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