Newsletter December 2007

Dear Spicers,

this newsletter contains information on the following:

1. Money Transfer for the fourth period of the project

2. End of year report

3. new Computational Seismology www page

4. EOS article

5. SPICE Calendar 2008

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1. *Money Transfer for the fourth period of the project*

The payment orders of the Pre-financing for the fourth period of the project have already been passed to our central financial administration, so that the money will be transferred to each partner soon. Please do keep in mind that this last instalment is just a */_partial payment _/*of the due sum for the fourth period. The final payment for this period will follow as soon as the Commission has approved the “End of year Reports” and the “Final Reports” (approximately summer 2008). Please do not forget that you are NOT allowed to spend money after the 31.12.2007, except for the AUDIT costs which have in any case to be submitted at the latest 45 days after the end of the fourth period (see SPICE Contract, Article 7, Paragraph 2 and Annex 2, Article II.7, Point 3). Since the Network won’t unfortunately have spent the whole money awarded to the project by the Commission, it will have to be returned to Brussels.

*2. End of year report *
Please start acquiring all necessary information concerning Transfer of Knowledge and Research Achievements and all financial statements and make sure to forward them to us NO LATER *THAN JANUARY, 15 2007 *(see also previous newsletter). Remember that this is the last year, so every financial adjustment regarding the previous years should be included! If you or your admin have ANY questions concerning this form please contact Greta!
As you may recall – by contract – we need audits for the final project year (2007). So THIS TIME AUDIT IS REQUIRED.

*3. Announcement of www.computational-seismology.org <http://www.computational-seismology.org>***

As decided at the SPICE-CIG Meeting, we initiated an open www environment under www.computational-seismology.org <http://www.computational-seismology.org/> . In the long term this should be an international platform where we distribute information on past, ongoing, and future projects, software libraries, benchmarking, new releases, open positions, publications, meetings, etc. This is of course under construction and will take some time to materialize.

*4. EOS article*

In the December 11 issue of EOS, a short article announced the SPICE library and other SPICE related activities like benchmarking and training material. The article can be downloaded via http://www.spice-rtn.org/library/downloads/EOS.pdf/view.

*5. SPICE Calendar 2008*

Greta compiled a calendar for 2008 with a few pictures from our SPICE activities. We hope you appreciate the selection. The calendar is attached in pdf format. Ready to be printed out and to be put on your walls or desk! http://www.spice-rtn.org/library/downloads/Calendar.pdf/view

Well, this will be the last newsletter in the lifetime of SPICE. We would like to thank all lead scientists, PhD and postdoctoral researchers, the guest lecturers, the workshop participants, etc. for your contributions, enthusiasm, and support for the project. I do believe we have come a big step forward in joining our efforts for efficient wave field and rupture calculations on the way to incorporating them to the imaging problems. A lot of problems remain to be solved, but we are much better positioned now to push the problems on a European scale.

Last not least I want to specifically thank Erika and Greta. They both have done a fantastic job to work on the horrid administrative details and the organization of all the meetings. We also want to thank Jean-Bernard Veyret ( EU project officer) for his guide and support.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!


Heiner