The 2017 ISOLDE Workshop and Users meeting will be held at CERN from the 4th to 6th December. Registration for the event is now open via http://indico.cern.ch/e/ISOLDEWORKSHOP2017  .

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The 17th International Conference on Ion Sources, organized by CERN, will take place from Sunday October 15 to Friday October 20, 2017 at CERN and Geneva’s “Centre International de Conference” (CICG). Information and registration via http://icis2017.web.cern.ch/ .

The ISOLDE Newsletter for 2017 is now available here.

A Mini-Workshop will take place at CERN as part of the NuPECC meeting on the morning of 10th March 2017. More details can be found via http://indico.cern.ch/event/611038/ .

When the pre-registration (PRT) has been completed for a new User, it is now possible to get a CERN computer account and, hence, complete the on-line safety courses required for access to ISOLDE before coming to CERN. Once the pre-registration is accepted by the CERN Users office an email is sent to the User informing them how to apply for the account.

Nuclear astrophysics is the study of nuclear-level processes that occur naturally in space. Notably, this includes understanding the chain of fusion events, or nucleosynthesis, that occurs in stars, and how can we recreate them in our facilities and compare them with the observables from space. The ISOLDE Nuclear Astrophysics School will consist of morning lectures and tutorial sessions in the afternoon.

The 3rd HIE-ISOLDE cryomodule is now in its final position in the ISOLDE hall. It was transported on Tuesday the 24th of January as shown in the photo below, courtesy of E. Siesling. It was tough for the transport people due to the freezing conditions. The cryomodule is already on its jacks, the shielding tunnel roof is closed and the alignment done.

We are looking for contributions to the ISOLDE newsletter 2017. If you are interested, please send your text and figures using the template below to jenny.weterings@cern.ch before 28^th February 2017. If any PhD theses have resulted from the work please mention this in the contribution