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Posted on September 22, 2025Local Events : Save the Date: CLS User Community Forum (October 16-24, 2025)
After a challenging year of limited operations, the CLS User Community Forum offers a space to reconnect, share updates, and look ahead together. This one-day hybrid event will bring users, staff, and partners together for open dialogue about the facility’s status, future planning, and the science that continues to thrive across our community. In-person activities will be held in Convocation Hall at the University of Saskatchewan, with all sessions live-streamed for virtual participants.
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Posted on February 26, 2025Local Events : Save the Date: The 14th international Workshop on Accelerator Operations (September 22-26, 2025)
The series of Workshops on Accelerator Operations brings together professionals involved in day-to-day operation of accelerators with the goal of sharing information. By learning how others address such topics as staffing, training, documentation, commissioning, safety and maintenance, attendees can improve the efficiency of their own operations. The primary goal of the workshops is to bring together people who operate accelerators of all sizes and to help them exchange ideas about accelerator operation, performance, organization, maintenance, documentation, software, control room layout, remote operation, and safety among other topics. It also serves the accelerator operations community as a means to establish benchmarks by facilitating comparisons of methods, efficiencies, costs, reliability, beam quality and other performance measures.
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Posted on January 09, 2020Local Events : Save the Date: CT Data Processing Using UFO-KIT and Dragonfly (May 20-22, 2020)
CLS’s Annual Users’ Meeting (AUM) will take place on Saturday, May 23, 2020. The AUM will include a full agenda of scientific presentations, facility updates, and a poster session wine and cheese with prizes. From May 20-22 (few days leading to AUM) BMIT will host a workshop on the fundamentals of tomographic reconstruction, 3D visualization, and quantitative data analysis. Advanced topics such as suppression of reconstruction artifacts, batch processing, and use of machine learning for segmentation will be also discussed. Affiliates from Dragonfly will be present for present capabilities of the software. * If you plan on attending the workshop, please kindly express your interest by sending an email to Arash.Panahifar@lightsource.ca * Stay tuned for more details about full program and registration link!
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Posted on September 07, 2018Local Events : CT Data Reconstruction Workshop
BMIT will host a Workshop-Tutorial on Synchrotron-based Computed Tomography (sCT) Data Processing on October 29-30, 2018. After a general introduction to sCT data collection procedures and data structure, participants will get hands-on experience in data reconstruction using the open-source framework, ufo-kit. The scope of exercises includes most frequently encountered reconstruction steps which will ultimately be put together in a shell or python script to enable batch-processing of the data. Theoretical and practical sessions are designed to introduce both synchrotron- and laboratory-based CT users to command-based reconstruction software and to show how to efficiently process large quantities of data. Dr. Tomas Farago (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) who is one of principal co-developers of the ufo-kit software will be joining us as an invited speaker.
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Posted on December 20, 2016Local Events : FRAME Training School
FRAME Training School FRAME runs regular training schools in experimental design and statistics. Previous courses have been highly successful. FRAME has already held schools in association with universities throughout the UK, Europe and Scandinavia. The next School will be held in conjunction with the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Nottingham in Canada from 31 May – 2 June, 2017. It will precede the Canadian Council for Animal Care’s (CCAC) national workshop. http://www.frame.org.uk/training-schools/
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Posted on December 20, 2016Local Events : CCAC-2017
CCAC National Workshop 2017 The CCAC is delighted to announce that the next National Workshop will take place in Saskatoon on Saturday, June 3, 2017. This one-day workshop is designed to provide participants with practical tools and information as well as the opportunity to network with peers and create new connections.
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Posted on August 23, 2016Local Events : CLS Seminar Notice
Real-time Semiconductor Dosimetry in Radiation Therapy SPEAKER: Michael Lerch, PhD, Associate Professor and Head of the School of Physics at UOW; Leader of the Radiation Detection and Instrumentation Theme within the CMRP. DATE: Tuesday, September 6, 2016 TIME: 11:15 a.m. PLACE: CLS Rooms 2068A and 2068B
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Posted on August 09, 2016Local Events : Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology Seminar
Selected topics in musculoskeletal research –osteoporosis and other skeletal disorders DATE: August 11, 2016 TIME: 11:00 am PLACE: A226 Health Sciences
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Posted on April 18, 2016Local Events : BIOE 990 Seminar
Date and Time: April 20, 2016 (Wenesday) Location: 1B79 Engineering Building
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Posted on April 18, 2016Local Events : Café Scientifique-Saskatoon
"Storifying Science: Jounalists need great stories. Scientists have great stories to tell. Easy, right? Well, sometimes..." This month Café Scientifique-Saskatoon (co-organized by Dr. Julia Boughner and Michael Robin) presents a panel discussion with science journalists Andrea Hill (Star Phoenix), Bob Simpson (CTV) and scientist/executive director Toddi Steelman (School of Environment & Sustainability, USask). Join us for an evening of discussion with journalists and researchers as we explore what it takes to bridge the gap between complex science for professional scientists and exciting, engaging science stories for you and me. We also hope that this event will help connect local researchers and journalists to facilitate sharing exciting new science with the world. Date and Time: April 19, 2016 (Tuesday), 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Location: Winston's Pub, downstairs.
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Posted on April 18, 2016Local Events : 3rd Annual Saskatchewan Cancer Research Conference (SCRC) 2016
Date: Wednesday, June 22nd 2016 Scientific conferences often act as a welcomed source of motivation for clinicians and scientists to come together and build a translational application that can be rapidly progressed to the clinics. Although there are large international cancer conferences such as the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) conferences, they often fail to connect people that work within a local neighborhood. Towards this, the Saskatchewan Cancer Research Conference (SCRC) directly aims to bring all basic scientists and clinicians within the province of Saskatchewan to one place in a single event. We expect that this annual conference will serve as a valuable networking and learning event for students, physicians and scientists that are driven towards one goal - finding breakthrough therapeutics.
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Posted on July 22, 2015Local Events : 2015 CLSI Open House
A big thank you to all the visitors we received at BMIT for the celebration of the CLS' ten-year anniversary! About 90 people were able to visit the BMIT facility, of the 1000+ who visited the CLS for the open house. The event was a very positive experience, and an excellent opportunity to show the public our facility and exhibit the exciting research done here. Thank you all for the support which made this event possible. Pictures from the event can be found here.
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Posted on July 20, 2015Local Events : 2015 Canadian Synchrotron Summer School (CS³)
Application of synchrotron tools for: Plant & Agricultural Science and Art, Art History, & Cultural Heritage The 2015 summer school aims to educate researchers about the capabilities of the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron. We invite scientists who have little or no previous experience with synchrotron-based techniques to apply for the school. Participation is limited to 10 participants in each theme to ensure everyone is able to participate in hands-on sessions.
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Posted on February 01, 2012Local Events : BMIT Research Symposium
Featuring:• Recent research results and progress reports from theBioMedical Imaging and Therapy beamlines at theCanadian Light Source•Tour of the BMIT facility•Opportunities to discuss future life science research usingBMIT and other beamlines at the CLS
