e2v supports the EIROforum school on space and ground based scientific instrumentation
e2v, a leading designer, developer and manufacturer of imaging sensors and cameras is pleased to have sponsored the first School on Instrumentation which has taken place at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland from 11th to 15th May.
The EIRO Forum School of Instrumentation (ESI) is a biannual event, jointly organised by the Instrumentation Working Group of the EIRO forum (made up of the seven large European intergovernmental research organisations including the European Space Agency). The scientific programme of ESI addresses all aspects of instrumentation related to the missions of the EIRO forum organisations.
The objective of ESI is to teach detector physics and the basic principles of instrumentation to around 70 young graduate students and post-docs in physics and engineering, mainly from the EIRO organizations. A number of the places have been reserved for particularly talented (PhD) students from outside the EIRO organisations who work on instrumentation topics.
Dr. Christian Joram from the CERN Physics Department said “ESI closes a long standing gap in the European training landscape. The first school offered great training opportunities for our junior researchers and allowed for an exceedingly active exchange between the more than 30 senior researchers from the EIRO organizations who gave a broad spectrum of high quality courses.”
Brian McAllister, General Manager of the Imaging Divison at e2v said “At e2v, our engineers design imaging sensors for instrumentation on a number of successful space missions including; ESA’s ENVISAT for Earth environmental analysis, CNES Corot for exoplanet searching, NASA’s Hubble and Kepler space telescopes and NT Space’s Kaguya for moon exploration. We are therefore proud to support this school which is developing the future designers of instrumentation to serve future space missions and science projects.”
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