Letter from the Director

Notes from the Director

My years at MSRI have been immensely exciting and rewarding. The job is incredibly varied, the staff excellent, the community highly supportive. The Institute is prospering, and there are many new opportunities for action. Having done this job since 1997, I feel I see possibilities I would not have understood when I began. I cannot imagine a mathematical-administrative job more exciting than th...

Message from the Director - General

From the Desk of the Executive Director.

A Message from the Director Steven Ealick

In May 2009, NE-CAT applied for a high end equipment grant from NCRR to fund the purchase of a Pixel Array Detector (PAD). As a class, PADs are generally acknowledged as the near-term successor to CCD’s at 3rd generation synchrotron crystallography beamlines. The PILATUS-6M, from Dectris Ltd., is the first commercially available PAD suitable for synchrotron-based macromolecular crystallographic...

A Message from the Director Steven

A Message from the Director Steven Ealick Welcome to the latest edition of NE-CAT Communications, our biannual newsletter. NE-CAT concludes 2009 very successfully with excellent scientific productivity and improvements in all areas. The installation of an improved ALS-style sample automounter on the 24-ID-E monochromatic beamline is complete and the improvements have received rave reviews from ...