Proposals for Transnational Access (TA) projects for the current call are collected until May 17, 2023. EU-funded transnational access is available at all 13 ChETEC-INFRA Partner Facilities, including the Van de Graaff accelerator at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, providing beam for the measurement of neutron-induced reactions.
TA is open to researchers worldwide, providing access to accelerator laboratories, observatories, or a high-performance computing cluster for their scientific research in the field of Nuclear Astrophysics. – Access is provided at no cost to the user, and hands-on facilities may also have travel support available for users.
More information on eligibility and the application process for transnational access is available on this site. Virtual office hours are held weekly on Zoom, available to discuss questions around the Transnational Access program.
The 1st ChETEC-INFRA Observational School (ChINOS) to take place at Ondřejov Observatory near Prague, Czech Republic, from July 24-28, 2023.
The school will provide hands-on experience with designing and executing stellar observations and analysing spectroscopic data to be collected with the Nordic Optical Telescope on La Palma, The Canaries, Spain. For this purpose, three remote observing nights are available, using the FIES spectrograph at the NOT.
Young scientists (Master’s, PhD students and early postdocs) working in the interdisciplinary field of nuclear astrophysics are encouraged to apply. All details, including the application page, can be found at the Indico page of the ChINOS 2023.
Applications are open until May 24th, 2023. The number of available places is limited to ~15.
Following the previous meeting in Padova, the next ChETEC-INFRA General Assembly will be hosted at Atomki in Debrecen, Hungary, and take place on June 6 and 7, 2023. Please save the date.
For details please refer to the Indico page of the General Assembly. Registration will be available, soon.
On March 1st 2023, the ChETEC-INFRA project successfully passed its mid-term review, which was carried out in hybrid form at the Helmholtz Association’s office in Brussels.
Participants at the (hybrid) ChETEC-INFRA Review Meeting.
After an introduction by the project coordinator Daniel Bemmerer (HZDR), the meeting took off with two highlight presentations: Maria Bergemann (MPIA Heidelberg) reported on a new determination of solar elemental abundances, and Denise Piatti (INFN Padova) about a recent transnational access experiment at HZDR Felsenkeller.
The meeting included presentations by all the ChETEC-INFRA Executive Board members and addressed all the main areas of work of ChETEC-INFRA. Topics included transnational access provision (Konrad Schmidt, HZDR), JRA on abundances (Arūnas Kučinskas, Vilnius University), JRA on nucleosynthesis computing (Marco Pignatari, Konkoly Observatory Budapest), JRA on lab improvements (Marco La Cognata, INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud).
Dissemination, outreach, and innovation were addressed (Uta Bilow, TU Dresden), the connection between the nuclear astrophysics and planetary science communities (Maria Lugaro, Konkoly Observatory Budapest), comprehensive approaches to nuclear astrophysics (Jordi José, UPC Barcelona), gender and inclusiveness aspects (Sandrine Courtin, CNRS Strasbourg), and new data products from ChETEC-INFRA (Aldo Serenelli, CSIC Barcelona).
In the feedback session, both the external expert reviewer and the project officer expressed their great appreciation for the project and of all the work done and gave a very positive feedback. They asked the Executive Board to transmit this message to all people contributing to and using ChETEC-INFRA.
Celebrating a successful review meeting with traditional Belgian fries.
Continuing our series on virtual events on Transnational Access, Monday March 6, at 16:00 CET, will feature a general overview of transnational access in ChETEC-INFRA, and a facility presentation of the Van-de-Graaff Accelerator at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.
TA is open to researchers worldwide, providing access to accelerator laboratories, observatories, and a high-performance computing cluster for their scientific projects in Nuclear Astrophysics. – Without access costs to the user, and the possibility of travel support in the case of hands-on facilities.
More information on eligibility and how to apply for TNA is available here. Virtual office hours are held weekly on Zoom, available for informal inquiries around the Transnational Access program.
Continuing our series on virtual events on Transnational Access, next Monday – January 30, at 16:00 CET, will feature a general overview of transnational access in ChETEC-INFRA, and a facility presentation of the Molėtai Astronomical Observatory in Lithuania.
The next collection date for Transnational Access (TA) proposals for the 13 ChETEC-INFRA Partner Facilities is February 17, 2023. TA is open to researchers worldwide, providing access to accelerator laboratories, observatories, and a high-performance computing cluster for their scientific projects in Nuclear Astrophysics. – Without access costs to the user, and the possibility of travel support in the case of hands-on facilities.
More information on eligibility and how to apply for TNA is available here. Virtual office hours are held weekly on Zoom, available for informal inquiries around the Transnational Access program.
The 2023 edition of the Russbach School on Nuclear Astrophysics will take place from March 12-18 (arrival-departure), 2023. The school will bring together specialists from astrophysics, astronomy, cosmochemistry and nuclear physics. Participants are highly encouraged to contribute to the program with presentations on their work.
More information can be found in the first circular for the school. Registrations are open until February 12.
The 30th edition of the Carpathian Summer School of Physics 2023 is scheduled to take place in Sinaia on July 2-15, 2023, as an in-person event.
The school on “Exotic Nuclei and Nuclear/Particle Astrophysics. Physics with small accelerators” will feature a combination of school-like and conference-like presentations, with longer invited lectures by senior scientists/professors and shorter student communications. The school is aimed at graduate students, post-docs and young or established researchers. Students from all countries are invited to attend. A limited number of stipends to cover the local expenses for students will be available.
The school is part of the ENNAS (European Network of Nuclear Astrophysics Schools), supported by ChETEC-INFRA, and recognized by the Division of Nuclear Physics of EPS.
Continuing the series on Stellar Nucleosynthesis Tools for HPC Clusters, a new video is now available. The tutorial on installing and running the program mppnp by the NuGrid collaboration in a cluster environment is available on the ChETEC-INFRA YouTube channel, as part of this play list (external link to youtube.com).
The video series is part of the resources provided to the nuclear astrophysics community through ChETEC-INFRA. An overview of the various resources is provided here.
As limitations for in-person conferences are slowly lifted and travel to conferences, meetings, schools, and workshops is more common again, the SNAQs organizing committee decided adjust the format and calendar for future editions of these Schools on Nuclear Astrophysics Questions.
The new schedule foresees four editions of SNAQs per year, with a duration of less than 90 minutes. The focus of SNAQs remains on the multidisciplinary (astronomy, astrophysics, nuclear physics) audience of students and senior scientists.
The first SNAQs with this new format will be held on December 7, 2022. This school features two presentations, and time for Q&A.
