
With the passing of Paul Kienle, former Director of the Stefan Meyer Institute, we lost an eminent scientist and pioneer in subatomic physics. He left us on Tuesday, January 29, 2013, few days after finishing his last scientific...
The annual SPARC Collaboration meeting took place in Vienna from November 26 to 28.
The meeting was organized by us and the Vienna University with support from the GSI Atomic Physics department and the Helmholtz institute Jena. During three days 70 participants discussed vividly the present status of the different SPARC subprojects, on-going R&D activities, the status of the different technical design reports for SPARC@FAIR and last, but not least, internal collaboration affairs. The latest developments of the SPARC research program, namely the early installation of CRYRING at ESR and the recently developed new experimental opportunities with heavy ions at the HESR, have been recieved with high interest and were the central topics of discussions.