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<font face="Palatino Linotype" size=4><b><u>On behalf of the Spanish and
Hungarian candidature to ESS, we are pleased to inform you about the
meeting of the International Advisory Board held at the end of July in
Bilbao and Debrecen</u></b></font><font size=3>.<br>
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<font face="Palatino Linotype" size=5 color="#244061"><b> <br>
ESS International Advisory Board Meeting in Bilbao and
Debrecen</b></font><font size=5 color="#003366">, 21-25 July 2008<br>
</font><font face="Palatino Linotype" size=3 color="#244061"><b> <br>
Hungary and Spain are two of the competing three site candidates to host
the European Spallation Source (ESS), one of the largest and most mature
projects on the Roadmap of the European Strategy Forum on Research
Infrastructures (ESFRI), endorsed by the Competitiveness Council of the
European Union. These two countries intensively pursue their preparation
to realize this most ambitious, world leading project in creatively
combining competition with close collaboration. It is within this
framework that the constituting meeting of the common ESS International
Advisory Board (IAB) took place on July 21-24 in Bilbao (Basque Country)
and Debrecen (Eastern Hungary), in the two cities offering free of charge
most adequate terrains larger than 1 km<sup>2</sup> in outstanding
research, academics, cultural, economic and quality of life environments
to build ESS.<br>
The charge of the IAB calls for giving
</b></font><font size=3 color="#003366">“advice for the preparation and
successful completion of the ESS construction project. In particular the
IAB would provide expertise in the following areas:<br>
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</font><font face="Palatino Linotype" size=3 color="#003366"><b>Potential
partnerships for realization of the ESS construction project.<br>
</b></font><font face="Symbol" size=3 color="#003366">·</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=1 color="#003366">
</font><font face="Palatino Linotype" size=3 color="#003366"><b>Relation
to other European and international projects.<br>
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</font><font face="Palatino Linotype" size=3 color="#003366"><b>
Infrastructure requirements and improvements.<br>
</b></font><font face="Symbol" size=3 color="#003366">·</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=1 color="#003366">
</font><font face="Palatino Linotype" size=3 color="#003366"><b>New
Science opportunities and related instrumentation priorities.<br>
</b></font><font face="Symbol" size=3 color="#003366">·</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=1 color="#003366">
</font><font face="Palatino Linotype" size=3 color="#003366"><b>Technical
developments that would improve the characteristics of the source and
instrumentation.<br>
</b></font><font face="Symbol" size=3 color="#003366">·</font>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=1 color="#003366">
</font><font face="Palatino Linotype" size=3 color="#003366"><b>Lessons
learned from other projects</b>.”<br>
</font><font face="Palatino Linotype" size=3 color="#244061"><b>The
members of IAB belong to the top experts in the world in neutron science,
construction, operation and management of top of the line neutron source
facilities and similar large scientific infrastructures. The two
co-chairpersons, who took up they function at this meeting are Dr. Ian
Anderson, Associate Laboratory Director for Neutron Science of Oak
Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA in charge of – amongst others
– the currently most powerful spallation neutron source in the world,
SNS; and Prof. József Pálinkás, a nuclear physicist from Debrecen and
former Minister of Education of the Republic of Hungary, who was recently
elected President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.<br>
The program of the first, constituting meeting of the IAB ( which was
attended by 11 of the 14 members, all juggling with a most exacting work
calendar) included a full-day session on 22 July to examine both the site
specific and the collaborative part of the project preparation work at
the two sites. The teams have just accomplished a major milestone towards
the realization of ESS by submitting their answers to the detailed
questionnaire from the ESFRI Working Group on ESS, charged by ESFRI to
evaluate the quality and adequacy of each site candidate to host ESS with
full success. The IAB has appreciated the outstanding quality of the site
proposals both at Bilbao and Debrecen.<br>
Besides the formal meeting of the Board, IAB members had a chance the
inspect the proposed pieces of land on the outskirts of both cities to
site ESS, in particular also from the chartered aircraft that took them
from Bilbao directly to Debrecen, offering on the way bird’s eye views of
the favourable location of both of these terrains close to the respective
international city airports. The participants also got familiar with
renowned institutions which can provide excellent science and technology
background for the future ESS, such as the Bizkaia Technology Park or the
Debrecen Universitycampus, including ATOMKI nuclear research centre. They
also enjoyed the hospitality of both cities by visiting for example the
world famous Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao or the five centuries old,
prestigious Calvinist College inDebrecen.<br>
When completed and commissioned by 2019 ESS will become the premier
neutron research centre in the world, offering up to an order of
magnitude higher performance for the study of all kinds of materials in
many scientific disciplines than its most powerful and modern rivals at
that time, the SNS facility in the USA and J-PARC in Japan. Both of these
facilities started operation quite recently, and are on track to take
over world leadership in this crucial field of research from the world
leaders of the past decades, the ILL in Grenoble, France and ISIS near
Oxford in the UK – both situated in Europe. ESS will achieve its superior
performance in a very cost effective fashion by the use of a new
technical concept called Long Pulses, originally introduced by F. Mezei,
the common scientific director of the ESS-Bilbao and ESS-Hungary
projects. Europe boost the world premier neutron research community with
4500 scientist using neutrons for the exploration and understanding of
microscopic and nanoscale structures and processes in a huge variety of
branches of science, including engineering, physics, chemistry,
archaeology, geology, cultural heritage, life sciences, molecular
biology, etc.<br>
The members of the IAB are:<br>
<br>
</font><font face="Palatino Linotype" size=2 color="#244061">Carlos
Alejandre (Spain, Deputy director of ITER)<br>
Viktor Aksenov (Russia, Vice-director of Russian Research Center,
Kurchatov Institute)<br>
Ian Anderson (UK, director of SNS)<br>
Carla Andreani (Italy, professor, Phisycs Department, University
Rome)<br>
Masatoshi Arai (Japan, director of J-SNS )<br>
Kurt Clausen (Danemark, Head of Department, Condensed Matter Science,
PSI)<br>
Gabriele Fioni (France, Member of CEA, deputy director of Material
Science Institute )<br>
John D. Galambos (USA, Application Programming team leader for the
SNS)<br>
José Luis Martínez (Spain, Deputy director and Head of Project and
Techniques Division, ILL)<br>
József Pálinkás (Hungary, President ofHungarian Academy of Sciences)<br>
Mike J. Rowe (USA, former director of NIST Centre for Neutron
Research)<br>
Helmut Rauch (Austria, Professor Emeritius, Atominstitute of the Austrian
Universities, Wien)<br>
Helmut Schober (Germany, President of the German Comittee for Neutron
Research, group leader at ILL)<br>
Andrew Taylor (UK, STCF, Director ofISIS) <br>
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</font><font face="Copperplate Gothic Light" size=2>Ministry for National
Development and Economy<br>
ESS</b> Coordination Center<br>
<b> <br>
H-1055 Budapest, Honvéd u. 13-15.<br>
Tel: +36 1 374 2860<br>
E-mail:
<a href="mailto:hungaryforess@nfgm.gov.hu">hungaryforess@nfgm.go</a>
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