Welcometo

ECT*

What is

?

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 600-700 per year)

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 AURORA)

• Library (on site, and access to that of the Physics Department of University of Trento)

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)

and Related Areas

Which includes topics in

• Astrophysics

• Particle physics

• Condensed matter physics

• Many-body theory, quantum field theory

• Bose-Einstein condensation

ECT*

European Center for

Theoretical Studies in

Nuclear Physics and

Related Areas

Institutional Member of

the European Science Foundation

Expert Committee, NuPECC

ESF - NuPECCFunding agencies

EJFRC

FBK

ECT* Scientific BoardECT*

Director

AssociatesInternational community of nuclear physicists (in a broad sense)

ECT*

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 AURORA)