ARTIFACT Coordination meeting

Date : Dec. 15th 2023

Participants : Andrew Mistry (GSI), Ivan Knezevic (GSI), Stefano Pioli (INFN), Gianluca Valentino (Univ. Malta), Sabrina Lecerf (CNRS/GANIL), Adnan Ghribi (CNRS/GANIL)

General information

[Adnan]

• A national accelerators meeting in France was held on Wednesday. It was the occasion to discuss with several partners and get their commitment to parts of the project.
• A general presentation of the project has been given on Friday 12.15 morning. The presentation will be shared and can be used to present the present status of the project if needed.
• [Andrew] ESA is interested to join the effort. For now, we are counting them as obsevers but we should think of direct partnership if relevant. Andrew will be the point of contact.
• A lot of people are absent and we did not receive anything informing us of their absence. The point of having deputies is to have at least one representative during these meetings. If people are absent, they should let us know so that we can try to find a more suitable time slot.
• Next coordination meeting to be organised by Sabrina.

WP roubnd table

WP1

As requested, Sabrina will provide an excel sheet with the humand resources cost for France. Other partners should do the same to estimate the global cost. Gianluca already did the exercice for Malta.

WP2

Emmanuel is not present - so Adnan is giving some information he has

• Courtney has been helping by sharing relevant information to the community via email or slack.
• An email address : artifact@ganil.fr will be created soon and will allow to send information from an email address not related to one person.
• Natural Langage Processing will be considered for impact assessment with the participation of Delft University
• First draft cost estimates received from ESF
• Several companies joining the effort or at least will go soon through the screening process :
  • PMB - medical applications - France
  • Amplitude - Laser optimisation - France
  • H-IBERIA, PLAIN CONCEPTS and IZERTIS - Spain
• IFMIF-DONES want to contribute to WP2 through the following (contact Ivan Podadera)
  • Integration with the EURATOM Roadmap.
  • Interface for spanish industry
  • Dissemination at Fusion related conference and events.

WP3

Carsten and Christine not present - few updates given by Adnan on the hackathons part after exchanging with Adrian

• From now on, the word "data challenge" will be used instead of "hackathons"
• The cases will be selected after freezing the driving cases in WP6 and WP7
• One person will be needed to prepare the "data challenge" events

WP4

Gianluca

• Draft circulated among participants
• A meeting is planned on Monday with participants
• Co-lead for WP4 identified from Latvia - Riga Technical University
• University of Granada expressed its interest to lead a task on defining AI enabled command control. They can put up to 8 FTEs if needed to match resources allocated by the project.

WP5

Andrew

• 5 academic partners and two companies
• An overall cost of 2.6 M to be tuned with precise HR cost estimates
• Meeting with the director of the EOSC association planned on January 8th
• Links with ESCAPE, PANOSC (Andrew, you can detail here)

Stafano

• Meeting with Italy EOSC representative next week.

Gianluca

• Meeting with EOSC Malta representative this week. There is no EOSC project in preparation in Malta.

WP6

Annika and Verena are both absent so feedback given by Adnan after meeting with Annika

• The tasks, deliverables and resources are more clear now.
• Previous discussion with Soleil on resources commitment and Task 3 leadership. Official LoI (stamped by direction) from Soleil with resources commitment will be sent by Tuesday. The same discussion has to take place with ESRF.
• Previous discussion with IFMIF on resources commitment. IFMIF can commit to up to 4 FTE depending on the need. F4E can commit (indirectly) 2 FTEs. IFMIF want to contribute to the studies but not necessarily lead a task. A discussion has to be organised with ESS and INFN.
• Discussion with IJCLab on commitments : Surrogate models studies (with KIT) and tests through PALLAS (FTEs and beam-time).
• CERN and DESY to specify in kind contributions for the tasks they are leading.

WP7

• Taks, deliverables and resources are being tuned. An updated document should be circulated next week.
• Contact from Cosylab to participate to WP7
• ~ 10 institutes participating