1. Nuclear Structure Activity at ECT* (2005 – 2007)

2. ECT* STAFF Ines CampoTechnical Programme Co-ordinator Cristina Costa Technical Programme Co-ordinator Serena degli AvanciniTechnical Programme Co-ordinator Tiziana IngrassiaAccounting assistant Barbara Curro’ DossiSystem Manager Gianni Fattore System Manager Domenico GonzoSystem Manager Susan DriessenAssistant to the Directors (on maternity leave) Luana SlompAssistant to the Directors Donatella RosettiAssistant to the Project Manager of ECT*/ Eurons Gianmaria ZiglioWeb Manager Corrado CarlinMaintenance Support Manager Mauro MeneghiniDriver and maintenance Support Manager Carmen Maffei Librarian

3. Scientific Activities at ECT* Supported by ACCESS: International project series (workshops and collaboration meetings) NOT supported by ACCESS: Doctoral Training Programme Visiting scientists Postdoctoral Programme Local Research (ECT*, Univ., BEC) 1TFlop/s Cluster

4. Board of Directors/Selection Panel Paul Hoyer (Univ. Helsinki - chairman) -from 09.10.04 Wanda Alberico (Univ. Torino) -from 16.09.05 Bengt Friman (GSI, Darmstadt) -from 17.10.06 Brian Fulton (NuPECC/Univ. York) -from 27.06.06 H. Åke Gustafsson (Lund Univ./CERN) -from 27.06.06 Wick Haxton (Univ. Washington, Seattle) -from 27.06.06 Frithjof Karsch (Univ. Bielefeld) – from 09.10.04 F. Karl Thielemann (Univ. Basel) -from 09.10.04 Piet Van Isacker (GANIL, Caen) – from 16.09.05

5. The selection panel has 3 meetings a year (January, June, and October)

6. Projects (2005 – 2007) 71 proposals received in total 56 proposals accepted 15 proposals rejected 48 proposals selected to be supported by EURONS

7. ECT* Lecture Room

8. Projects in Nuclear Structure and Reactions (2005 – 2007) Support to experimental programs Theoretical developments Cross-disciplinary topics

9. Understanding the structure of nucleon deficient Pb nuclei (K. Heyde, 19-21 September 2005) The Physics opportunities with EURISOL (R. Page, 16-21 January 2006) Numerical simulation of heavy ion reactions in the Fermi energy domain (J. Aichelin, 10-14 April 2006)

10. Gamma-ray spectroscopy in Europe: present and future challenges (G. Sletten, 8-12 May 2006) The Physics of Halo Nuclei (A. Thomas, 30 October-3 November 2006) Experiment Theory Intersections in Modern Nuclear Structure (R. Krüchen, 23-27 April 2007) Many-body open quantum systems: from atomic nuclei to quantum dots (M. Ploszajczak, 14-18 May 2007)

11. Nuclear Physics Data Compilation for Nucleosynthesis Modeling (C. Angulo, 29 May-1 June 2007) Correlations in nuclei: beyond mean-field and shell model (A. Poves, 4-8 June 2007) Advanced Many-Body Methods for Nuclear Physics (C. Barbieri, 2-6 July 2007)

12. ECT* Doctoral Training Programme 2007 Nuclear Structure and Reactions (8 March – 1 June, 2007) Organizers, Piet Van Isacker and Muhsin Harakeh  Symmetries in nuclei, F. Iachello (Univ. Yale)  Basics in the many-body pb and mean field th., G. Ripka (ECT*)  Weak interactions in nuclear systems (N. Severljns, Univ. Leuven)  Exotic beam physics, Y. Blumenfeld and E. Kahn (IPN, Orsay)  Nuclear shell model, M. Hjorth Jensen (Univ. of Oslo)  Mean field methods in nuclei and beyond, D. Vretenar (Zagreb)  Nuclear reaction theory, J. Tostevln (Univ. of Surrey)  Many-body open quantum systems, M. Ploszajczak (Ganil)  Measurement in quantum mechanics, R. Ballan (CEA, Saclay)  Nuclear astrophysics, K. Langanke, (GSI)

13. Visiting Scientists On average 20 man-months per year, with visits from a week to several months F. Iachello (5 months in 2006) Local Research Presently, the director and vice directors, one research assistant, and 8 postdocs Plan to strengthen low energy nuclear physics activities opening (jointly?) an Assistant Professor level position (as was done in hadronic physics).

14. The ECT* 1 TFlop/s Cluster The Ape3D technology Joint venture: EXADRON PAT INFN BEN

15. Example of nuclear physics project run on BEN Study of ground state properties of light nuclei and neutron matter with the auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo method by F. Pederiva and S. Gandolfi (nucl-th/0607022, nucl-th/0605064)