Milano Achim Richter ECT and TUD Directors Report wwwectit 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 ID: 932305
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NuPECC Meeting
March 09-10, 2012Milano
Achim Richter, ECT* and TUD
Director’s Report
www.ect.it
Slide2Scientific 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)
Total # of participants of 806
1 Doctoral Training Program on “Neutrinos in Nuclear-, Particle –
and
Astrophysics” with 16 students attending it and with 19 lecturers
In addition: 23
short -, 2 medium – and 3 long term visitors (outside workshops)
Total # of Scientists visiting ECT* in 2011 has been 869 (an all time record high!)
Slide3ECT* Scientific visitors from 2008 - 2011
Slide42012 Programme of Activities
Slide5Slide6New Postdocs at ECT*
M.
Cristoforetti
(J Postdoc, replacing M. Alvioli, from Oct 01)
A.
Idilbi (J Postdoc, replacing S.
Melis, from Sep 01)
A. Mukherjee
(J Postdoc, replacing L. Muñoz
, from Sep 01)
Slide7Budget and status of funding
Slide8Slide9Budget and status of funding
In 2011 ECT* received from the FBK/PAT about
499
k
Є
and from third party (outside) sources (European funding agencies and various institutions and EU projects)
about 610kЄ total ECT* budget of about 1.1
Mio
Є
.Because
of the Italian financial crisis we were told by the FBK management that the whole FBK budget will be cut and ECT* (like other research institutions within FBK and PAT) has been asked to reduce its present FBK/PAT contribution also
in 2012
. Our request is
for about
493k
Є
.
EJFRC Meeting scheduled for March 19, 2012 at the ECT*.
Slide10HPC system Aurora
Report
on the 1
st phase of Aurora that has ended July 31, 2011, has been delivered in due time. Although the proposal of the AuroraScience collaboration for the 2nd
phase of the project has
been evaluated favorably by two independent committees of the PAT and of the FBK/INFN, respectively, the AuroraScience
collaboration has not yet received an official notice from the PAT/FBK and INFN about the fate of the project. Since INFN (together with other Italian institutions like SISSA, CINECA,…) is pushing meanwhile its own HPC project the perspectives for the completion of Aurora are not looking too bright. Upon
ECT*’s request two researchers (Dr. Luigi
Scorzato
and Dr. Marco Cristoforetti) and a system operator (Enrico Tagliavini
) are still being financed for 2012 within a so called strategic project financed jointly through modest PAT/FBK and INFN funds.Already at its present stage the computing time of Aurora is oversubscribed
and all efforts will be made to maintain (and possibly increase) the present computing power.
Slide11FP7/HP2 and ENSAR
FP7/HP2:
Have attended
the last
HadronPhysics2
Collaboration Committee meeting at LNF
Frascati on December 02 and 03, 2011 and presented the highlights of ECT*’s activity as a TNA facility within HP2 during the period 2009 – 2011.
FP7/HP3: Since I will be in the US, Senior RA Daniele Binosi will
partecipate
in the upcoming HP3 Governing Board meeting on March 29, 2012 in
Frascati.ENSAR
: 1
st
Collaboration meeting of JRA07 THEXO
was held on October
24 – 26 at ECT*.
ENSAR: Will attend the 2
nd
General Assembly meeting on April 24, 2012 at CERN, Geneva.
Slide12Finally remark
Professor Wolfram Weise / TU Munich has officially been offered the Directorship of ECT* from November 01, 2012 on. The process of negotiations with the FBK is
in
an advanced state, and I am already involving him in all matters concerning future developments of the ECT*.