LENS fighting Covid-19: How neutrons will contribute
As with HIV before it, Europe’s advanced neutron sources will make an essential contribution to the fight against the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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Author: James Tierney
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Cancelled: LENS General Assembly May 4-5
The meetings of LENS working groups, Executive Board and General Assembly planned for 4-5 May 2020 are cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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LENS Colloquium marks a turning point in the terms of engagement between European scientists and policy makers
LENS held a science and policy colloquium on February 11 highlighting how neutrons contribute to mission-based research. The meeting was held in Brussels and brought together members of Europe’s neutron science community, several European Commission representatives, and representatives from LEAPS.
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Europe leans in to help establish Neutrons Canada
University executives from across Canada met with Canada’s Chief Science Advisor Mona Nemer and other neutron science stakeholders—including from LENS, ESS and ILL—in Ottawa on 29 January to discuss how to establish a new, pan-Canadian, university-led organisation for materials research with neutron beams.
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The 2020 LENS Colloquium: How neutrons contribute to mission-based research
Please join LENS for our February 11th LENS Colloquium: How neutrons contribute to mission-based research. The event will feature neutron scientists, LENS facility directors and EC decision-makers in an intimate forum intended to facilitate the exchange of up-to-date knowledge and activities.
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With close of research reactors, landscape is shifting for Europe’s world-leading neutron science community
Three neutron science research reactors in Europe have ceased operations in 2019. The League of advanced European Neutron Sources, LENS, and the European Neutron Scattering Association, ENSA, warn of a “neutron gap” that could impact scientific research across multiple fields in physics, materials science, chemistry, biology, medical science and engineering.
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European neutron facilities come together for LENS General Assembly
The League of advanced European Neutron Sources (LENS) held its General Assembly at Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) yesterday, preceded on Tuesday by meetings of its five working groups and the LENS Executive Board.
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PSI hosts meeting of the LENS WG on neutron technology development
LENS WG on neutron technology development works toward priority actions at PSI 3 OCT 2019 VILLIGEN—On October 1-2 the Laboratory of Neutron and Muon Instrumentation (LIN) at the Paul Scherrer Insitut (PSI) hosted the first meeting of the working group on Synergies in Technology Development and Operation of the League of advanced European Neutron Sources (LENS). The meeting brought together nearly 50 engineers and scientists from the nine LENS member facilities with the purpose of establishing…
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LENS Horizon Europe position paper handed over to European Commission at Brussels event
LENS was represented today at the EC’s Research & Innovation Days in Brussels by Chair Helmut Schober, who handed over the organisation’s Horizon Europe position paper.
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Meeting of Executive Board & General Assembly
Executive Board & General Assembly to meet in Grenoble 22-23 October LENS will gather its Executive Board members on Tuesday, 22 October, while its General Assembly will take place on Wednesday, 23 October, at the Institut Laue Langevin in Grenoble, France. Registration for the meeting will close 6 October. The LENS Executive Board consists of representatives from the nine member facilities, together with the Working Group leaders from the five working groups. The General Assembly…