PROGRAMME
Tuesday 25 May
8h30 | Coffee and handing out Workshop documents | |
9h00 | Welcome and Introduction | Y. Dabin |
9h15 | Opening address | F. Sette |
9h30 |
Keynote presentation Thermomechanical analysis in SR instrumentation |
L. Zhang |
10h30 | Coffee break | |
Session 1 | Accelerator components and front ends | Chair: S. Zelenika |
11h00 | NSLS II: A proposed facility | E. Haas |
11h20 | ESRF front-end evolution | J.-C. Biasci |
11h40 | A new bending magnet vacuum chamber for the first infra-red beamline at ELETTRA | A. Gambitta |
12h00 | Design and technology of the high heat-load photon shutters for the new front ends at APS | E. Trakhtenberg |
12h20 | Lunch | |
POSTER SESSION | ||
Session 2 | High heat load -components and novel designs | Chair: S. Sharma F. Comin |
15h00 | Strength evaluation of beryllium window for Spring-8 front end | S. Takahashi |
15h20 | White beam stop for the inelastic x-ray scattering beamline at the Advanced Photon Source | B. Brajuskovic |
15h40 | Mechanical design of the pinhole imaging system at the APS storage ring | S. Sharma |
16h00 | Coffee break | |
16h30 | Heat load analysis of 3 Tesla wigglers in the CANDLE storage ring | S. Tunyan |
16h50 | Wire scanner system for undulator section of VUV FEL at DESY | M. Sachwitz |
17h10 | Tribology in extreme environment: state of the art and some solutions for solid lubrication in UHV | M. Belin |
19h30 | Workshop dinner |
Wednesday 26 May
Keynote presentation | ||
9h00 | High precision positioning design for SR instruments | D.-M. Shu |
Session 3 | High precision position mechanisms & vibration stability | Chair: Y. Dabin |
10h00 | Hexapods at the ESRF: mechanical aspects, results | Ph. Marion |
10h20 | Coffee break | |
10h50 | Investigation of optimised notch shapes for flexural hinges | S. Zelenika |
11h10 | Angular positioning in the nanoradian range | M. Renier |
11h30 | Progress towards a revolute joint robot for the precision positioning of material samples or an x-ray detector | C. Preissner |
11h50 | Vibration study at the ESRF | L. Zhang |
12h10 | Lunch | |
POSTER SESSION | ||
Session 4 | Opto-mechanical devices | Chair: M. Howells |
14h30 | Present status of Spring8 cryogenically cooled monochromators | T. Mochizuki |
14h50 | The new switching mirror unit and its mechanical principles | T. Noll |
Session 5 | Sample environment and automation | Chair: D.-M. Shu |
15h20 | Sample environment at the ESRF | P. Van den Linden |
15h40 | New devices for high precision diffractometers | F. Felisaz |
16h00 | Automation: designing the beamline to make software possible | T. Mairs |
16h20 | Coffee break | |
Closing Session | Synthesis and concluding remarks | Chair: Y. Dabin |
Thursday 27 May
9h00-12h00
Guided tour of site and beamlines