Re: SESAME --- Whether SESAME is a great example of scientific collaboration is to be told by the future. So far, not a single group composed of scientists from partly very antagonistic states including Palestine, Israel, Iran, and Pakistan have actually jointly used the synchrotron facility in Allan/Jordan. If you want to read more about SESAME, we have written the first scientific paper on it, which was backed by epxert interviews and us going to Amman and Allan to do ethnographic research on it: https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/1-51/v1?src=rss

Nevertheless, SESAME can still unfold its potential, and we should not forget that the actual running of this facility (start of operations by the end of 2017) is still very young.

Source author: Tim Flink tim.flink@hu-berlin.de