LEAPS
League of European Accelerator-based Photon Sources
As of 1 January 2020 LEAPS has a new chair, former vice-chair Caterina Biscari, Director ALBA Synchrotron. The symbolic LEAPS baton was handed over to her by the outgoing chair Helmut Dosch at the General Assembly in November.
New vice-chair is Leonid Rivkin, PSI together with Helmut Dosch, DESY.
The two-day Plenary at PSI in Switzerland contained several interesting workshops and a presentation by Adam Tyson, Head of Unit, Research & Industrial Infrastructures, European Commission. Find the full report here: https://leaps-initiative.eu/events/passed-events/
On this first day of the second LEAPS Plenary, the participants will hear about the LEAPS status and outlook, ExPaNDs and PaNOSC. In the afternoon all the workgroups within LEAPS will meet and discuss future steps.