European neutron facilities come together for LENS General Assembly

The League of advanced European Neutron Sources (LENS) with the participation of PSI held its second General Assembly at Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) together with meetings of its five working groups and the LENS Executive Board. The meetings brought the consortium’s operational working groups together with the leaders of the LENS member facilities to advance priority actions for the organisation in the months to come. The all-hands meetings allowed the working groups, which are made up of individuals spread across the nine member facilities of LENS, to present their work-in-progress for the first time to the organisation as a whole. 

“The meeting was very positive, and highly productive,” said LENS Chair Helmut Schober, who is director of ILL. “We have been able to reach consensus on many open issues and this provides us the basis for moving forward with the promising work that was presented here this week.”

The LENS working groups are exploring everything from funding strategies and user access policies to the collaborative development of new technologies and data management protocols. The overall objective of the work is to foster an effective working relationship among large-scale European neutron science facilities.