1 « COLD MOLECULES NETWORK « COLD MOLECULES NETWORK Business meeting Durham, April 1 st 2004

2 SCHEDULE ● Scientific Activity (Françoise) ● Comments on previous report : success and problems ● Preparing next report = mid-term review ● Making choices ● Budget : report by Olivier ● Importance of post-doc recruitment ● Future conferences : project by Olivier and E. Tiemann ● DISCUSSION

3 Comments on the first year report ° °Scientific highlights : some very good scientific results, such as molecular BEC. ° ° Excellent visibility of the network. ° ° Good prospects for future. ° °Publications : only the publications which explicitly mention the network contract should be on the list : please make sure that you quote correctly. ° °Common publications : correct number, Could be improved, since they correspond to collaborations that already existed before the network started. ° °Visits more visits and scientific exchanges should happen in future.

4 Comments on the first year report (continued) # # Comparison with the program of work. # # Research objectives : we add « production of ultracold molecular ions by sympathetic cooling with trapped cold ions » # # Work plan: Milestones : # # M4 demonstration of collective and coherent effects in an ultracold molecular gas achieved in advance # # But achievement of trapped, dense samples of ultracold molecules formed by photoassociation not reached the first year

5 Comments on the first year report (continued) Conferences * *Important goal in my policy * *Develop stimulating contacts to encourage enthusiasm from the young researchers in our field * *Next conferences * *Mid-term review : february 2005 * *Final conference : spring or summer 2006 * *See the project by Olivier Dulieu and Eberhard Tiemann

6 Comments on the first year report (continued) Training ° ° Publication of the positions in Physics World and in Europhysics News (very expensive) ° ° Yet the recruitment has been very slow. ° ° We have to increase the number of young researchers ° ° See the table in Olivier's report

7 Preparation of the mid-term review * *The new report should be written for October * *We have to demonstrate that we are working according to the contract in order to get the second part of the money ; * *The review will take place in February 2005 ; * *The young researchers will be interviewed to check that their training is correct, and that their research activity does corresponds to our work plan. * *We should have recruited enough young researchers : HOW CAN WE IMPROVE THE PRESENT SITUATION?

8 CHOICES ­ ­Have we to update the scientific program? ­ ­There is a request by Rudi Grimm to get more post-doc months for his team : we should discuss this point ; ­ ­For future workshops, we could save money from the network budget by applying to a series of Marie Curie conferences : see the proposal by O. Dulieu and E. Tiemann; ­ ­It would be wise to think of a future network, since Cold Molecules ends in August 2006.