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2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS) and Medical Imaging Conference
(MIC) and 16th international workshop on Room Temperature Semiconductor
X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Detectors (RTSD) will be held in Dresden, Germany,
19-25 October 2008, at the International Congress Center Dresden
(ICCD). The ICCD is located at the banks of the Elbe River and is
within easy walking distance of Dresden’s main attractions
in the beautiful and historic city center, with numerous restaurants
and tourist attractions. For accommodations, a number of close-by
hotels (the Maritim Hotel being part of the ICCD complex) are under
contract, offering a variety of accommodations in a wide price range.
Dresden has an excellent public transportation system. However,
many hotels are an easy walk to the ICCD. We encourage you to register
early and to reserve your hotel.
This is the third time the NSS/MIC will be held in Europe, each
time with increasing attendance. We expect 2000 scientists and engineers
in Dresden.
TECHNICAL PROGRAM
This year’s conference will have an extensive and rich scientific
program consisting of the NSS opening, plenary, parallel, poster
and closing session, the MIC opening plenary, and poster sessions,
the RTSD plenary and poster session, and joint sessions to provide
good opportunities for interdisciplinary communication.
The scientific chairs are:
NSS Program Chair
Rolf-Dieter Heuer
DESY
rolf-dieter.heuer@desy.de
NSS Deputy Program Chair
Maxim Titov
CEA Saclay
maxim.titov@cea.fr
MIC Program Chair
Wolfgang Enghardt
Technische Universität Dresden
wolfgang.enghardt@oncoray.de
MIC Deputy Program Chair
Sibylle Ziegler
Technische Universität München
sibylle.ziegler@tum.de
RTSD Program Co-Chair
Ralph James
Brookhaven National Laboratory
rjames@bnl.gov
RTSD Program Co-Chair
Michael Fiederle
Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum michael.fiederle@fmf.uni-freiburg.de
This year, we will also reintroduce a session on Nuclear Power with
topics similar to the past Symposia on Nuclear Power Systems (SNPS).
Grants are available to help support about 200 students and young
researchers so that they can more easily participate in the conference
and present their work to our world-wide community.
Please visit our website and feel free to contact the corresponding
program chairs directly for additional information.
Special Focus Workshops
An extensive workshop program offering twelve workshops has been
developed by our Workshop Program Co-Chairs:
Norbert Wermes
Universität Bonn
E-mail: wermes@uni-bonn.de
Wim de Boer
Universität Karlsruhe
deboer@ekp.uni-karlsruhe.de
While ten of the workshop topics will be offered in Dresden during
the conference week, workshops #11 and #12 are being offered outside
Dresden in two of Germany’s most renowned research centers:
1. Micro-Pattern Gas and Silicon Detectors for Tracking
2. Micro and Nano Dosimetry
3. Detector Developments for the sLHC
4. ATCA/µTCA for Physics
5. Nuclear Radiology of Breast Cancer
6. X-ray Micro Imaging of Devices, Materials and Organics
7. GATE Software for Emission Tomography
8. Compton Cameras for Medical and Industrial Applications
9. Innovative Techniques for Hadron Therapy
10. Stand-off Detection Techniques for Radiological and Nuclear
Sources
Satellite Workshops outside Dresden:
11. Joint Workshop on Detector Development for Future Particle Physics
and Photon Science Experiments (DESY, Hamburg – Thursday and
Friday before Conference Week)
12. Hybrid Imaging with MR-PET (For-schungszentrum Jülich,
Jülich – Monday and Tuesday after the Conference Week)
Our website will provide detailed information on the program schedule
and contents of these workshops.
SHORT COURSES
An excellent short course program has been developed covering a
wide range of nuclear and medical technology topics:
• Basics of Particle and Radiation Detection (2 days); Glenn
Knoll and Fabio Sauli
• Silicon Detector Applications in Medicine, Biology, Safety
and Astrophysics (1/2 day); Lothar Strueder and Peter Lechner
• GEANT4 (1 day); Maria Grazia Pia
• Front-End Electronics for Particle Detectors in Astroparticle,
Particle Physics and Medicine (1 day); Helmuth Spieler
• How to use the Grid for Physics and Medical Applications
(1 day); Patricia M´endez Lorenzo and Jakub T. Moscicki
• Image Quality in Adaptive and Multimodality Imaging (1 day);
Harrison Barrett, Matthew A. Kupinski, Kyle J. Myers
• Image Reconstruction (1 day); Paul Kinahan
• CT Diagnosis and Hadron Therapy (1/2 day); Ugo Amaldi
• The Monte Carlo Method and its Applications in Medical Imaging
(1 day); Michael Ljungberg
• PET Pharmacokinetic Course (2.5 days, special course at
Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf); Jörg van den Hoff
All courses include refreshments, lecture notes, and a certificate
of completion as part of the registration fee. Full day courses
also include lunch. For additional information, please visit our
website and feel free to contact the Short-Course Co-Chairs:
Claus Grupen
Siegen University
grupen@hep.physik.uni-siegen.de
Irène Buvat
Imaging and Modeling in Neurobiology and
Cancerology Lab
UMR 8165 CNRS Orsay
buvat@imnc.in2p3.fr
INDUSTRIAL EXHIBIT
The Industrial Program will be an important part of the conference.
It comprises an exhibition and an integrated program of technical
seminars. An exhibition area central to conference activities will
display the latest in products and innovations. Interested vendors
should contact the Industrial Program Chair:
Friedrich Wulf
Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin
wte-office@hmi.de
COMPANION PROGRAM
Dresden and its surroundings offer a broad variety of cultural,
historical and natural attractions. An exciting Companion Tour Program
has been worked out and can be downloaded from our website in English,
Chinese, or Japanese. For further information please visit our website
or feel free to contact our Companion Program Co-Chairs:
Merry Keyser
Rmkeyser@aol.com
Christine Bohnet
c.bohnet@fzd.de
Carolyn Hoffman
Carolyn.Hoffman@verizon.net
The organizing committee, our local hosts at the Forschungszentrum
Dresden-Rossendorf, the Deputy-General Chair and I all encourage
you warmly to participate in this major event of our Society. We
look forward to welcoming you to Germany and to Dresden in October.
Uwe Bratzler
General Chair
Uwe.Bratzler@cern.ch
Roger Gearhart
Deputy General Chair
ragearhart@comcast.net
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