Why Smart Companies Maximize Innovation Through Strategic Incentives

Innovation is often described as a product of creativity, talent, and bold thinking. While those qualities certainly matter, they are only part of the equation. In reality, innovation tends to grow best in environments where businesses make deliberate decisions about how to support it. Smart companies understand that breakthrough ideas do not happen consistently by… Read More Why Smart Companies Maximize Innovation Through Strategic Incentives

August 3, 2020March 19, 2026 Lawrence NorrisLeave a comment

The African Light Source Foundation supports Black Lives Matter

The African Light Source Foundation is committed to a world free of racism, sexism and mysogyny, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, religious bigotry and discrimination on any other basis. An advanced light source for Africa is a large-scale endeavour requiring the combined ambition and effort of many countries working together across borders and cultures, and is envisioned… Read More The African Light Source Foundation supports Black Lives Matter

June 24, 2020July 29, 2020 Prof Simon H ConnellLeave a comment

A Powerful Partnership

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

April 30, 2020April 30, 2020 Prof Simon H ConnellLeave a comment

The Coronavirus: Synchrotrons and Cryo-EM to the rescue- Now with Updates !

First Post 3 March 2020 A terrible deathly coronavirus epidemic has gripped many countries, and its tentacles are spreading out to ever more countries. The World Health Organisation has just escalated its terminology to announce that the global risk of the outbreak spreading is “very high”. This is just short of a pandemic. Perhaps by… Read More The Coronavirus: Synchrotrons and Cryo-EM to the rescue- Now with Updates !

March 3, 2020October 6, 2022 Prof Simon H Connell1 Comment

FAST Team Call for Applications

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

November 29, 2019 Prof Simon H ConnellLeave a comment

SA-ESRF-2019 Conference

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

November 19, 2019May 20, 2020 Prof Simon H Connell2 Comments

AfLS at NSBP

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

November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 dobbins@rowan.eduLeave a comment

Deep Training Internships at the ESRF

Congratulations to Fortune Mokoena and Alicia Potgieter who were awarded the SA-ESRF Internships, for an MSc and PhD period respectively. They will study and work with the Engineering Groups at the ESRF-EBS in Upgrade and R&D Development areas. This begins a new era where Science and… Read More Deep Training Internships at the ESRF

November 13, 2019November 19, 2019 Prof Simon H ConnellLeave a comment

The Need for an African Lightsource – Prosper Ngabonziza

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

October 23, 2019October 23, 2019 Prosper NgabonzizaLeave a comment

Why Africa needs a Light Source !

One of the reasons – Scientists can develop cures for diseases of particular relevance to Africa, that may not be receiving sufficient research attention. The idea from structural biology is that structural information helps to elucidate protein function and, in particular, the mechanisms of enzymes. This understanding inspires the design of new drugs Synchrotrons are… Read More Why Africa needs a Light Source !

May 18, 2019May 21, 2019 Prof Simon H ConnellLeave a comment