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WINTER SCHOOL 2010 AND ANZAAS AWARDS

In July 2010, 33 of Australia’s and New Zealand’s brightest tertiary science students gathered at the Australian Synchrotron for the facility’s second winter school.

The four-day program gave participants – Honours, Masters and early PhD students nominated by their institutions – an understanding of synchrotron techniques and operations for research purposes. Participants attended lectures, toured the facility and performed beamline experiments
that complemented their lectures.

All participants rated the winter school as either ‘excellent’ (55 percent) or ‘very good’ (45 percent). Principal organiser Jonathan de Booy said the winter school lecturers had been impressed by the high quality and enthusiasm of the participants.

Peter Kemeny from ANZAAS Victoria presented three $200 prizes to the three highest-ranked participants.

Another ANZAAS-Australian Synchrotron Winter School is planned for 2011.