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September 2022

This LEAPS-INNOV webinar will be held for the second time on 3 November 2022, 11:00-12:00 CET.

The seminar will deal with the topic of Intellectual Property (IP) and will answer the following questions:

  • What is IP?
  • What is a patent ?
  • How can I get a patent?
  • How do I read a patent?

External professionals will be invited to give the training and to support the work of the technical work packages (WPs) in the project in dealing with the complex issue of IP and in working with industry. The workshop which is organized by LEAPS-INNOV WP8 (Industry) and DESY ITT is targeted to the technical teams in the WPs.

Further information and the registration form is available here.

February 2022

The European project LEAPS-INNOV has an open call for proposals from SMEs.


SMEs can benefit from light source capabilities thanks to the European project LEAPS-INNOV, which is supporting industrial projects in an easy, agile and simple procedure. LEAPS-INNOV is funding an access programme that is tailor-made for SMEs through a programme called "TamaTA-INNOV", for which SMEs can apply using a very simple form.

Read more about the reasearch and access opportunities for industry through LEAPS-INNOV here.

February 2022

The ESUO have launched a questionnaire related to the absence of TNA funding


To all past, present and potential users of synchrotrons and FELs in Europe. With the end of the CALIPSOplus programme last October TransNational Access (TNA) funding to access synchrotron and FEL facilities, paying travel and accommodation costs for one or more members on a beamtime, has finished and, at present, there is no direct replacement by the European Commission in the form of a general access programme that would continue to provide TNA to all researchers from across Europe no matter the topic. In this regard, we ask you to complete this questionnaire before the end of March. This is an initiative of ESUO, the European Synchrotron and FEL User Organisation in cooperation with LEAPS.
The outcome of this questionnaire will empower ESUO to continue advocating both to the European Commission and to the National Funding Agencies for TNA funding for all science topics and for all scientists.

Complete the questionnaire.


December 2021

Pre-registration for the conference is open, deadline 11th February 2022.


This is the first LEAPS Topical Conference aiming to bring together the latest achievements from the synchrotron radiation user community with those from source development and instrumentation. The focus of the first LEAPS Conference will be dedicated to the opportunities emerging from the Quantum Technologies R&D. This conference shall showcase where today and future synchrotron radiation contributes to the advancements of Quantum Technologies.A number of grants will be offered to students in the field of photon science and related areas to attend LEAPS meets QT 2022.

Read more about the conference

November 2021

CALL for students / young scientists to apply for grants by 21st January 2022.

LEAPS is delighted to announce the first of its conference series bringing together LEAPS and a Science community, starting with the latest developments in quantum technologies, and identify opportunities for both sides. A number of grants will be offered to students in the field of photon science and related areas to attend LEAPS meets QT 2022. The grants will include a waiver of the conference registration fees and accommodation during the Workshops days. The grants will also include support for travel costs. Master and PhD students are eligible for these grants

Read more about the conference

1st July 2021

Applications for TNA under the new EU Horizon 2020 INFRAIA programme MOSBRI are now being accepted.

Transnational access (TNA) under MOSBRI will provide free access (paid by the project) to the consortium's laboratories and is especially aimed at young researchers. The AU-CD beamline on ASTRID2 is one of the laboratories open for access, with the coordination and management of all TNA for the network carried out by the AU-CD team.
Apply for TNA at AU-SRCD here. and read more about MOSBRI at ISA here.

February 2021  
The European Union’s Horizon 2020 INFRAIA programme has awarded a 5 M€ infrastructure grant to MOSBRI (Molecular-Scale Biophysics Research Infrastructure https://www.mosbri.eu), a consortium of 13 academic centres of excellence and 2 industrial partners from 11 different European countries, coordinated by Institut Pasteur (Paris, France). In practice, this means that we are opening our laboratories to European researchers, so that they can travel to where the best equipment and the best expertise is. Transnational access (TNA) under MOSBRI will provide free access (paid by the project) to the consortium's laboratories and is especially aimed at young researchers. The AU-CD beamline on ASTRID2 is one of the laboratories open for access, with the coordination and management of all TNA for the network carried out by the AU-CD team.
See the MOSBRI press release announcing the network.

December 2020  

Remember the animation prepared by Coldvision Studio showing the injection and storage of electrons in ASTRID? Well a brand new animation has been prepared by Coldvision Studio which now includes ASTRID2 and the top-up injection process. The images below are screenshots from the animation, but the full animation can be viewed here.

December 2020  

A Lego model of ASTRID2 with a scale of approimxately 1:15 has been built and is now on display at the entrance to the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

At first it was just an interesting project, to see if the Lego bricks available allowed us to reproduce the major elements of the ring in a recognizable way. When we chose the colours of the magnets in ASTRID2 in the design phase, we specifically asked them to be the colours of Lego bricks, though not with making a model in mind at that time, so colours weren’t a problem. The digital Lego model was added to and tweaked over several years until we decided that we should try and actually make it. The model is made up of about 2500 pieces. Click here to view more photos of the model.

September 2020

Analytical Research Infrastructures of Europe (ARIE) join forces to face COVID-19 and other viral and microbial threats.

ARIE, of which the ASTRID2 light source at Aarhus University is a member, have joined forces to publish a position paper where their plan to tackle the five Horizon Europe Missions is presented. The final version of this position paper has now been released and can be viewed here.

A second ARIE joint position paper on “VIRAL and MICROBIAL THREATS”, has also been published (view here).

June 2020

‘Learning to run again’: – a webinar on the challenges for synchrotrons and FELs to restore effective operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Click to read more...
Read the summary of the LEAPS webinar

3/4 June 2019

ISA hosted the 2nd Annual Meeting of the CALIPSOplus H2020 programme. Group Photo.

22 May 2019

Article in Nature Reviews about LEAPS: European accelerator-based photon sources join forces.

 
24th April 2019

Article in the Omnibus: Danskerne holder deres arbejds- og privatliv meget adskilt (only in Danish)

 
April 2019

The new materials-science end-station at MATLINE at ASTRID2 was inaugurated on Tuesday 9th of April 2019. Click to read more...

 
February 2019

Article in "Physics Today": Europe’s user facilities find strength in numbers. Click to read more...

March 2018

LEAPS join forces with the European Commission to strengthen Europe’s leading role in science Click here to read more...

 
4/11/2015

ASTRID celebrated turning 25 years old!

Our first storage ring, ASTRID, was 25 years old in 2015. We celebrated this event on the 4th of November 2015.

  • For more information please follow this link.
  • In the news.

    The celebrations for ASTRID were reported by the local news in Aarhus.

    • Journalists from TV2 Østjylland visited and interviewed Niels Hertel and Bob Janes, you can see the result here (mostly in Danish) View the TV2 report.
    • An article in Jyllands Posten

12/11/2014

ASTRID2 and the Rosetta Mission. Click here to read more about how ASTRID2 is involved in the Rosetta Mission...

5/12/2013

First official user of ASTRID2. Click here to read more about the experiments that are being performed.

13/9/2013

200 mA of current stored in ASTRID2! Top-up at 200 mA successful.

15/5/2013

First light in a beam line on the new ring ASTRID2. With only 1 mA of stored beam in ASTRID2 we opened up to the AU-UV beam line for initial tests.

2/11/2012

First stored beam with RF in ASTRID2! It was also possible to accumulate a beam in the new ring.

10/9/2012

The Inauguration of ASTRID2 was on Monday the 10th September 2012.

The inauguration was filmed by AU TV, you can view the videos here.

Articles (in Danish) on the Aarhus University website about the new ASTRID2 facility and research that will be carried out with the new light source.

  • Aarhus universitet indvier den ultimative røntgen-kilde
  • Hvad får de hvide blodlegemer til at gå løs på nerverne
  • Se Astrid Nøgen

See what the Danish press has to say about the new light source, ASTRID2. The articles are in Danish.

  • TV2 Østjylland - Ultimativ maskine. Søren Pape Møller shows TV2 Østjylland around ASTRID2
  • Jyllands Posten - Her er Danmarks nye, vilde partikelaccelerator
  • Ingeniøren - Tag med på rundvisning i spritny partikelaccelerator i Aarhus
  • Videnskab.dk - Unik dansk opfindelse afslører atomernes hemmeligheder
  • Aarhus Lokalavisen - ASTRID2 er en af verdens bedste røntgenkilder
  • Videnskab.dk - Forskerne flokkes om den danske partikelaccelerator ASTRID2
06/9/2012

On Thursday 6th September 2012 the Danish Prime Minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, visited the ASTRID2 facility. The visit to the new iNano building and ASTRID2 was filmed by AU TV. You can view the video here.

07/8/2012

Electrons circulated the new ASTRID2 ring for almost 200 µs (1300 turns of the ring).

10/7/2012

First full turn of injected electrons in ASTRID2.

13/2/2012:

New EU network oPAC supporting training researchers in accelerator science and technology.

11/1/2012:

Read about the some of the latest experiments performed on SGM2. Only in Danish Fysikoverraskelse: Elektrisk spænding opstår spontant i tyndfilm af lattergas

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Meetings/Workshops

  • Non-linear beam expander systems in high-power accelerator facilities, Workshop to be held at ISA on the 26th and 27th of March 2012.
  • The 19th ESLS Meeting, (European Synchrotron Light Source), 23rd and 24th of November 2011.
  • Synchrotron Radiation Linear Dichroism Workshop, Tuesday 15th June 2010.
  • CERN Acclerator School RF for Accelerators, 8th - 17th June 2010, Ebeltoft, Denmark.
  • ISA User Meeting 2010, 28th & 29th January 2010.
  • Click to see list of previous meetings/workshops


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