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NuPECC Meeting ECT March 16-17, 2007
www.ect.it
Fondazione Bruno Kessler
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2007 is an important year for ECT

• Change in the local environment 
  (ITC -gt FBK)
• Preparation of FP7
• NuPECC initiatives towards coordinating funding
  of ECT
• Evaluation G. Baym (ECT), F. Iachello (FBK),
  H. Orland (CEA), P. Schuck (CNRS), E. Vigezzi
  (INFN), J. Wambach (GSI)

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A European Center

• Established in 1993
•  bottom up  realization, supported by a broad
  community (ECT associates)
• Strong local support (PAT/FBK, major part of
  funding, administration)
• MoU with France, Germany, Italy, Denmark (open to
  other partners)
• Unique in Europe (other comparable center in the
  USA INT at Seattle)
• A large flux of visitors (about 600-700 per year)

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Visitor-days spent at ECT in 2006
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for Theoretical Studies .

• Research done at ECT is theoretical
• But most meetings involve experimentalists, some
  collaboration meetings invole mostly
  experimentalists
• Some ECT researchers have very close contacts
  with experimental groups
• Large variety of topics, mostly related to
  various aspects of nuclear physics. Also
  cross-disciplinary activities (BEC)
• Theoretical tools common to many branches of
  physics
• Large scale numerical calculations (BEN)
• Library (on site, and access to that of the Phys.
  Dept.)

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in Nuclear Physics

• Nuclear physics in a broad sense (low energy
  nuclear physics and nuclear structure, quantum
  chromodynamics and hadron physics, physics of
  matter under extreme conditions and
  ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions).
• ECT provides a bridge between two important
  components of the nuclear physics community
  EURONS and HADRONS

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and Related Areas

• Which includes topics in
• Astrophysics
• Particle physics
• Condensed matter physics
• Many-body theory, Quantum field theory
• Bose-Einstein condensation

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Scientific activities at ECT

• International workshops and
• collaboration meetings

- Doctoral training program(s)
- Visiting scientists
- Postoctoral program
- Local research (ECT, Univ, BEC)
- Teraflop cluster (BEN)
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Nuclear structure and reactions
(Examples from 2006)

• The Physics Opportunities with EURISOL
• (Robert Page - Univ.
  Liverpool, et al.)
• Gamma-ray Spectroscopy in Europe present and
  future challenges
• (Silvia Lenzi Univ. Padova, et al.)
• The Physics of Halo Nuclei
• (Ian Thompson Univ. Surrey, et al)

Numerical Simulation of Heavy Ion Reactions in
the Fermi Energy Domain (Joerg Aichelin Univ.
Nantes )
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Hadrons / High energy Nuclear Physics

• Generalized Parton distributions The Present
  Status
• (Peter Kroll Univ. Wuppertal)
• Lattice QCD, Chiral Perturbation Theory and
  Hadron Phenomenology
• (Ulf-G Meißner Univ. Bonn )
• Heavy Ion Reactions at Ultrarelativistic Energies
• (Maria Paola Lombardo - INFN)
• The Physics of High Baryon Density
• (Bengt Friman - GSI )

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Cross-disciplinary programs

• Hadrons and Strings
• (Misha Stephanov Univ. Illinois-Chicago)
• The interface of quark-gluon-plasma physics and
  cold-atom physics
• (Gordon Baym, Coordinator - University of
  Illinois )

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Training activities (ECT Doctoral Training
Programs/ Schools)

• Computational Techniques in Strongly Interacting
  Systems
• (Simon HandsUniv. Swansea, Pietro
  Faccioli -Univ. Trento)
• Summer School on Exotic Nuclear Beams
• (Jim Al-Khalili - Univ. Surrey )
• QCD Spin Physics (Doctoral Training Programme)
• (Elliot Leader Imp. Coll. London)
• Nuclear Structure and Reactions
• (Piet Van Isacker, GANIL, Muhsin
  Harakeh, KVI)

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The goals of the ECT

• a) to arrange in-depth research on topical
  problems at the forefront of contemporary
  developments in theoretical nuclear physics
• b) to foster interdisciplinary contacts between
  nuclear physics and neighbouring fields such as
  particle physics, astrophysics, condensed matter
  physics and the quantal physics of small systems
• c) to encourage talented young physicists by
  arranging for them to participate in the
  activities of the ECT, by organising training
  projects and establishing networks of active
  young researchers
• d) to strengthen the interaction between
  theoretical and experimental studies.

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Funding (Based on 2005 Budget)
Goals i) Support research activities with
external funds ii) Increase
contribution of  all other countries  to that
of FGI
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Looking forward( Vision document  in
preparation by the Board)

A center for frontline research in Nuclear and
Hadron Physics Fixed
term positions at the assistant
professor level (in addition to
postdocs)
Catalysis of research collaboration
Workshops and collaboration meetings
Training of young researchers
Training programs
Collaboration with european graduate schools