On 27-28 June, The Cyprus Institute (CyI) in Nicosia organized the workshop The Scientific Case for BEATS (BEAmline for Tomography at SESAME) at which various applications of high-resolution synchrotron radiation tomography were explored, as were applications particularly relevant to the SESAME Members.
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Yesterday (June 27, 2019), SESAME and The Cyprus Institute (CyI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) during a ceremony held in conjunction with the Workshop on the Scientific Case for BEATS (BEAline for Tomography at SESAME) organized by the CyI.
June 1, 2019 marks a historically important accomplishment for SESAME, where the very first scientific paper presenting results using data obtained at SESAME’s X-ray absorption fine structure/X-ray fluorescence (XAFS/XRF) spectroscopy beamline was published in Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.
The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) has launched its 2019 photo contest, which is an annual event that provides imagery to support the celebration of the International Day of Light (16 May of each year).
Three Cameroonian scientists from the University of Douala who were awarded a one-month fellowship from the technical cooperation programme of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) were placed in Jordan for their training.
One of Jordan’s delegates to the SESAME Council and the Scientific Director of SESAME each gave a talk at the 4th Cooperation Workshop held in Ramallah (Palestine) on 7-10 April.
Today (16th April 2019), the President of the University of Jordan and the Director of SESAME signed an MoU to further expand collaboration between the two parties.
The Director of SESAME, Professor. Khaled Toukan, was one of the numerous foreign speakers at the Global Forum for Higher Education and Scientific Research (GFHS) held in Cairo on 4-6 April.
On March 24, thirty-six students and four teachers from the Lycée Français International de Dubaï visited SESAME for the 2nd time during the last 2 years. The visit began with an introduction to SESAME’s activities given by the Coordinator, Microtron & Machine Diagnostics Beamline.
On March 24 and 28, SESAME welcomed experts from more than 40 countries worldwide. They visited SESAME as part of their participation in the 2019 European Research Reactor conference.