| The Summer School is devoted to current topics and new developments in the principles and methods of Nuclear Physics and Accelerators with applications to Biology and Medicine. This event is part of a School Series held every two years within the framework of the long-term cooperation between JINR Dubna and its Member States in Central and Eastern Europe. Initiated by the University Center of the JINR Dubna, AMU Poznan and the CTU in Prague, the previous Schools were held in Dubna (2001), Poznan (2003), Dubna (2005) and Prague (2007). This year’s School will be held at the Comenius University in Bratislava from the 6th–15th July 2009, and will follow a plan similar to that of the successful Prague School (www.utef.cvut.cz/4SummerSchool), where the program was arranged into Plenary Courses and Advanced Lectures, with a number of specialized Speakers contributing about 10 Plenary Course Manuscripts and over 30 Short Papers for the School’s Proceedings, which were published by the American Institute of Physics Conference Series. From the nearly 100 students attending, most of whom presented their own research as a Short Talk or Poster, about 40 student contributions were included as short papers in the Proceedings.
The School program this year focuses on Particle Accelerators, Radiation Detectors, Hadron Therapy and Nuclear Medical Imaging. Particular emphasis is placed on the physical principles and methods in an introductory, explanatory way. The list of Speakers includes leading experts in their fields: William Moses, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and IEEE NPSS Distinguished Lecturer (Nuclear Medicine), Erik Heijne, CERN, and IEEE NPSS Distinguished Lecturer (Position Sensitive Detectors), and Claude Leroy, University of Montreal (Radiation Detectors). Ideal participants are MSc and PhD students majoring in Engineering, Physics or Medicine as well as young researchers working in fields related to the topics of the School. The Proceedings of the School will be published by the AIP. The detailed program is announced on the School’s website (www.fmph.uniba.sk/~5SummerSchool).
The School is co-organized by the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics of the Comenius University in Bratislava, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research JINR Dubna and the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics of the Czech Technical University. The School is supported by all co-organizing institutions and by the Slovak Physical Society, the Slovak Nuclear Society, the Ministry of Education of Slovakia, the Electrotechnical Research and Projecting Institute Slovakia, and by Grants of Government Plenipotentiaries of Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia in JINR Dubna. The organizers are also happy to have for the first time the Technical Co-Sponsorship of the IEEE NPSS. This initiative is one product of the 2008 IEEE NSS-MIC Dresden Conference together with the newly formed NPSS Chapter of the IEEE Czechoslovak Section (www.ieee.cz/nps).
Carlos Granja, Organizing Committee, IEAP CTU Prague, can be reached by e-mail at granja@mail.utef.cvut.cz.
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