Graziano Fortuna (1949-2019)

We are sorry to inform the community of the untimely passing away of Graziano Fortuna. Graziano played a major role in the development of the EURISOL concept. He led the preparation of the application for the EURISOL Design Study and was the coordinator of the contract until the summer of 2006 when he was called to other occupations at INFN in Rome. He remained an active member of the management board of EURISOL DS until its conclusion in 2009. His technical mastery of accelerator physics combined with his intimate knowledge of the European Nuclear Physics scene was instrumental in the success of the Design Study. He will be sorely missed by our community.

Yorick Blumenfeld, Angela Bonaccorso, Marek Lewitowicz, Berta Rubio.

Minutes of the UEC meetings: Pisa-INFN 2nd July 2018 9.00 to 10.30 and Valencia, March 11th, 2019

http://osiris.df.unipi.it/~angela/minutes%20eurisol%20uec%20pisa%20final.pdf

http://osiris.df.unipi.it/~angela/2019 03 11 UEC Minutes_final.pdf

EURISOL TM, Pisa 2-4 July 2018

The Town Meeting is planned to discuss and disseminate the recent progress, the on-going physics and instrumentation developments, and the specific needs and future plans of the EURISOL community, recently expressed also by the EURISOL Distributed Facility initiative.

The advancement of the EURISOL concept, with the long-term goal to build a dedicated facility, needs special attention and requires activities to help constantly update the scientific case, shape the community, and strengthen the synergies with other facilities. For these reasons within the ENSAR2 project, part of the European framework HORIZON 2020, a JRA – EURISOL work package exists and EURISOL networking activities are included in the NUSPRASEN network.

The meeting will consist of invited talks and contributed posters and a round table.
The webpage of the conference is Pisa EURISOL Town Meeting. where you can also find the final Programme.

The EURISOL Town Meeting report constitutes one of the Deliverables of the WP2 NUSPRASEN of ENSAR2. For this reason, speakers and presenters of posters will be asked to provide a short account of their presentations (4 and 2 pages respectively).

The registration deadline is June 25th 2018. There is no registration fee.
The poster abstract submission deadline is June 22nd 2018 and acceptance will be notified by June 24th. Thanks to a recent local financial support we are able to offer a number of grants up to 500euro each. They are for young participants presenting a poster dealing with the Physics and Instrumentation at any ISOL facility. Applications via email to bonac@df.unipi.it

The meeting location is
INFN – Pisa
Bldg. C – ground floor. Room: Aula 131

We expect to have very interesting and lively discussions on EURISOL and particularly on the EURISOL DF project and are looking forward to welcoming you in Pisa,

Yorick Blumenfeld, Angela Bonaccorso, Berta Rubio, Marek Lewitowicz (chairs of the meeting)

LIsbon meeting November 15-16 2017

At the following link news and details about the new meeting of the EURISOL UG can be found

https://indico.cern.ch/event/648134/

Representative of NUSPRASEN of ENSAR2 within the UEC

The representative of the NUSPRASEN network of ENSAR2 within the UEC (see CHARTER) is Angela Bonaccorso. She is ex-officio member of the UEC without voting rights for the duration of the ENSAR2 contract (four years starting 1st March 2016).

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Minutes of the UEC meeting to elect the new chair

Minutes of the meeting held in Leuven on the 19th October 2016, h13:00-14:00.

Present: Didier Beaumel, Maria Borge, Giacomo de Angelis, Lidia Ferreira (via skype), Adam Maj, Iain Moore, Riccardo Raabe, Berta Rubio, Spain (via skype),
Absent: Haik Simon (excused).

The Eurisol User Executive Committee met with the main goal to elect the chair of committee.
It was decided by acclamation that the new chair will be Berta Rubio.
In addition it was decided to have a deputy, who could replace the Chair if she cannot be present. Also by acclamation it was chosen Riccardo Raabe.
It was also decided that the chair (and deputy) term will be one year, extended to another year if the chair will agree to that.

Congratulations to Berta and Riccardo!.

Berta Rubio rubio@ific.uv.es
Riccardo Raabe riccardo.raabe@kuleuven.be

UEC ELECTIONS 2016

The elections of the new UEC have run smoothly from 10th to 20th June 2016 and there were 193 voters.

The candidates were:

Rosa Alba, Italy;
Andrei Andreyev, UK;
Didier Beaumel, France;
José Benlliure, Spain;
Maria Borge, CERN;
Emmanuel Clement, France;
Giacomo de Angelis, Italy;
Lidia Ferreira, Portugal;
Angela Gargano, Italy;
Adam Maj, Poland;
Iain Moore, Finland;
Riccardo Raabe, Belgium;
Peter Reiter, Germany;
Berta Rubio, Spain;
Haik Simon, Germany;
Emanuele Vardaci, Italy;
Robert Wadsworth, UK.

The nine new elected members are (in alphabetic order):

Didier Beaumel, France;
Maria Borge, CERN;
Giacomo de Angelis, Italy;
Lidia Ferreira, Portugal;
Adam Maj, Poland;
Iain Moore, Finland;
Riccardo Raabe, Belgium;
Berta Rubio, Spain;
Haik Simon, Germany.

We wish them all the best for their future work. We thank the other colleagues who accepted to stand in the elections and hope they will continue to support the EURISOL project. Thanks in particular to those among the USERS, who participated in the vote.

The new UEC will meet in Autumn, elect the new Chair and the future activities will be posted on this webpage.

We thank all of you who in the past ten years, have participated in the EURISOL UEC activities, organized Topical Meetings and helped writing the reports. All relevant information and documents can be found on this webpage.

The members of the former UEC:
Dieter Ackermann, Bertram Blank, Lidia Ferreira, Hans Fymbo, Ari Jokinen, Marek Lewitowicz, Adam Maj, Paddy Regan, Angela Bonaccorso.

Minutes of the UEC meeting Friday 6th May 2016 h 10:00-11:30

Present (all by Skype): Dieter Ackermann, Bertram Blank, Angela Bonaccorso, Lidia Ferreira, Ari Jokinen, Marek Lewitowicz. Excused: Hans Fynbo, Adam Maj, Paddy Regan.

Agenda: Elections of a new UEC.

The last elections took place on July 2010. New elections should have taken place during the summer 2012 but were postponed because of the Lisbon and Krakow topical meeting organization, October 2012 and July 2013 respectively and then the proximity with the end of the ENSAR contract and the need to write the final report (deliverable of the project April 2014).

After the beginning of the ENSAR2 contract (March 2016) it is decided to held new elections.

Members elected last time (18 July 2010) were Lidia Ferreira, Hans Fynbo, Adam Maj, Paddy Regan. Lidia Ferreira and Adam Maj have agreed on being candidates again to ensure some continuity.

Names of possible new candidates are proposed and the members decide to contact them informally while a message will be sent to the EURISOL UG mailing list to call for candidatures.

ADDENDUM to the minutes.

An AMENDMENT to the CHARTER is proposed by Y.Blumenfeld and C. Scheidenberger on 12th May 2016:? “A representative of the NUSPRASEN network of ENSAR2 is ex-officio member of the UEC without voting rights for the duration of the ENSAR2 contract.”

with the justification that

“The EURISOL User Group activities will be integrated into the activities of the NUSPRASEN network of ENSAR2. This will allow (partial) funding of the UEC activities through ENSAR2. It is therefore important that close interaction be maintained between the UEC and NUSPRASEN.”

Approved on 19th May 2016 by two thirds of the UEC: D. Ackermann, B. Blank, A. Bonaccorso, L. Ferreira, M. Lewitowicz, A. Maj.

H. Fymbo, A. Jokinen, P. Regan, abstained.

Final report of the Physics&Instrumentation task of EURISOL-NET

The final report of the Physics&Instrumentation task of EURISOL-NET is now available at http://www.df.unipi.it/~angela/final_report_eurisol_2015.pdf

Report of the 5th Eurisol User Group Topical Meeting, July 15-17, 2014.

The 5th Eurisol User Group Topical Meeting, on “Innovative Instrumentation for EURISOL”, was held at The Ron Cooke Hub, Heslington East Campus, University of York, York, UK, 15-17 July 2014. The report is now available at http://www.df.unipi.it/~angela/York_toppage.pdf

The slides of the talks are also available at http://www.df.unipi.it/~angela/York_jul14.zip.