[kfn-info] User Meetings, Proposal Deadlines, PhD Programmes and Digital Transformation

Dear neutron users,

autumn is coming, and here is our monthly email newsletter with inforamtion from KFN and research with neutrons.

>>>Proposal deadlines

The MLZ has published the Grobrahmenplan. The Director's board expects that the next cycle will start in January 2020. Therefore, the next call for proposals is approaching - already on Friday 13, 2019. Proposal deadlines at other facilities are:

- Sept. 13: MLZ
- Sept. 16: ILL
- Sept. 16: ANSTO
- Sept. 18: SNS
- Sept. 30: CERIC-ERIC (Experts)
- Oct. 16: ISIS

>>>User Meetings (Deadlines: Sept. 15, Oct. 25 and Nov. 16, 2019)

There will be user meetings in Decemeber - first in Berlin, where the neutron day on Dec. 4, 2019 will end with the "BER II Farewell Party" in Wannsee (registration until Nov. 16, 2019), see https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/user/usermeetings/user-meeting-2019/index_en.html.

In Garching, the MLZ user meeting will take place on Dec. 10 and 11, 2019. All MLZ users and those who would like to become MLZ users are ivited. Starting around lunchtime, the first afternoon will be dedicated to specialised workshops organised by our Science Groups, while the second day will be divided between plenary talks in the morning and a poster session in the afternoon. The abstract deadline is on September 15, 2019. Registration runs until October 25, 2019. https://indico.frm2.tum.de/e/um19

>>>PhD programmes at ILL

The ILL is currently inviting proposals for PhD projects in the nominal annual call (until Oct. 18) and in the call for InnovaXN PhD proposals within the COFUND programme (until Sept. 30), which requires an industrial partner to be engaged. InnovaXN will support in total 40 fully-funded PhD studentships at ILL and ESRF. In the regular call, a student candidate may be proposed for the submitted PhD project. The InnovaXN programme will recruit students in February 2020 and the projects will start in September 2020.

https://www.ill.eu/careers/all-our-vacancies/phd-recruitment/propose-a-phd-project/
https://www.innovaxn.eu/for-industry/calls/

>>>Digital Transformation

The KFN is still engaged in digital transformation. The proposal for the NFDI consortium DAPHNE (DAta for PHoton and Neutron Experiments, see https://www.dfg.de/foerderung/programme/nfdi/absichtserklaerungen/index.html) is under way, and in ErUM-Data, the structures for a continuous cooperation are being established.

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With kind regards,

Astrid Schneidewind, KFN chair
Karin Griewatsch, KFN PR and webmaster