1. Welcome to ECT*

2. What is ?

3. A European Center… Established in 1993
« bottom up » realization, supported by a broad community (ECT* associates)
Strong local support (PAT/FBK, major part of funding, administration)
MoU with France, Germany, Italy, Denmark and many other countries
Unique in Europe (other comparable center in the USA: INT at Seattle)
A large flux of visitors (about per year)

4. For Theoretical Studies…
Research done at ECT* is theoretical
But most meetings involve theorists and experimentalists, especially collaboration meetings
Some ECT* researchers have very close contacts with experimental groups
Large variety of topics, mostly related to various aspects of nuclear physics.
Also cross-disciplinary activities (BEC)
Theoretical tools common to many branches of physics
Large scale numerical calculations (BEN)
Library (on site, and access to that of the Physics Department of University of Trento)

5. in Nuclear Physics…
Nuclear physics in a broad sense (low energy nuclear physics and nuclear structure, quantum chromodynamics and hadron physics, physics of matter under extreme conditions and ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions)

6. and Related Areas Which includes topics in Astrophysics
Particle physics
Condensed matter physics
Many-body theory, quantum field theory
Bose-Einstein condensation

7. Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas
ECT*
European Center for
Theoretical Studies in
Nuclear Physics and
Related Areas
Institutional Member of
the European Science Foundation
Expert Committee, NuPECC

8. Funding agencies EJFRC
ESF - NuPECC
Funding agencies EJFRC
FBK
ECT* Scientific Board
ECT* Director
ECT*
Associates
International community of nuclear physicists (in a broad sense)

9. Scientific activities at ECT*
International workshops and collaboration meetings
Doctoral training program(s)
Visiting scientists
Postdoctoral program
Local research (ECT*, Univ, BEC)
Teraflop cluster (BEN)