Programme Outline
Our conference programme consists of joint plenaries, workshops, town hall gatherings, and streams of parallel sessions on a robust set of topics. Contributed oral presentations and posters are welcome.
Investments in big science facilities are positively related to increasing national economic outputs, increasing efficiencies, greater attractiveness for investments – domestic and foreign, improvement in training and job opportunities, reduction of disease burdens, and ultimately increases in quality of life. An advanced light source in Africa is vital if African governments and civil society are to achieve the goals of the Science, Technology, and Innovation Strategy for Africa (STISA-2034) and Agenda 2063 as well as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The African Light Source (AfLS) Development Organization endeavors to progress African Light Source Project and concomitantly all African science and engineering, and to establish an advanced light source on the African continent, along with developing all the necessary human and institutional infrastructure.
Advanced light sources are the most transformational scientific facilities currently known, impacting fields from anthropology, biophysics, and chemistry, to Earth sciences, engineering, medicine, paleontology, physics, materials science, vaccinology, and zoology.
In addition to some special topics, the conference organizers and co-conveners generally invite submissions in the following areas:
Agricultural Sciences
Food Science
Soil Science
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Data Science
Pan African Large Science Facilities
Biology
Biochemistry, Biophysics, Structural Biology, Cellular and Molecular Biology
Structural Biology in Animal Health
Structural Biology in Biotechnology
Structural Biology in Plant Biology
Structural Biology Methods
Chemistry
Biochemistry
Computational/Theoretical Chemistry
Education/Training
Geochemistry
Inorganic Chemistry
Materials Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Physical Chemistry
Crystallography
Inorganic Materials and Industrial Minerals
Crystal Engineering and Structural Chemistry
Crystallography and Life Sciences
Diffraction Physics and Phase Transitions
Engineering
Geosciences, Environmental, Earth, and Planetary Sciences
Data Science
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Mineralogy
Materials Science
Instrumentation and Mid-scale Facilities for Materials Research
Nanostructured Materials
Manufacturing and Applications
Medical Physics
Imaging
Therapy
Optics and Photonics
Beamline Optics
Photonic Materials
Laser Probes in Biology, Chemistry and Physics
Telescope Optics and Photonics
Physics
Acoustics
Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravitational Physics
Atomic and Molecular Physics
Chemical and Biological Physics
Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Data Science
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Education/Training
Fluid and Plasma Physics
Mathematical and Computational Physics
Medical Imaging and Radiotherapy
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Nuclear and Particle Physics
Optics and Photonics
X-ray and Neutron Sciences
Science Policy Advising, Advocacy, and Diplomacy
Science and Engineering Policy in Africa