GLADNET Mid-Term Meeting
The Faculty was strongly represented at the mid-term review meeting of the EC Research Training Network in Analytical Glow Discharge Spectroscopy, GLADNET, held at the Swiss Federal Institute for Materials Science & Technology , EMPA, Thun, Switzerland, who are the Network Coordinators.
Emission Spectroscopy was introduced as a research topic in the Physics Department of the Northern Polytechnic (a forerunner of LondonMet) in the nineteen-fifties by Dr M.E. Pillow, then head of the department. With the ending of physics courses at the then University of North London in ~ 2000, activity in this field was greatly reduced, but Prof. Edward Steers continued to undertake research work in this field in collaboration with a number of European laboratories. After the formation of London Metropolitan University, this activity, which had been linked with the former Faculty of Science, Computing and Engineering, came under the aegis of the Department, now Faculty, of Computing. The establishment of the GLADNET RTN at the beginning of 2007 greatly strengthened this activity; in total, the EC provides funding for 10 Early Stage Researchers (ESR, ~postgraduates) and 5 Experienced Researchers (ER, ~postdocs). Initially LondonMet had a 2 year ER post, but later an ESR post was also allocated to it. Dr Petr Smid held the ER post for 14 months, but has now moved to AQura GmbH, Hanau, Germany to broaden his experience; Viktoria Weinstein was appointed to the ESR post in Feb. 2008, and is working for her PhD under the supervision of Edward Steers. All ESR and ER had to give oral and poster presentations at the mid-term meeting, which all "senior scientists" are required to attend.
In addition to acting as Coordinator for Work Package 2 on Fundamental Studies (which involves the Physics Departments of Imperial College and the University of Belgrade, as well as LondonMet), Prof. Steers serves as the GLADNET Training Manager with overall responsibility for the six monthly compulsory short training courses for the ESR and ER; another part of this role is the promotion of e-learning and discussion facilities within the Network, and this has provided further links with the mainstream activity of the Faculty. After presentation on "Second Life" by Alan Hudson at a FoC research seminar early last term and the possibility raised there that in their project work 2 MSc students could prepare Second Life facilities for particular courses, Edward Steers discussed with possibilities with Alan, and as a result, Greg Ekhator and Khal Shamayleh have been preparing GLADNET training facilities in Second Life. 
By the end of the term, it was clear that this was a viable proposition; oral and poster presentations on Second Life were therefore included in the GLADNET mid-term programme, and provision was made for individual tutorial work and workshops on another day of the meeting. Greg and Khal attended the meeting and jointly gave oral and poster presentations; they also provided the individual tuition on Second Life, supported by Alan Hudson and Nigel Medhurst. Most of the ESR and ER and the senior scientists have registered for Second Life, and it is anticipated that scientific discussions and tutorials will be established once the present activity on the 24 -month scientific and financial reports is complete!
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