LAAAMP news

LAAAMP call for 2025 FAST Team applications

The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) and Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) will award Faculty-Student (FAST) Team grants to enhance advanced light source (AdLS) and crystallography sciences in eight targeted regions of the world: Africa, the Caribbean, Mexico, South America, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East and the Pacific. The successful applicants will spend two months during 2025 at LAAAMP’s AdLS Collaborative Partners to acquire expertise in accelerator technology or AdLS beamline techniques, including those involving crystallography.

For more information, including a link to the application form, please see here. Application deadline: 31 October 2024.

New member of LAAAMP Executive Committee 

IUCr Vice President Graciela Diaz de Delgado has been nominated by the IUCr as the new IUCr delegate in the LAAAMP Executive Committee (EC). 

Professor Diaz de Delgado (Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela) is a member of the American Crystallographic Association (ACA) and the American Chemical Society (ACS), and a founding member of the Venezuelan Society of Crystallography and of the Latin American Crystallographic Association (LACA). She is also a Member of the Liaison Committee of the International Science Council (ISC) Regional Focal Point for the Latin American and Caribbean Region. Currently, she serves in the Board of Directors of the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD), and is Section Editor of Acta Cryst. E.

All members of the LAAAMP EC welcome Graciela and wish her every success in her new role.

The LAAAMP (Light sources for Africa, the Americas, Asia, Middle East and Pacific) project is an international initiative to broaden and democratise the use of synchrotron radiation around the world. This IUPAP–IUCr–ICTP joint programme was started in 2016 through a grant awarded by the ISC. More details can be found on the LAAAMP website.