ADAS News
13-November-2009: Applications closed
Applications for the ADAS-EU position have been received and no further applications will be accepted. Candidates will be informed in due course about the decision.
21-October-2009: Recruitment
We are recruiting a new member of staff as part of ADAS-EU; further details are available on the dedicated ADAS-EU website here. The position will be based at IPP-Garching and will run until 31-December-2012.
21-October-2009: Workshop Talks online
Talks from the latest ADAS workshop are available here.
21-August-2009: Workshop Agenda
A tentative agenda for the 2009 ADAS Workshop has been released, it is available here.
1-July-2009: Francisco Guzmán
We are pleased to announced that Francisco Guzmán has taken up post as an ADAS-EU Research Fellow, initially based at FZ-Jülich. More details about ADAS-EU can be found here and more details about Francisco are here.
17-June-2009: Workshop 2009 announcement
The initial invitation letters for the ADAS Workshop 2009 and the ADAS-EU course 2009 have been sent out. More details can be found here.
10-June-2009: Direct CVS Access
We are pleased to announce that we now allow CVS access to allow users to download ADAS code via CVS: virtual repositories have been created for specific tasks and these give full access to CVS histories and logs. The system is available here. Please e-mail us or put in a support request for an account.
13-March-2009: Applications closed
Applications for the ADAS-EU positions have been received and no further applications will be accepted. Candidates will be informed in due course about the decision.
12-February-2009: Recruitment
ADAS is recruiting two new members of staff as part of ADAS-EU, further details are available on the dedicated ADAS-EU website here.
12-February-2009: ADAS-EU Website
The ADAS-EU website has been officially launched, it is available here.
5-Janaury-2009: ADAS Workshop 2009
The data and time of the 2009 ADAS Workshop have been announced. The workshop will be at Schloss Ringberg in Germany from 4 Oct to 7 Oct 2009. More details can be found here.
18-December-2008: ADAS V2.13 Released
ADAS V2.13 is currently in the process of being released to all sites.
The corresponding bulletin is available here.
9-December-2008: ADAS-EU signed
We are pleased to announce that the ADAS-EU ("ADAS for Fusion in Europe") contract was signed on 5 December and the project will commence on 1 January 2009. ADAS-EU, is a Support Action, funded under the Framework 7 Programme of the European Commission, designed to enhance on-site atomic physics support to fusion laboratories across Europe and as a European contribution to ITER. It will be a four-year complementary activity to ADAS, managed by the ADAS team and employing three extra full-time equivalent persons.
8-December-2008: Adam Foster's PhD thesis
Adam Foster's PhD thesis is now available from the ADAS website here.
23-October-2008: Adam Foster
(Dr!) Adam Foster passed his PhD viva examination. Some very minor corrections need to be made to his thesis then it will appear on the ADAS website.
30-July-2008: OPEN-ADAS launch
The OPEN-ADAS system has been made public, the system can be accessed here.
4-June-2008: New ADAS domain
ADAS will now be using the domain "adas.ac.uk". This means our website URL is now http://www.adas.ac.uk. Future services like OPEN-ADAS and direct CVS access will also make use of this new domain.
3-April-2008: ADAS Workshop 2008
The data and time of the 2008 ADAS Workshop have been announced. The workshop will be at the Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany from 29 Sept to 2 Oct 2008. More details can be found here.
14-March-2008: New linking document
A new guide has been prepared detailing how to link ADAS subroutines with programs written in Fortran, C and C++. It is available here.
3-March-2008: Guiyun Liang started
Guiyun Liang has started his position at Strathclyde working with Nigel Badnell on the large-scale production of atomic data. We expect to work closely with Guiyun in the calculation and dissemination of this data. Guiyun is funded by a PPARC grant awarded to the UK APAP network, more details can be found here.
19-December-2007: ADAS online support form
An online support and bug reporting system is now available on the ADAS webpage here. This form is integrated with our internal bug tracking system and we recommend using this for all bug reports or ADAS support requests.
23-October-2007: ADAS Workshop talks available
The 2007 ADAS Workshop was judged to be a success with many talks and interesting discussions, PDFs of all the talks are available here.
07-October-2007: ADAS V2.12 Released
ADAS V2.12 is currently in the process of being released to all sites.
The corresponding bulletin is available here.
01-October-2007: Applications closed
Applications are closed for the position with Nigel Badnell.
21-August-2007: Postdoctoral position at Strathclyde
A postdoctoral position is available at Strathclyde working with Nigel Badnell on R-matrix calculations in conjunction with other institutions across the UK. While not an ADAS post, it is expected that a close working relationship with the core ADAS team will result.
15-August-2007: Subroutine documentation
Headers for all the FORTRAN subroutines in the ADAS libraries are now online here and also appear in Appendix B of the manual along with usage instructions.
27-July-2007: First invitations to ADAS Workshop
The first invitations have been sent out for the ADAS Workshop, copies can be found here.
20-July-2007: F-like iso-electronic sequence
The first of the publications on doing R-matrix calculations across an iso-electronic sequence (making use of the automated code ADAS8#3) has been published:
"R-matrix electron-impact excitation calculations along the F-like iso-electronic sequence"
M C Witthoeft, A D Whiteford and N R Badnell
An abstract and PDF can be found here.
04-May-2007: Change of ADAS workshop date
The date of the ADAS workshop has been changed to 10 Oct - 12 Oct 2007. See here for more details.
28-Mar-2007: Succesful divertor experiment
A highly succesful experiment led by Sebastijan Brezinsek and Andy Meigs in conjuction with ADAS (Chris Nicholas and Allan Whiteford) was conducted at JET. Of particular interest to ADAS are the visible deuterium series spectra recorded which will form part of Chris Nicholas's PhD work.
14-Mar-2007: Partitioned data ready
Hugh Summers has passed over some of the new partitioned ADF11 data and subroutines to transport modellers for initial testing, after feedback and comment this will be released with ADAS for general use
5-Mar-2007: Neutral Boron Publication
"Electron-impact excitation of neutral boron using the
R-matrix with the pseudostates method"
C P Ballance, D C Griffin, K A Berrington and N R Badnell
An abstract and PDF can be found here.
26-Jan-2007: GCR Paper I in top 25 downloads
The Institute of Physics has just released the list of top 25 downloads for 2006. GCR Paper I: `Ionization state, excited populations and emission of impurities in dynamic finite density plasmas: I. The generalized collisional-radiative model for light elements' is among these papers. This paper describes much of the light element work contained in ADAS. The complete list can be found here.
15-Jan-2007: New Website
The layout and content of the ADAS Website have been revised.
9-Jan-2007: Alessandra Giunta
Alessandra Giunta has started her PhD at Strathclyde. She was working with Alessandro Lanzafame on CDS spectra prior to this and will continue to focus on Astrophysics (particularly SOHO/CDS) and will also be working closely on data for iron. She will spend the first six months of her PhD based at Strathclyde and the remaining 2.5 years based at RAL.
12-Dec-2006: ADAS Workshop Talks Available
The presentations given at the 2006 ADAS Workshop are available here.
01-Oct-2006: Christopher Nicholas
Christopher Nicholas has started his PhD at Strathclyde. He will be working on special feature analysis with specific development work on the Balmer series limit feature. He will be based at Strathclyde but will make frequent visits to JET/UKAEA.
01-Sep-2006: ADAS V2.11 Released
ADAS V2.11 has been released to all sites.
The corresponding bulletin is available here.
01-Dec-2005: ADAS V2.10 Released
ADAS V2.10 has been released to all sites.
The corresponding bulletin is available here.
06-Jun-2005: ADAS V2.9 Released
ADAS V2.9 has been released to all sites.
The corresponding bulletin is available here.