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December 11, 2007 ACTINET Workshop on Actinide Speciation using XAFS: presentations available

How can we improve coupling theoretical chemistry with X-ray absorption spectroscopy?

More information and the presentations of this workshop that took place in October 2007 in Avignon (France) can be found on the webpage of Joint project 07-07 in the section Education & Training.

October 30, 2007 ACTINET Summer School 2007: Slides available

The 4th ACTINET Summer School, organised by ITU, took place in Karlsruhe (GERMANY), on 12-15 June 2007. It was focussed on Actinide Science and Applications.The slides of the presentations are available here.

October 30, 2007 ACTINET Stakeholders Day: Slides available

The ACTINET Stakeholders Day took place in Brussels on 24 October 2007.
Beyond a presentation of the objectives, organisation, and first achievements of the network, the meeting offered the major stakeholders the opportunity to present their expectations in the field of actinide sciences.

September 14, 2007 ATALANTE 2008: abstract deadline on 1st October 2007

The International Conference ATALANTE 2008 will take place in Montpellier (France) in May 2008.

A specific session will be devoted to Basic Science for future fuel cycles.

July 9, 2007 ThUL School 2007 in November - Registration is open!

The school will be held from November 12 to 17, 2007 at the Centre d’Etudes de Cadarache (40 km from Aix-en-Provence, south of France). The focus will be on "Theoretical methods and experimental techniques for the investigation of solid actinides compounds".

July 2, 2007 ACTINET Summer School 2006: Slides available!

The slides presented at the ACTINET Summer School 2006 in Saclay, focused on geochemistry and migration of actinides, are now available here.

June 11, 2007 The seventh call is closed.

The seventh call for projects is now closed.

23 proposals have been received, with several applications for fellowships.

They will be transferred to the Scientific Advisory Committee and to the Executive Committee for evaluation and approval.

Results will be published in August.

May 16, 2007 Seventh Call for Joint Proposals

The Seventh Call for Joint Proposals is now open.
The deadline is May 18, 2007.

May 2, 2007 Thermodynamics of Nuclear Fuels: presentations of the workshop held in Saclay in Nov. 2006, now available!

The presentations of the workshop on "Thermodynamics of Nuclear Fuels” held in Saclay in November 2006 are now available here!

February 28, 2007 Theoritical Userlab Questionaire

The Task Group of the Theoretical Userlab would kindly like to ask groups working in computational actinide sciences to answer a few questions in order to improve the services provided by the ThUL. The questionaire including the contact addresses is available in PDF and WORD format for download.

December 21, 2006 The sixth call for joint projects is closed.

The sixth call for joint projects is now closed.

May 22, 2006 The fifth call for joint projects is closed.

The fifth call for joint projects is now closed. 26 proposals have been received, with several applications for fellowships.

April 24, 2006 International Information Exchange Meeting on Thermodynamics of Nuclear Fuels - First Announcement

ACTINET organises an International Information Exchange meeting on the "Thermodynamics of Nuclear Fuels". It will be held from November 27th, 2006 to December 1st, 2006.

February 15, 2006 Summer School School 2006 - Subscribe before May 15th, 2006

Subscriptions are now open for the ACTINET Summer School 2006 "Geochemistry and Migration of Actinides".

January 11, 2006 ThUL School 2006 - Subscribe before January 31st, 2006

Subscriptions are now open for the ACTINET ThUL School on Computational Actinide Chemistry.

December 12, 2005 The 4th call for Joint Projects is closed

The fourth call for Joint projects, open since August 2005, is now closed. Sixteen projects have been received, transferred to the Scientific Advisory Committee for evaluation and to the Executive Committee for approval.

August 5, 2005 The 4th call for Joint proposals is open

The fourth call for joint proposals is now open.

May 26, 2005 The 3rd Call for Joint Projects is closed

The third call is now closed. Twelve proposals for joint research projects or for education and training projects have been received, and will be evaluated by the Scientific Advisory Committee.

March 18, 2005 A call is open for an expression of interest in the First ThUL School of the ACTINET Theoretical User Lab

Period: End of 2005 or beginning of 2006

Duration: One week

March 15, 2005 Results of the second call for joint projects

The results of the second call for joint projects are now published. 33 proposals for Joint Research Projects and Joint Education and Training Projects have been received after the second call (deadline 20 December 2004).