and the science conducted at these
facilities. Researchers can find specific information regarding each light
source facility including job opportunities and events related to the science
outreach activities.
Sponsors of this collaborative project include:
Advanced Light Source (ALS, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
Advanced Photon Source (APS, Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
Canadian
Light Source (CLS, Canada), ELETTRA (Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)
European
Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF, France)
Hamburger
Synchrotronstrahlungs Labor (HASYLAB Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY,
Germany)
National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC, Taiwan)
National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS, Brookhaven National Laboratory USA)
Photon Factory (KEK Laboratory, Japan)
Pohang Light Source (PLS, Pohang
Accelerator Laboratory, Korea)
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
(SSRL, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA)
SPring-8 (Japan Synchrotron
Radiation Research Institute, Japan)
Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC,
University of Wisconsin, USA)
Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility
(SURF III, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
Swiss Light
Source (SLS, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland)
The Free-Electron Laser at
the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab, USA)
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For more information, contact:
Amaya Munoz
webmaster@lightsources.org
