MIR

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MIR

• Management Meeting

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Outline of MIR Management Meeting

• Who Are we?
• Our Time Line
• Winter/summer Schools
• Funding/Budget
• One-by-one student review
• Open questions

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Who are we?

• University Paul Sabatier/CNRS Toulouse
• University of Copenhagen/Nanogeoscience
• University of Leeds
• University of Meunster
• Oviedo University

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Human Resources

• 2 x 3 year PhD Students AND
• 1 x 1 year Masters Student
• Per team for a total of 10 PhD and 5 Masters
  students

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Original Time table
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MIR Summer/Winter Schools

• Four major summer schools will be organized
• Complementary skills (COPENHAGEN) Spring 07
• Fundamentals of the thermodynamics and kinetics
  of fluid-mineral interaction (TOULOUSE). (THIS
  MEETING)
• Microscopy and Spectroscopy at the Nano-scale,
  Part I (LEEDS) Fall 07
• Microscopy and Spectroscopy at the Nano-scale,
  Part II (MUNSTER) Spring 08

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Summer Schools consist of

• Training classes
• Research presentations by each young scientist
• Management meetings

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Questions

• How will we practically organize summer schools
  (e.g. should they be centrally managed)?
• Should we change the sites?
• Can we open these up to the general public or
  make more than one of these European Wide
  Conferences at least in part?

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Funding Official Overall Budget

• Toulouse 414,011.21
• Copenhagen 485,851.10
• Oviedo 381,624.37
• Munster 411,361.38
• Leeds 436976.42
• For a grand total of 2.13 Million Euros

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Actual Overall Budget after adjustments

• I decided that MIR management will take place in
  Toulouse, Plus I retained 1,000 Euro/team/year to
  pay for invited speakers attendance at meetings)
  Total management costs are 63.9 kE
• Toulouse 481,485. ( 67,474)
• Copenhagen 467,275. (-18,575)
• Oviedo 381,624.37 (-15,448)
• Munster 411,361.38 (-16,340)
• Leeds 436976.42 (-17,109)

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What we have to spend above salaries etc.

• 500/student/month for Research Expenses
• 500/student/month for Research/Transfer of
  Knowledge
• Two above items fixed by Europe.
• 4,000 currently retained per team for Invited
  Speakers
• Total of 80 kE per team total over the contract.

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Funding Original Distribution

• Toulouse 140,588
• Copenhagen 136,439.
• Oviedo 106,919.
• Munster 115,431
• Leeds 122,596
• For a grand total of 631 kEuros or 29 of total.

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How Europe runs funding

• First 18 months of budget sent out at beginning
  of contract
• End of each year we send Europe a list of what we
  spent that year.
• Europe sends us what we spent up to 85 of total
  contract (note new rule (need to have spent 80
  of what we have to be reimbursed each year) and
  its ambiguity).
• Europe sends final 15 only after final report is
  received.

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Funding, the absolute essential

• Clare and I need financial reports as soon as
  possible at end of each fiscal year
• I need updated bank account details each year
  ASAP when funds arrive.

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Annual Reports

• I need a report by 1 December each year from each
  student to create annual report. NO EXCEPTIONS
  AND I DO NOT WANT TO ASK THREE TIMES!!!!!!!
• I need a report of all trips all members travel
  within the network, changes in personnel, all
  network articles and abstracts written
• I use these reports to create the MIR annual
  reports and put these on the web.

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On to each students project

• One at a time

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Student 1 Giuseppe SALDI

• Primary lab CNRS-Toulouse (OELKERS,)
• Secondary Lab KU/WWU. (STIPP)
• Project Controls on carbonate mineral
  precipitation/growth and its application to CO2
  sequestration

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Student 2Dionisis KATSIKOPOULOS

• Primary lab UNIOVI (PRIETO)
• Secondary Lab WWU /KU (PUTNIS,).
• Project Trace element uptake by carbonates a
  step toward sustainable resource-waste
• Actual project??

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Student 3Dina BELOVA

• Primary lab KU (STIPP)
• Secondary Lab LU (BENNING).
• Official Project Green Rust innovative
  strategies for immobilising toxic waste
• Actual Project ??

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Student 4Ivan SANCHEZ PASARIN

• Based in Primary lab KU (STIPP)
• Secondary Lab UNIOVI (PRIETO)
• ProjectBiomineralisation unlocking the secrets
  of architecture at molecular dimensions

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Student 5Gabriella KAKONYI

• Primary lab Leeds (BENNING)
• Secondary Lab UNIOVI (PRIETO).
• Official ProjectWhat mechanisms drive and
  control the aggregation or crystallisation of
  amorphous mineral precursors

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Student 6 Fabricio CASARIN

• Based in Primary lab WWU (PUTNIS),
• Secondary Lab UNIOVI/CNRS-Toulouse (PRIETO).
• Official Project The mechanism of ion-exchange
  processes in feldspar minerals.
• Actual Project??

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PhD Student 7Magdalena KOWACZ

• Primary lab WWU(PUTNIS)
• Secondary Lab CNRS-Toulouse / UNIOVI (OELKERS).
  
• Official Project The dissolution mechanisms of
  mineral solid-solutions
• Actual project??

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PhD Student 8Joana CARNEIRO

• Primary lab UNIOVI (PRIETO)
• Secondary Lab CNRS-Toulouse/LU (OELKERS).
• Official Project Sr/Ca partitioning in marine
  biogenic carbonates.
• Actual Project ??

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PhD Student 9Aryani SUMOONDUR

• Primary lab LU (BENNING)
• Secondary Lab KU (STIPP)
• Official Project Green rust 2 Controls on
  formation of iron nano-particles
• Actual Project ??

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PhD Student 10Teresa RONCAL HERRERO

• Primary lab CNRS-Toulouse (OELKERS,)
• Secondary Lab LU (BENNING).
• Official ProjectTransformations among phosphate
  minerals and their role in soil fertility.

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Open questions

• How do we best run student exchanges?
• Do students do joint PhDs between two
  Universities?
• Encouragement to publish between and among teams.
• How do we best promote our students vis-à-vis
  promoting their careers?

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Web page

• What purpose should it serve beyond helping us
  keep track of MIR?
• How often should each student be required to
  update the site?
• How can we drive traffic to this web site?

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The session is now open for general
questions/discussion