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SPEAR3 Dedication
January 29, 2004
SLAC and Stanford staff and faculty, distinguished visitors, colleagues
and neighbors celebrated the dedication of SPEAR3 on Thursday, January
29, 2004. SPEAR3, whose construction and installation was completed
on time and within budget, is the Nation's newest source of synchrotron
radiation. The SPEAR3 project, jointly funded by the US Department
of Energy (DOE) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is
an example of extraordinary teamwork and cooperation between two
agencies and the more that 400 staff at SLAC who worked so hard
to achieve success. On the special occasion of the dedication, the
people who made the project successful, as well as the state-of-the-art
science that SPEAR3 will enable, were recognized in an afternoon
event that featured presentations by Stanford's President, representatives
from the DOE and NIH, the Mayor of Palo Alto, and the SSRL Director.
A special audiovisual presentation symbolically started the electrons
flowing into the new machine. Following the event were refreshments
and guided tours of the new ring. With
commissioning progressing exceptionally well, SSRL looks forward
to welcoming back its users in March to begin to take advantage
of the magnificent new properties of radiation to be provided by
SPEAR3.
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