Organiser: African Light Source Foundation + African Strategy for Pure and Applied Physics Light Sources Working Group

10:00 - 12:00 GMT+2

Regional Facilities on the Roadmap Towards a Pan African Synchrotron Light Source Facility

This session will cover compact light sources and cryoEM machines, and how they can be part of university-based, regional facilities that feed into large 3^rd generation advanced lightsources.

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Problems and Solutions in Commercial Law and Political Economics for Multi-national Big Science Projects

14:00 - 16:00 GMT+2

Big science projects invariably involve multi-national investments.  Thus, diplomacy in the science, legal, economic, political become critical issues in the success of the project.  In this session we will explore how these issues manifest in international commercial endeavours in general and in science projects in particular.

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Both events are virtual, link will be provided to registrants, and the session streamed to YouTube. More at: https://www.africanlightsource.org/ICRI2022

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