The ABINIT Users Mailing List ( CLOSED )

[Gian-Marco Rignanese <gian-marco.rignanese@uclouvain.be>]

Dear colleagues,

The European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF) is a recent User Facility charged with providing support and service to research under way in academic, government and industrial laboratories. All domains that need knowledge about electronic excitations, transport and spectroscopy would benefit from the ETSF, such as condensed matter physics and chemistry, biology, materials and nano science.

The ETSF is constituted of more than 200 researchers in 9 European countries and the United States.

In a similar manner to a synchrotron, the ETSF is structured in beamlines whose activities are coordinated by a relevant beamline scientist (the list is available at the end of this document).

The services and benefits that can be obtained, are:

1) Proposition of an ETSF proposal which requires partial- or full-work of ETSF per- sonnel. The typology of the projects comprise: i) Specialized and personalized training on ETSF software. ii) Consultancy about the use of ETSF software, the development of new theoretical breakthroughs, or any topic related to Theoretical Spectroscopy. iii) Devise elements of theory or software that do not yet exist but are sufficiently relevant to be developed by a member of the ETSF, in collaboration with the proposer if appropriate. iv) Development of a full user-project through a scientific collaboration with ETSF scientists and technicians.

2) Direct use of ETSF software with the help of publications, manuals and tutorials published by the ETSF. (See the web page http://www.etsf.eu)

3) Participation in training events on theory and on the use of ETSF software.

4) Receipt of the electronic Users’ Newsletter twice a year. It informs you of the latest news of the ETSF, its services and the next submission deadline.

The call for proposals is held twice a year, in Spring and in Autumn, but the interested scientists can submit a project all throught the year.

The next call for proposals will close at 17:00 of Tuesday 27 October 2009.

The submitted proposals are evaluated by an external scientific board on the basis of scientific relevance and excellence, while an internal panel is in charge of evaluating their feasibility.

Interested scientists from any country are invited to contact beamline scientists and submit a proposal on the ETSF web site (http://www.etsf.eu)

Further information

• For more information about the ETSF, see http://www.etsf.eu.

• Call: http://www.etsf.eu/index.php?page=callforproposals

• Beamlines: http://www.etsf.eu/index.php?page=beamlines

• FP7: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home\_en.html

The ETSF beamlines and beamline scientists

Optics Dr. Olivia Pulci olivia.pulci@roma2.infn.it

Energy Loss Dr. Francesco Sottile francesco.sottile@polytechnique.edu

Photo-emission Dr. Claudio Verdozzi claudio.verdozzi@teorfys.lu.se

Quantum Transport Dr. Peter Bokes peter.bokes@stuba.sk

Time-Resolved Dr. Miguel Marques marques@teor.fis.uc.pt

X-ray Spectroscopy Prof. John Rehr jjr@phys.washington.edu

Vibrational Spectroscopy Prof. Gian-Marco Rignanese gian-marco.rignanese@uclouvain.be

      

• President and Scientific Coordinator:

Prof. Xavier Gonze xavier.gonze@uclouvain.be Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

• Vice-President for Scientific Development:

Prof. Angel Rubio angel.rubio@ehu.es Universidad del País Vasco, San Sebastian, Spain.

• Vice-President for Users and Technology:

Dr. Lucia Reining lucia.reining@polytechnique.fr Laboratoire des Solide Irradiés (CNRS, CEA and Ecole Polytechnique), Palaiseau, France.

• Director of the ETSF Meeting Centre:

Prof. Rodolfo Del Sole rodolfo.delsole@roma2.infn.it Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy.

• Chair of the ETSF Steering Committee:

Prof. Rex Godby rwg3@york.ac.uk University of York, UK.