NuPECC Meeting
June 17 – 18, 2011
Prague
Achim Richter, ECT* and TUD
Director’s Report
www.ect.it
Present composition of ECT*’s Scientific Board
M. Anselmino (U of Torino) 26/09/08
B. Balantekin (U of Winsconsin) 09/01/10
J.-J. Gaardhøje (U of Copenhagen) 09/01/10
S. Hands (Swansea University) 19/01/08
K. Heyde (U of Gent) 10/01/09
J-Y. Ollitrault (CEA Saclay) 10/01/09
A. Polls (U of Barcelona) 04/06/11
G. Rosner (NuPECC, U of Glasgow) 10/01/09
A. Schwenk (EMMI and TU Darmstadt) 02/10/10
Since
Scientific activities at ECT*2011
• 19 Workshops and 1 Collaboration Meeting covering the field of NP from lowest to the highest energies + related areas (Astrophysics / Cosmology)
• Doctoral Training Program from April 11 – June 17 on “Neutrinos in Nuclear–, Particle– and Astrophysics”
Programme coordinators: Baha Balantekin (U of Wisconsin)
Cristina Volpe (INP, Orsay)
Christian Weinheimer (U of Münster)
Student coordinator: Georges Ripka (Saclay and ECT*)
# of invited lecturers: 19
# of students: 15 (13 The + 2 Exp)
• Until now: 11 short– ,2 medium– and 3 long term visitors (outside workshops)
Note: 782 Visiting Scientists in 2010 (vs. 648 in 2009) from 37 countries
Staff issues
Present status of Administrative and Technical Staff at ECT*:
AS: 1 full time (Serena degli Avancini)
4 part time (Ines Campo, Susan Driessen, Tiziana Ingrassia, Gian Maria Ziglio)
TS: 2 full time (Barbara Curro’ Dossi, Mauro Meneghini: presently on sick leave
until Sep 30, 2011)
Present staff level cannot be lowered anymore for an efficient running of ECT*
Scientific personnel at ECT* 2011
6 Junior Postdocs (2 will leave in the autumn but will be replaced by 2 new ones)
3 Senior Research Associates (1 permanent)
1 Senior Research Associate (3 + 2 years) in Nuclear Many–Body Physics will be
hired in addition from Sep 01, 2011 on
Note furthermore: ECT*’s Scientific Board is presently searching for a new
director (my first three year contract ends October 31, 2011)
Status of the AURORA project
• AURORA is a High-Performance computing (HPC) project for science and engineering
administered scientifically by ECT*
• Joint effort between PAT / INFN / FBK-ECT* / U of Trento / FEM / ATreP / DEI
PADUA and industrial partners EUROTECH and INTEL
• AURORA is up and running at about 10 Tflops and is intensely used by the
AuroraScience collaboration, e.g. in the last two months as follows:
36 % by INFN
33 % by UNITN
28 % by ECT*/FBK
1 % by ATreP
2 % by others
AURORA and AuroraScience
Both documents have been submitted to the FBK/PAT and INFN on April 28, 2011 and are being evaluated
Budget and status of funding
Estimate for 2011
FBK / PAT + Outside funds (European Funding Agencies, HP2, ENSAR, QUIE2T, AURORA, …)
In 2011 499 k€ + 2.043 k€* ≈ 2.547 Mio€
[In 2010 498 k€ + 1.437 k€ = 1.935 Mio€]
[In 2009: 534 k€ + 618 k€ = 1.152 Mio€]
[In 2008: 736 k€ + 539 k€ = 1.275 Mio€]
* Under the assumption that the 2nd phase of AURORA is granted
Budget and status of funding
Note: In 2010 the contributions from European Funding Agencies and
Institutions (Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, UK) amounted
to Є 410.700
On May 28, 2011 16 requests have been sent to those Funding Agencies and
Institutions for contributions to the ECT* budget in 2011
Budget and status of funding“Giornate uomo INFN”
FP7 / Hadron Physics3
A new proposal “Study of Strongly Interacting Matter” for HP3 (2012 - 2014) built on
“upgrading of excellence” of the presently running HP2 project has been selected by
the EC in Brussels in March 2011 for funding. It has been rated by the Evaluation
Panel of Call8 of FP7 very high (13.5 of maximal 15 points). The Evaluation
Summary Report is full of significant positive statements, together with a clear
criticism about the dissemination activity on the HP website ( later).
For TNA activities (Workshops and Collaboration Meetings) ECT* had applied for
429.000 Є. Since the total requested amount of the original proposal has been cut by
the EC from 10 MioЄ to 9 MioЄ all WP’s were cut by 10%, i.e. ECT* will obtain
386.000 Є in 2012-2014.
FP7 / Hadron Physics3
Remarks made by the Evaluation Panel specifically about the ECT*:
“ECT* in Trento is the flagship European centre in theoretical Nuclear and
Hadron physics. The creation and operation of ECT* is an excellent idea which
has not yet reached the potential expected. To the Panel the scientific staff
appears in number below critical limit preventing ECT* from achieving
internationally the impact intended and justifying strong EU transnational access
support. The Panel recommends to develop a new strategy for attracting
additional funding to this very important institution in order to keep it
competitive in the long term, especially in comparison with other similar
facilities such as Kavli underwritten institutes”.
Dissemination of HP Activities Towards the Public
Specific action had to be been taken immediately by HP Project leader Carlo Guaraldo for a preparation
of a dedicated PUBLIC DISSEMINATION WEBSITE of HP (coordinated by Dr. Catalina Curceanu /
Frascati)
SRA Daniele Binosi and I supplied suitable material about the ECT* - in particular the version of the
2009 Annual Report written for the public (which can be downloaded from the link:
http://www.fbk.eu/sites/www.fbk.eu/files/ECT_inglese.pdf)
We were also asked to supply a short video about the role of ECT* as a Trans National Access facility
according to a scheme of preformulated questions provided by Carlo Guaraldo and his team in Frascati.
Daniele and I wrote a script for the video clip, and Marzia Lucianer from the FBK’s People Innovation
Unit produced the video that can be found under the
Link: http://www.fbk.eu/node/1528
Note: a slightly longer version of the video is available under the link:
http://public.hadronphysics2.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=94&Itemid=92
http://www.ect.it/TheECT/Whatis_ECT/annualreports.htm
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