BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CERN//INDICO//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Welcome & Opening Comments DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231010T130000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231010T131000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260816T015033Z UID:indico-contribution-245-9260@events.saip.org.za DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg)\nSession Moderator: Prof Diouma Kobor and Prof Simon Connell\n\nThis presentation i s the context for the session.\nThe AfLS Roadmap toward the new large scal e research infrastructure requires a well developed network of smaller but very capable national and regional level research infrastructures. These build the community\, build the research infrastructure in a well distribu ted way across the continent\, and lead to deep local training and technol ogy transfer. This will provide employment opportunities to combat or reve rse the African Science Diaspora and establish a foundation for the future AfLS\, without yet the large price-tag. These intermediate milestones inc rease the logic for Africa to build ultimately the AfLS.\n\nhttps://events .saip.org.za/event/245/contributions/9260/ LOCATION: URL:https://events.saip.org.za/event/245/contributions/9260/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:What is needed to build a CLS based research infrastructure like S TAR and what are the enabled applications towards users DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231010T141000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231010T143000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260816T015033Z UID:indico-contribution-245-9256@events.saip.org.za DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Luca Serafini (INFN)\nIn this presentation I will de scribe the resources (funding and human) requested by the construction of a research infrastructure based on an Inverse Compton Scattering source li ke STAR\, under commissioning in Calabria (South Italy) and the technologi cal challenges that must be addressed to develop and maintain such a resea rch infrastructure. ICS sources have a great advantage in their capability to generate advanced X-ray beams in the hard-Xray energy range (100-500 k eV) with relatively compact machines\, whose cost is in the range O(10 M$) \, an order of magnitude smaller than a typical synchrotron light source. Advanced X-ray imaging using micro-tomography of thick metallic objects as typical of archeological artefacts can be successfully carried out with I CS like STAR thanks to the tunability\, mono-chromaticity\, polarisation\, collimation and time structure (short pulses) of the generated X-ray beam s\, together with possible dual-color option for K-edge subtraction imagin g. STAR is equipped with two beam lines to cover all possible X-ray spectr um of interest. A low energy beam line generating photon beams in the 20-1 00 keV energy range\, and a high energy beamline serving applications in t he 80-350 keV range. STAR has been completely assembled and partially test ed so far\, and is waiting for the radio-protection authorisation to start beam operation\, that is expect to happen by the end of 2023.\n\nhttps:// events.saip.org.za/event/245/contributions/9256/ LOCATION: URL:https://events.saip.org.za/event/245/contributions/9256/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Research Agenda for Improving ICS-based Compact Light Source Techn ology DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231010T131000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231010T133000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260816T015033Z UID:indico-contribution-245-9259@events.saip.org.za DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Rod Loewen ()\nThis contribution is based on the exp ertise of Lyncean. We give an overview of the landscape\, and consider a " best" design for a CW ICS source. From here we project to what a next gene ration ICS source may look like\, and where this is best suited in the X-r ay source landscape. A partnership of established X-ray labs\, instrument designers and African research institutions could share the development co sts as a science project - and novel features could be introduced to optim ise the capacity of such a next generation source.\n\nhttps://events.saip. org.za/event/245/contributions/9259/ LOCATION: URL:https://events.saip.org.za/event/245/contributions/9259/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Discussion DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231010T133000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231010T135000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260816T015033Z UID:indico-contribution-245-9258@events.saip.org.za DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Lawrence Norris (African Light Source)\nhttps://even ts.saip.org.za/event/245/contributions/9258/ LOCATION: URL:https://events.saip.org.za/event/245/contributions/9258/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lab Scale Facilities DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231010T135000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231010T141000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260816T015033Z UID:indico-contribution-245-9257@events.saip.org.za DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Fabio Masiello (Panalytical)\nAn overview of the dif ferent types of X-ray imaging and analytical functions and features of Lab Scale facilities. This talk will look at tomography\, molecular structure determination and various spectroscopies for analysis\, quantitative imag ing\, scattering based techniques\, diffraction topography as well as more exotic applications.\n\nhttps://events.saip.org.za/event/245/contribution s/9257/ LOCATION: URL:https://events.saip.org.za/event/245/contributions/9257/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Munich Compact Light Source – a laboratory-scale synchrotron facility for biomedical research DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231010T143000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231010T145000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260816T015033Z UID:indico-contribution-245-9255@events.saip.org.za DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Franz Pfeiffer (Munich Institute for Biomedical Engi neering )\nSynchrotron X-ray sources have enabled scientists to push the l imits of X-ray imaging towards nanometer resolution and extremely high sen sitivity. However\, for many of the techniques developed\, the transition from synchrotron to preclinical or even clinical imaging is not straightfo rward. This is mainly due to the rather different characteristics of the X -ray tube sources typically used in the latter cases. The Munich Compact L ight Source (MuCLS) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) fills this performance gap and aims to provide an X-ray facility that allows modern synchrotron techniques to be applied in a university research laboratory e nvironment. It consists of a commercial inverse Compton X-ray source (Lync ean Technologies Inc.\, formerly of Fremont\, USA) and a beamline with two end stations designed and built by TUM scientists [1\, 2].\nThe different applications exploit the unique properties of the MuCLS beam for a labora tory source [2]: The narrow tunable spectrum allows quantitative computed tomography (CT) without beam hardening [3]\, K-edge imaging [4\, 5] or abs orption spectroscopy [6]. The relatively high flux density allows radiothe rapy studies [7]\, high-resolution micro-CT and fast dynamic imaging\, e.g . for the study of respiratory processes [8\, 9]. Finally\, the partial co herence of the source enables grating-based phase-contrast and dark-field imaging [10-15]\, as well as propagation-based phase-contrast imaging [8]. \nFollowing a discussion of the X-ray source and the beamline\, exemplary results for several of the aforementioned applications will be presented.\ n\nhttps://events.saip.org.za/event/245/contributions/9255/ LOCATION: URL:https://events.saip.org.za/event/245/contributions/9255/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Instrument DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231010T145000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231010T151000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260816T015033Z UID:indico-contribution-245-9254@events.saip.org.za DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Heinz-Eberhard Mahnke ()\nportable X-ray fluorescenc e detection devices. The talk will be focus on how such instrument could p articipate to training and increasing African researchers skills in Xray F luorescence detectors. What kind of applications\, advantages and limits.\ n\nhttps://events.saip.org.za/event/245/contributions/9254/ LOCATION: URL:https://events.saip.org.za/event/245/contributions/9254/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Panel Discussion DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231010T151000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20231010T154000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20260816T015033Z UID:indico-contribution-245-9253@events.saip.org.za DESCRIPTION:Moderator: Philip Kurian\, Howard University.\n\nAll previous speakers are panelists\nThe floor can discuss matters towards developing a narrative about the role and description of African Regional Infrastructu re as milestones on the Roadmap toward the African Light Source\n\nhttps:/ /events.saip.org.za/event/245/contributions/9253/ LOCATION: URL:https://events.saip.org.za/event/245/contributions/9253/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR