MICROKELVIN SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME Capacities Specific Programme Research Infrastructures

1. MICROKELVINSEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMMECapacities Specific ProgrammeResearch Infrastructures EUROPEAN MICROKELVIN COLLABORATION MICROKELVIN KICK-OFF MEETING

2. MICROKELVINEU-funded network of 12 Europeanlow temperature laboratories PARTICIPATING INSTITUTE SCIENTIFIC REPRESENTATIVE 1. Helsinki University of Technology Mikko Paalanen 2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Grenoble Henri Godfrin 3. Lancaster University George Pickett 4. Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg Christian Enss 5. Royal Holloway and Bedford New College John Saunders 6. Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Francesco Giazotto 7. Ustav Experimentalnej Fyziky Slovenskej Akademie Vied Peter Skyba 8. Universitaet Basel Dominik Zumbühl 9. Technische Universiteit Delft Teun Klapwijk 10. BlueFors Cryogenics Rob Blaauwgeers 11. Universiteit Leiden Tjerk Oosterkamp 12. Physicalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin Thomas Schurig MICROKELVIN KICK-OFF MEETING

3. MICROKELVINActivities and budgets TOTAL BUDGET 5 396 177,40 € (EU-funding 4 199 988,50 €) MANAGEMENT • NA1: Managing MICROKELVIN Collaboration (Tentative budget 260 800 €) NETWORKING ACTIVITIES (Tentative budget 779 680 €) • NA2: Coordination of transnational access • NA3: Knowledge and technology transfer • NA4:Strengthening European low temperature research TRANSNATIONAL ACCESS ACTIVITIES (Tentative budget 1 290 897 €) • TA1: Access to TKK • TA2: Access to CNRS • TA3: Access to ULANC JOINT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES (Tentative budget 3 064 800 €) • JRA1: Opening microkelvin regime to nanoscience • JRA2: Ultralow temperature nanorefrigerator • JRA3: Attacking fundamental physics questions by μK condensed-matter experiments • JRA4: Novel methods and devices for ultra low temperature measurements MICROKELVIN KICK-OFF MEETING

4. European Commission General Assembly Management Office Project coordinating person Administrator Web-officer Legal advisor Project coordinating person Management Committee Advisory Board NA-TEAM Coordinator Dissemination Committee JRA-TEAM Coordinator TA-TEAM Coordinator Selection Panel JRA1 Activity TA1 Activity NA1 Activity JRA2 Activity TA2 Activity NA2 Activity JRA3 Activity TA3 Activity NA3 Activity NA4 Activity JRA4 Activity MICROKELVINManagement structure MICROKELVIN KICK-OFF MEETING

5. MICROKELVIN General Assembly George Pickett (chair) Lancaster Rob Blauuwgeers BlueFors Cryogenics Francesco Giazotto SNS Henri Godfrin CNRS, Grenoble Christian Enss Heidelberg Teun Klapwijk Delft Tjerk Oosterkamp Leiden Mikko Paalanen TKK John Saunders Royal Holloway Thomas Schurig PTB, Berlin Peter Skyba SAS, Kocise Dominik Zumbuhl Basel MICROKELVIN KICK-OFF MEETING

6. MICROKELVIN PROJECT COORDINATOR TKK (from 1.1. 2010 Aalto University) PROJECT COORDINATING PERSON Mikko Paalanen MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Mikko Paalanen Henri Godfrin George Pickett MANAGEMENT OFFICE Project coordinating person: Mikko Paalanen Administrator: Leena Meilahti WEB-officer: Matti Laakso Legal advisor: Otaniemi Innovation Center MICROKELVIN KICK-OFF MEETING

7. MICROKELVIN TRANSNATIONAL ACCESS ACTIVITIES TA-Team Coordinator: Mikko Paalanen TA1 Leader: Mikko Paalanen TA2 Leader: Henri Godfrin TA3 Leader: George Pickett (or someone else from Lancaster) NETWORKING ACTIVITIES NA-Team Coordinator: Henri Godfrin NA1 Leader: Mikko Paalanen NA2 Leader: Mikko Paalanen NA3 Leader: Peter Skyba (with Tjerk Oosterkamp, Dominik Zumbuhl and Rob Blauuwgeers) NA4 Leader: Henri Godfrin JOINT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES JRA-Team Coordinator: George Pickett JRA1 Leader: George Pickett (or someone else from Lancaster) JRA2 Leader: Jukka Pekola JRA3 Leader: Henri Godfrin JRA4 Leader: Christian Enss MICROKELVIN KICK-OFF MEETING

8. MICROKELVIN ADVISORY BOARD Ann Davies Cambridge University, UK Giorgio Frossati Leiden University, The Netherland Andrei Geim University of Manchester, UK Kimitoshi Kono Riken, Japan Li Lu Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Douglas Osheroff Stanford University, USA Klaus von Klitzing Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany MICROKELVIN KICK-OFF MEETING

9. MICROKELVINTransnational Access Activities SELECTION PANEL Mikko Paalanen (chair) Henri Godfrin George Pickett John Saunders Peter Skyba Jan Kees Maan Radboud University Nijmegen, High Field Magnet Laboratory JC.Maan@science.ru.nl Per Delsing Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden Per Delsing <per.delsing@mc2.chalmers.se> Paul Leiderer Univeristy of Konstanz. Germany Paul Leiderer <paul.leiderer@uni-konstanz.de> Rudolf Gross Walther Meissner Inst Tieftemp Forsch, Garching, Germany Rudolf.Gross@wmi.badw.de MICROKELVIN KICK-OFF MEETING

10. MICROKELVIN Dissemination Committee Henri Godfrin (chair) CNRS, Grenoble George Pickett Lancaster Rob Blauuwgeers BlueFors Cryogenics Francesco Giazotto SNS Christian Enss Heidelberg Teun Klapwijk Delft Tjerk Oosterkamp Leiden Mikko Paalanen TKK John Saunders Royal Holloway Thomas Schurig PTB, Berlin Peter Skyba SAS, Kocise Dominik Zumbuhl Basel MICROKELVIN KICK-OFF MEETING