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Issue Nr. 12 - October-November-December 2006
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MaNEP news 2
MaNEP news (2) 3
Free Column 4
Publications 5
Publications (2) 6
Reading tips 7
Calendar 8

Highlights

MaNEP's future Doctoral School : first outlines

Scientific highlight : 10 years of STS on HTS

Famous science TV show visits STM

Editorial / 2007 : more challenges ahead
By Prof. Oystein Fischer
Another year comes towards an end, a year where we have celebrated 20 years of HTS. This means 20 years during which we have explored these materials to a depth never achieved with other classes of materials.

And nevertheless we have not yet found a microscopic mechanism that everybody agrees on. This just illustrates how difficult the problem of strongly correlated electron systems is.
At the end of 2006, MaNEP, more than ever, is facing a formidable challenge in

research, a challenge that we are prepared to meet and take up again in 2007.

This month we gladly welcome a new mobile post doc, Dr Azzedine Bendounan, who will have his working place at PSI while collaborating with EPFL, UNINE, and UNIGE.

We have also decided to continue our programme of summer internships for female students in 2007.

A MaNEP doctoral school is under elaboration. In a first approach this will be limited to the University of Geneva. The goal here is to reinforce the training of the students and to attract the very best ones to MaNEP.

In an effort to strengthen interaction between MaNEP scientist, and in particular the younger ones, we have started a mail-based MaNEP discussion-group using the Google solution.

I encourage you all to take advantage of this attractive way to promote internal discussions in the coming year.
Two new questions are just being submitted to your attention on which we hope to gather many enriching ideas and suggestions (see below).

I shall now leave you to a most deserved break and wish you a Merry Christmas and a HAPPY NEW YEAR !

MaNEP discussion-group / Fishing for suggestions on two issues !
MaNEP's discussion group has been a little sleepy lately ! We'd thus like to ask you to please provide plenty of astonishing inputs on the two following 2007 issues : 1) as you will read in the MaNEP news section, the creation of MaNEP's future Doctoral School is well on its way thank to Dr Christophe Berthod. We'd like to collect all your ideas, suggestions and wishes on the subject. 2) MaNEP's Topical Meetings : please share your wishes for subjects YOU would like to have treated in them ! Thank you in advance for your inputs.
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