Announcements : 2001 = a promising year !
Y2K was rich in ALADIN/ALATNET events. The next year will be ... not the
same ... but even more !..
Here is a provisional calendar for the only first six months of 2001 :
- ALADIN will be 10 years old and the
ALADIN effort will reach 3000 person.month, 250 person.year ! This will be
duly celebrated, officially by our Directors ... but not only.
- ALATNET will be 1 year old (but
this will only be celebrated through all the requested annual reports ...).
- Another call for ALATNET candidates
will be proposed in early spring.
- After Ilian (see "Doctor Ilian
Gospodinov"), an 8th ALADIN doctor is expected for the end of February.
- A phasing exercise will take place
in Toulouse in March-April.
- A new MoU will be signed by an
intermediate Assembly of Partners at the end of May (another anniversary : on
May 31, 1994, ALADIN begun its quasi-operational life).
- The 10th ALADIN workshop will be
organized in Toulouse, proposed dates : June 6-8.
- The ALATNET Seminar on Data
Assimilation will take place in Gourdon (near Toulouse, France) on June 11-22,
- ....
a) ALATNET young researchers
A second call for candidacies was published on December 26,
2000 for the selection of two new candidates : two post-doctoral vacancies are
offered to young researchers, one in Brussels (19 months) and one in Budapest
(16 months).
A third call will be published in spring 2001 (pre- and
post-doctoral positions in the five ALATNET centers).
b) ALATNET Training Course
The next ALATNET training course will be held in Gourdon
(near Toulouse, Fr) on 11-22 June 2001.
Its mains topic will be data assimilation.
c) 2nd meeting of the Steering Committee of ALATNET, Brussels (F), 19
March 2001
Main subjects will be :
- ALATNET periodic progress report
number 1 (scientifical/financial report of the ALATNET actions after one year)
- Next call for candidatures for
ALATNET young researchers in Spring 2001
a) 10 years ALADIN anniversary
On May 31st, 2001, the 10 years ALADIN anniversay will be
officially celebrated (directors, embassies, ... A working group is preparing
all details (invitations, programme, nice booklet of the project, ...). Also
on May 31st, the new MoU should be signed.
a) The 10th ALADIN Workshop
The 10th ALADIN workshop, dedicated to scientific
coordination, will be held in Toulouse (France) next spring. It will be
organized just before the next ALATNET training course, as an attempt to
reduce travel costs and thus enable a contribution of more partners.
b) The 11th ALADIN workshop
The 11th ALADIN Workshop on "Recent and planned
operational exploitation of ALADIN model" will take place in Lisbonn,
Portugal in autumn 2001.
3. Other next events
a) 23rd EWGLAM & 8th SRNWP joined meetings
The meetings will take place in Cracow, Poland, on October
8-12, 2001, with the usual ALADIN informal meeting to be planned as an evening session.
b) SRNWP workshops
- Workshop of the lead center
"Numerical methods", Bratislava, Slovakia, 2-3 July 2001.
- Workshop of the lead center
"Surface processes", Madrid, Spain.
- Workshop of the lead center
"Verification methods", De Bilt, Netherlands, on April 23-24, 2001
(focal point ben++at++knmi.nl).
- Workshop of the lead center
"High Resolution", Bad Orb, Germany.
