today was the vuv-fel user meeting. some experiments start to show results which are paperable. and the time schedule for the next few years was presented. old users have to send in proposals until the 1st of april for beamtime until march -07. elke plönjes from the staff put it: "the board will have to decide how to place the six overbooked weeks". i.e. all experiments which are in will continue to be in until march -07, almost nothing will change with respect to relative beamtime weight. new experiments can send a letter of intent until april 1st this year, to be evaluated, and proposals for the new experiments will have to be sent in by september 1st this year. they will probably first get beamtime in 2008. the users roadmap is:
beamtimes -06: may, july, october-november, and -07 february. the facility roadmap is: july: lasing at 12nm, september: variation of wavelength between shifts, november: long bunch trains. shutdown march 2007, which will last for many months. after that, the hardware will be in place for achieving 6nm. users will possibly get beamtime in 2008, although there is no schedule after march 2007.
credit to my master photographer magnus.
