Changing Seasons
Monday, September 15, 2008
I'm happy to say that "review" season for the LCLS Ultrafast Science Instruments (LUSI)project is winding down. Over the past few months the LUSI project has gone through numerous external reviews. The culmination of this season occurred three weeks ago with a Department of Energy (DOE) review. The DOE review is the one review that rules them all and, for the most part, the purpose of all the previous reviews was to prepare us for it. That preparation seemed to have paid off. The review was a success and we can now kick our design efforts into high gear. Preparing for these reviews is a tedious, time consuming job. It's a necessary process that all projects of this scale must go through, but it can easily become suffocating if you're not careful.
I, and the rest of the LUSI team, can now breathe easy. However, the review season will come again and all of the preparations will begin anew. Nonetheless, I'm going to really enjoy the time I have now to dig into the details of the instrument design and try to think of some creative ways to do things. Hopefully this will translate into some interesting blog posts! posted by David Fritz @ 12:00pm
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