SPIRIT event details

Venue :

Faculty Club, Groot Begijnhof 14, B-3000 Leuven, Meeting room “Bisschopskamer”

Final Schedule

Monday, March-5: SPIRIT BOARD MEETINGS, EC PRESENTATION

8:30 Welcome Coffee in room “Salon”
9:00 Transnational Access Board (TNAB) (Chair: Andreas Kolitsch)
10:15 Networking Activity Board (NAB) (Chair: Karen Kirkby)
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Joint Research Activity Board (JRAB) (Chair: Philippe Moretto)
12:00 JRA Topical Presentations and Discussions I
12:45 Lunch at the “Infirmerie”
14:15 JRA Topical Presentations and Discussions II
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Presentation by Teodora Rusu, DG Research & Innovation, EC: “Research Infrastructures in Horizon 2020”
16:00 SPIRIT Management Board (SMB) (Chair: Wolfhard Möller)  - agenda
17:30 Project Steering Team (PST) (Chair: Wolfhard Möller)
18:00 End of Board Meetings
19:30 Dinner in the centre of Leuven, restaurant “Ter Eycken” Eikstraat 10

Tuesday, March-6: USER PRESENTATIONS, MEETINGS OF USP AND IAB, LABORATORY VISIT

8:30 Welcome Coffee in room “Salon”
9:00 SPIRIT Plenary Session (Chair: André Vantomme)
9:00 Welcome by the Coordinator
9:15 Selected User Presentations I

Ion implantation in Ge for diffusion studies and point-defect engineering, Elena Bruno, INFN Padova, Italy Fabrication of thin optical layers by ion implantation and study of their properties using ion beam analytical methods, Blanca Svecova, Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, Czech Republic
Ion beam microfabrication of microfluidic devices in artificial diamond, Federico Picollo, University of Torino, Italy

10:30 Coffee
11:00 Selected User Presentations II

Comparison of essential and non-essential element distribution in leaves of Zygophyllum fabago exposed to Cd or Zn treatment using micro-PIXE, Isabelle Lefevre, Catholic University Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
PIXE in Geoarchaeology: The identification of plaggen soils using external beam microPIXE analysis, Erika Guttmann-Bond, University of Wales, Lampeter, U.K.
Volcanic glass under fire - The complementary of three analytical methods Fabienne Eder, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

12:00 Parallel Internal Meetings of External Boards: User Selection Panel (USP) - International Advisory Board (IAB)

13:00 Lunch
14:00 Concluding Meeting of IAB, USP, and SMB
14:30 Laboratory Visit at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
16:30 End of Annual Meeting

Practical information

• Invitation leaflet
• Hotels in Leuven

To see the Leuven map with the indication of hotels, meeting venue, restaurant and railway station, please click on the following URL: http://g.co/maps/sastm

For all practical issues on the meeting, please contact :
Mrs. Fabienne Vanalphen
KU Leuven
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Institute Nuclear and Radiation Physics
Celestijnenlaan 200d - office 02.92
B-3001 Leuven
Tel: +32 (0)16 32 72 63
Mobile +32 (0)476489439
email : fabienne.vanalphen@fys.kuleuven.be