ESS Industriedag 12 maart 2014 groot succes
12-03-2014
The European Spallation Source ESS An Opportunity for Dutch Organisations and Companies
Delft, 12 March 2014
Programme
09:30 Registration and welcome coffee
10:30 Welcome H.T. (Bert) Wolterbeek, director Reactor Institute Delft
10:45 Introduction by the chairman of the ESS Partnerday A.G.A. (Toon) Verhoeven, Industrial Liaison Officer ESS
10:55 The importance of the ESS for R&D in the Netherlands J.W.A. (Jeannette) Ridder, Dutch Ministry of Education
11:05 The European Spallation Source and The Netherlands N. (Nico) Kos, Senior Manager (International) Innovation Programme NWO
11:15 Coffee break
11:35 ESS overview J.H. (James) Yeck, Chief Executive & Director General, ESS
12:00 Science at ESS / Instruments and Future Users – how the Netherlands can be involved D.N. (Dimitri) Argyriou, Science Director, ESS
12:25 The Dutch in-kind contribution: present state and perspectives C. (Katia) Pappas, Head of the Neutron and Positron Materials research group, TU Delft
12:50 Lunch break
13:30 The Machine / The Accelerator H. (Håkan) Danared, Deputy Head of Accelerator Division, ESS
13:45 The Target Station J. (John) Haines, Head of Target Division, ESS
14:00 The In-Kind Contributions A. (Allen) Weeks, Deputy Director of Project Support and Administration
14:15 Procurement and ILO Network A. (Allen) Weeks, Deputy Director of Project Support and Administration
14:30 Presentations by Dutch Companies
Ronald Dekker Demaco
Cock Heemskerk HIT
Hans Priem VDL-ETG
Victor Pastoor Grontmij
Hans Poolman Amsterdam Scientific Instruments
Erwin Lenten Imtech
Sander Kossen Het Huygens Huys
15:30 Tea and cookies
15:50 Meet & Match
After the presentations we have scheduled Meet & Match where all the persons who have given a presentation will be ready to have further discussions with the audience. This will be organized as follows: we will have high tables where people can stand around and where the speakers are divided in small groups in accordance with their expertise. Furthermore, tables are reserved for the ILO's and also for the RID experts, so they are ready to answer any questions, as well.
Dutch governance Bert Wolterbeek; Jeannette Ridder; Nico Kos
ESS science & Instr. James Yeck; Dimitri Argyriou
ESS machine Håkan Danared; John Haines
ESS business Allen Weeks; Ute Gunsenheimer
Dutch scienc at ESS Brück Ekkes; Wim Bouwman
Dutch instrumentation at ESS Katia Pappas; Lambert van Eijck; Jeroen Plomp; Ad van Well
Het Huygens Huys Sander Kossen
HIT Cock Heemskerk
Imtech Erwin Lenten
Amsterdam Sc. Instr. Hans Poolman
Demaco Ronald Dekker
VDL-ETG Hans Priem
Grontmij Victor Pastoor
ILO's Rob Klöpping; Toon Verhoeven
organization André Groenhof; Kirsten Soekhoe; Yvonne Weijgertse-Janssen
17:15 Summary and Closing Remarks R. (Rob) Klöpping, Industrial Liaison Officers Network coordinator
17:30 Drinks reception & buffet
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