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SCIENTIFIC
RATIONALE
Atomic and molecular data play an essential role in astrophysics, fusion, laboratory and industrial
plasmas, lightning sciences and technologies, biomedicine and biophysics, combustion and environmental
sciences as well underpinning many technologies, surface physics, optics and spectroscopy,
optoelectronics, etc. In this meeting the need for (and applications of) such data in these fields will
be reviewed, as well as discussion and presentation of some of the databases and data centres that
collate and disseminate such data. The objective is both to show the state of the art in this field
and provide information on the need for atomic and molecular data and the current status of atomic and
molecular databases. It targets both at data producers and users and will be of interest to all
scientists involved in fundamental research and/or technological applications.
A key part of the meeting will be the presentation of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data
Center
(VAMDC), an EU funded collaboration between groups involved in the generation,
evaluation, and use of atomic and molecular data. VAMDC is building a reliable, open, flexible and
interoperable e-science interface to existing atomic and molecular data. During the workshop there
will be a VAMDC tutorial in order to explain and demonstrate to participants how to use services
of VAMDC.
The meeting is particularly targeted at researchers based in the Balkans and south eastern Europe
and some support for such researchers will be available.
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