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Wednesday September 28th
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13:30-13:40	Welcome Robert McGreevy
13:40-15:00 JRA OVERVIEWS	JRA3 - Neutron Optics –Phase Space Transformation Peter Böni Technische Universität München. JRA3 NO-PST All the tasks within the project JRA3 have proceeded well. In particular, the various focusing techniques have been tested out and the anticipated gains have been achieved. Most of the projects are already in a state that they can be applied to real experiments.	More information on the JRA3 Website: Find there the Talks of the JRA3 Public meeting
	JRA2 MILAND Bruno Guerard Institut Laue-Langevin (PDF 1773MB) Millimetre Resolution Large Area Neutron Detector. Several prototypes of detectors are currently studied for MILAND. One of them, the Multi Wires Proportional Chamber, has already been tested with a neutron beam; a spatial resolution of 1 mm over a sensitive length of 32 cm has been measured, making it the most accurate detector of this size realized so far. In a parallel development, a new concept of detector, based on the combination of light and charge measurement has been introduced.	More Information about MILAND on the JRA2 Website
	JRA1 DETNI Burckhard Gebauer Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin (PDF 2.4MB) In the JRA DETNI (Detectors for Neutron Instrumentation) for very high rate and resolution applications three novel neutron detector types and the necessary highly integrated readout electronics based on novel self-triggered ASICs and FPGA data processing boards are being developed. During the past 17 months of the contract period for all tasks good progress was achieved ahead of or in accordance with the work plan.	More information on the JRA1 Website
	JRA4 NSF - Neutron Spin Filters Eddy Lelièvre-Berna Institut Laue-Langevin (PDF 0.875 MB) A few neutron scattering facilities are now able to polarise 3He gas and prepare spin filter cells. Novel equipment have also started to appear for storing, transporting and flipping spin filters. They facilitate and promote the use of spin filters on instruments.	More information on the JRA4 Website. Find there the Talks of the JRA4 public meeting
15:00-15:10	Access summary & Reporting and Budget status Julie Bellingham ISIS- RAL (PDF 0.856 MB) We’re well on target for 5000 days! At the end of year 2, we will have delivered approximately: • 4000 days • over 700 experiments We’re well on target for 5000 days!
15:10-15:30	Networking activities Helmut Schober Institut Laue-Langevin (PDF 2.259 MB) TRAINING ACTIVITIES Round 05-I - 47200 € to support Neutron and Muons Schools and Workshops NMI3 – FORESIGHT STUDIES NESE 2005 (Symposium on Neutrons Earth Sciences and Environment) EGU2005 Vienne (Autriche) 25-29 April 2005 80 Participants, 32 Speakers, 30 Posters, 18 000 € NMI3 subvention. Upcoming joint events: BioMaN - BioMaterials and Neutrons (Boston, 31st October 2005) NMI3 Subvention: 5 000 € RICH - Research Infrastructures for Cultural Heritage, 12-13 December 2005, Trieste	See here the NESE Summary: talks and more See here the Schools and Workshops granted IV NMI3 ROUND FOR PROPOSALS
16:00-17:20 JRA OVERVIEWS	JRA5 PNT Polarized Neutron Techniques. Alexander Ioffe Forschungszentrum Jülich (PDF 1.903 MB) An expected progress have already been achieved in all the tasks of the Polarized Neutron Technique JRA. Participants are concentrating on new developments using polarized neutrons as elementary magnetic probe (3-dimensional neutron polarimetry) or as a tool for purposes of the Larmor precession based neutron instrumentation. Between the most remarkable achievements are a new non-cryogenic neutron polarimeter MUPAD, prototypes of new correction coils for high-resolution neutron-spin echo spectrometers, prototypes of large-area neutron spin flipper, spin flipper for high energy neutrons, etc.	More information on the JRA5 Pages . Talks of the (PNT & NSF) joint open session on the JRA4 Website
	JRA6 MCNSI Kim Lefmann Monte Carlo simulation of Neutron Scattering Instrumentation (PDF 0.435 MB) The MCNSI JRA is working to lift the field of neutron simulations from being a beamline design tool to facilitating a complete software description of neutron scattering experiments. Such "virtual experiments" will be useful for both experiment planning, decisions during beam time, and post experiment analysis. Virtual experiments have already proved very useful for university teaching. The present focus of MCNSI lies on the development of realistic sample components with multiple scattering - and on the necessary validation of results between simulation packages and with real experiments.	More information on MCNSI Website
	JRA7 DLAB Trevor Forsyth The D-LAB JRA aims to develop and distribute improved systems and technologies for the production of deuterium-labelled biological macromolecules and to provide more sophisticated techniques for their analysis, thus critically enhancing the use and effectiveness of European user facilities. Attention! large size file! (33.89 MB)	more information on the JRA7 Website
	JRA8 MUON-S Cesare Bucci The JRA 8 is aimed at developments in three areas: Detectors for muon spectroscopy; in particular, development of fast-timing detectors and those capable of providing position information. Instrument simulation; in particular, the development of code to enable full simulation of muon spectrometers. Advanced experimental methods, in particular development of novel pulsed techniques.	More information on the JRA8 Website. Find there the Talks presented at the JRA8 public meeting
17:20-17:30	e-Verdi Carla Andreani Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata Very Low Angle Detector Array (VLAD) completed. The devise is designed for eV neutron spectroscopy at high energy inelastic scattering (HINS) at low q.	More information on the e.verdi project pages
17:30-17:45	ENSA report Hannu Mutka Institut Laue-Langevin After a dedicated meeting in Paris earlier this year the ENSA delegates joined the NMI3 general meeting where we had two half-day sessions, with reports by facility observers and discussions concerning - prospects for neutrons in Europe (with an intervention of our guest A.Larsson on ESS-Scandinavia), - forthcoming neutron conferences (ICNS, ECNS), - ENSA user survey, - legal status for ENSA. Next meeting is foreseen in Prague, March 2006.	Have a look to the summary of the 22th ENSA meeting in Paris
17:45-18:15	ESFRI Roadmap Robert McGreevy ISIS - RAL (JPG 0.174 MB) Launch of a European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures With the appointment of the 15 Expert Groups, the process of creating Europe’s first ever Roadmap of large scale research facilities/research infrastructures has now been initiated. (extracted from the ESFRI website). One of the groups is the Neutron Expert Group. Role: To recommend to ESFRI those Neutron Infrastructure projects which are of European significance and should be included on the ESFRI roadmap.	More information: ESFRI pages - CORDIS
Thursday September 29th
09:10-09:20 New projects	Ancient Charm Giuseppe Gorini (PDF 3.534 MB) This is a EU funded ADVENTURE project under the New and Emerging Scince and Technology (NEST) programme of FP6. Aim of Ancient Charm is "To provide a new, comprehensive neutron-based imaging approach, which will be applied here for the 3D imaging of elemental and phase composition of objects selected as a result of a broad scope archaeological research.	More information about this project on the Ancient Charm Website Related information: RICH - Research Infrastructures for Cultural Heritage: bridging the current knowledge gap between research infrastructures and the cultural heritage community. 12-13 December 2005, Trieste
09:20-09:45	Neutron/muon portal activities (PDF 1.010 MB) Ana Claver Presented by Robert McGreevy. The information team is working to support the neutron community activities: Informing through the Website and the mailing list. Communicating through the forums. Making easier the organization of Conferences. Supporting the submission of proposals for training activities and informing about Foresight Workshops. Hosting ENSA, Gennesys, ESS-I, i3-NET Websites. And now serving to users and new users: The Neutron Pathfinder, developed in close collaboration with KFN. Next tasks: The “Muon Pathfinder” and a “Library”: a collection of the main neutron books.	Register here to be part of the NMI3 Informing NMI3 people 300 persons registered up to now. Use the NMI3 forums for discussion & meeting registration point Next NMI3 Networking Activities - Foresight workshops: 31 October BioMaN 12 December RICH The Neutron Pathfinder a tool designed to find the right instrument for your experiment.
09:45-10:15 ACCESS ISSUES	NFL/Sweden Robert McGreevy R2 reactor, Studsvik, Sweden Closed June 2005
	Reactor Institute Delft Menno Blaauw (PDF 1.231 MB) The Reactor Institute Delft (formerly known as the Interfaculty Reactor Institute) proposes to offer four facilities for transnational access: 1. The Spin-echo SANS instrument 2. The Poly-Axis Neutron Depolarisation Analyser 3. The intense positron beam POSH 4. The ISO-17025 accredited Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis.	Information on the Reactor Institute Delft Website.
	‘Julich at FRM-II’ Reiner Zorn Forschungszentrum Jülich (PDF 1.802 MB) Eight instruments will be operated by the new Juelich Centre for Neutron Science at FRM-II (Munich); five of them will be transferred from FRJ-2 (Juelich) and undergo the major upgrades, when others will be newly constructed. All of these instruments will be worldwide competitive and thus enable us to serve the FZJ- NMI3 user demand with dramatically increased efficiency.	Information on the Neutron Portal -News Archive - Date 13/07/04 Press release of the FZJ - Jülich. See also the press release of the Bavarian Ministry of State for Science, Research and Art. More information and a picture of the signature of the contract can be found on the site of the Committee Research with Neutrons (KFN).
10:45-10:55	I3 Network Robert McGreevy i3-NET (FP6) brings together 18 Integrated Infrastructures Initiative (I3) (I3) and 3 Coordination Actions (CA) projects. Between them these encompass hundreds of large European Research Infrastructures, ranging from telescopes to botanical collections, used by thousands of European scientists. Together they form one of the core parts of the European Research Area, with an enormous combined research capability and capacity which is of considerable importance for Europe’s future prosperity.	i3-NET is a Specific Support Action funded by the European Commission through the Research Infrastructures Activity of the 6th Framework Programme (FP6). More information on the I3net Website
10:55-11:05	FP7 Robert McGreevy Increased emphasis on Research Infrastructures as a core component of the ERA I3 likely to continue – ‘vertical’ and ‘horizontal’? Design Studies – what is relevant for neutrons/muons? Construction of New Infrastructures to be guided by a European Road Map.	More information FP7 pages - CORDIS
	Networking issues Robert McGreevy Press briefing “Research Infrastructures Nurturing Materials Science” CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, (Oxford, UK) March 2005 Organized by the European Commission. First of a series of events focusing on European Research Infrastructures. Presentation by Janez Potocnik, EU Commissioner for Science and Research. NMI3 was presented as one of the EU research projects on "Research Infrastructures in support of Materials science and technologies of tomorrow"	Detailed Information on Cordis pages
Official dinner at "The Coseners House". ILL People: NMI3 / NSF-JRA Secretary and JRA4 coordinator.	Break Break	Former Neutron Round Table Chairman - FP5 Checking emails