Present: Dieter Ackermann, Bertram Blank, Yorick Blumenfeld (invited), Angela Bonaccorso, Lidia Ferreira, Hans Fymbo, Ari Jokinen, Berta Rubio (invited, on Skype), Marek Lewitowicz, Adam Maj (on Skype). Excused: P. Regan.

Berta sent a few transparencies resuming the Valencia meeting which are quickly revised: 2.5days, 71 participants, cost of the meeting : 6600 euro from Spain, covering social dinner, lunches, coffee breaks; rest of the money from ENSAR Geneva and individual local Eurisol money.
Participants: a very good number from Spain but also many other countries.
Contributions: all have been received but one.
Writing the report : draft promised before the summer. (We have it while I am writing 9/2/12). Summarize the Physics and presenting individual contributions. Lidia, Berta and Beltram to meet and discuss the draft of the report. Printing will be payed by the 1400 euro left to Berta. Important contribution of the Spanish community with their numerous participation and money from different sources. Once again congratulations and many thanks to Berta for her wonderful work.

Next meeting to organize will be a joint Town and Topical meeting in Lisbon chaired by Lidia. She does not know yet the amount of money she can get. She hopes to be able to cover the coffee breaks and perhaps the social dinner. The conference room does not need to be payed. Lunches at the cafeteria will cost 6 euro each. Hotels around 60 euro per day/person. She will be helped in the organization by people at the Technological Institute (colleagues and students).

Town meeting on technical parts (1.5 day)as in the DS, topical on Physics of Light Nuclei (2.5days). Both will constitute material for the deliverable (Town M.) and report (Topical M.).

There is a discussion on finances and how Lidia could get involved other people from theory groups in Coimbra for example or in general the few body community which is very strong in Portugal.

Then Adam Maj discusses the possibility of hosting the 2013 topical meeting in Cracow.
ECOS meetings and SuperHeavy will be held in Cracow and cloe to Frankfurt, respectively, but we do not think it would be good to mix it with Eurisol meeting.

Timing is discussed for the Town/Topical and the fall is decided to be the right time.

Orsay/Ganil would like to host the 2014 meetings in the renovated Amphitheater of IPN Orsay.

Again discussion on how Lidia can get money involving the Technical Institute etc.

Marek asks for “’someone” to guarantee on a minimum amount of money.

ADDENDUM: By exchange of Emails the format of the Lisbona meeting was decided in October 2011 and the following announce was sent on 19th October 2011 to the EURISOL-NET mailing list:

This is to announce that the next EURISOL week will take place in Lisbon, Portugal from Oct 15 to 19, 2012. It will consist in of a Topical Meeting on “Physics of Light Exotic Nuclei” from Monday 15/10 afternoon to Wednesday 17/10 morning followed by a Town Meeting from Wednesday noon until Thursday 18/10 late afternoon presenting an overview of the current scientific and technical activities related to EURISOL. The Friday morning will be devoted to various committee and project meetings.

Detailed information will be sent in due time but please already mark your calendar with these important dates.

 The EURISOL week is jointly organized by the EURISOL Project Office, The EURISOL-NET network (ENSAR activity) and the EURISOL User Group, and is chaired by Lidia Ferreira (U. of Lisbon).

Detailed information will be sent in due time but please already mark your calendar with these important dates.

The EURISOL week is jointly organized by the EURISOL Project Office, The EURISOL-NET network (ENSAR activity) and the EURISOL User Group and is chaired by Lidia Ferreira (U. of Lisbon).

Present: D. Ackermann, B. Blank, Y. Blumenfeld (invited), A. Bonaccorso, L. Ferreira, H. Fynbo, A. Jokinen, M. Lewitowicz, A. Maj, B. Rubio (invited). Excused: P. Regan.

Berta Rubio, Yorick Blumenfeld and Angela Bonaccorso comment on the first day of the meeting: all is going well with lot of discussions. The program is very dense but the subject is also quite wide. A number of people could not be accepted for talks because they did not understand the way the INDICO system works, disconnecting registration from abstracts. There is discussion on the drawbacks of INDICO compared to other conference website systems like the one at GANIL, or other homemade systems. Berta leaves at 21:15h because of an interview commitment.

Proposals for the 2012 Town Meeting and topical Meeting:

Lidia Ferreira proposes Lisbon and as subject of the topical meeting there is a general consensus on light nuclei (i.e everything below fission fragments, few body, clustering). Yorick reports on a proposal from the director of the IPN to hold the 2012 meeting at Orsay. Dieter and Marek suggest to have one of the next meetings on SHE. They report on a SHE meeting which is planned for next year within the ENSAR network activity (NA) ECOS Task 2 “Synergies in Super Heavy Element Research”. It might be possible to combine the topical meeting within the ENSAR framework with the activity of the ECOS network which has a workpackage on SHE. There are various comments on past SHE activities and related meetings. Adam Maj suggests to hold the 2013 topical meeting in Poland. Ari informs that also Jyväskylä would be ready to organize a topical meeting in 2013 on the SHE subject which would be quite appropriate for them. It is decided that these various places will come to the next UEC meeting with more definite proposals. On that occasion the final choice will be made. There is a discussion on which location in Orsay could be used for the meeting (the LAL?) and on the fact that Orsay does not have good hotels. Marek informs that GANIL would probably like to host the final 2014 meetings. At this stage it is clear that there cannot be two meetings in France. It is decided that Orsay and GANIL will negotiate between themselves and propose a joint organization for the 2014 meeting.

Then the dates are discussed for the next Topical Meeting. Yorick proposes the first half of 2012. It is said that in Lisbon also early Autumn could be nice. The important thing is to avoid periods with a lot of other conferences.
There is a discussion on the financial support which is needed to organize each meeting and on the complications certain countries have in spending the money from the EC. CERN, France and Finland instead deal easily with money. It has to be checked if the original ENSAR contract contains already exact percentages of each item on which money can be spent (consumable, domestic travel, international travel…etc) (At the date of publication of these minutes we know that the answer is YES).

The 2012 topical meeting would be combined with a town meeting. Yorick says that one and a half day for the Town Meeting should be enough. There would be a physics talk presenting a summary of the previous two Town Meetings, a talk on the technical advances, R&D, and one on the beginning of work under the NuPNET contract and TIARA, a talk on related facilities like ESS, MYRRHA and high power targets.
It is also mentioned that at some stage in a couple of years Isolde, GANIL and GSI will probably stop beam time for about one year at the same time and there will be problems spending the transnational access money.

Advertise various ENSAR activities via webpage once that is properly set up and permissions from the EU granted.

Next meeting probably during ARIS2011 in Luven.

Present: D. Ackermann, Y. Blumenfeld (invited), A. Bonaccorso, L. Ferreira, A. Jokinen (by phone), M. Lewitowicz, P. Regan, K. Riisager (on behalf of H. Fynbo), B. Rubio (invited). Excused: A. Maj, B. Blank.

AGENDA

Y. Blumenfeld: News on EURISOL.

• EURISOL DS financial report approved but new forms requested by EC to be filled, thus the final part of the EC budget will arrive only in some months.
EURISOL MoU will be sent around in the coming few months. ITN (Portugal) will join in a new collaboration. A copy will be sent also to the UEC members.
Collaboration coordination, including finances will be ensured at GANIL once the MoU is signed by at least 3 partners.
EURISOL-NET in ENSAR: Kadi will contact correspondents in the participating labs for technical issues. Print-out of the Minutes of Topical Workshops to be discussed once the MoU is signed.

• EURISOL initiatives:
ENSAR Network, there are five participants, CERN, INFN, GANIL, CNRS/IN2P3, Jyväskylä.
There are two tasks in the net:, 1st: Coordination and Development of ISOLDE facilities, task leader Yacine Kadi; 2nd : Physics & Instrumentation, leader A. Bonaccorso will update the Scientific Case, based on Users Group meetings.

• Discussion on MYRRHA and possible future link with EURISOL.

• TIARA WP9 Starting date probably February 1st, 2011, contains developments for EURISOL.

• NuPNET: 4 countries (F, B, I, SF) might contribute to EURISOL project -> Workshop to discuss the proposals will be organised in March 2011. NUPNET - a net of funding agencies in nuclear physics- will coordinate the funding. A pilot project will be selected and funded.
( Task pilot projects:
1st topic: R&D on new detector technologies in nuclear physics.
* Gamma and neutron detection technologies based on new scintillation materials and new photo-sensors (APDs, SiPMs…)
* Silicon and micropatterned gas tracking detectors (GEM, Micromegas): low and high energy applications
* Large-area diamond detectors for beam monitoring or timing.
These technologies are important for the nuclear research infrastructures selected in the ESFRI list: FAIR and SPIRAL2.
2nd topic: R&D on EURISOL technologies: accelerator components, targets and ion sources.
3rd topic: Targeted action on nuclear structure and reactions theory.
More details at http://www.nupnet-eu.org/wps/portal/nupnet-call.html. Projects will be submitted to NUPNET in February, however each country has to contribute in the funding. Money does not come from Brussels. Berta informs that Spain will not contribute to EURISOL. Ari thinks that the March meeting will be important to discuss these projects, and A. Bracco should be invited to explain the conditions. Belgians should also be invited in order to get more involved in EURISOL.

• Berta Rubio reports on the preparation of the next Topical meeting in Valencia.

• Approval of the Report on the Catania 2010 Topical Meeting and of a possible template to be used for future reports (IOP style). The graphical form of the Report can be made more appealing by adding the EURISOL logo and Web page address for example. The report was approved with various comments implemented.

• Printed reports should be made for each meeting. The report of the Catania meeting, will be distributed during the Valencia meeting. A new EURISOL report should be completed in a few months.

• Possible amendment to the Charter:
A sentence indicating that the chair and vice-chair can be renewed only once will be added.

• Election of the new chair and vice-chair of the UEC:
Angela and Ari are re-elected unanimously.

• Choice of the date and place of the next meeting:
Monday Feb. 21st is proposed at dinnet time. The date should be confirmed by the UEC members in the coming few weeks.

As you probably know, the aim of our group is to promote activities in order to keep the discussions on the physics at the future Eurisol facility continuously active and updated.
A number of people have already confirmed their participation covering a number of topics that we have considered essential. In addition, your experience at present or future short term facilities, as well as theoretical modelling related to nuclei “left from the valley of stability” will be an important input to the discussion and undoubtedly to the development of Eurisol.

All the information can be found in the web page
http://ific.uv.es/~eug-valencia

The meeting will be held in Colegio Mayor Rector Peset (http://www.uv.es/cmrpeset)
right in the centre of the old city of Valencia. Valencia is an attractive city that combines ancient history with modern life. In winter it has a mild weather due to the vicinity of the Mediterranean Sea.

At 10 minutes walking distance from the meeting place we have blocked a number of rooms in the four star hotel Astoria Palace at the very reduced price of 65.97 euros €/night (single room).
(information about the hotel can be found in http://www.hotelastoriapalace.com)
Please do your own reservation as soon as possible.
sending a mail to astoriapalace@ayrehoteles.com with the label “Eurisol meeting” in the subject.

We strongly encourage participation of students and postdocs. In order to have an idea about the attendance to the meeting we would like also to ask you to register via the web-page.

If you want to contribute to the meeting with a presentation please send a one page abstract to the meeting email address eug-valencia@ific.uv.es before December the 18.

Looking forward to welcoming you in Valencia

Berta Rubio
On behalf of the organizing and advisory committee:

Dieter Ackermann
Bertram Blank
Angela Bonaccorso
Yorick Blumenfeld
Giacomo De Angelis
Lidia Ferreira
Hans Fynbo
Ari Jokinen
Marek Lewitowicz
Adam Maj
Paddy Regan
Berta Rubio (Chair)

Scientific secretary Maria José Gracia (eug-valencia@ific.uv.es)
Tecnical support Carlos García

On February 21th to 23rd 2011 the second Eurisol topical meeting will take place in
Valencia. It is organised by the Eurisol Users Group. The topic this time is
“Neutron deficient exotic nuclei and the Physics of the “proton rich side” of the nuclear
chart”. It follows the Catania meeting on “The formation and structure of r-process nuclei,
between N=50 and 82” celebrated last year.

As you probably know, the aim of our group is to promote activities in order to keep
the discussions on the physics at the future Eurisol facility continuously active and
updated.

A number of people have already confirmed their participation (see below) covering
the topics that we have considered essential. In addition, your experience at
present or future short term facilities, as well as theoretical modelling related to nuclei
“left from the valley of stability” will be an important input to the discussion and
undoubtedly to the development of Eurisol. If you are interested in participating
and/or giving talk, please register at the webpage http://ific.uv.es/~eug-valencia before December 18th.

In order to facilitate your attendance, we are organising a short but intense meeting
right at the centre of the old city of Valencia (Colegio Mayor Rector Peset
http://www.uv.es/cmrpeset ). Valencia is an attractive city that combines ancient history
with modern life. In winter it has a mild weather due to the vicinity of the
Mediterranean Sea. Also in the centre of the city we are negotiating with
the Hotel Palace a special price for participants which will be confirmed together with
the second announcement.

Please mark the dates on your agenda and write to us if you have any further question
(to Berta Rubio, chair, or Maria José Gracia, scientific secretary, at eug-valencia@ific.uv.es).

If you wish to give a talk please send a one page abstract to me at the meeting email address
eug-valencia@ific.uv.es before December 18th .

Looking forwards to welcoming you in Valencia.

Berta Rubio,

on behalf of the organising and advisory committee:

Dieter Ackermann
Bertram Blank
Angela Bonaccorso
Yorick Blumenfeld
Giacomo De Angelis
Lidia Ferreira
Hans Fynbo
Ari Jokinen
Marek Lewitowicz
Adam Maj
Paddy Regan
Berta Rubio (Chair)

Scientific secretary Maria José Gracia eug-valencia@ific.uv.es
Tecnical support Carlos García

Preliminary list of topics and invited speakers

· Isospin symmetry and N~Z nuclei (in-beam experiments) JJ Valiente-LNL

· Isospin symmetry (reactions/beta-decay) Y. Fujita-Osaka

· Superallowed decays. Precise T1/2 measurements and BR J.Giovinazzo-CENBG

· Superallowed decays. Precise Mass measurements T. Eronen-Jyväskylä

· Rp-process F. Montes-MSU

· Spectroscopy of N~Z Nuclei: 100Sn and Neighbours T. Faestermann – Munich

· 100Sn region with rad. Beams J. Cederkäll - Lund

· One-p radioactivity P. Woods - Edinburgh

· Two-p radioactivity I. Mukha - GSI

· Structure of proton emitting nuclei E. Maglione – Padova

· Beta-delayed proton-emission, exotic decays in light nuclei M.J.G. Borge- Madrid CSIC

· Shape coexistence and shape mixing (mass 70, mass 200)

· In-beam experiments D.Jenkins – York

· Beta decay A. Algora –Valencia, CSIC

· Quadrupole moment measurements and shape coexistence with RIB, W. Korten -Saclay

· Dynamical symmetries P. Van Isacker - GANIL

· Alpha clusters M. Freer – Birmingham.

· Spectroscopy of SH or very heavy nuclei, decay tagging, R. Herzberg - Liverpool

· np pairing in N=Z nuclei studied through 2N transfer reactions. A. Macchiavelli –LBL.

· Collective modes in proton-rich nuclei, theoretical predictions for soft dipole modes in proton-rich side of nuclear chart
D. Vretenar - Zagreb.

· Aluminum-26 nucleosynthesis with proton-rich exotic beams. A. Chen MacMaster - Canada

· Explosive hydrogen burning studied with RIB. F. de Oliveira – GANIL

· Nuclear reactions- C. Bertulani – TAMU-Commerce

Adam Maj (PL)
Andrei Andreyev (GB)
Christian Forssen (S)
Daniel Napoli (I)
Dave Jenkins (GB)
Feisal Azaies (F)
Giacomo Cuttone (I)
Gilles de France (F)
Hans Fynbo (DK)
Lidia Ferreira (P)
Luis Mario Fraile (E)
Marc Labiche (GB)
Marco Cinausero (I)
Marek Ploszajczak (F)
Maria Colonna (I)
Michael Block (D)
Paddy Regan (GB)
Sara Pirrone (I)
Valentina Ricciardi (D)

The results were checked by the “electoral commission” composed by Yorick Blumenfeld and Alberto Facco for the Eurisol Office, Juha Äystö for the former Eurisol DS steering committee and Angela Bonaccorso for the Eurisol UG.

There were 187 voters and the new UEC is composed by

Dieter Ackermann (D)
Bertram Blank (F)
Angela Bonaccorso (I)
Lidia Ferreira (P)
Hans Fynbo (DK)
Ari Jokinen (FIN)
Marek Lewitowicz (F)
Adam Maj (PL)
Paddy Regan (GB)

Special thanks go to Giacomo De Angelis, Rober Page, Berta Rubio and Michael Thoennessen for their enthusiasm and work done in the past two years within the UEC. We are sure they will continue to support the Eurisol project, I particular Berta and Giacomo are already involved in the organization of the next topical meeting on “Neutron deficient exotic nuclei and the Physics of the “proton rich side” of the nuclear chart” which will be held next spring in Valencia (date tba). The present organizing committee is composed by B. Rubio, rubio@ific.uv.es (Chair), D. Ackermann, B. Blank, A. Bonaccorso, G. de Angelis, A. Jokinen.

The next UEC meeting is fixed at CERN during the Isolde workshop (8-10Dec) and in that occasion the new Chair and Vice-Chair of the UG will be elected.

Apologies: Robert Page

1. The first topical meeting in Catania
A. Bonaccorso announced that the report of the first topical meeting is almost finished. In a following discussion, some guidelines, based on an experience from Catania workshop, were collected to help the next organizer of the topical workshop. It was concluded that some kind of template or common instructions should be given for contributors. In addition, a strict deadline should be given and followed to avoid any delay. It was also reminded that the physics report is one of the deliverables of the EURISOL network in ENSAR (EU-FP7), see later in these minutes. Thus, a collection of the reports from topical workshops would also serve EURISOL network. It was agreed that Catania report won’t be printed, but it will become available electronically. Slides of the workshop are already available. The content of the report was also discussed. A general opinion was that the report should not contain political statements, but concentrate on physics update. Future requirements won’t be collected but they are included in individual contributions.

2. Next topical meeting.
First it was noted that ARIS will be organized in Leuven on 30.5.-3.6.2011 and the next PROCON is planned in Bordeaux on 6.-10.6.2011. Thus May-June 2011 is not a favored period. It was proposed and agreed that Valencia on February-March 2011 would be an ideal time and place. Berta Rubio will chair the workshop with help from Angela, Ari, Bertram, Dieter and Giacomo. An actual date will be communicated by Doodle. The workshop could be organized in the middle of the city. To minimize extra costs, it was agreed that no lunches or invited lecturers will be supported. It was also noted that EURISOL network may provide a small (~3000 €) support for the organizers.

3. Results of UEC voting
Results were published and discussed. Despite of the reasonably good number of votes, it was thought that an additional reminder of voting should have been sent. It was also discussed long and detail, if all results, including votes, should be published. Finally, numbers were decided to be sent out only to candidates. The present UEC also noted with satisfaction that the new members will bring new countries to EURISOL community.

4. Next UEC meeting
Angela will stay as a chair until the next meeting, which should take place later this year. Few options to combine major meeting and the next UEC meeting were presented and in the end it was agreed that UEC meets next time in connection to ISOLDE Workshop, 8.-10.12.2010.

5. Reports on various projects linked to EURISOL UEC
5.1. EURISOL network in EU-FP7 I3 ENSAR will be funded by 105 k€. Main participants in the network are CERN, GANIL, IN2P3, INFN and JYFL. The work has been divided to two tasks: The first one, coordinated by Y. Kadi focuses on the current facilities and the second task, coordinated by A. Bonaccorso, concentrates on physics issues. Planned town meetings on 2012 and 2014 could be combined with EURISOL UG topical meetings. The final deliverable, a report on physics is scheduled in the months 44 of ENSAR. It is clear that it is of EURISOL UEC interest to help Angela in this work.
5.2. TIARA- a coordinated action on accelerator physics was presented. This rather wide spread and technically oriented project has two EURISOL related tasks. The progress of TIARA will be followed.
5.3. Eurisol collaboration project office is preparing a draft of MoU, which will be sent to possible candidates to join in Eurisol collaboration. The draft should also be sent to EURISOL UEC members.

Thanks to Ari Jokinen for writing these minutes.

1. Apologies: Michael Thoennessen, Robert Page.

2. Approval of the minutes of the previous UEC Meeting:
The minutes have been approved without changes. Thanks to Dieter Ackermann.

3. New election next spring:
According to the rules defined in the UEC Charter there is the need to replace 4 members of the UEC before the end of 2010 (two years after the first election). Different election mechanisms are discussed: B. Rubio and A. Jokinen propose to go for new elections only for the four candidates elected with the smallest number of votes in the previous election. A. Bonaccorso and G. de Angelis prefer to go to new elections for all members of the UEC. M. Lewitowicz proposes to held new elections with two separate lists, one including the present members and another with new comers suggested by the community. This proposal seems reasonable and after further discussion is accepted.
Action: A. Bonaccorso will send a request to the community before the end of the spring to propose new names for replacing four members.

4. Next topical meeting:
The UEC congratulates the organisers of the EURISOL topical meeting for the success of the initiative. Thanks to the hosting laboratory (LNS) for the support.
Proposed topics for the next topical meeting:
Physics with secondary fragmentation (Y. Blumenfeld).
Neutron deficient nuclei (A. Jokinen, G. de Angelis, B. Rubio).
Light nuclei (A. Bonaccorso).
As possible sites East Countries (green field), Spain or Finland are proposed.
In case the topic “Neutron deficient nuclei” would be preferred it is considered that overlap with the next Procon conference scheduled in 2010 must be avoided.
Action: B. Rubio and A. Jokinen will investigate the possibility of hosting the meeting and providing funds. The topic could (slightly) be modified according also to the suggestion of the hosting institution.

5. NuPECC LRP: Y. Blumenfeld has presented the Eurisol physics case to the previous meeting of the NuPECC LRP. The Draft of the LRP will be presented to the community in March 2010 and discussed in the town meeting organized in Madrid in May 2010. There is the need for upgrading the physics case and for linking it to the NuPECC LRP (G. de Angelis).
Action: A. Bonaccorso will lead upgrades of the EURISOL proposals and look for links with the NuPECC LRP. It is also decided to have the next UEC meeting during the LRP town meeting in Madrid.

6. EURISL Office: The Eurisol office has been instituted and it is composed of the following members: M. Lewitowicz, A. Facco, Y. Blumenfeld, P. Butler.

7. Other Issues: None