Meetings 2014-2018

 

Meeting type Management Committee Meeting, Workshop/Conference
Title of meeting Final Workshop and MC Meeting
Goals addressed
  • Support of experiments by accompanying theoretical studies.
Description This was the final conference and MC meeting of the EUSpec Action. Therefore, the former was a Whole Action Meeting (WAM) where speakers were selected in each Working Group to give an overall picture of the work that was done during the duration of EUSpec. A round-table was also proposed to discuss the « after-EUSpec ». The MC meeting was finalize this COST Action and if necessary discuss the use possible underspent money.
Output The minutes of the MC meeting were made available to MC members in the dedicated area of the EUSpec webpage. Concerning the WAM, as it was the last one, a summary of the discussions of the round-table was sent to all EUSpec members, in addition to the pdf version of the booklet of presentations and abstracts.
Location Lisbon (Portugal)
Date 2018-02-19 - 2018-02-22
Participants 30

 

Meeting type Workshop/Conference
Title of meeting Embedding for Spectroscopy
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Location Stockholm (Sweden)
Date 2018-02-12 - 2018-02-16
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Meeting type  Workshop/Conference
Title of meeting  Valence versus core excitation
Goals addressed
  • Support of experiments by accompanying theoretical studies.
  • Favoring collaboration/transfer among communities (i.e. XES vs. XAS vs. DAFS vs. PES)
Description The purpose of this two-day workshop was to gather representative researchers from the core and valence electron spectroscopy communities in order to compare in detail the different theoretical approaches that are used in the two cases. Recent advances achieved in the respective theoretical spectroscopies were presented. Examples of comparisons that were considered are: XAS vs. optical absorption, core vs. valence photoemission and energy loss spectroscopies, RIXS vs. NRIXS, etc.
Output We expected to identify common problems and possibly different solutions adopted by the two communities. We aimed at sharing the best strategies and combining the best elements of the different worlds in order to make progress in the respective fields. We were set up common test cases where the different approaches can be directly compared and for which new benchmark experiments can also be suggested.
Location Paris (France)
Date 2017-12-07 - 2017-12-08
Participants 10

 

Meeting type Workshop/Conference
Title of meeting Workshop on recent developments in photoemission
Goals addressed
  • Support of experiments by accompanying theoretical studies.
  • Use information collected from the contact points to identify new promising spectroscopies.
  • First steps towards a flexible framework to describe time dependent phenomena and related spectroscopies.
  • Setting up experiments to challenge the available schemes to deal with correlations.
Description The purpose of the workshop was to present the latest developments in the photoemission instrumentation as well as in the photoemission multiple scattering theory. The workshop was intended both for experimentalists and theorists and it brought them closer together to communicate their respective needs and capabilities. The size of the workshop was chosen for the purpose of round table discussions, that strengthened existing and started new collaborations at European level.
Output This conference strengthened the bonds and create new links between the spectroscopists and multiple scattering theorists. State-of-the-art approaches and new developments both in the experiment and the theory were presented, which enabled the information exchange, otherwise delayed by the standard publication channels.
Location  Pilsen (Czech Republic) (ITC)
Date  2017-11-12 - 2017-11-15
Participants 25

 

Meeting type Management Committee Meeting, Workgroup Meeting
Title of meeting MC and Working Group 3 meeting
Goals addressed
  • Support of experiments by accompanying theoretical studies.
  • Use information collected from the contact points to identify new promising spectroscopies.
  • First steps towards a flexible framework to describe time dependent phenomena and related spectroscopies.
  • Setting up experiments to challenge the available schemes to deal with correlations.
  • Transfer of know-how and promotion of collaboration by organization of a hands-on course and scientific missions. 
Description This was a combined Working Group and MC meeting. Following the school that was run the days before, the WG meeting allowed to discuss the outcome of the school and to present also the latest breakthrough in the field of time-resolved spectroscopies as achieved by the WG members. This latter part was done through presentations and discussions. This also allowed to review the activities that were undertaken during the remaining time of the network. The MC meeting discussed all the running activities and the latest snapshot of the current work and budget plan.
Output Minutes of both the WG meeting and the MC meeting were produced and made available for the corresponding members in the dedicated area on the EUSpec website. If necessary, an update of the work and budget plan were proposed, in view of the outcome of the MC meeting discussions. 
Location Erice (Italy) 
Date 2017-07-27 - 2017-07-28
Participants 18

 

Meeting type Working Group Meeting
Title of meeting Electron and Absorption spectroscopies: coordination between experiment and theory
Goals addressed
  • Support of experiments by accompanying theoretical studies.
  • Setting up experiments to challenge the available schemes to deal with correlations.
  • Favoring collaboration/transfer among communities (i.e. XES vs. XAS vs. DAFS vs. PES)
Description The workshop aimed i) to promote the theory-experiment coordination within EUSpec, and ii) to extend the community on Spectroscopies by radiation sources in countries not having synchrotron facilities. In this way the workshop supported experiments by accompanying theoretical studies, discussed the milestone for setting up experiments to challenge the available codes, favoring collaboration/transfer among communities (i.e. XES vs.XAS vs. DAFS vs. PES).
Output The central outcome of the workshop was a list of experiments meant to challenge available theory and to be done as far as possible in a collaborative way. An additional and equally important review updated the wishlist of experimentalists concerning theoretical developments needed to have an adequate support for the interpretation of experimental results.
Location Krakow (Poland)
Date 2017-04-04 - 2017-04-05
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Meeting type Working Group Meeting
Title of meeting WG3 Meeting on the Organization of the School XTRAM in Erice
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Location Trieste (Italy)
Date 2017-03-06 - 2017-03-06
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Meeting type Management Committee Meeting, Working Group Meeting
Title of meeting EUSpec MC and working groups meeting
Goals addressed
  • Support of experiments by accompanying theoretical studies.
  • Setting up experiments to challenge the available schemes to deal with correlations.
  • Favoring collaboration/transfer among communities (i.e. XES vs. XAS vs. DAFS vs. PES)
Description This was a combined working group and MC meeting. The working group was devoted to review the achievements and problems of the running grant period. Presentations and discussions were to deal with ongoing issues to organize the activities for the remaining runtime of the grant period. Apart from reviewing the running activities and collaborations the MC meeting was primarily to prepare a first draft for the work and budget plan for the fourth grant period. This included in particular the preparation of a large training school complementing the very successful school February 2016 in Nova Gorica.
Output Apart from a report of the status of the various activities, the working group and MC meeting made decisions concerning the work and budget plan of the grant period 2016/2017 if an update were necessary or requested. A draft of the budget plan for the grant period 2017/2018 was sketched that were made available to all for further discussions.
Location Athens (Greece)
Date 2017-02-13 - 2017-02-14
Participants 35

 

Meeting type Working Group Meeting
Title of meeting Ab-initio correlated methods in spectroscopy: WG 1 Meeting
Goals addressed
  • Support of experiments by accompanying theoretical studies.
  • Definition of a common data format for exchange between codes and type of data to be exchanged.
  • Setting up a first version of corresponding interface tools.
Description This networking tool was a combined workshop of the work group 1 (Correlations) and other European networks connected with electronic correlations and spectroscopy. Co-organiser of this workshop Prof. C. Draxl was member of ETSF and NoMAD. During this workshop we planed to discuss various aspects of the DMFT and GW approaches and their combinations. In addition a roadmap for a combined data exchange format for self energy and basis functions were discussed.
Output The main output of this workshop was a deeper understanding of the computational approaches discussed and the relationship between them. The possibility of data exchange between the communities enhanced the flexibility and applicability of these approaches.
Location Prague (Czech Republic) (ITC)
Date 2017-02-06 - 2017-02-08
Participants 12

 

Meeting type Workshop/Conference
Title of meeting International Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science: Total Energy and Force Methods.
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Location Trieste (Italy)
Date 2017-01-12 - 2017-01-14
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Meeting type Working Group Meeting
Title of meeting WG 4 platform: coding workshop
Goals addressed Definition of a common data format for exchange between codes and type of data to be exchanged. Setting up a first version of corresponding interface tools.
Description The workshop brought together code developers using all electron methods like the APW and KKR. The meeting was used to make the participants (as far as necessary) familiar with the interface to the ESL IO-library and to make extensions to this according to the common definition of the format. The list of commonly used variables were reviewed and extended as far as necessary.
Output The workshop supplied for the all-electron codes the necessary IO routines in C++ as well as FORTRAN. This allowed the corresponding program packages to write and read electronic structure data in the common format. The corresponding list of commonly used variables were updated and documented.
Location Budapest (Hungary) (ITC)
Date 2016-10-18 - 2016-10-18
Participants 6

 

Meeting type Workshop/Conference 
Title of meeting Combined MSNano - EUSpec conference
Goals addressed
  • Support of experiments by accompanying theoretical studies.
  • Setting up experiments to challenge the available schemes to deal with correlations.
  • Optimizing full potential multiple scattering schemes and making contact with the LAPW method.
  • Favoring collaboration/transfer among communities (i.e. XES vs. XAS vs. DAFS vs. PES)
Description The purpose of this conference was to present recent advancements in the description of spectroscopies within the multiple scattering framework made within the MSNano network. MSNano researchers as well as researchers outside the network presented the latest on multiple scattering. A round table was also planned to discuss plans to federate the multiple scattering community at European level.
Output This conference made the summary of the developments of multiple scattering theory for spectroscopies that were made since the start of the MSNano network almost four years ago. This gave the audience the means to go beyond what will have been talked of during the Training School organised the days before. The latter provided the basic knowledge while this conference gave a state of the art of the use of multiple scattering to model spectroscopies.
Location Rennes (France)
Date 2016-07-01 - 2016-07-02
Participants 8

 

Meeting type Management Committee Meeting, Working Group Meeting
Title of meeting EUSpec MC and working groups meeting
Goals addressed
  • Support of experiments by accompanying theoretical studies.
  • Setting up experiments to challenge the available schemes to deal with correlations.
  • Favoring collaboration/transfer among communities (i.e. XES vs. XAS vs. DAFS vs. PES)
Description The WG meeting was a joint WG2-WG5 meeting. Its main purpose was to define what work can be shared between the two working groups. The MC meeting discussed the advancement of the Action and took the decisions needed for the Action to run smoothly.
Output The WG meeting explored the synergies between the Spectroscopy and Experiments Working groups. The MC meeting took all decisions relevant.
Location Rennes (France)
Date 2016-06-30 - 2016-06-30
Participants 32

 

Meeting type Working Group Meeting
Title of meeting WG 3 meeting on time-dependent spectrosopies: theoretical tools and contact with experiment
Goals addressed
  • Support of experiments by accompanying theoretical studies.
  • First steps towards a flexible framework to describe time dependent phenomena and related spectroscopies.
  • Transfer of know-how and promotion of collaboration by organization of a hands-on course and scientific missions.
Description Work groop meeting of WG 3 “Time-resolution”
Output The workshop brought together and reviewed the various theoretical methods available within the Action that allow the description of time dependent spectroscopy. Discussions were meant to monitor the potential and limitations of the various schemes. The interaction with the experimental colleagues showed which type of experiments are covered at the moment by these and in which directions further developments are needed. The coordination of these activities was a central issue.
Location Trieste (Italy)
Date 2016-04-14 - 2016-04-15
Participants 25

 

Meeting type Management Committee Meeting, Working Group Meeting
Title of meeting MC and WG meeting spring 2016
Goals addressed
  • Support of experiments by accompanying theoretical studies.
  • Use information collected from the contact points to identify new promising spectroscopies.
  • First steps towards a flexible framework to describe time dependent phenomena and related spectroscopies.
  • Setting up experiments to challenge the available schemes to deal with correlations.
  • Transfer of know-how and promotion of collaboration by organization of a hands-on course and scientific missions.
  • Optimizing full potential multiple scattering schemes and making contact with the LAPW method.
  • Definition of a common data format for exchange between codes and type of data to be exchanged.
  • Setting up a first version of corresponding interface tools.
  • Favoring collaboration/transfer among communities (i.e. XES vs. XAS vs. DAFS vs. PES)
Description

MC-meeting: The MC formally approved all decisions made by electronic vote, reviewed and discussed the ToDo-lists set up by the WGs, heard reports from the various Action managers, discussed and decided on organisational issues according to the agenda.

WG-meeting: The meeting was used to review and discuss the status of the various activities according to the ToDo-lists. Modifications, if necessary, as well as next steps were discussed.
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MC-meeting: The decisions and recommendations made by the MC were communicated to all participants.

WG-meeting: The meeting led for each WG to an updated and continued detailed ToDo-list with time table and persons involved.
Location Nova Gorcia (Slovenia) (ITC)
Date 2016-02-09 - 2016-02-09
Participants 16

 

Meeting type Working Group Meeting
Title of meeting WG4 and WG5 meeting on data format
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Location Frascati (Italy)
Date 2015-12-11 - 2015-12-11
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Meeting type Management Committee Meeting, Working Group Meeting, Workshop/Conference
Title of meeting All Action meeting 2015
Goals addressed Support of experiments by accompanying theoretical studies. Use information collected from the contact points to identify new promising spectroscopies. First steps towards a flexible framework to describe time dependent phenomena and related spectroscopies. Setting up experiments to challenge the available schemes to deal with correlations. Transfer of know-how and promotion of collaboration by organization of a hands-on course and scientific missions. Optimizing full potential multiple scattering schemes and making contact with the LAPW method. Definition of a common data format for exchange between codes and type of data to be exchanged. Setting up a first version of corresponding interface tools. Favoring collaboration/transfer among communities (i.e. XES vs. XAS vs. DAFS vs. PES)
Description MC-meeting: The MC formally approved all decisions made by electronic vote, reviewed and discussed the ToDo-lists set up by the WGs, heard reports from the various Action managers, discussed and decided on organisational issues according to the agenda. WG-meeting: The meeting was used to review and discuss the status of the various activities according to the ToDo-lists. Modifications, if necessary, as well as next steps were discussed. Scientific meeting: A scientific workshop with talks and posters to represent the state of art in the field. It defined review the basis for all further common activities and collaborations. The state of the art was represented by invited talks. The meeting reviewed current activities and developments within the action by selected talks and trigger exchange of ideas and corresponding collaborations.
Output MC-meeting: The decisions and recommendations made by the MC were communicated to all participants. WG-meeting: The meeting led for each WG to an updated and continued detailed ToDo-list with time table and persons involved. Scientific meeting: The workshop reviewed the state of the art concerning theory as well as experiment for the various topics relevant for the Action. This was documented by the slides of the speakers as well as a written summary that was available after the workshop for download form the Action’s webpage.
Location Aveiro (Portugal) (ITC)
Date 2015-06-25 - 2015-06-27
Participants 30

 

Meeting type Directors Meeting
Title of meeting Nanomeeting 2015
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Location Minsk (Belarus)
Date 2015-05-26 - 2015-05-29
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Meeting type Working Group Meeting
Title of meeting Meeting of Working Group 4: Platform and Working Group 5: Experiment on data format
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Location Munich (Germany)
Date 2015-04-16 - 2015-04-17
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Meeting type Management Committee Meeting, Working Group Meeting
Title of meeting EUspec working groups meeting
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Location Pilsen (Czech Republic)
Date 2015-02-26 - 2015-02-26
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Meeting type Management Committee Meeting, Working Group Meeting, Workshop/Conference
Title of meeting WAM 2014
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Location Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
Date 2014-09-15 - 2014-09-15
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