State of the CLS:

Moving Towards User Operations

(It has been a very busy year!)

William ThomlinsonExecutive Director

Canadian Light Source Inc.

CLS Annual Users Meeting

November 15, 2003

VISION

To advance Canadian scientific and industrial capabilities by operating the Canadian Light Source Facility as the national synchrotron research and development center of excellence.

MISSION

• Global leadership in synchrotron research and development• National center of excellence of academic expertise• Advance industrial competitiveness• Venue to facilitate cooperative fundamental and applied science and technology• Operate an industry friendly, not-for-profit facility

Canadian Light Source Incorporated

NSERC Review

• International Peer Review Panel – Sept. 8-10• Facility Mangement and Operations Readiness• Beamline Team Scientific Program Peer Review

• Final Report Supportive of:

– Selection of Beamlines for Phase I and II– Outstanding Scientific Programs of Beamteams– CLS Management and Planning for Operations– User Community Interactions– CLS – USASK Joint Integration

• Concern:

“…there is a real danger that this opportunity will be squandered by inadequate operations support of the facility.”

“The operations budget planned for the CLS is only about 60% of the funds available for comparable facilities abroad.”

2003 User Issues - Progress

• 7 Beamlines proposed to CFI for funding• Badging System - Implemented• Housing – Allocation of initial 18 rooms at Lutheran Seminary• User Services Office – Created• Hiring of Beamline Scientific Staff for Phase I• Beamtime Allocation and Scheduling Policy – In draft form• Beamline Team MOUs – Nearing completion• Intellectual Property Policy – Developed in MOUs• Sliding Scale Access – Developed in MOUs• Commercial Fee Structure – Under development• IT program expanded• Web-based User Access – Under development for registration,

proposal submission, training• CLS Committee Structure – Creation of Beamline Advisory

Committee and Science Advisory Committee• UAC Presence on Committees – BAC, SAC, Board of Directors

Energy Range of CLS Beamlines

Phase I beamlines under construction at the CLS

Canadian Light SourceD-T. Jiang5.0 – 40 keVMicro-XAFS and Micro-probe

U. SaskatchewanL. Delbaere6.5 – 18 keVProtein Crystallography

McMaster U.A. Hitchcock250 – 2000 eVSoft X-ray Spectromicroscopy

U. Western OntarioT.K. Sham200 – 1900 eVHigh Resolution Spherical Grating Monochromator – Spectroscopy

U. Western OntarioT.K. Sham5.5 - 250 eVVariable Line Spacing Plane Grating Monochromator – Spectroscopy

NRC WinnipegM. Jackson.06 - .74 eVMid IR Biological Spectroscopy

U. MontrealA. McKellar.0012 - .5 eVFar IR High Resolution Spectroscopy

Phase II beamlines proposed at the CLS

U. SaskatchewanD. Chapman15 – 100 keVBiomedical (BMIT)

U. SaskatchewanD. Klymyshyn1.0 – 4.0 3.0 – 8.0

Canadian Synchrotron Nanostructures Facility (CSNF)

U. British ColumbiaN. Strynadka5 – 18 keVCanadian Macromolecular Crystallography #2 (CMCF)

U. Western OntarioS. McIntyre4 – 20 keVVery Sensitive Elemental &Structural Probe (VESPERS)

Canadian Light SourceD-T. Jiang5 – 25 keVCanadian Center for AdvancedX-ray Diffraction (CCAXRD)

U. Western OntarioT.K. Sham2.2 – 9 keVSoft X-ray Beamline forMicrocharacterization of Materials(SXRMB)

U. British ColumbiaG. Sawatzky90 – 2000 eVResonant Elastic and Inelastic X-ray Scattering (REIXS)

Phase I Commissioning

Best current estimates for start of commissioning:

• Far IR and Mid IR: Q1, 2004• SGM/PGM: Q1, 2004• Soft X-ray Spectromicroscopy: Q2, 2004• Hard X-ray micro-XAFS: Q2, 2004• Protein Crystallography: Q3, 2004

User Support Facilities – Main Floor

Magneticmeasurement

Usershop

Wet/drylabs

Cleanroom

User Support Facilities – 2nd Floor

Opticslab

Brian Yates: First CLS mirror tested; report Nov. 14, 2003Spectroscopy Beamline 10ID-1; InSync Inc.Slope error: (tangential < 0.5 microradians RMS, sagittal < 10 microradians RMS) and surface roughness (< 7.5 angstroms RMS for "40X" objective).

IT Infrastructure and Upgrades

• bandwidth upgrade from 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps in early '04 (on CA*net)

• managed storage from 348 GB to over 3.1 TB (4Q03) growing up to 10 TB in '04

• multiprocessor computing upgrade to multiple 2+ GHz nodes with several GB of RAM using OpenMOSIX (4Q03)

• secure FTP external facility access for file exchange (deployed 3Q03)

• enhanced "plug'n'go" connections to the internet for visitors • 54 Mbps 802.11a/g wireless deployment planned (early 2Q04)    • and a nifty website for the User Office

Sources of Identified FundingYears ending March 31, 2004 to 2009

(in thousand $)

$-$2,000$4,000$6,000$8,000

$10,000$12,000$14,000$16,000$18,000$20,000

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

To bedetermined

Industrial userfees

University ofSaskatchewan

CIHR

NRC

NSERC

CLSI Organization Chart

Board of Directors(A. Carty)

Executive Director(W. Thomlinson)

BusinessDevelopment Officer

(R. Slinger)

Director of Operations

(M. de Jong)

Acting Director ofResearch

(M. Bancroft)Chief Financial Officer

(B. Lepage)

Manager AcceleratorOperations &Development

(L. Dallin)

Manager Controls &InstrumentationDevelopment

(E.Matias)

Manager Engineering& Technical Services

(D.Lowe)

Manager ExperimentalFacilities(E.Hallin)

User’s Office(L. Carter)

Manager InformationCommunication &

Technology(S.Abel-Smith)

Science AdvisoryCommittee

(TBD) User’s AdvisoryCommittee(T. Tiedje)

BeamlineAdvisory

Committee

Manager HealthSafety & Environment

(M.Benmerrouche)

Health SafetyEnvironment

Advisory Committee

Science Advisory Committee

• Advises the Board on scientific utilization of the facility, scientific program strategic planning, current CLS operations and allocation of facility resources

• Reviews major proposals to establish new experimental and support facilities and monitors progress in their development

• Provides recommendations on all technical and policy issues that bear on the full and effective utilization of the CLS as a state-of-the-art national facility

• Ensures that appropriate mechanisms are in place and followed for all peer review activities

Status• Over 60 names submitted by CLS Community• Decisions December• First meeting – Quarter 1, 2004

CLS Research Director

• Unsuccessful recruitment process through 2003• Renewal of effort with defined roles and responsibilities• Nationwide recruitment program

• Creation of CLS Research Council (Cutler, Hallin, Bancroft)– Academic outreach nationwide – with community assistance– Internal CLS scientific program development

• Appointment of Interim Co-acting Research Directors

– Jeff Cutler (applied) and Emil Hallin (academic)

– Mike Bancroft appointed Senior Consultant to Director

CLS Users Office Mission

• Administer and coordinate user access to the facility

• Work with the CLS User Advisory Committee to create a user friendly and efficient user services sector

• Design and implement the entire range of support services offered to users

• Coordinate the peer-reviewed beamline access system.

• Develop and maintain user information on the CLS public website including registration, training, proposal submission

• Develop and maintain a multi-level database that provides tracking of basic user information

Lavina Carter

• Priority Access represents a specified right to access the beamline• Beamteam priority access will be assessed every 3 years by NSERC • Beamteam and CLSI Roles and Responsibilities are defined• Beamline Users:

–General Users and Beamteam Scientists > 55%–Commercial Fee Access < 25%–Beamline Scientist (Science, Maintenance, Upgrades) < 20%

• Sliding Scale Access:–General User and Beamteam experiments scheduled to fill

time remaining after Beamline Scientist and Commercial time–Beamteam access decreases over time to a minimum percent

as General User and commercial activities expand–Beamteam members can apply for time on any beamline as

General Users• Intellectual Property Policy

Beamline Teams Memorandum of Understanding

Canadian Light Source Inc.Intellectual Property Policy

CLSI Assignment of IP

For any Intellectual Property, including but not limited to patents or patentable subject matter, copyrights and trademarks, generated by a User through Services Performed at the Facility, Canadian Light Source Inc. agrees to assign title to all such intellectual property to the User.

As such, the User shall be the sole owner of all data, analyses of such data and other products generated by using and/or performing services at the CLS Facility.

As a result of this Policy, the User will be bound by his/her own institution’s policy regarding intellectual property and/or any additional restrictions assumed by the User as a result of contractual arrangements related to Services Performed at the Facility.

Peer Review Process

• Research proposals will be subject to peer review with the exception of commercial fee-for-service activity.

• Process modeled on successful policies at other SR facilities

Canadian Nuclear Safety CommissionLicensing Process

• July 4, 2000 Construction license• May 28,2001 Phase I commissioning license (LINAC)• June 7, 2002 Phase II commissioning license (Booster)• Feb 4, 2003 Phase III commissioning license (Storage Ring

and Beamlines after approval)• Oct 2003 Request permission to commission beamlines• Nov 2003 Permission for Beamline Commissioning (Pending)

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2004

• Quarter 1 Submission of Phase III commissioning report and documentation for routine operating license

• Quarter 2 Hearing for routine operating license• Quarter 2 Routine operating license

Goals: 2003 through 2004

• On-going Efforts

– Installation and commissioning of all 7 Phase I beamlines– Complete Access and Beamtime Allocation policies– Complete Beamline Team MOUs– Establish Commercial Access pricing – Establish 24/7 self-service stock room– Web based user communications and training– Establish Phase II Beamline Projects

• Operations

– >1000 hrs of delivered beam to beamlines– 100 mA in main storage ring

• Funding

– Stabilize short and medium term– Establish Canadian National Facility Funding Agency

Present Initiatives

• CLS Research Council– Mandate to plan and execute Canada wide academic outreach – Establish CLS internal scientific programs– Jeff Cutler, Emil Hallin and Mike Bancroft – Network with UAC, BAC and local contacts at Canadian

Universities

• Commercial Fee Access Task Force– Mandate to establish process and fees for commercial access– Rob Slinger, Leader– Direct reporting to CLS Exec. Dir. and Board of Director’s

Business Development Committee – Direct interactions with Beamline Teams, BAC and UAC

• WED/SIR Project – Beryl Lepage directing the proposal process for bridging project

support

Present Initiatives

• Industry Canada Task Force– Mandate to plan and coordinate efforts to obtain the remaining

necessary additional operating funds– Andy Melnyk (IC), Cindy Paquette (USASK), Rob Slinger– December presentation to Finance (Pending)

• Genome Canada– Seeking operations funding support

• AUCC National Facilities Funding Initiative– Directed by Peter MacKinnon, Chair of AUCC– Presidents of Canadian universities with strong research

programs and/or national facility leadership

• CLS Seminar Series– Cooperation with USASK departments– National and international speakers

Experimental Program Goals

2003

• December First Light in Diagnostic Beamline

2004

• Quarter 1 Light: mid-IR, far-IR, SGM, PGM• Quarter 2 Light: SM, Hard X-ray MicroXAFS• Quarter 3 Light: Protein Crystallography

• Quarter 2 CNSC Hearing for Routine Operating License

• Quarter 2 Routine Operating License• Quarter 2 Limited Call for Proposals

Annual Hours of Beam to Beamlines

2004 > 1000 2005 > 2000

See you at the Beamline!!!!