Local host: R Cywinski


Use the links (in blue) to move through the sections of this document and to see the summaries of the presentations.

Participants
EU support for neutrons in Europe.
Research infrastructures in the ERA , Elena Righi-Steele
Neutrons in FP6 Robert McGreevy
Policy for round-table support Uschi Steigenberger and Kurt Nørgaard Clausen
Priorities in general
Period of time covered at a given round of proposals
Application forms – required information and details
The ESS presentation and the neutron users meeting in May 2002 General information about the meeting, the programme and budget for the meeting Kurt N Clausen (10 min)
The EU-Access programme user meeting , format of the meeting, logo’s on posters, etc. Robert McGreevy (10 min)
RTD-Network meetings , format of individual and common meeting in Bonn Robert McGreevy (10 min)
Criteria and level of support for the participants being funded by the Access programmes Rainer Michaelsen (10 min)
Status of activities
Status of the Neutron Round-table, Kurt N Clausen
Status of educational material for neutron scattering (CD, lecture notes etc) Francis Tasset and Robert McGreevy
Matters of common interest
Next joint meeting
News from networks and facilities (~ 5 min + questions to each)
End of meeting



Participants at the ENSA - round-table meeting
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Ch-H. de Novion, Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA/Saclay, Fr.
Pierre Monceau, Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA/Saclay, Fr.
Rainer Michaelsen, HMI-BENSC, Germany
Uschi Steigenberger, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Philip King, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
John Thomkinson, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Mike Johnson, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Robert McGreevy, Studsvik Neutron Research Laboratory, Sweden
Laszlo Rosta, BNC Budapest. Hungary
Andreas Schreyer, GKSS – Geesthacht, Germany
Albert Furrer, Laboratory for Neutron Scattering, Switzerland
Peter Allenspach, Laboratory for Neutron Scattering, Switzerland
Dieter Richter, Institut für Festkörperforschung, Jülich, Germany
Reiner Zorn, Institut für Festkörperforschung, Jülich, Germany
A. A. van Well, Interfacultair Reactor Institut, the Netherlands
Christian Vettier, Institut Laue-Langevin, France
W. Petry, FRMII Munich, Germany
Robert Cywinski, University of Leeds, UK
Bente Lebech, Risø National Laboratory, Denmark
Fabrizio Barocchi, Universitá di Firenze, Italia
Werner Press, IEAP University of Kiel, Germany
Juan Colmenero, Universidad del Pais Vasco, San Sebastian, Spain
Hannu Mutka, ILL Grenoble, France
P. Mikula, Nuclear Physics Institute, Prague, Czech republic
Helmut Rauch, Atominstitut Wienna, Austria
Helmut Weber, Austron project, Austria
Hans Graf, HMI Berlin, Germany
Francis Tasset, ILL Grenoble, France
A.G. Youtsos, Joint Research Centre - Petten, Netherlands
Dean Myles, EMBL, Grenoble, France
S. Messoloras, N.C.S.R. Demokritos, Greece
A. Belushkin, Dubna, Russia
Niel Williams, ESF
Elena Righi-Steele, European Commission, Belgium
Kurt Nørgaard Clausen, Risø National Laboratory, Denmark


Apologies from:
Lars Börjeson, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Olav Steinsvoll, IFE Kjeller, Norway
Carla Andreani, INFM Roma, Italy



Research infrastructures in the ERA
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Elena Righi-Steele reported on the present status for the sixth framework programme, and especially about the initiatives of interest to the present round-table – the so-called integrated initiatives. The current status can be found at: http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/nfp.html

Integrated Activities will be very much like a collection of Access and RTD contracts and existing Round Table activities, but with more possibilities for common activities, collaborations, synergies etc. Clearly the intention is to provide better for the European users of large facilities and help us to succeed in getting funded, rather than to make it difficult for us!

Neutrons in FP6
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Robert McGreevy presented statistics over EU support of neutrons and muons from the previous framework programmes FP2 to FP5. The status is shown below and shows a rather impressive growth. The column named Risø in the figure below is a granted contract, which was cancelled because of the unforeseen shut down of the Risø reactor. I.e. the funding was lost for the users.
See the presentation on the following link:
(PDF,75KB)


At the meeting it was decided that the neutron and muon facilities should join efforts and and a group was formed to discuss details of the Integrated Initiative proposal for FP6:

Chair: Robert McGreevy
ENSA: Fabrizzio Barocchi
Facilities/networks: Winfried Petry, Uschi Steigenberger, Christian Vettier and Rainer Michaelsen
Universities/networks: Helmut Rauch
EU: Elena Righi
Round Table: Kurt Clausen

The first meeting of the group will be in Abingdon on February 14, 2002

Policy for round-table support

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Uschi Steigenberger and Kurt N Clausen. The present system of supporting activities from the neutron round-table was discussed. The present scheme is very effective but does not provide simple means for follow up on supported activities by the members on the round-table and through the individual evaluation of all proposals in one big group, there is no way of making over-all priorities between workshops, training courses, technical networking etc.

It was agreed that US and KNC would present a proposal for the next round-table meeting, and the procedures should be discussed by the group in charge of the preparation FP6.

The ESS presentation and the neutron users meeting in May 2002
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Kurt N Clausen The ESS project will be presented at a meeting in Bonn from 15-17 May 2002. The presentation is jointly organised by the ESS Project and ENSA. The title of the ESS presentation meeting is:

ESS - European Source of Science,
Neutrons for science and technology in the 21st Century

Preliminary programme:
Satellite meetings 15 May – Noon 16 May
• Dutch, German, Italian and Swiss neutron scattering society annual meeting
• French, German, Italian and Scandinavian neutron scattering society board meeting
• eVERDI, SCANS, TECHNI, ENPI RTD Network meetings
• European Neutron Scattering Association meeting
• EU access to Large Scale Facilities User meeting
• ESS Technical meetings


ESS presentation 16 May Afternoon
Welcome (Peter Tindemans)
Welcome address (W. Clement, prime minister NRW)
Importance of LSF and the role of ESF (Van Duinen or Banda (ESF)
Challenges for materials science (L Späth CEO Zeiss Jena)
Science with neutrons
User perspective (R Cywinski ENSA)
Coffee
Engineering
Biology
Nano-technology
Presentation of the ESS facility
Wrap up of the meeting

Displays in the lobby
Site presentations
Industrial displays
ESS stand

In the evening there will be dinner on a river boat

Friday 17 may 9:00 – 13:00 ESS science
•Solid State (Vettier)
•Materials Science (Zabel)
•Computational science and Neutron scattering (McGreevy)
•Soft Condenced matter (Colmenero)
•Biology (Zaccai)
•Chemistry (David)
•Particle physics (Dubbers)

Further information, the full programme, registration for the meeting and reservation of a hotel can be found on the Web: http://www.ess-europe.de or by contacting Flavio Carsughi e-mail: ESS.meeting@FZ-juelich.de

The EU-Access programme user meeting
Robert McGreevy. It was agreed that the access programmes would have a joint user meeting in connection with the ESS presentation in May 2002.

All the neutron facilities with EU Access contracts will join the common poster session on Thursday May 16.
There will be a common area for the facilities to advertise themselves (together with the networks). Posters advertising EU funded activity should have a common logo (Robert McGreevy will send out a suggestion later).

RTD-Network meetings
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Robert McGreevy (10 min) At the Round Table meeting the following was agreed for upcoming network meetings.

SCANS, ENPI, TECHNI and e-Verdi/Vesuvio will have network meetings on Wednesday 15th May. (Dean - If DLAB also want to then please let me know.)
An estimate of the numbers involved should be sent to RM and to Flavio - F.Carsughi@alisf1.unian.it.
There will have a joint session late afternoon on the 15th followed by a joint network dinner.
'ex' networks (e.g. Cool neutrons, PECNO) who want to take part in the joint session and dinner should contact RM.

Networks who want to start already on Tuesday 14th please contact RM and nd to Flavio Carsughi.
Criteria and level of support for the participants being funded by the Access programmes
Rainer Michaelsen

Users who have carried out work under the access programmes can be funded to attend the user meeting in Bonn provided:
(a) they present their work in the poster session
(b) they attend the meeting on Thursday and Friday
(c) Present a poster with the suggested logo and will be

encouraged to present the work more generally in the context of the ESS (if appropriate).
Number of users funded per presentation is up to individual facilities. Those who cannot be funded through the access programme can apply directly to the Bonn meeting organisers (the financial conditions will be the same).
Facilities will forward names/details of funded users to Flavio Carsughi (F.Carsughi@alisf1.unian.it) to avoid double funding.
We will have a common area at the poster session on Thursday May 16th. There will be general posters for each network and also individual posters from network participants. A common form of logo will be used.
The level of support will be covering:

cheap travel (train, apex fare etc.)
plus 75 euros per night for subsistence


Status of the Neutron Round-table, Kurt N Clausen
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The status report can be seen at this link: RT8 - Status RT (PDF, 375 KB)

Status of educational material for neutron scattering (CD, lecture notes etc) Francis Tasset and Robert McGreevy
The CD-rom on neutron scattering will be ready in years time.
CD Status (PDF, 496KB)

The lecture notes are still pending.

Matters of common interest
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Next deadline for proposals for round-table support is 15 April 2002.

Next joint meeting
The next joint meeting will be in the Copenhagen area from 17-18 of June, 2002
Ann Larsen and Kurt N Clausen will be the local hosts.
We discussed having the meeting in Greece, but because of other close meetings in June it was decided to postpone the meeting in Greece to later in the year.


News from networks and facilities

Organization (Network or Facility)	Responsible	Download talk
ILL	Christian Vettier	(PDF, 922KB)
TECHNI	Mike Johnson	(PDF, 50KB)
AUSTRON	Helmut Weber
FRMII:	Winfried Petry
BNC	Lazslo Rosta
DLAB	Dean Myles
LLB	Pierre Monceau
Vesuvio e.Verdi	John Thomkinson,
PECNO	Helmut Rauch
ISIS Muons	Phillip King,	(PDF, 465 KB)
Jülich	Reiner Zorn	(PDF, 2MB)
PSI	Peter Allenspach	(PDF, 226KB)
SCANS	Robert MCGreevy
NFL	Robert McGreevy
HMI	Rainer Michaelsen
ENPI	Francis Tasset
BR2 Dubna	A Belushkin
Cool neutrons	Hans Graf
NET	A.G. Youtsos
ISIS Neutrons	Uschi Steigenberger

15:30 End of meeting


The round-table wish to thank Sue Kilcoyne, Robert Cywinski and the University of Leeds for their hospitality and excellent local arrangements.

6 March 2002, Kurt Nørgaard Clausen