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09:00-09:30
Technical report and mid term review.
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NMI3 Technical Status at the beginning of Year 3
Robert McGreevy
JRAs
Brief description for each task. See details in the presentation.
Access:
Statistics of the access programme:
Number of experiments: 596
number of beam days: 3372
Unique users: 710
Quarter of all users are female
Two thirds of users visiting a facility for the first time through NMI3.
Networking
3 NMI3 scientific meetings and 6 Foresight Workshops.
NMI3 Website (500 visitants per day)
Publications (3 NMI3 Brochures/ more than 8 Advertisements)
Training: 22 schools and 20 workshops funded in the first five calls for proposals
Management summary
Robert McGreevy and Julie Bellingham
Scientific/technical management
Administrative and financial management
2 annual reports submitted. The first accepted and payment received.
Electronic networks
Forums
Job vacancies and up coming events.
Online Proposal Submission, the Evaluation and the Reporting Systems.
Finance partially reported online.
Contact with other FP6 and relevant projects
I3 net, a network of the I3 coordinators and managers began at the start of 2006.
Coordinated by Robert McGreevy
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See detailed agenda  (WORD 0.040 MB)
Electronics Networks: are you already registered on the NMI3 online system? Registration
NMI3 Annual Reports (restricted access)
Visit the I3 net Website
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09:30-10:10
EC representatives
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Mid term review feedback from EC representatives.
Elena Righi-Steele, Stefano Fontana |
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Comments and questions from the NMI3 GA
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10:30-11:00
Coffee |
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11:00-11:10
SNS status
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Spallation Neutron Source the ramp up to power
Ian Anderson
 (PDF 2.654 MB)
SNS produced neutrons on April 28.
SNS Backscattering Spectrometer: First Scattered Neutrons May 23, 2006
Magnetism Reflectometer: First Neutrons July 21, 2006
Diagram with the Schedule for Instrument build up
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11:10-11:20
The neutron and muon portal
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Activity report: progress and projects
Ana Claver (PDF 1.771 MB)
Neutron Library: Classic Reference books and Proceedings of Schools.
Search by keywords. Link to the full collection of books or proceedings.
Muons Library: to do
Picture Gallery:
A common place for Neutron and Muon pictures:
diagrams, facilities, instruments, people working,
Keywords will allow classifying the pictures by Categories.
Neutron Pathfinder: Spread it Worldwide,
including the instruments of the facilities of the rest of the world:
SNS, Japan, Canada...
Data Base of Instruments in Construction:
a list of Instruments in construction or planed and feasible.
It would be a Data Base to inform the industries supplying to this market.
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11:20-13:00
NMI3 in FP7
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General information on FP7.
FP7 preparations. Related activities in FP7 (design studies etc.)
Robert McGreevy
(Access, dissemination, JRAs. Timescales and requirements) (PDF 0.116 MB)
- NMI3 in FP7 is unlikely to have much more money (per year) than in FP6
- The EU see Access as the most important part of most I3
- 75% funding for JRA in FP7 means less activity for the same EU budget.
- FP7 is 7 years, probably only 6 years for I3.
- No indication of maximum length of I3 (6 years, 2*3 years?)
- Problem of flexibility no answers yet
SAC feedback from JRA presentations (PDF 0.116 MB)
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FP7 Cordis - home |
13:00-14:00
Lunch
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14:00-14:10
ENSA
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ENSA summary report on meeting from previous day
(PDF 0.291 MB)
Peter Allenspach elected as the new ENSA chair.
Vice-Chairman: Hannu Mutka and Secretary: Kell Mortensen (until Lund meeting).
ENSA a legal entity: Non-profit club according to Swiss Law
4th ECNS - Abstracts submissions opened on the Web!!!.
The Call to the Walter Hδlg prize will be done in November.
The Lewy-Bertaut: a new prize for young researchers.
(with European Crystallographic Association)
Follow-up of the ENSA survey
ENSA representatives: Brief reports from national user organisation.
Founding of the legal ENSA: Non-profit club according to Swiss Law.
Time line:
Strategy meeting: February 8-9, 2007, Zurich
Revision of Statutes: Lund Meeting, 2007 |
Have a look to the summary of the 25th ENSA meeting
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14:10-15:20
Access presentations*
Facilities to present in 10 minutes (5 slides):
1 overhead with overview of their scientific programme.
2 science highlights with 2 overheads each. |
ISIS Neutrons 0.583 MB)
96 projects carried out
18 different EU countries
43% of users are new to ISIS
GeNF Geesthacht Neutron Facility (GeNF). (PDF 0.533 MB)
Materials Science
Soft Matter and Biological Structures
Reactor Institute Delft (RID) (PDF 0.119 MB)
Beam days (in the first 10 months)
Health: 50/ Fundamental:5 / Materials: 5 /Neutron instrumentation:5
Forschungszentrum Jόlich (PDF 1.007 MB)
Total NMI3:
Proposed: 1316/ Accepted: 474 (36%) /Overload: 4.9
NMI3 (by numbers of proposals)
Main focus: Soft Matter
Surprisingly strong: Biology
SuS Swiss Muon Source (PDF 0.612 MB)
General Purpose Surface-Muon Instrument (GPS):
Magnetism, Superconductivity & Material Science.
Low Temperature Facility (LTF) Instrument:
Magnetism, Superconductivity & Material Science.
DOLLY: A Relocatable Surface-Muon Instrument:
Magnetism, Superconductivity & Material Science.
General Purpose Decay-Channel Spectrometer (GPD):
Magnetism, Superconductivity, Chemistry, Material Science.
Avoided Level Crossing Spectrometer (ALC):
Soft Matter & Chemistry
BCN Budapest Neutron Center (PDF 0.853 MB)
Small angle Neutron Scattering Diffractometer (SANS): 17 projects
Powder Diffractometer (PSD): 8 projects
Three-axis Spectrometer on Neutron Guide (ATHOS):1 project
Material Test Diffractometer (MTEST): 1 project
Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis (PGAA): 12 projects
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See the list of all the Science Highlights (PDF 0.091 MB) presented.
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15:20-15:50
Coffee |
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15:50-16:00
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ISMS summary report on meeting from previous day
The International Society for ΅SR Spectroscopy
(PDF 0.243 MB)
Exploration of possible ESF instruments (and other EC possibilities)
Muon schools and training courses
Updates from ISIS and PSI muon facilities
Workshop on Future Developments of European Muon Sources |
More about the International Society for ΅SR Spectroscopy
See more information about the Workshop on Future Developments of European Muon Sources
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Networking Activities
More info on the NMI3 Networking pages |
NMI3 - Education and Training
Helmut Schober
(PDF 1.843 MB)
The 9 proposals submitted to the sixth NMI3 Round for Proposals have been evaluated.
38.000 for 7 neutron training activities to be held during 2007 in 6 European countries.
The Online Proposal Reporting System has been used to evaluate the neutron training activities:
- the activities have been mainly described as "Excellent" and "Very good".
- the major part of the activities (52 of 60) meet expectations.
- main fields of work of the reporting persons: Physics, Material science, Chemistry and Life Science.
- main profession: Academic, Postgraduate student, postdoctoral research. |
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16:00-17:10
Access presentations* |
LLB Laboratorie Lιon Brillouin
(PDF 0.407 MB)
2004 & 2005 NMI3_Access
74 selected proposals:
40% Physical Chemistry and Biology.
30% Magnetism and Superconductivity.
15% Structural Studies.
15% Disordered systems, Materials Science.
FRM-II Forschungsneutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz
(PDF 0.687 MB)
Routine operations started March 2005
5 cycles of 52 days / year
August 2006 6 cycles, 363 days delivered
ISIS muons ISIS muons
(PDF 0.604 MB)
A broad range of science areas:
Probes of magnetism, superconductivity, molecular dynamics .
Complementary to neutron studies; sensitive to different timescales and very weak moments.
Light protons for semiconductors, proton diffusion, charge transport, radical chemistry, etc.
SINQ Swiss Spallation Neutron Source.
(PDF 1.353 MB)
Scientific disciplines of NMI3 funded projects:
Chemistry 3%;
Engineering & Technology 9%;
Life Science & Biotech 6%
Material Science 20%
Physics 62%
MEGAPIE (Megawatt Pilot Target Experiment)
NPL Neutron Physics Laboratory, Prague.
(PDF 6.433 MB)
Small lab compared to the large neutron-physics centers.
Focus on couple of fields where unique facilities can be provided
Access: 6 facilities (3 diffraction + 3 nuclear-analytical techniques)
HMI Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Berlin.
(PDF 0.826 MB)
Under construction: 2nd Guide Hall with 25 T Magnet |
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17:10-17:15
ECNS in Lund
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ECNS 2007 Second announcement and the poster available.
Abstracts submissions opened on the Web!!!.
Please submit your abstract now!
The organization is offering a reduce fee for Students: 20% discounts.
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ECNS Website |
17:15-17:30
AOB |
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19:30
Conference dinner |
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Supported by the EU through FP5 and FP6