Important Events
7th October 2013 First User's Meeting of the Indian Beamline at Photon Factory, KEK, Japan
17th March 2012 Inauguration of this website in Indo-Japan Science Council Meeting held on 17th March, 2012.
20th February 2012 Mr. Alok Prasad, Ambassador of India to Japan and Dr. Chadaram Sivaji, Councellor, Science and Technology visited Indian Beamline.
23rd January 2012 Dr. Srikumar Banerjee, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission visited Indian Beamline at Photon Factory.
11th March 2011 The great east Japan earthquake disrupted the whole experimental setup in the beamline.
6th October 2010 Mr. Prithviraj Chavan, Minister of State for Ministry of Science and Technology visited Indian Beamline at Photon Factory.
23rd March 2010 Opening ceremony of Indian Beamline Office, PF, KEK
25th June 2009 1st Indian Beamline Steering Committee Meeting at Embassy of India, Tokyo
June 2009 Assessment experiments of BL-18B started using the diffractometer leased by PF.
22nd Oct 2008 Signing of MOU by His Excellency, Ambassador H. K. Singh and Dr. O. Shimomura, at Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singhs visit to Japan
March 2008

Dr. Shimomura (Director, IMSS, KEK) and Prof. Nomura visited SINP to discuss about the draft of DPR.

Feb 2008 DST presented the draft of DPR to KEK.
27th Aug 2007 Meeting in Bangalore with all the scientists mentioned in this project and Prof. C.N.R. Rao to finalize the outline of Detailed Project Report (DPR).
23rd Aug 2007 Included in the signed Joint statement issued by the India & Japan Prime Ministers: "Science and Technology Number 21". The two leaders welcomed the signing of this Letter of Intent, recalling the discussion in the India-Japan Science Council co-hosted by DST and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
24th July 2007 Meeting at Photon Factory to decide the future actions about this project. Signing of the Letter of Intent on Scientific and Technological Cooperation between the Department of Science and Technology of India (DST) and the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization of Japan (KEK).
May 2007 Discussion with leading scientists [Prof. Vijayan (IISc), Prof. Sood (IISc), Prof. Sarma (IACS), Prof. Sharma (BARC), Prof. Sanyal (SINP)] in presence of Prof. C.N.R. Rao and representative (Dr. Asthana) of Dr. Ramasami (Secretary, DST, India) to decide science outline of this beamline.
April 2007 Discussion with Prof. M. Nomura at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics to investigate the possible locations of this beamline.
March 2007 Discussion between Prof. C.N.R. Rao, Prof. M.K. Sanyal and Prof. Y. Iwasawa to obtain council′s endorsement for setting up a beamline during India-Japan Science council meeting.