Banquet on Wednesday, 9^th of july in Europe's unique Space and Astronautic Adventure Park (http://www.cite-espace.com/)

Social progam on Thursday afternoon, 10^th of july

Due to the very large number of participants for the scientific visits (LNCMP and LAAS), we regret to close the registration for these 2 events. However, it is still possible to register for the guided tour in Toulouse.

Touristic visit: guided tour (in English and/or in french) in Toulouse within a group of 30 people max. (probably less). This tour is available also for accompanying persons (free of charge).

     -The Capitole (town hall) and Henri IV courtyard, and some inner rooms
     -The Saint-Sernin basilica (the largest Romanesque church in the West)
     -The Jacobins convent (and its cloister)
     -The Hôtel de Bernuy (a Renaissance mansion).

Scientific visits:

The LNCMP (http://www.lncmp.org/) is European leader in long pulse duration magnetic fields, with field strengths up to 78 Tesla and pulse durations up to 0.2 seconds. The three missions of the laboratory are:

• (i) to act as a user facility for the French and European scientific communities
• (ii) to develop techniques for pulsed magnetic field production and instrumentation
• (iii) to develop state-of-the-art research activities in pulsed magnetic fields.

The laboratory provides unique conditions for experiments in pulsed fields because of the large product “Field magnitude x pulse duration” and the large ratio “Field magnitude / temperature”. The scientific activities focus on magneto-transport, magneto-optical effects, quantum oscillations and fermiology. Dilution refrigerators for transport and magnetisation measurements down to 50 mK, a cantilever magnetometer, a De Haas-Van Alphen setup and a Kerr-setup have been installed, all optimised for use in pulsed magnetic fields. Recently, a major step in the understanding of the high Tc superconductor physics has been achieved thanks to the quality of the installation. The efforts invested in producing high magnetic fields allow the LNCMP to hold the "European record" (mono-coil >79 T, duo-coil >76 T) in short pulse duration (5ms). The in-house magnet development has produced several new magnet types that will find their application in future experiments, amongst which a large angle coil magnet for X-ray scattering and special magnets devoted to the understanding of the of the origin of vacuum energy through Vacuum Magnetic Birefringence experiment (BMV).In addition, a single turn-single shot coil installation, able to generate fields up to 300T in the µs time scale, is being completed.

  

The LAAS (http://www.laas.fr/laas/) is a large research unit of the CNRS, the French National Center for Scientific Research, within the Department of Information and Engineering Sciences and Technologies.

The research topics of LAAS, fundamental or applied, are focused on the study of complex systems at different scales: from the molecular level (nanotechnologies) to macrosystems (robots, networks). With 600 researchers, university faculty, engineers, technicians, post-docs and PhD students, LAAS is one of the key players in Systems research in the Midi-Pyrénées region, in France and in Europe.

During the visit of the laboratory a general overview of the activities will be presented and selected cutting-edge technologies and facilities will be more extensively visited:

- The French National clean room facility for Nanotechnologies hosted by the laboratory

- The Regional BioNanotechnology platform

- The robotic platform (10 robots including a mobile manipulator, one humanoid robot, 3 drones, and one outdoors robot). 

The visit will be lively and will require displacements across the lab.