Page 5 - ILLS Annual Report 2018

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Editors:
Giovanna Cicognani and Mark Johnson
Scientific advisors:
Sandra Cabeza, Elisa Rebolini,
Skyler Degenkolb, Lucile Mangin-Thro, Oscar R. Fabelo Rosa, Navid Qureshi, Dirk Honecker, Michael M. Koza, Tobias Weber, Nicolas Coquelle,
Ingo Hoffmann, Philipp Gutfreund
Production team:
Giovanna Cicognani, Virginie Guerard
Design:
Morton Ward Limited
Photography:
ILL (unless otherwise specified, and C. Tresca for ILL’s Directors’ portraits)
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Contents
FOREWORD 4
WHAT IS THE ILL
About the ILL 6 Why neutron scattering is useful 7
THE ILL IN THE PRESS 8
SCIENTIFIC HIGHLIGHTS 10
College introductions 12 Biology and health 14 Soft matter 24 Magnetism 34 Materials science 48 Chemistry and crystallography 58 Nuclear and particle physics 64 Theory 68
MODERNISATION PROGRAMMES
AND TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENTS 72
Modernisation programme and instrument upgrades 74 Technical developments 80 Projects and Techniques Division activities 84
INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES 90 EXPERIMENTAL AND USER PROGRAMME
User programme
User and beamtime statistics Instrument list
REACTOR OPERATION
MORE THAN SIMPLY NEUTRONS
Scientific support laboratories Training and outreach European programmes
WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS
Chronicle Scientific events
FACTS AND FIGURES
Facts and figures Publications Organisation chart
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