The Program Advisory Committee, which is chaired by Prof Tracy Rushmer (Macquarie University), has met over the last two days to assess the scientific merit of beam-time and deuteration proposals submitted for time between January and June 2015.
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158 cold- and thermal-neutron experiments were recommended for approval, with beam time allocations as follows: 68 days on ECHIDNA, 84 on WOMBAT, 98 on KOALA, 51 on KOWARI, 80 on TAIPAN, 87 on PLATYPUS, 105 on QUOKKA, 29 on DINGO, 70 on PELICAN and 64 on KOOKABURRA.
The variation is primarily due to time set aside for proprietary work, pre-approved programs of research from previous proposal rounds and time set aside for the mail-in service on ECHIDNA, in addition to some carry over on the newer instruments that have just received their operating licences.
Two new committee members joined for the first time: Mitsuhiro Shibayama (University of Tokyo) and Joanne Etheridge (Monash University); and we are also grateful to Prof Tim Wess (Charles Sturt University) for standing in as a replacement for Prof John Carver as one of AINSE's two representatives on the committee.