Committees

Bragg Institute Advisory Committee

The Bragg Institute Advisory Committee, which has operated since the Institute's inception in 2002, provides strategic advice to ANSTO on the Institute and its activities.

Program Advisory Committee

The Program Advisory Committee, which met for the first time in May 2007, makes recommendations to the Head of the Bragg Institute concerning the allocation of beam time. For this the committee will examine not only scientific merits (comments provided by external referees on-line), but also technical and safety aspects of a beam-time request.

Although assessment should be driven by the scientific merit of the proposal the development of new users and new research areas will also be taken into account.

Beam Instruments Advisory Group

In mid-2009, we reconstituted the Beam Instruments Advisory Group, to give us advice on the $37M Neutron Beam Enhancement Project (NBI-2), which was announced in the Australian Government's budget of 12 May 2009.  The project includes funding for 2 new guides, 3 new instruments (small-angle neutron scattering, high-resolution neutron spectroscopy and neutron radiography/tomography/imaging, in addition to substantial funds for new sample-environment apparatus). 

Given that almost all procurements have now been made and installation of the new instruments is well under way, the Beam Instruments Advisory Group met for the last time on 31 January - 1 February 2013.

Between 2000 and 2007, a previous incarnation of the Beam Instruments Advisory Group gave us advice on the $30M Neutron Beam Instruments Project, which successfully managed the design, construction, installation and commissioning of the initial set of instruments at the OPAL reactor.