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ASFAP budgets and timelines

Kétévi A. Assamagan

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These working groups have budget and timelines in their chapters

  • Light Sources
  • Compact Light Sources
  • Quantum Strategy for Africa
  • Early Career Physicists
  • Instrumentation and Detectors
  • Earth Science
  • Biophysics
  • Plasma Physics
  • Atmospheric Pollution
  • Medical Waste Incineration

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Many of these were presented and discussed in previous meetings

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1697608/

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10-year implementation plan

  • Until an update of ASFAP
    • Which ASFAP recommendations are actionable?
    • Which actionable recommendations can be implemented within that time scale?
  • Implementing actionable recommendations
    • Requires projects
    • Many projects but not enough money
    • What can we do if given some limited amount of money with a limited time?
    • Evaluations
    • Return on Investment
  • Project prioritization
    • Natural for people to want to prioritize their own projects
    • Discussions may get difficult. Friendships and allegiances may be tested. Some folks might become unhappy
    • But we need to go thru this exercise in Africa for growth so that …
  • When asked
    • “What do you want from the ASFAP report?”
    • “If given $X in Y years, what can you?”
    • We will have one concerted answer

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Light Sources

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Compact Light Sources

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Phase

Duration (years)

Budget (Million Euros)

1- Mammography

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16.2 (const.) + 4x 1.6 (op./ year)

2- Advanced radiotherapy

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6.2 (upgrade) + 2x1.8 (op./year)

3 – Nuclear photonics

3

33.6 (const.) + 5 (op./year)

Total

9

56 (const.) + yearly op. cost

Proposal:

multi-disciplinary, regional

compact light sources

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Early Career Physicists

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Proposal:

Establish a continental Young Physicists Organization. To develop research, education and capacity. Proposal includes land acquisition, construction, commissioning and first 3 years of operation

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Quantum Strategy for Africa

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Instrumentation & Detectors

  • Proposal for a school of instrumentation:
  • International Centre for Instrumentation School of Africa (ICEPA)

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Earth Science

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Biophysics

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Plasma Physics

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Atmospheric Pollution

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Medical Waste Incineration

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All projects

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All projects without the African Light Source

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Projects Commonalities

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LABORATORIES

UNIVERSITIES

PROJECT A, D, E, …

PROJECT B, C, …

INDUSTRIES

ENTREPRENEURSHIPS

POLICIES

GRANTS

SCHOLARSHIPS

FELLOWSHIPS

JOB CREATION

RETENTION

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

CAREER MOBILITY

COLLABORATIONS

RESEARCH MOBILITY

EDUCATION & RESEARCH

Capacity development

Young Physicists

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Inter-related communities of engagements

  • To reduce costs and towards a joint proposal, define:
    • Common education target for all projects
    • Common research facility with core education, training and support for early careers, for all projects.
    • Common basic infrastructure
    • Then identify additions / extras specific to different projects
    • In so doing, iterate to reduce costs
    • do this for a 10-year time scale
  • Arrive at a joint proposal
  • Produce a short proposal write up

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Education

Industry

Academia

Laboratory

Policy

Society

What is common to all proposed projects?�Refer to pages 4-13

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It will be an iterative process / discussions until we emerge with a written proposal

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