October 2008 proposal round
Results of last proposal round
On 10-11 December 2008 our Program Advisory Committee met to assess the proposals submitted for the call closing in October 2008.
A total of 141 proposals were submitted requesting 788 beam days (including 40 days requested on the X-ray reflectometer), spread over the 5 instruments as follows:
|
Instrument |
Days requested |
Days allocated |
|
Echidna |
116 |
83 |
|
Koala |
88 |
60 |
|
Kowari |
180 |
60 |
|
Platypus |
201 |
60 |
|
Wombat |
163 |
99 |
At the end of December, all principal investigators were informed about decisions of beam-time allocations. Successful applications from researchers from AINSE member institutions were automatically forwarded to AINSE for consideration of travel/accommodation support.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions concerning your beam time.
Some statistics on proposals
105 proposals received beam time: 27 on Echidna, 15 on Koala, 14 on Kowari, 14 on Platypus and 35 on Wombat covering scientific areas from bimolecular sciences to strongly correlated electron systems. The beam-time distribution is as follows:
|
|
Beam-time days requested |
Beam-time days allocated |
|
|
597 |
285 |
|
|
3.3 |
2.3 |
|
|
2.5 |
1 |
|
|
30.7 |
25.5 |
|
|
36.5 |
13 |
|
Other |
18 |
4.5 |
|
|
10 |
6 |
|
|
35 |
22 |
|
|
6 |
3 |
|
Total |
748 |
363 |
*Europe includes Belgium, Denmark, Germany and UK. Other Asia includes India, Japan, Korea and Malaysia.
The attribution is based on the location of the laboratory of the proposer and not their individual nationality. The majority of the non-Australian beam-time requests are in collaboration with researchers from Australian laboratories. Beam time per proposal was split in these cases and therefore we have not only integers.