Over the next 4 weeks, we are holding a Conceptual Design Workshop at the NIST Center for Neutron Research, just outside Washington DC, to firm up and optimise the conceptual design options for the two new instruments fed by the CG2 split cold-guide at the OPAL Reactor.
We are very grateful to NIST, and to Drs. John Barker and Dan Neumann for agreeing to host the workshop and participate in it.
From the Australian side, the attendees include: Dr. Phil Bentley (guides), Dr. Nicolas de Souza (EMU Backscattering Spectrometer) and Dr. Anna Sokolova (BILBY Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Instrument), along with some attendance by Drs. Shane Kennedy, Frank Klose, Robert Knott and Oliver Kirstein.
Dr. Bentley is presently employed by the Institut Laue Langevin (Grenoble, France) and Dr. de Souza by Forschungszentrum Juelich (Germany), and both will commence new jobs with the Bragg Institute in January 2010.
The whole effort is part of the NBI-2 Project announced by the Australian Government in its Budget Statement of 12th May 2009.
Published: 09/11/2009