Australian Collaboration for Accelerator Science

Significant step towards development of malaria vaccine

WEHI and collaborators use synchrotron techniques to elucidate binding mechanism

Fine-tuning chemistry produces stability in bismuth oxide

Spectroscopy elucidates oxidation states and local structures

Triggers of tree mortality published in Nature

WSU researchers used IMBL to get insights into impact of dehydration

A super "receptor" that kills HIV infected cells

MX beamlines used by Monash researchers in collaboration with Pasteur Instutute

ACAS Events

For students:

ACAS School for Accelerator Science 2010
13-17 December 2010, Sydney, ANSTO Lucas Heights

For professionals:

ACAS Workshop on Accelerator Feedback Systems 2010
13-15 December 2010, Sydney, ANSTO Lucas Heights

ACAS Information

Accelerator science is both a discipline in its own right within modern physics and a provider of high-powered tools for discovery and innovation in all fields of scientific research. As such, it holds a distinguished position in enabling and shaping the modern world from discovery and study of the atomic properties of materials to biomedical research and treatment of illnesses and finally to the fundamental understanding of how the universe was created.

Throughout its history, Australia has participated in and made key contributions to the field of accelerator science, including the invention of the synchrotron acceleration principle. To maintain state-of-the-art accelerator-based facilities in Australia, the Australian Synchrotron, the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), The University of Melbourne and The Australian National University have established the Australian Collaboration for Accelerator Science: ACAS.

The aims of ACAS are to: