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GLADNET meeting was organized in September 9th - 15th in Belgium. At September 9th - 12th a training course for ESRs and ERs appointed by the Network was carried out in university of Antwerp. The rest of the meeting was in Brussels. 28 people were present, including 13 "trainees", 9 from GLADNET (6 ESRs and 3 ERs) and 4 other PhD GDS students; the remaining attendees were GLADNET partners and affiliates many of the GLADNET lecturers attended the whole course.
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During the training course 20 lectures were delivered. Topics of lectures covered fundamental and practical aspects of glow discharge, atomic and molecular spectroscopy, discharge modeling, optical and mass spectrometry, detection methods, depth profiling, and vacuum physics. Lectures on spectroscopy were complemented by an interesting practical demonstration of spectrometers functionality presented by Edward Steers, Peter Smid and Volker Hoffmann.
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At a middle of the lectures program all participants have visited a planar lecture of G. Hieftje at conference "Euroanalysis XIV", taking place at the same time in Antwerp. Listeners demonstrated a significant interest to almost all lectures, although the program was hard. The participants were asked to write a small article about each lecture which have been "puplished" on our web-sites in order to inform a larger public about the network activities.
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The second part of the GLADNET meeting has taken place in Brussels. On September 13th the GLADNET meeting participants took part in GD session of the "ECASIA 07" conference . On Friday the 14th, the participants were invited to participate at the meeting of the European Working group for Glow Discharge Spectrometry. During this meeting in addition to several oral presentations a little poster session was organized, 5 posters were presented by P. Å mÃd, M. Wilke, B. Lange, M. Voronov and R. Escobar Galindo. The Payling Prize 2007 (1000 Euro) was given to Antonio Martin, from Oviedo University, for “outstanding work in the field of analytical glow discharge. On the following day a general assembly was held and some organisational questions were discussed, including review of the GLADNET rules, recruitement and training report, consortium agreement, and some contract amendments.Vanessa Debiais-Sainton, the project officer from the EC, presented new funding opportunities within the FP7 programme. All ESRs and ERs were briefly presented. Peter Smid was elected to represent ESRs/ERs in the GLADNET steering committee.
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After the meeting a little questionary was organized by Peter Smid. All the meeting participants were asked to estimate quality of the provided courses by several parameters. Results of the questionary should be used for improvement of the next GLADNET meetings.
Author: Maxim Voronov
