On November 20th, New York State Senator Anna Kaplan, D-Great Neck, visited Wilson Lab to learn more about the Cornell-Brookhaven ERL Test Accelerator, CBETA. This new prototype accelerator is a collaboration between Brookhaven National Lab, (near Kaplan’s district on Long Island), and Cornell scientists. In time, the CBETA project is expected to become the most energy-efficient, high performance accelerator ever built. Both CHESS and CBETA benefit from the extensive accelerator research and resources at the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education, or CLASSE. While touring CBETA, Kaplan stopped at CHESS to meet with staff scientists and discuss some of the new tools and resources that are available to users.
On December 4th, CHESS also welcomed Ewa Deelman and Arniban Mandal to explore collaborations on cyber infrastructure. Ewa and Arniban were able to visit the newly built CHESS beamlines and discuss the increasing dependence on advanced cyberinfrastructure at CHESS, and other NSF-supported users facilities.
NSF's major multi-user research facilities, like CHESS, are sophisticated research instruments and platforms, where scientists and the public gain new insights into fundamental questions about materials and the world we live in.
As CHESS has expanded its techniques and capabilities through CHESS-U, the lab is looking to also meet the demands that require a robust cyberinfrastructure, including the computing, data and software systems, networking, and associated human capital to enable broad delivery and analysis of facility-generated data