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Symposium: The ESS Project Opportunity for Italian Research
Rome, November 16th, 2010.
The ESS Project Opportunity for Italian Research
Location:
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Piazzale Aldo Moro,7 Aula Convegni, Roma
Registration is now open and logistics details are at:
http://ess-symposium.cnr.it
The Symposium brings together national with international neutron facility and instrument experts of neutron sources and national stakeholders to discuss existing neutron sources and ESS project as present and future opportunity for the Italian research. Aim is the build up of joint R&D projects and the setting up of future collaborations.
For Scientific Program and Poster sessions see: http://ess-symposium.cnr.it
If you have any questions about registration, please contact Anna Minella
email: segreteria@centronast.it
The deadline for registration is November 7th, 2010
News: High proton conduction in grain-baundary-free yttrium-doped barium zirconate films grown by pulsed laser deposition
Un gruppo di ricercatori membri del NAST, hanno pubblicato un loro lavoro su Nature Materials (IF=29.5).
Related Links:
Leggi l’articolo su Nature Materials
Leggi la notizia su e-magazine ‘Tor Vergata‘
International workshop High Energy Neutrons for Science and Society
5th – 6th October 2010
Location:
Villa Wolkonsky, the residence of the British ambassador in Rome, Italy
Registration deadline: 15 September 2010
– Detailed information and registration on web site
– E-mail contact: school_fpricci@me.cnr.it
Invited Lecturers
| Carla Andreani | University of Rome Tor Vergata and Centre NAST |
| Roberto Car | Princeton University |
| Chris Frost | STFC, ISIS Facility |
| Nikitas Gidopoulos | STFC, ISIS Facility |
| Henry Glyde | University of Delaware |
| Giuseppe Gorini | University of Milano Bicocca and CNR |
| Lin Lin | Princeton University |
| Jerry Mayers | STFC, ISIS Facility |
| David Manolopoulos | University of Oxford |
| Robert Mc Greevy | STFC, ISIS Facility |
| Michele Parrinello | Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule (ETH) Zürich |
| George Reiter | University of Houston |
| Roberto Senesi | University of Rome Tor Vergata and Centre NAST |
| Marco Zoppi | CNR – ISC |
Scope
The observational window provided by high–energy (eV to MeV) neutrons offers unique possibilities as a local probe for the exploration of materials at the nanoscale. The inverse geometry spectrometer VESUVIO operating on the ISIS pulsed neutron source has pioneered Deep Inelastic Neutron Scattering (DINS) measurements of the momentum distribution of light atoms in condensed matter systems. These measurements provide a probe of the local structure of the materials and biomaterials as well as information on the dynamics of the atoms.
This is the V edition of a series of workshops addressing the PERSPECTIVES IN NEUTRON SPECTROSCOPY AT HIGH ENERGIES and follows the I and II editions held at Cosener House in May 1995 and October 1998, the III edition held in Santa Fe (New Mexico, US) in April 2005, and the IV edition held in Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2006.
Lectures are intended for experts and PhD students attending the X SCHOOL OF NEUTRON SCATTERING “FRANCESCO PAOLO RICCI”.
Scientific Committee
Mark Adams (STFC, ISIS)
Jerry Mayers (STFC, ISIS)
Stuart Parker (STFC, ISIS)
John Tomkinson (STFC, UK)
Meeting: E-MRS Spring Meeting 2010
7th – 11st June 2010
THE European Material Conference
European Materials Research Society Spring Meeting
Scientific/Technical Symposia & Exhibition
Deadline for abstract submission:
January 19, 2010
Location:
Palais de la Musique et des Congrès
Congress Center
Strasburg, FRANCE
More info:
Brochure
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Seminar: The Study of Magnetic Excitations of Cuprates with Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering: Results and Perspectives
14th May 2010 – 15:00
Speaker:
Prof. Lucio Braicovich (Dipartimento di Fisica del Politecnico di Milano)
Location:
aula “G. Ruffino” del Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica (edificio Ing. Industriale, II piano)
Related Information:
Poster
School: X International School of Neutron Scattering ‘Francesco Paolo Ricci’
X INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF NEUTRON SCATTERING
‘FRANCESCO PAOLO RICCI’
Electronvolt Neutron Spectroscopy of Materials: Microscopic Dynamics and Enabling Techniques
Date:
Rome, 25th September – 4th October, 2010
Location:
Villa Mondragone, Monte Porzio Catone, Roma, Italy
Registration deadline:
15th June 2010
School Directors:
Dr. Roberto Senesi, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata-Dipartimento di Fisica, Roma, Italy
Dr. Cirino Vasi, C.N. R.– Istituto per i Processi Chimico Fisici, Messina, Italy
Detailed information and registration:
Website
E-mail contact: school_fpricci@me.cnr.it
Aim of the School
This school, established in 1994, is primarily addressed to graduate students or postdoctoral with an interest in Neutron Scattering. The School will comprise lectures, tutorials, practicals and hands-on data analysis sessions, covering diverse aspects of Neutron Scattering, but with an emphasis on techniques and instrumentation designed to study the : Microscopic Dynamics of Simple and Hydrogen-bonded Quantum Fluids, Quantum Momentum Distributions, Effective Born-Oppenheimer Potentials, High Energy Excitations, High Energy Neutron Imaging, Deep Inelastic neutron scattering , High Energy Neutron Irradiation Effects.
The School will start on Saturday, September 25th 2010, with a series of in introductory lectures covering the fundamental aspects of neutron scattering and neutron instrumentation. During the next days, a series of lectures will provide the basis of electronvolt neutron spectroscopy, with particular on new instrumental and data handling techniques.
Practicals will be carried out at the neutron@BTF pulsed neutron source at Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati – INFN.
At the end of the school, students are invited to attend the International workshop: “High-energy neutrons for science and society “, which will be held on October 5th and 6th 2010 at Villa Wolkonsky, the UK ambassador’s residence in Rome.
Seminar: Coloring the noise or cheating one’s way to quantum effects
16th April 2010 – 15:00
Speaker:
Prof. Michele Parrinello (Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Via Giuseppe Buffi 13, USI Campus, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland)
Location:
Aula G2C – Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Naturali, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Abstract:
We use a generalized form of Langevin equation in which the noise is correlated (colored) rather then being white to devise a number of very powerful sampling methods. After revising the theory that is behind our approach, we show how one can model the noise to achieve optimal sampling in ordinary and in ab-initio (Car-Parrinello) molecular dynamics. Most remarkably our sampling method can be used to introduce quantum effect at zero additional cost with respect to a standard simulation.
G. Bussi and M. Parrinello, J. Chem. Phys., vol. 126 (1), pp. 014101, 2007
M. Ceriotti, G. Bussi and M. Parrinello, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol 102 (2), pp. 020601, 2009
M. Ceriotti, G. Bussi and M. Parrinello, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol 103 (3), pp. 030603, 2009
Related Information:
http://www.rgp.ethz.ch/
News: Graduate Course on Neutrons in Biology
Paris, 7th – 11th June, 2010
Location:
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
A course focusing on neutron techniques used in structural biology. The course is designed for graduate students with knowledge of protein function and structure but no or limited experience of neutron sciences.
Deadline for application: March 31, 2010
Related Information:
For more details contact: Flora Meilleur (mailto:meilleurf@ornl.gov)
or visit: http://neutrons.ornl.gov/conf/gcnb2010
Bando Caspur Borse di Dottorato
Il Caspur, consorzio per il calcolo a cui l’ Università di Tor Vergata afferisce, bandisce borse di dottorato nei seguenti settori:
- Advanced networking
- Bioinformatica
- Innovazione Tecnologica e Comunicazione
Il bando è riservato alle Università consorziate.
Per i partecipanti della nostra Università la domanda va inviata a: direzione@caspur.it
(e per conoscenza a desideri@uniroma2.it)
Gli allegati sono disponibili al seguente link:
Conference: Quarto Congresso Nazionale della Associazione Italiana Gestione Energia-AIGE
Il Quarto Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione Italiana Gestione Energia, organizzato dal Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Impresa dell’Università di Tor Vergata, si svolgerà a Roma dal 26 al 27 maggio 2010.
More Info:
AIGE primo annuncio 2010
News: Observation of Half Quantum Vortices in Exciton Polariton Condensates
Prof. Alexey Kavokin, a member of the NAST, has published an article in Science on the discovery of the “vortex means” in a Bose Einstein condensate of exciton polaritons. The news, with a short summary of the results, is visible on the Home Page of the Tor Vergata site.
Read the news magazine of Tor Vergata
Workshop: Structure and Dynamics of Hydrogen-bonded systems
Trieste, 26th – 27th October, 2009
Structure and Dynamics of Hydrogen-bonded systems
Location:
ICTP, Trieste (Italy)
A two-day Workshop on the “Structure and Dynamics of Hydrogen-bonded systems” will be held at the ICTP in Trieste (Italy), 26 and 27 October 2009. Advances in experimental tools and computational methods are making this an extremely exciting time for the field, a time when substantial advances in our understanding of hydrogen bonded systems appear possible. The focus of this meeting will be on cutting-edge experimental and computational approaches, and on recent results aiming at describing and understanding the peculiarities of hydrogen-bonded systems in condensed phases such as solids, liquids, and macromolecular systems.
Topics covered include: Structure and dynamics of hydrogen-bonded liquids and solids, Hydrogen-bonded systems in confined geometries, Biomolecular systems: proteins and DNA, Polymorphism, High pressure phases and phase diagrams, Water and aqueous solutions, Ferroelectric ices. Techiques include: Neutron Diffraction, Compton and quasi-elastic neutron scattering, X-ray diffraction and inelastic scattering, Pump-probe spectroscopy, Classical and Quantum Molecular Dynamics, Ab initio electronic structure calculations, Path integral methods, Wave function methods for vibrations.
Workshop: Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy – WHOSE 2009
15th-16th October 2009
Whorkshop on Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy (WHOSE 2009)
Location:
Villa Mondragone, Monte Porzio Catone, Roma
The workshop covers many aspects of research and development on hybrid and organic photovoltaics. Is intended to be an italian as well international forum for discussions on the current trends and future directions of hybrid and organic photovoltaics, the science and the industrialization. The emphasis of the contributions is on interdisciplinary aspects of this field.
Related Information:
Web site
Workshop: MANA
Rome, 13th October 2009
MANA – URTV – NAST WORKSHOP
Nanomaterials for sustainable development
Location:
Villa Mondragone, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Moneporzio Catone, Rome, Italy
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Program
Workshop: Long-Pulse Instrumentation
26th – 28th August, 2009
Long-Pulse Instrumentation
The European community is currently working to develop plans for the ESS, a 5 MW long-pulse spallation neutron source, and the SNS in the US is currently developing plans for a second target station (STS) operating in the long-pulse mode at ~1 MW. Therefore it makes sense for the US and European communities to pool resources to develop a better understanding of what might be possible with neutron beam instrumentation optimized for operation at high-power long-pulse spallation neutron sources.
Related Information:
ORNL Neutron Sciences