Title:  The African Light Source: Towards a brighter future Speaker:  Prof Simon Connell – University of Johannesburg / Chairperson – African Light Source Foundation SAIP Webinar 20 November 2020: at 13:00HRS South Africa Time https://zoom.us/j/95823647563?pwd=TWJHZ0NWWUNYTHY0RXBQNEk5ZWZsUT09 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2772327832984294&id=1660099704207118 Recording: Download Slides Abstract: The Advanced Light Source (ALS) is one of the most transformative large-scale infrastructures for knowledge and innovation based sustainable socioeconomic… Read More SAIP Webinar: The African Light Source: Towards a brighter future

Today, the 13 October, two students – Fortune Mokoena and Alicia Potgieter – one a PhD, the other an MSc, left Africa to undergo deep training and perform research in engineering aspects of modern advanced light sources. They will arrive tomorrow morning at the ESRF in Grenoble, France. They follow closely on the heels of… Read More Deep training and research by Postgrads and Postdocs from Africa at the ESRF

The AfLS has signed its first partnership document, a Memorandum of Understanding. This is together with LAAAMP. A lamp is of course a light source! So its natural that LAAAMP is an organisation with a basket of major activities that powerfully progress several currently under developed regions towards light source science. Indeed LAAAMP would like… Read More A Powerful Partnership

Reminder : DEADLINE for the new FAST Team Call for Applications is 15 December 2019. Call for Applications for Faculty-Student Teams to Spend Two (2) Months During Calendar Year 2020 at Participating Advanced Light Sources ICSU has awarded the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) a… Read More FAST Team Call for Applications

The SA-ESRF-2019 Conference took place on 11-13 November 2019 : Johannesburg. The meeting builds on more than a decade of deep commitment to develop the ESRF User Base in South Africa. The broadness of the current user base already reflects the global nature of science and the ESRF as a leading international facility. The SA-ESRF… Read More SA-ESRF-2019 Conference

The AfLS project was well represent at the National Society of Black Physicist (NSBP) conference in Providence, RI held from Nov 14-17.  The NSBP conference program is 30% professional development workshops and 70% technical.  The professional development workshops aim to help students and faculty to make the various transitions to becoming active scientists. The NSBP… Read More AfLS at NSBP

Setting up new infrastructures would play an important role in preventing best-trained African researchers from emigrating. The physicist Prosper Ngabonziza states that having a synchrotron light source would be very beneficial for the continent as a whole. Read the full article here