Posted by: Johan Långberg in usa, sweden, oxford, knoxville, icns, garden of eden, exhibition, ess scandinavia, denmark, colin carlile on
May 8, 2009
ESS Scandinavia team have had a successful week at the International Conference on Neutron Scattering, ICNS, in Knoxville. Our exhibition material first got stuck in the US customs but when it finally arrived and was set up, scattered visitors gathered around our booth refrESShing themselves with our Swedish spring water. We've been talking to a lot of visitors, promoting the multilateral European ambition to develop and build the world's next generation neutron source. We've 
handed out all our publications and booklets describing ESS Scandinavia's work to achieve this. People also showed great interest, turning the pages all week, in the new book "Experimental Neutron Scattering" written by Colin Carlile and B.T.M Willis (Oxford University Press).
Numerous apples of ESSS knowledge were eaten and the ISIS director Andrew Taylor seemed amused by the ESSS Garden of Eden atmosphere. Even the conference T-shirts, worn by our Swedish/Danish ESSS staff, have caused people to queue and sign up on a list in order to get one.
Something's coming, something good!
As we enter the Conference Centre in Knoxville, Tennessee, there are notices on all the doors "No weapons are allowed inside the Conference Centre. Please leave all guns behind." I would be the first to admit that sometimes talks can drag on and on - I am no innocent in this area myself - but surely shooting the speaker is a punishment too far... Or is it?
