Launch of
the EPSRC National Facility for Aberration Corrected STEM
by Andrew Bourne (Head of Physical Sciences, EPSRC)
on Wednesday 11 January 2012
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A Pioneering Facility
The world of electron microscopy has undergone a revolution in recent
years with leaps in the performance of electron optical elements,
sources and detectors. While instruments are becoming ever more powerful
their complexity is also multiplied.
This trend places renewed emphasis
on national facilities that gather in one place state-of-the-art
instrumentation and world-leading experts in the field. The SuperSTEM
laboratory was one such pioneer, opening the frontiers of electron
microscopy to the scientific community by becoming in 2003 the first
user centre in the world to provide access to aberration-corrected
microscopes. After a competitive tendering process, the SuperSTEM
Consortium was recently awarded by EPSRC the status of National Facility
for Aberration-Corrected STEM.
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The event will take place in the
Atrium
STFC Daresbury Laboratory
Keckwick Lane
Daresbury
WA4 4AD
For site map see below and further directions here
RSVP: admin@superstem.org
or 01925 864 909
by 1st December 2011
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Consortium
The consortium, led by the University of Leeds and joined by the
Universities of Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Oxford, will manage
and administer this National Facility. Revolving around its central hub
on the STFC Daresbury Campus, the SuperSTEM facility brings together the
scientific and technical expertise of world-renowned academics. It will
provide U.K. researchers and their worldwide collaborators access to
unique instruments, both on the Daresbury site and across its member
institutions.
Inauguration Ceremony
To celebrate its launch, a ceremony will take place on Wednesday 11
January 2012, opening at 11am with inauguration lectures by Nobel Prize Laureate Konstantin
Novoselov (Manchester), Ondrej Krivanek (Nion), Christian Colliex (Orsay
LPS) and Quentin Ramasse (SuperSTEM). These will be followed by
addresses from Colin Whitehouse (STFC), Andrew Miller MP (Chair of
Science & Technology Select Committee), and Graham Evans MP. The official opening of the facility
by Andrew Bourne, Head of the EPSRC Physical Sciences Programme, will
take place at 1pm. A lunch reception will be held thereafter.
Poster Session and Discussions
A poster and discussion session in the afternoon, from 2pm to 4pm, will
highlight SuperSTEM's current and future research capabilities, with
guidance and advice on how to become a SuperSTEM user. Guests will have
the opportunity to interact directly with SuperSTEM staff and to join
guided tours of the facility in the afternoon.
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visitor car park (shaded yellow) and SuperSTEM (shaded red):
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