NuPECC Meeting

October 10 - 11, 2009

Darmstadt

Achim Richter, ECT* and TUD

Director’s Report

www.ect.it

Scientific activities at ECT*

Workshops since the last NuPECC meeting

Recent Advances in Perturbative QCD and Hadronic Physics Organizers: A. Belitsky / Arizona St. University, USA

K. Goeke / Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

D. Mueller / Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

A. Radyushkin / Jefferson Lab., USA

O. Teryaev / Joint Inst. For Nucl. Research, Russia

# of participants: 31

Linking Nuclei, Molecules, and Condensed Matter: Computational Quantum

Many-Body ApproachesOrganizers: R. Roth / TU Darmstadt, Germany

J. Schnack / University of Bielefeld, Germany

J. Richter / University of Magdeburg, Germany

# of participants: 38

Scientific activities at ECT*

Workshops in 2009

The Lead Radius Experiment and Neutron Rich Matter in Astrophysiscs and in the

LaboratoryOrganizers: C. Horowitz / Indiana University, USA

P.G. Reinhard / University of Erlangen, Germany

K. De Jager / Jefferson Lab., USA

# of participants: 39

Confrontation and Convergence in Nuclear TheoryOrganizers: A. Brown / Michigan State University, USA

M. Hjorth-Jensen / University of Oslo, Norway

R. Janssens / ANL, USA

J. Tostevin / University of Surrey, UK

T. Papenbrock / University of Tennessee, USA

# of participants: 34

Scientific activities at ECT*

Workshops in 2009

Flow and Dissipation in Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions Organizers: M. Bleicher / University of Frankfurt, Germany

C. Greiner / University of Frankfurt, Germany

P. Huovinen / University of Frankfurt, Germany

R. Snellings / NIKHEF, Netherlands

P. Petreczky, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA

# of participants: 41

QCD Green’s functions, Confinement, and PhenomenologyOrganizers: D. Binosi / ECT*, Italy

J. Papavassiliou / Universidad de Valencia, Spain

A. C. Aguilar / Universidad de Valencia, Spain

J. M. Cornwall / University of California at Los Angeles, USA

# of participants: 55

Scientific activities at ECT*

Workshops in 2009

Summary (as of October 10, 2009):

# of Workshops so far: 13

# of participants: 484

# of Workshops forthcoming: 4

Strong, Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions to Probe Spin-Isospin ExcitationsOrganizers: B. Rubio, CSIC, Spain

Y. Fujita, Osaka University, Japan

W. Gelletly, University of Surrey, UK

# of participants: 34

ECT* Doctoral Training Programme 2010April 12 – June 11

Programme coordinators:

Hans Feldmeier (GSI Darmstadt), Hendrik Schatz (Michigan State University), Jeff Tostevin (University of Surrey)

Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics with Radioactive Ion Beams

Student coordinator and adviser:

Georges Ripka (Saclay and ECT*)

(Selection of lectures and topics of lectures is presently underway and will be announced on the ECT* website by the end of October 09)

Outgoing and New ECT* Board Members

Hans-Åke Gustafsson (Lund University) Jens-Jorgen Gaardhøje (University of Copenhagen)

Wick Haxton (University of Washington/Berkely) Baha Balantekin (University of Wisconsin)

NB: Database of the ECT* Associates has been updated and e-mail reminders were sent out to remind the Associates on the necessary renewal of their

registration every three years.

Postdocs in 2009

May 31

Dec 31

Dec 31

Dec 31

Dec 31

Oct 15

Until

D. Triantafyllopoulos

L. Fortunato

C. Ramirez

Senior Res. Ass. in Hadron Physics, from Oct 15, 2009

Junior Res. Ass. : from Sep 1, 2009

Junior Res. Ass. : from Oct 1, 2009

J.L. Albacete

D. Binosi (Qurope / ECT*)

T. Calarco (Consultant)

L. Scorzato (BEN AURORA / ECT*)

Bingwei Long

V. Lenski

Filled:

Postdocs remaining in 2010(Present status)

Dec 31

Dec 31

Sep 30

Until

D. Triantafyllopoulos

L. Fortunato

C. Ramirez

Senior Res. Ass. in Hadron Physics, from Oct 15, 2009

Junior Res. Ass. : from Sep 1, 2009

Junior Res. Ass. : from Oct 1, 2009

D. Binosi (Qurope / ECT*)

L. Scorzato (AURORA / ECT*)

Bingwei Long

Filled:

Visitors in 2009Short term:(<1 month)

Alberto Accardi

Andrea Beraudo

Jean-Paul Blaizot

Eugene Bogomolny

Ignacio Cirac

Lorenzo Fortunato

Johannes Kirscher

Andreas Ipp

Marco Panero

Claudia Ratti

Dionysis Triantafyllopoulos

Long term: Paul Hoyer: 11 Oct - 6 Dec

Georges Ripka: 15 Mar - 30 Jun

Victor Flambaum 24 Jul - 18 Aug

Status of the AURORA project

• AURORA is a Petascale computing 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

• Recent collaboration with the Russian supercomputing project SKIF – AURORA and with QPACE /

Regensburg and PETAQCD / Orsay

Project is embedded into a large collaboration

• Furthermore, the collaboration involves people with experience from the HPC/APE line developed

by INFN / DESY / ORSAY / EUROTECH

Status of the AURORA project

• First phase (18 months) is now approved and funded. On July 31 the agreement between PAT and FBK

has been signed. The approval of the second phase (also 18 months) will be based on milestones to be

reached before Summer 2010.

• The agreement between FBK and INFN is ready and only waiting to be signed formally.

• The agreement between FBK and other partners (UNITN / FEM / ATreP / DEI PADUA) are also

almost ready (intellectual properties are an issue).

• Procedure for hiring FBK / ECT* personnel within the projects has been discussed.

• The name AuroraScience has been coined to denote the scientific project (PAT / INFN) and distinguish

it from the industrial AURORA project.

Status of the AURORA project

• FBK and UNITN offered to host AURORA and the groups of AuroraScience in a modern building on

the FBK premisses adjacent to the UNITN campus in Povo. By this it is intended to form a Laboratorio

Interdisciplinare per le Scienze Computazionali (LISC) managed by Dapor / FBK, Pederiva / UNITN

and Scorzato / ECT*-AURORA.

• Obvious advantage: strong involvement and interaction of the FBK and the Faculty of Science of the

UNITN (construction, installation, system administration, high-level training, students, research

position, …)

• EUROTECH confirmed that for next spring new INTEL processors should be available (more

computing power for less energy consumption), and the 2010 prototype can be based on them. With a

budget of 740 k€ the first prototype is now targeted to become a 20TFlops machine with an expected

power consumption in the range of about 50 kW.

• First applications on the 2010 prototype are in LQCD (ETMC code) and others to be still determined.

The results of this HPC are a prerequisite for the funding of the 2nd phase!

Budget and Status of Funding

Fourteen payment requests have been sent on April 22, 2009. So far,

eleven countries have paid their contribution: Belgium (both Flemish and

French speaking part), Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France CEA,

France CNRS, Germany, Hungary, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania

and the UK. Payments from Italy and Spain are still expected. Six

countries still have not signed the MoU: Austria, Greece, Norway,

Portugal, Spain and Sweden.

Funding agencies:

Budget and Status of Funding

FP7 Hadron Physics 2: • Since I was unable to attend, Vice – director Marco Traini presented

the WP10 Transnational Access activities (Workshops) to ECT*.

• First part (237 k€) for 2009 and 2010 has already been provided. The

second part (218 k€) will be distributed ONLY at the end of the

financial period (June 2011) and the beneficiaries will receive the full

amount of money if they will be able to document all the expenses,

otherwise the contribution will be reduced accordingly. A rather

important consequence is that the FBK will be asked to pre-finance the

second part of the project contribution.

Collaboration Committee Meeting in Frascati, Sep 04, 2009

Relations between ECT* and UNITN

• AURORA

• Joint Workshop BEC/ECT* planned on the exciting physics of Graphene

• Agreement between FBK library and UNITN library for accessing journals

on the web has been reached (no paper version anymore from Jan 01, 2010

on)

Annual Report: available on the ECT* web site