LAAAMP is pleased to announce that Sekazi Mtingwa, together with Gihan Kamel and Simon H. Connell, have been awarded the 2025 APS John Wheatley Award. Read the full motivations here.


Posted 21 Oct 2024

The 2025 edition of the ICTP School on Synchrotron Light Sources and their Applications, co-organised by LAAAMP, will take place on 13-24 January 2025. The school is online and registration is free. No prior expertise is needed. Application deadline: 12 December 2024.


Posted 17 Oct 2024

Three special sessions on AfLS, GCLS/LAMISTAD and SMLS are scheduled on Thursday, 26 September for the United Nations General Assembly Science Summit 2024. Click on Read more to see the full programme and attend the conference.

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Posted 26 Sep 2024

Graciela Diaz de Delgado has been nominated by the IUCr as the new IUCr delegate in the LAAAMP Executive Committee. 

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Posted 02 Jul 2024

Call for applications for Faculty-Student Teams to spend 2 months during 2025 at participating AdLSs now open. DEADLINE: 31 October 2024.


Posted 19 Apr 2024

Apply now for the ICTP School on Synchrotron Light Sources and their Applications, co-organised by LAAAMP. The school is online and registration is free. No prior expertise is needed. Application deadline: 10 December 2023.


Posted 30 Oct 2023

Register now for the 2024 high-school teachers workshop at Sirius, Brazil. Dates: 15-19 Jan 2024. Application deadline: 24 Oct 2023.


Posted 19 Oct 2023

Registrations are open for the 2023 edition of the high school teachers online workshop, co-hosted by LAAAMP and SLRI Thailand. Dates: 10-19 July 2023. Registration deadline: 6 July 2023.


Posted 08 Jun 2023

Call for applications for Faculty-Student Teams to spend 2 months during 2024 at participating AdLSs now open. DEADLINE: 27 October 2023.


Posted 15 Mar 2023

Sekazi Mtingwa, co-founder and chair of LAAAMP, was selected to receive this award for how his contributions to the scientific community, research workforce, and society have shaped research, public policy, and the next generation of scientific leaders. Watch the video of the Prize Ceremony.


Posted 24 Feb 2023

Registrations are open for the ICTP School on Synchrotron Light Sources and their Applications, co-organised by LAAAMP. There is no registration fee. APPLICATION DEADLINE: 5 January 2023.

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Posted 02 Dec 2022

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Posted 01 Dec 2022

We are excited to welcome Sirius, the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Source, as a new LAAAMP Partner. We look forward to a fruitful collaboration!


Posted 29 Nov 2022

Apply now to attend the 2-week X-ray crystallography training session at the X-TechLab, Cotonou (Benin), 21 November - 2 December 2022.  DEADLINE: 25 October 2022.

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Posted 06 Oct 2022

Call for applications for Faculty-Student Teams to spend 2 months during 2023 at participating AdLSs now open. DEADLINE: 28 October 2022.

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Posted 30 Sep 2022

Join this virtual workshop to be held on 21 September 2022, 3:00-4:30PM CET, as a side event of the ICRI 2022 Conference.

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Posted 26 Sep 2022

LAAAMP and the African Light Source invite all potential applicants to the 2023 FAST Team call (deadline 30 Sept 2022) to join the LAAAMP-AfLS workshop on 8 September

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Posted 08 Aug 2022

How can SESAME address research needs and challenges of African scientific communities? Discover more at this virtual event that will take place on 6 July 2022.

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Posted 20 Jun 2022

Posted 23 May 2022

The Canadian Macromolecular Crystallography Facility (CMCF) will host a two-week virtual course covering all phases of the experimental process, from data collection to processing to structure solution. Dates: 18 November - 2 December 2022

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Posted 18 May 2022

Call for applications for Faculty-Student Teams to spend 2 months during 2023 at participating AdLSs now open. DEADLINE: 30 September 2022.

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Posted 22 Apr 2022

Read this article on ESRF News telling the story of Gideon Chinamatira from Zimbabwe, who spent two months at the ESRF thanks to a LAAAMP grant.


Posted 30 Mar 2022

Are you a high school teacher? Are you interested in connecting your students to learning through research? Then apply to this SESAME-CLS-LAAAMP virtual workshop. DEADLINE: 20 December 2021.

Posted 09 Nov 2021

Registrations are still open for this ICTP virtual meeting, co-sponsored by LAAAMP, to be held on 6-17 Dec 2021. Deadline: 20/11/2021.

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Posted 09 Nov 2021

Huge congratulations to LAAAMP co-founder and EC member Sekazi K. Mtingwa, who has been awarded the prestigious inaugural International Science Council's Policy-for-Science Award 2021 in recognition of his 30+ years involvement in enhancing STEM opportunities around the world, especially in Africa.

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Posted 12 Oct 2021

LAAAMP and the Canadian Light Source invite high school science teachers to apply for taking part in a unique learning experience as part of the CLS Educators’ Science Projects 2021. DEADLINE: 15 April 2021.

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Posted 24 Feb 2021

Call for applications for Faculty-Student Teams from the Pacific Islands to spend 2 months during 2021 at participating AdLSs now open. DEADLINE: 31 December 2021.

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Posted 15 Jan 2021

LAAAMP announces expansion of activities to the Pacific Islands. The Regional Committee is currently being constructed and a Call for Fast Team Applications from the Pacific will be issued soon.


Posted 29 Aug 2020

The LAAAMP brochure is now available for free download in five different languages. Thanks to IAEA for providing the Portuguese translation.

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Posted 31 Jul 2020

Posted 11 May 2020

[...] The partners agree to enter into a collaborative agreement whereby the LAAAMP will lead in capacity building for the African Light Source project […]

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Posted 28 Apr 2020

What is the response of light sources around the world in opening their facilities to fight the COVID-19? This and much more, including an article on LAAAMP, in the new issue of AfLS Newsletter.


Posted 24 Apr 2020

Congratulations to Özgül Öztürk and Marielle Y. Agbahoungbata on being nominated members of the LAAAMP Executive Committee

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Posted 21 Apr 2020

The National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) and the Advanced Photon Source (APS) are accepting samples via mail-in access for studies related to COVID-19. LAAAMP is covering postal charges through the SPARC initiative.

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Posted 08 Apr 2020

Excellent article featuring LAAAMP aims and achievements by Signi Livingstone-Peters. Read it here.


Posted 08 Apr 2020

Only 10 days left now to apply for the May 2020 training session, which will focus on single-crystal structure determination. Participants are strongly encouraged to bring their own samples. 

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Posted 03 Mar 2020

Read the article "LAAAMP Brings International Researchers to the Advanced Light Source" by Cindy Lee in the ALS news.


Posted 03 Feb 2020

Michele Zema (IUCr Executive Outreach Officer) succeeds Sekazi Mtingwa as Chair of the LAAAMP Executive Committee.


Posted 22 Jan 2020

Thanks to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for providing the translation of the LAAAMP brochure into Arabic, its layouting and an initial print run of 500 copies. Download it for free here!


Posted 16 Dec 2019

See the photos of the Public Open House event on 29 November 2019 at the University of Maroua, Cameroun where the LAAAMP brochures were distributed to visitors.

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Posted 12 Dec 2019

Registrations are open for the School on Advanced Light Sources: Principles, Methods and Multidisciplinary Applications, ICTP, Trieste, 20 April - 1 May 2020

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Posted 14 Nov 2019

Posted 04 Nov 2019

It's official! LAAAMP will be featured at the next World Science Forum 2019 hosted by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences under the main theme “Science, Ethics and Responsibility”.

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Posted 17 Jul 2019

Thierry d'Almeida presents the X-TechLab platform at ORTB (Office de Radiodiffusion et Télévision du Bénin)

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Posted 24 Jun 2019

Dr J. Hester (ANSTO, Australia) will deliver a Colloquium Presentation on "Planning diffraction experiments at large-scale facilities" at the Crystallographic Information Fiesta, Naples (Italy), 29 Aug - 3 Sept 2019.


Posted 09 May 2019

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Posted 10 Apr 2019

FAculty-STudent (FAST) teams awardees of the 3rd LAAAMP call announced. Five continuing teams plus ten new teams will spend two months at one of the partner AdLSs during Calendar Year 2019.

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Posted 09 Apr 2019

A workshop on the various application domains of high-resolution synchrotron radiation (SR) tomography will be held at the Cyprus Institute on 27-28 June 2019. Registration deadline: 26 May 2019. There are no registration fees.

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Posted 09 Apr 2019

FAST Team students are invited to apply for this 5-day intensive school on macromolecular crystallography at the Canadian Light Source. DEADLINE: 14 April 2019

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Posted 03 Apr 2019

An improved version of the 2nd edition of the LAAAMP brochure is now available for download in English, French and Spanish.


Posted 25 Mar 2019

The March 2019 issue of the IUPAP Newsletter features an article by the LAAAMP EC reporting about the major outcomes of the project so far and the planned activities for 2019 and beyond.


Posted 04 Mar 2019

The AfCA is aimed at bringing together scientists from all over Africa, implementing educational and research activities and opening new facilities, with particular focus on crystallography and all related disciplines.

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Posted 12 Feb 2019

LAAAMP hits the stage at UNESCO at the IYPT2019 opening ceremony as an example of international collaboration.

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Posted 06 Feb 2019

Ghana will champion the AfLS to make it an official project of the African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

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Posted 06 Feb 2019

In this article on IUCr Newsletter (2018), Vol. 26, No. 2, Dr Thierry D'Almeida describe the XTech-SD project at Sèmè City.


Posted 11 Jan 2019

The deadline for applications from Africa and the Caribbean regions has been extended until 15 February 2019. Apply here.


Posted 17 Dec 2018

Dr Thierry D’Almeida has presented the LAAAMP project and new initiatives to the President of Benin and His Cabinet.

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Posted 27 Sep 2018

LAAAMP will be featured in the programme of the joint conference of IX Mexican National Congress of Crystallography, XII Mexican National Congress of Microscopy and VIII National Meeting for Synchrotron Users in Mexico.

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Posted 12 Sep 2018

The 2nd African Light Source Conference will be held jointly with the 2nd Panafrican Conference on Crystallography in Accra, Ghana, on 28 Jan to 2 Feb 2019.

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Posted 10 Sep 2018

The third Call for Applications by LAAAMP for Faculty-Student Teams to spend 2 months during Calendar Year 2019 at participating AdLSs is now open.
DEADLINE: 15 November 2018.

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Posted 18 Aug 2018

Big congratulations to Dr Kirsi Lorentz and her team from The Cyprus Institute on becoming the first users at SESAME. Kirsi and her student Grigoria Ioannou have been recipients of LAAAMP FAST grants in 2017 and 2018. 

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Posted 10 Aug 2018

Download the LAAAMP brochure for free! 


Posted 19 Jul 2018

LAAAMP will be featured in the programme of the 21st General Meeting and Conference of the Caribbean Academy of Science

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Posted 12 Jul 2018

The contribution submitted by LAAAMP to the next European Crystallography Meeting has been accepted for oral presentation!

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Posted 24 May 2018

LAAAMP is now partnering with the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. LAAAMP information pages will appear in all issues until the end of 2019. Vouchers for open-access articles will be available for FAST teams.

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Posted 23 May 2018

LAAAMP will be present at the next Latin America and the Caribbean Open Science Forum (CiLAC 2018) with a dialogue session on Implementing Advanced Light Source facilities in Latin America and the Caribbean for sustainable socio-economic development.

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Posted 21 May 2018

Version 2 of the LAAAMP brochure (English edition) is now available for download. French and Spanish versions coming soon!


Posted 17 May 2018

LAAAMP is present at the 1st edition of the International Day of Light, which is celebrated today, 16 May 2018 at UNESCO, Paris.

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Posted 16 May 2018

FAculty-STudent (FAST) teams from Southeast Asia are invited to apply for a LAAAMP grant to spend 2 months during Calendar Year 2018 at participating AdLSs. DEADLINE: 1 June 2018.

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Posted 10 Apr 2018

In their article published on Modern Physics Letters A, Sekazi K. Mtingwa and Herman Winick discuss the role that synchrotron light sources could play in improving the socioeconomic conditions in developing countries.


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Posted 10 Apr 2018

The IUPAP Newsletter, March 2018 issue, features an article entitled "LAAMP on the Move" by S. Mtingwa, S. Scandolo and M. Zema. Read it here.


Posted 23 Mar 2018

Expansion of the project to Asia and its renaming into LAAAMP is effective as of 7 March 2018. See the new logo and bookmark the new URL!

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Posted 08 Mar 2018

Expansion of the project to Southeast Asia has been approved by ICSU. The project will soon be renamed LAAAMP.

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Posted 07 Feb 2018

Have you missed the LAAMP session at the WSF2017? or were you there and want to listen again to some of the presentations? The full video of the event is now available here.


Posted 06 Feb 2018

FAculty-STudent (FAST) teams awardees of the 2nd LAAMP call announced. Six continuing teams plus ten new teams will spend two months at one of the partner AdLSs during Calendar Year 2018.

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Posted 06 Feb 2018

Version 1 of the LAAMP brochure entitled “Advanced Light Sources and Crystallography: Tools of Discovery and Innovation”, edited by Ernie Malamud, is now available for download here.


Posted 12 Jan 2018

Sekazi Mtingwa succeeds Sandro Scandolo as Chair of the C13 "Physics for Development" Commission of the IUPAP and, as such, has been nominated new Chair of the LAAMP Executive Committee. Congratulations, Sekazi!


Posted 11 Jan 2018

ESRF News, issue November 2017, features an article on "ESRF trains synchrotron scientists from Africa, the Americas and the Middle East". 


Posted 01 Dec 2017

Andrea Lausi (Elettra Synchrotron Trieste, Italy and lightsources.org) will talk about LAAMP during his plenary lecture entitled "Cooperative brightness" at the 7a Reunión de Usuarios de Luz Sincrotrón, which will be help in León, Guanajuato, Mexico on 3 to 6 October 2017.


Posted 04 Oct 2017

A thematic session sponsored by LAAMP and entitled "Light Sources and Crystallographic Sciences for Sustainable Development" has been approved to be part of the programme of the next World Science Forum.

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Posted 27 Sep 2017

URGENT!! Please take a few minutes to fill in the LAAAMP survey and help develop a database of AdLS and crystallography users and facilities used in the targeted regions of the project. Thanks!


Posted 22 Sep 2017

The second Call for Applications by LAAMP for Faculty-Student Teams to spend 2 months during Calendar Year 2018 at participating AdLSs is now open.
DEADLINE: 15 November 2017.

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Posted 15 Sep 2017

A LAAMP kick-off event has been successfully hosted by the 24th Congress and General Assembly of the IUCr in Hyderabad.

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Posted 14 Sep 2017

Faculty-student teams awardees of the 1st LAAMP call announced. Eight teams will spend two months at one of the partner AdLSs in the period June-Dec 2017.

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Posted 26 Jun 2017

The IUCr Newsletter features a full article on LAAMP. The project is also mentioned by the IUCr President in his editorial.

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Posted 26 Jun 2017

Read the Editorial "SESAME and beyond" on Science magazine by Sekazi K. Mtingwa (member of the LAAMP EC) and Herman Winick.

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Posted 29 May 2017

9 Fellowships reserved to nationals of SESAME Members to spend a period of 4 to 12 weeks at OPEN SESAME European Facilities.

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Posted 26 May 2017

Call for applications for Faculty-Student Teams to spend 2 months during June - December 2017 at participating AdLSs now open. DEADLINE: 21 April 2017.

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Posted 31 Mar 2017

The first meeting of the main proposers and coordinators of the IUPAP-IUCr project was held on 14 February 2017 via teleconference. The acronym LAAMP (Lightsources for Africa, the Americas and the Middle East Project) was chosen to refer to the whole initiative. The LAAMP Executive Committee has been nominated and is formed by: Sandro Scandolo (Chair), Michele Zema and Sekazi Mtingwa.

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Posted 30 Mar 2017

We are delighted to report that the IUPAP-IUCr project “Utilisation of Light Source and Crystallographic Sciences to Facilitate the Enhancement of Knowledge and Improve the Economic and Social Conditions in Targeted Regions of the World” has been approved and funded under the 2016-2019 ICSU Grants Programme.

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Posted 30 Mar 2017