SESAME call for proposals for using the offline FTIR microscope at the Infrared beamline Emira is now open.
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The 10th SESAME Users’ meeting was held in Amman from 7th to 9th of November 2012.
SESAME and the French light source SOLEIL based in Paris, France under a joint collaboration program offering two PhD fellowships.
To cover the networking of user for the third year of LinkSCEEM-2 project, an HPC dedicated users' meeting has been organized jointly with the 10th SESAME Users' meeting. The event was held in Amman 7 - 9 November 2012.
The 2nd SESAME-LinkSCEEM Summer School took place at SESAME site during the period form 11 - 13 September, 2012.
Chris Llewellyn Smith, President of the SESAME Council, receiving the 2011 Rammal Award on behalf of SESAME from Lauritz Holm-Nielsen, President of Euroscience.
On 21 May 2012, Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, visited SESAME. This was her first visit since she took on her present position in 2009. She was welcomed by the President of the SESAME Council, Chris Llewellyn Smith, and the Director of SESAME, Khaled Toukan.
The main objectives of the SESAME – LinkSCEEM Summer School is to motivate the scientists in the Middle-East region with topics related to Synchrotron Radiation (SR) and High Performance Computing (HPC) and the applications of these topics in their respective field of research.
About 120 attendees joined SESAME - LinkSCEEM open day with diversity in their fields, institutes and grades, Attendees are coming with different backgrounds as Computer Engineering, Physics and Software Engineering.
The 10th SESAME users' meeting will be organized on November 7 - 9, 2012 in Amman, Jordan.