Midterm Review Meeting

Gunnar Bali (Coordinator)

Universität Regensburg

STRONGnet Midterm Review Meeting Trento, 3 October, 2011 Outline Teams Management I Research Training Networking Management II Summary

Overview and Teams

Management I: general structure

Research

Training

Networking

Management II: recruitment and technical

Summary

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10 university teams (participants or beneficiaries) 4 associated (or industry) partners (APs)

from 7 EU member states 648 EU funded ESR & 96 ER months (18 20 + 4 researchers) → 7 network funded conferences, schools and workshops 4.72 Me for the period 1.1.2010 – 31.12.2013 (4 years) ≤ Scientific goal: solving QCD by numerical simulation on supercomputers (Lattice QCD) and developing the methods and tools to do this.

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Coordinator: liaison with REA, reporting and coordination. Supervisory Board: scientists-in-charge of the beneficiaries and associated partners (10 + 4 members). Decides everything tricky. In financial issues only the beneficiaries have a say. Meets at least twice per year. Management Team: day-to-day management and assists the coordinator in reporting to REA. (spokespersons of Training Board, Research Board and Recruitment Team) Research Board: 8 representatives of the Working Groups. Monitors, coordinates and reports on the research. Meets or teleconferences quarterly. Recruitment Team: advertizes positions, selects candidates and monitors this process. Training Board: monitors, reports on and coordinates the training. Meets or teleconferences quarterly.

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Management Team and Support

Coordinator: Gunnar Bali (Regensburg) Assistant to the Coordinator: Rainer Schiel Secretary: Monika Maschek Regensburg administrative staff: Johanna Kronberger (finance), Christina Ludwig (legal) Management Team: Gunnar Bali (Coordinator), Mike Peardon (Research Board), Margarita Pérez (Recruitment Team), Christian Lang (Training Board)

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Supervisory Board

Scientists-in-charge Gunnar Bali (Regensburg, Coordinator) Constantia Alexandrou (Cyprus) Francesco Di Renzo (Parma) Andreas Frommer (Wuppertal) Margarita García Pérez (CSIC Madrid) Edwin Laermann (Bielefeld) Christian Lang (KFU Graz) Paul Rakov (Liverpool) Jörn Rank (d-fine, Frankfurt) Sinéad Ryan (TCD Dublin) Heiko Schick (IBM R & D, Böblingen) Giampietro Tecchiolli (Eurotech, Amaro) Mark Westwood (Petroleum Geo Services, Edinburgh)

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Research Board

Hard-wired to participants leading working group activities. Therefore (like the Supervisory Board and Coordinator) this is not elected. Mike Peardon (Dublin, Spokesperson, WG5 hadron spectrum) Constantia Alexandrou (Cyprus, WG6 hadron structure) Francesco Di Renzo (Parma, WG4 lattice perturbation theory) James Zanotti (Edinburgh, WG2 software) Francesco Knechtli (Wuppertal, WG3 algorithms) Edwin Laermann (Bielefeld, WG7 extreme matter) Carlos Pena (Madrid, WG8 QCD vacuum) Tilo Wettig (Regensburg, WG1 hardware)

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Recruitment Team

Elected in January 2010 by the SB: Margarita Pérez (spokesperson, Madrid) Andreas Frommer (Wuppertal) Christopher Maynard (Edinburgh) Haralambos Panagopoulos (Cyprus) The recruitment phase is now over. The RT however retains copies of the Career Development Plans on behalf of the Training Board and will monitor the Secondments.

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Training Board

8 members have been elected by SB in January 2010 (including 3 APs). 2 further ESRs have been elected in August 2010 as members. Christian Lang (spokesperson, Graz) Constantia Alexandrou (Cyprus) Matthias Bolten (Wuppertal) Ashley Cooke (ESR, Edinburgh) Luigi Del Debbio (Edinburgh) Eric Endress (ESR, Madrid) Jörn Rank (d-fine) Sinéad Ryan (Dublin) Giampietro Tecchiolli (Eurotech) Mark Westfood (PGS)

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Three light quarks (up, down und strange)

mesons (qq¯)

¯ 3 ⊗ 3 = 1 ⊕ 8

baryons (qqq)

3 ⊗ 3 ⊗ 3 = 1 ⊕ 8 ⊕ 8 ⊕ 10 − − J P 3 1 + 1 3 + X2 2 2 2

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Particle accelerators

2016: FAIR/GSI λ< 10−16m historical:

2010: LHC@CERN λ< 10−19m

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QCD (theory of strong interactions)

1 QCD = FF + ψ¯f (D/ + mf )ψf L − 16παs q→∞ asymptotic freedom: αs (q) 0 −→ −→ ? confinement −→ ? chiral symmetry breaking −→ proton (artist’s impression)

Theoretically beautiful but analytical quantitative predictions are very difficult in the region of small momentum transfers (strong QCD) ! = computer simulation ⇒

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Lattice QCD

o o o o o typical values: plaquette a−1 = 1.5 4 GeV, La = 1.5 6 fm o o o o o − − a continuum limit: a 0, La fixed L a o o o o o → link infinite volume: La o o o o o →∞ 1 −S[U,ψ,ψ¯] site O = [dU] [dψ][dψ¯] O[U]e o o o o o h i Z Z

“Measurement”: average over a representative ensemble of gluon −S[U,ψ,ψ¯] configurations Ui with probability P(Ui ) [dψ][dψ¯]e { } ∝ R n 1 1 n→∞ O = O(Ui )+ ∆O ∆O 0 h i n ∝ √n −→ Xi=1

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1 Input: QCD = FF +q ¯f (D/ + mf )qf L − 16παL mlat = mphys a p p −→ lat lat phys phys mPS/m = m /m mu md p π p −→ ≈ · · · Output: hadron masses, matrix elements, decay constants, etc...

Extrapolations:

1 a 0: functional form known. → 2 L : harmless but often computationally expensive. →∞ lat phys lat 3 m mq : chiral perturbation theory (χPT) but m must be q → q sufficiently small to start with. lat phys (mPS = mπ has only very recently been realized.)

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Some motivation

Strongly coupled theories beyond the Standard Model? Non-perturbative electroweak symmetry breaking High temperature: phase transition(s) in the early universe High density: phenomenology of neutron/quark stars Precision tests of the Standard Model are only possible if hadron properties can be related to quark and gluon properties Understand QCD background in colliders Femto-chemistry: compute the hadron spectrum and structure Low energy constants and connection to nuclear physics

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A possible QCD Phase diagram

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The Working Groups

WG1: Hardware Development (with industry partners) WG2: Software Development and Optimization WG3: Algorithmic Innovation (with mathematicians) WG4: Lattice Perturbation Theory WG5: Hadron Spectroscopy and Strong Decays WG6: Hadron Structure WG7: QCD in Extreme Conditions WG8: The QCD Vacuum The network produced over 200 publications in 21 months and was very visible at numerous international conferences.

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Working Group 1 (Hardware Development)

The power wall

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QPACE (QCD Parallel Computing on the Cell BE)

based on Enhanced Cell/BE e 25/GFlops, 5 W/GFlops (sustained)

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Supercomputer development

QPACE (Regensburg, Wuppertal, IBM R & D Böblingen, FZ Jülich, DESY, Milano-Bicocca, Ferrara, Eurotech, Knürr, Zollner, Xilinx) AuroraScience (ECT*, Parma, Eurotech, Ferrara, Milano-Bicocca, Padova, Fondazione Bruno Kessler etc.) Similar network/cooling as QPACE Visit on Wednesday. → iDataCool (Regensburg, IBM R & D Böblingen, Invensor etc): hot water cooling of iDataPlex and re-use of 70 ◦C water to run an absorption cooling machine. LRZ Munich MUC-prototype. QCDCQ (QCD with chiral quarks) = IBM BlueGene/Q (Edinburgh, Columbia, RBRC, IBM Yorktown Heights, IBM Böblingen, etc). The IBM BG-line is based on the QCDOC computer design developed by RIKEN-BNL, BNL, Columbia, Edinburgh and IBM. There are new projects planned. These activities had a major impact on the design and pricing of commercial supercomputers. Gunnar Bali (Coordinator) STRONGnet 22 / 46 Outline Teams Management I Research Training Networking Management II Summary

Working Group 2 (Software Development and Optimization)

Assembler and low level code for different platforms including QPACE, Intel Xeon, Nvidia GPUs (Cyprus, Edinburgh, Regensburg, Wuppertal) Porting and development of optimized core routines to platforms including Cell and GPUs (Cyprus, Edinburgh, Regensburg, Wuppertal) Migration of QDP++ to GPUs (talk by ESR Frank Winter) Promoting the use of the International Lattice Data Grid for sharing of gauge configurations (all teams)

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Working Group 3 (Algorithmic Innovation)

Development of Improved Hybrid Monte Carlo integrators (Dublin, Edinburgh, Wuppertal) Tuning the HMC algorithm (Edinburgh, Liverpool, Regensburg) Development of alternatives to HMC (Wuppertal) Adaptive algebraic multigrid (Wuppertal, Regensburg, talk by ESR Nemanja Božović) Solvers for the overlap operator with and without chemical potential (Wuppertal, Regensburg) Efficient computation of matrix functions (Wuppertal) Improved stochastic estimates for all-to-all propagators (Cyprus, Dublin, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Madrid, Regensburg) Non-stochastic all-to-all methods (Dublin, Graz, talk by ER Liuming Liu) Worm and cluster algorithms (Cyprus, Madrid, Regensburg, talk by ESR Gennaro Cortese) Gunnar Bali (Coordinator) STRONGnet 24 / 46 Outline Teams Management I Research Training Networking Management II Summary

Working Group 4 (Lattice Perturbation Theory)

Lattice spacing corrections to one loop diagrammatic Lattice Perturbation Theory results (Cyprus) Diagrammatic renormalization constants for different actions and operators (Cyprus, Dublin) Diagrammatic calculations for finite temperature physics (Bielefeld) Very high order perturbation theory results, renormalons (Liverpool, Parma, Regensburg) Three loop results for renormalization constants (Parma) Combining diagrammatic and stochastic methods (talk by ESR Dirk Hesse)

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Working Group 5 (Hadron Spectroscopy)

Computation of light hadron spectroscopy in the continuum limit at physical quark masses (Wuppertal) Light hadron spectroscopy around the SU(3) flavour symmetric point (Edinburgh, Liverpool, Regensburg) Charmonium spectroscopy (Dublin, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Regensburg, Wuppertal, talk by ER Liuming Liu) Tetraquarks and molecules: light and heavy (Dublin, Graz, Regensburg) Flavour singlet mesons (Cyprus, Dublin, Edinburgh, Graz, Liverpool, Regensburg) Meson and baryon spectroscopy including high radial and angular excitations (Dublin) Development of new methods (with WG 3) (Dublin, Edinburgh, Graz, Madrid, Regensburg)

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Working Group 6 (Hadron Structure)

Nucleon form factors (Cyprus, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Regensburg) Transition form factors (Cyprus, Edinburgh), ∆ formfactor (Cyprus) Moments of nucleon structure functions (Cyprus, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Regensburg) Nucleon distribution amplitudes (Edinburgh, Liverpool, Regensburg) Non-perturbative determination of renormalization constants (Cyprus, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Regensburg, Wuppertal, interaction with WG 4 important) Quark line disconnected contributions to the mass and spin of the proton (Cyprus, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Regensburg, interaction with WG 3 important) D meson electroweak formfactors (Edinburgh, Liverpool, Regensburg) K semileptonic decays (Edinburgh, talk by ESR Karthee Sivalingam)

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Working Group 7 (QCD in Extreme Conditions)

Precise determinations of the pseudocritical temperature of QCD at zero chemical potential µ in the continuum limit (Bielefeld, Wuppertal) Following the pseudocritical line to µ> 0 (Bielefeld, Wuppertal) Computation of the phase diagram in an external (electro-)magnetic field (Regensburg, Wuppertal, talk by ESR Gergely Endrődi) Determination of the equation of state (Bielefeld, Wuppertal) Temperature dependence of spatial and temporal mesonic correlation functions (Bielefeld) Spectral density functions of quarkonia at high temperatures (Bielefeld, Dublin) Classical real-time simulations (Bielefeld) Effective models (Graz, Regensburg, talk by ESR Ydalia Delgado Mercado)

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Working Group 8 (The QCD Vacuum)

Chiral symmetry: determination of low energy constants (Edinburgh, Liverpool, Madrid, Regensburg, Wuppertal) Confinement mechanism and connection with topological properties and chiral symmetry breaking (Graz, Madrid, Regensburg, Wuppertal) Electroweak symmetry breaking: Higgs mechanism, five dimensional theories and technicolour (Edinburgh, Wuppertal) Large N SU(N) gauge theories (Edinburgh, Madrid, Regensburg) Supersymmetry on the lattice (Regensburg)

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EU Programme Description

ITNs will be built on a joint research training programme, responding to well identified training needs in defined scientific areas, with appropriate reference to interdisciplinary and newly emerging supra-disciplinary fields. Training will be primarily focused on scientific and technological knowledge through research on individual, personalised projects, complemented by substantial training modules addressing other relevant skills and competencies. Examples include management and financing of research projects and programmes intellectual property rights and other exploitation methods of research results entrepreneurship ethical aspects communication societal outreach Gunnar Bali (Coordinator) STRONGnet 30 / 46 Outline Teams Management I Research Training Networking Management II Summary

STRONGnet implementation

The network as a whole undertakes to provide a minimum of 744 person-months of Early Stage and Experienced Researchers. The network offers trainees the opportunity to learn ideas and techniques that are applicable in a wide range of fields while participating in fundamental research. The unifying theme is the physics of strong interactions. The curriculum is supplemented by complementary skills elements. The APs will support this and sit on the supervisory board, assist to improve and to include generic elements into the training, actively contribute to the training provided in open network training events (summer schools and meeting), accept secondments or internships.

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Training elements Research project with secondment to another participant or AP Structured training provided locally (host based) and at central training events HPC training, locally and at two summer schools Generic Skills training in schools, including management (time, people, projects), communication (presentation, public understanding of science), fund raising (grant application, research policy), business skills (commercialisation, IPR, entrepreneurship).

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All Fellows have a Personal Career Development Plan (PCDP). The PCDP contains long term career targets and short term objectives and is updated on a yearly basis. In the PCDPs of the four ERs the research project, research supervision and planning of research are more prominent than for the ESRs. The PCDPs for ERs contain a smaller number of structured training elements. The PCDP specifies a mentor (and is discussed with him/her) of a different team. All PCDPs include a secondment phase. All Fellows will present at least one talk per year at a major international conference. Most Fellows have the opportunity to teach to improve their presentation skills and can take local language and other classes. Fellows are involved into the planning of STRONGnet workshops and schools.

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Workshops and Schools planned by the Network according to Annex I.

non-network month event where length parti- researcher (days) cipants days 1 10 Opening Workshop Cyprus 4 48 20 2 18 Summer School ZiF Bielefeld 12 40 80 3 21 Progress Workshop ECT* Trento 5 50 50 4 30 Summer School Edinburgh 26 28 80 5 33 Progress Workshop Madrid 5 50 50 6 41 Summer Meeting Dublin 4 28 20 7 46 International Conf. Graz 4 80 60

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Opening Workshop: Paphos, August 24–27, 2010

Introductory talks on the network’s research areas. All industry partners gave presentations about their activities, detailing past involvement with network teams and future opportunities. Presentations by network scientists describing current research and new results. 14 external participants (including 10 experts and 4 PhD students) 48 network participants (including 11 E(S)Rs, 6 other PhD students and 4 Industrial partners)

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Summer School: ZiF Bielefeld, June 14–25, 2011 Introductory and advanced lectures and exercises by network scientists (including APs) and external experts. Hadron Spectroscopy on the Lattice, Finite Temperature and Density Lattice QCD, Hadron Structure, Heavy Flavour Physics, The QCD Vacuum Lattice Perturbation Theory, Monte Carlo Algorithms, Linear Solvers, Complex Actions Chiral Perturbation Theory, Random Matrix Theory Technicolor Quantum Gravity Exascale Computing Importance sampling in Finance and valuation of Equity Derivatives Car passenger safety, pedestrian flows and research at Nokia 26 external participants (including 16 experts and 8 PhD students) 37 network participants (including 16 E(S)Rs, 7 students and 3 partners) Gunnar Bali (Coordinator) STRONGnet 36 / 46 Outline Teams Management I Research Training Networking Management II Summary

Midterm Review Meeting and Progress Workshop: ECT*, Trento, October 3–7, 2011. One morning session organized by the Fellows for the Fellows. Plenary talks and discussion sessions on recent developments in physics, algorithms and computer architecture. Discussion session to prepare secondments. All 18 + 2 ESRs and 4 ERs participate. Next Event: summer school 2012 in Edinburgh

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Many additional events with network Fellow participation were organized with the help of individual teams and funded from other sources: Universitätswochen für Theoretische Physik, March 2010, Schladming, Austria Hadrons, Lattice QCD and Chiral Perturbation Theory, September 2010, Graz, Austria Aurora School, September 2010, Trento, Italy Universitätswochen für Theoretische Physik, February 2011, Schladming, Austria Lattice Practices, March 2011, Zeuthen, Germany Jan Wennekers Memorial Workshop, March 2011, Edinburgh, UK LQCD @ Spain, June 2011, Santander, Spain

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More than 20 mutual research visits. Intensive use of web conferencing (Evo and Skype) and E-mail. Scientists and Fellows met at the above Network events and at numerous international Schools and Conferences. Student exchanges: Ashley Cooke: TCD Edinburgh, Frank Winter: → Regensburg Edinburgh, Mario Gravina: Parma/Trento Cyprus, → → Eoin Kerrane: Edinburgh Madrid. → (We would have wished to intensify this but the network duration is 48 months only.) Problem: secondments. See below. > 100 joint publications with authors from two or more teams.

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STRONGnet members participate in large international collaborations: ALPHA/CLS: TC Dublin, Madrid, Wuppertal, HU Berlin, DESY Zeuthen, Mainz, MPI München, Münster, Roma II, Sao Paulo ETMC: Cyprus, Bonn, DESY Zeuthen, Grenoble, Groningen, Münster, Orsay, Poznan, Roma I, II, III QCDSF: Edinburgh, Liverpool, Regensburg, Zuse Zentrum Berlin, Jülich SC, Leipzig, RIKEN Kobe, UA Mexico, Mainz BMW-c: Wuppertal, Budapest, Marseille Hadron Spectrum Collaboration: TC Dublin, DESY Zeuthen, Jefferson Lab, U Maryland, Tata Inst. Mumbai, Old Dominion U, U Pacific, CMU Pittsburgh RBC-UKQCD: Edinburgh, BNL, Columbia, Connecticut, RIKEN-BNL, Indiana, Southampton, KEK Tsukuba HOT-QCD: Bielefeld, BNL, Columbia, GSI Darmstadt, LLNL, RIKEN-BNL, Stony Brook

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HPQCD: Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cornell, Fermilab, Illinois, Mainz, Ohio State, Simon Fraser U, Southern Methodist U, TRIUMF UKQCD: Edinburgh, Liverpool, Cambridge, Glasgow, Oxford, Plymouth, Southampton, Swansea Large-N Collaboration: Edinburgh, Regensburg, Wuppertal, Cambridge, Helsinki, Odense, Swansea etc. We have designed the network to transgress the boundaries of these established structures. This enables transfer of knowledge and exchange of students and postdocs between collaborations. New collaborative projects have been initiated. The discussion in the Research Board is very useful to structure the research.

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Recruitment

Team Fellow proposed realized/ Name Gender Home months planned country ESR 1 1 – 36 1.0 – 36.0 Luca Castagnini M Italy UREG ESR 2 10 – 45 1.0 – 36.0 Vidushi Maillart F Switzerland ESR 3 10 – 45 11.0 – 46.0 Gergely Endrődi M Hungary ESR 19 — 16.0 – 33.0 N. Javadi Motaghi F Iran UNIBI ER 1 10 – 33 10.0 – 33.0 Fabrizio Pucci M Italy UCY ER 2 10 – 33 11.0 – 34.0 Mario Gravina M Italy ESR 4 4 – 39 9.0 – 44.0 Pol Vilaseca Mainar M Spain TCD ESR 20 — 17.0 – 23.3 Mattia Dalla Brida M Italy ER 3 10 – 33 10.0 – 33.0 Liuming Liu F China ESR 5 3 – 38 9.0 – 44.0 Ashley Cooke M Ireland UEDIN ESR 6 9 – 44 11.0 – 46.0 Karthee Sivalingam M India ESR 7 9 – 44 12.0 – 47.0 Frank Winter M Germany ESR 8 9 – 44 22.0 – 48.0 Pan Kessel M Germany KFUGRAZ ESR 9 4 – 39 4.0 – 39.0 Y. Delgado Mercado F Peru ESR 10 10 – 45 8.5 – 43.5 Mario Schröck M Germany ULIVERPOOL ESR 11 4 – 39 16.0 – 48.0 Raffaele Millo M Italy ESR 12 10 – 45 23.0 – 45.0 Eoin Kerrane M Ireland CSIC ESR 13 1 – 36 1.0 – 36.0 Eric Endress M Germany ESR 14 10 – 45 13.0 – 48.0 Gennaro Cortese M Italy UNIPR ESR 15 10 – 45 13.0 – 48.0 Dirk Hesse M Germany ER 4 10 – 33 10.0 – 33.0 Masayasu Hasegawa M Japan ESR 16 4 – 39 4.0 – 39.0 Kyoko Yoneyama F Japan U WUPPERTAL ESR 17 10 – 45 10.0 – 45.0 Nemana Božović M Serbia ESR 18 10 – 45 13.3 – 48.0 Dmitry Shcherbakov M Russia 4/20 ESRs are female (20 %) and 1/4 ERs (25 %) 9/24 Fellows (37 %) come from outside the EU, 6 (25 %) from Italy, 5 (21 %) from Germany, 2 from Ireland, 1 from Hungary and 1 from Spain. Gunnar Bali (Coordinator) STRONGnet 42 / 46 Outline Teams Management I Research Training Networking Management II Summary

The positions were advertized on EURAXESS, latticejobs and spires, with a general call on the STRONGnet webpage. The network started in January while the typical recruitment month is September/October. The network duration is 48 months and most contracts are for 36 months so that we aimed at filling them before month 13. Recruitment is now completed. In view of the above a longer duration or possibility of prolongation/extension in future ITN calls would be good. More freedom in future calls to deviate from the training events outlined in Annex I would be good, e.g., for joint meetings with other ITNs such as LHCPhenoNet, where such opportunities present themselves. Secondments make little sense in the first year of employment. All secondments will take place in 2012. → Gunnar Bali (Coordinator) STRONGnet 43 / 46 Outline Teams Management I Research Training Networking Management II Summary

Finance

ESR 12 was moved from Liverpool to CSIC Madrid and a total of 25.29 Fellow months (9 (ESR 8, UEDIN), 3 (ESR 11, ULIVERPOOL), 13 (ESR 12, now CSIC), and 0.29 (ESR 18, U WUPPERTAL)) were redistributed to create the ESR 19 (18 months, UREG) and ESR 20 (7.29 months, TCD) positions. This affects the distribution of funds in categories A, B, C, D and E. e 3700 Management (G) are also moved from ULIVERPOOL to CSIC Madrid and the Overheads (H) are recalculated.

beneficiary GP forms projection % of total received remaining % of remaining 1 UREG 833254 921836.72 20.11 499952.40 421884.32 24.10708 2 UNIBI 206310 197170.69 4.30 123786.00 73384.69 4.19331 3 UCY 182604 174213.60 3.80 109562.40 64651.20 3.69426 4 TCD 418090 444872.66 9.71 250854.00 194018.66 11.08651 5 UEDIN 865172 790033.75 17.24 519103.20 270930.55 15.48136 6 KFUGRAZ 419382 410539.80 8.96 251629.20 158910.60 9.08038 7 ULIVERPOOL 419124 186167.85 4.06 186167.85 0.00 0.00000 8 CSIC 396940 506795.69 11.06 303470.55 203325.14 11.61829 9 UNIPR 384769 370920.84 8.09 230861.40 140059.44 8.00320 10 U WUPPERTAL 595796 580356.27 12.66 357477.60 222878.67 12.73561 total 4721441 4582907.87 100.00 2832864.60 1750043.27 100.00000 On average the fellows are “cheaper” than anticipated. Only one Fellow is married.

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Legal

Eligibility of Fellows is checked by the Recruitment Team, in addition to the host institute. All fellows have received A copy of the work contract The Personal Career Development Plan Annexes I and III to the GA the z-card All (22) Declarations of Conformity have been submitted (2 pending). 27 (!?) Fellows have filled in the midterm assessment questionaires. The host and Fellows can find all legal, financial, eligibility and salary/allowance information on the wiki http://strongnet.ur.de/info/ All relevant legal documents can be found at http://www.physik.ur.de/STRONGnet/index.php?pg=docs There also exist a Consortium Agreement and Confidentiality Agreements. Gunnar Bali (Coordinator) STRONGnet 45 / 46 Outline Teams Management I Research Training Networking Management II Summary

Summary

I believe we are well on track and that the network is a success.

More information can be found at http://www.physik.ur.de/STRONGnet

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