Conveners
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- Philip Oluseyi Oladijo (Botswana International University of Science and Technology)
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- Sekazi Mtingwa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Brookhaven National Laboratory& African Laser Centre)
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- Lawrence Norris (National Society of Black Physicists)
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- Marcus Newton (University of Southampton)
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- Prosper Ngabonziza (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research)
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- Gihan Kamel (SESAME Light Source)
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- Gihan Kamel (SESAME Light Source)
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- Kudakwashe Jakata (European Synchrotron)
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- Marielle AGBAHOUNGBATA (Semi City)
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- Gihan Kamel (SESAME Light Source)
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- Tshepo Ntsoane (Necsa)
Description
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Bio-inspiration has its way on technology since many years. Its present and future impact impact in medicine, security and defense issues is of special interest. This presentation reports on the design of electronic and microcontroller simulators of biological and chemical oscillators. Then we indicate how those bio/chemo oscillators can be used to monitor and command microelectromechanical...
Planetary and Space Science and Technology (PSST) has been identified as a key area of investment in Africa as it provides graduates and young scientists with both the necessary soft and practical skills to face 21 st Century challenges, such as digital innovation. PSST for Africa means not only blue-sky research and skilled graduates in STEM disciplines but is intricately linked to...
The European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility (European XFEL) is an X-ray research laser facility commissioned during 2017. The first laser pulses were produced in May 2017[2][3] and the facility started user operation in September 2017.[4] The international project with twelve participating countries; nine shareholders at the time of commissioning (Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland,...
Arizona State University (ASU) is pursuing a concept for
a compact x-ray FEL (CXFEL) that uses nanopatterning
of the electron beam via electron diffraction and emittance
exchange to enable fully coherent x-ray output from electron
beams with an energy of a few tens of MeV. This low energy
is enabled by nanobunching and use of a short pulse laser
field as an undulator, resulting in an...
Serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) usually involves a liquid jet of many (approximately 108) small crystals injected into the interaction point of an X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL). The high-flux, femtosecond pulses available at XFELs enable a ‘diffract before destruction’ approach, yielding Bragg reflections in single-shot frames from individual submicrometre crystals. The femtosecond...
Abstract: It has long been a goal to obtain "atomic movies", where frames are captured showing how atoms rearrange during after excitation. To do this, we need a camera that can "see" atoms, with a shutter speed and a frame-rate on the femtosecond time-scales, the time-scale of atomic motions. It has long been realized that diffraction is a way to see atoms, and XFELs allow us to do...
Spontaneous protein crystallization within living cells has been observed several times in nature, e.g. for storage proteins in seeds. In vivo crystal growth can also occur during gene over-expression, as particularly discovered in baculovirus-infected insect cells [1]. We have recently shown that these in vivo crystals represent valuable targets for structural biology after isolation from the...
BL04B1 is a bending magnet beamline, where energy-dispersive X-ray diffraction measurements and X-ray radiography observations using white X-rays are available. The X-rays emitted from the bending magnet are directly introduced into the experimental hutch, and white X-rays with a wide energy range up to 145 keV are utilized in measurements. The beamline is also equipped with a compact Si(111)...
We plan to comprehensively map the neuron network of an entire human brain at sub-cellular level to reveal the connections. This historical target is made possible by the recent performances of synchrotron x-ray microscopy: 0.3 micrometer resolution at 1 mm3/min image taking speed. However, mapping one human brain would take a very long time and generate a huge amount of data. To overcome...
For some years now it has been possible to generate high-brilliance X-rays using ring-shaped particle accelerators (synchrotron sources) at large facilities. However, such installations are several hundred meters in diameter and cost billions of euros. As an alternative, the world’s first mini synchrotron – the Munich Compact Light Source (MuCLS) - was installed in 2015 at Technical...
