OPEN SESAME brings training to students from the Middle East
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ian’s National Museum of American History, where the US-UK digital research project will be based, employs more than 200 scientists across a spectrum of research areas. The digital research project aims to improve data analysis and define best practices in using digital technologies for research. In addition, the project includes plans to deploy digital technologies at museums, which is expected to “further audience engagement” according to the UK government press release, and improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education programs, according to the OSTP. Despite the fact that the agreement is not yet publicly available and no projects aside from the two just highlighted have been announced, it is highly likely that many areas of research—including materials research—will be covered. The OSTP has listed development of MRI and PET standards, quantum technologies, and collaborations on autonomous transportation technologies as being considered under the agreement. R&D of quantum technologies, in specific, will certainly rely on the rapidly growing field of quantum materials research.
OPEN SESAME brings training to students from the Middle East www.opensesame-h2020.eu
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ollowing an open call, nine students from SESAME members have been awarded training fellowships to work in European light source laboratories in 2018. OPEN SESAME is a Horizon 2020 project, which runs until the end of 2019. It provides training opportunities for the SESAME light source in Jordan. An intergovernmental organization, SESAME’s members are Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, the Palestinian Authority, and Turkey. This call for fellowships was open to students working toward master’s or doctoral degrees in the realm of light source science in any of these members. Close to 50 applications were received. After scrutiny by an expert committee, nine places were offered, with six candidates in reserve. The successful applicants
represent four SESAME members, with two coming from Egypt and two from Iran, four from Pakistan, and one from Turkey. Seven are women and two are men, and each will be spending a minimum of eight weeks between February and June 2018 in European laboratories. Their fields of interest are all areas that will be addressed by SESAME’s phase-one beamlines, namely powder diffraction, x-ray absorption spectroscopy, infrared microspectroscopy, macromolecular crystallography, and x-ray tomography. These techniques address questions ranging from life sciences where antibiotic resistance in bacteria and the interactions of essential oils and macromolecules will be investigated by single-crystal diffraction, to geology where oil and gas flow properties in porous
“From infrared detectors, sensors, and low noise amplifiers, to low power logic and quantum computation, there are a number of areas that the US and UK governments can benefit from technologies that utilize quantum phenomenon,” says Javad Shabani, assistant professor of physics at the Center for Quantum Phenomena at New York Universi
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