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It's Europe, again.
And this time it's Italy!
The Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference, Symposium
on Nuclear Power Systems and the 14th International Workshop on
Room Temperature Semiconductor X- and Gamma-Ray Detectors will be
held for the first time in Italy, in the prestigious city of Rome,
on October 16-22, 2004.
The venue of the conference is the Ergife Palace Hotel, one of the
largest exhibition and congress areas in Europe.
Its complex is unique, combining one of the largest hotels in Italy
with one of the most extensive exhibition facilities in Europe on
the same site.
This conference represents a unique opportunity for scientists and
engineers from all over the world to participate and present their
original works in a variety of subjects related to nuclear science
and medical imaging.
- The Nuclear Science Symposium offers an outstanding opportunity
for scientists and engineers interested or actively working in
the fields of nuclear science, radiation instrumentation, software
and their applications.
- The Medical Imaging Conference is the most productive international
scientific meeting on the physics, engineering, and mathematical
aspects of nuclear medicine based imaging.
- The Symposium on Nuclear Power Systems (SNPS) will again be
held in conjunction with the Nuclear Science Symposium.
- The RTSD workshop represents the largest forum of scientists
and engineers working to develop new solid-state radiation detectors
and imaging arrays.
This year two Special Focus Workshops on Gravitational
Wave Detection and on Synchrotron Radiation Detectors will be also
held, together with the "2004 Workshop on Nuclear Radiology
of Breast Cancer." We have received an extraordinary number
of submissions: more than 1650 abstracts in total. This sets an
all-time record for the Conference. An outstanding scientific program
has been laid down by the chairs of the various tracks with the
help of more than 400 reviewers. In addition, a very interesting
"Short Courses" program on NSS and MIC related topics
has been organized. This is a conference not to be missed!
NUCLEAR SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM (NSS)
October, Monday 18-Thursday 21
The Nuclear Science Symposium is a unique opportunity to convene
for scientists and engineers in the fields of nuclear science, instrumentation
for nuclear, particle physics and astrophysics, biomedical and imaging
applications, and related software. In addition, there are dedicated
special focus workshops on Synchrotron Radiation and Gravitational
Wave Detectors. Topical short courses on detection technologies
and related software, devoted to students and young scientists,
complement the scientific program.
This year a record number of 760 abstract submissions have been
received, making their analysis and assignment to sessions extremely
challenging. This selection would not have been possible without
the dedicated help of 20 Topic Conveners and more than 200 reviewers;
with their assistance, we believe we have put together a very interesting
and sound scientific program.
Following stringent criteria, the papers were assigned to two oral
plenary sessions, 44 oral parallel and two plenary poster sessions.
Moreover, two dedicated joint NSS-MIC sessions include contributions
bridging the fields of nuclear detectors and medical imaging. To
encourage the participation of authors and involvement of the audience
in the poster sessions, and in view of the large number of posters,
each poster set-up will be visible for a full day, with a dedicated
session not having any other NSS activity in parallel. To encourage
participation of young scientists, two conspicuous student poster
awards have been instituted and will be announced during the NSS
conference dinner.
The Nuclear Science Symposium will start on Monday, October 18,
2004 and continues through Thursday, October 21 inclusive. Short
Courses begin already on Saturday, October 16. After the Grand Opening,
two distinguished invited speakers will shed light on subjects of
general interest: Prof. Pier Andrea Mandò (Florence University)
on "Nuclear Techniques for the Cultural Heritage," and
Dr. Lothar Strüder, (Max Plank Institute, Munich) on "Semiconductor
Detectors - In Heaven and on Earth."
The opening sessions will be followed by the traditional NSS Luncheon,
on Monday, October 18 (12:00-14:00) during which Prof. Ugo Amaldi
(University of Milano Bicocca and TERA Foundation) will discuss
"Advances in Radiotherapy: from the Discovery of X-Rays to
Hadrontherapy." The talk will be preceded by a short recollection
of the discovery of neutron-induced radioactivity made in Rome seventy
years ago by Enrico Fermi and collaborators, a fundamental step
in the development of nuclear and medical physics. The main subject
will be tackled with an overview of the development of X-ray radiotherapy,
starting from the first attempts in 1896 and ending with Intensity
Modulated Radiation Therapy. The latter part will then describe
the use of hadron accelerators in cancer therapy.
Fabio Sauli is the NSS Program Chair
Archana Sharma is the NSS Deputy Program Chair
MEDICAL IMAGING CONFERENCE (MIC)
October, Tuesday 19-Friday 22
It is a pleasure to welcome you to Rome for the 2004 Medical Imaging
Conference (MIC). Apart from its setting in the Eternal City, MIC2004
is remarkable due to its record number of abstract submissions.
This shows the steadily increasing success of the MIC in recent
years, due to the traditional cross-fertilization with the Nuclear
Science Symposium and to the growth of topics such as small animal
imaging and X-ray imaging. The format of the meeting will closely
follow the MIC tradition, and in particular the very successful
Conference organized last year by Michael King and Stephen Glick.
There will be 10 non-overlapping oral sessions, including two joint
NSS-MIC and one joint RTSD-MIC. Each of the 66 oral contributions
is allotted 12 minutes for presentation and 3 minutes for discussion.
One of the strengths of the MIC has always been the outstanding
quality of the poster sessions. This tradition will also be continued
in Rome. In addition to the 10 oral sessions, there will be 4 independent
poster sessions. Posters will be up from Tuesday morning until the
end of the meeting on Friday afternoon, and the poster area will
be open all day until 23:00. Information on the poster size can
be found on the Conference web site under "Guidelines."
This year, there will also be two awards given for outstanding posters
presented by students. The names of the recipients will be announced
at the end of the last MIC session on Friday.
During the opening session, two distinguished speakers will present
overviews of fields that are related to this conference but usually
not widely represented. Professor Peter Morris from the Sir Peter
Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre of the University of Nottingham
will talk about functional magnetic resonance imaging, and Professor
Michael Unser of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
will speak about recent developments in Interpolation.
The MIC banquet on Thursday evening will feature a lecture by Professor
Giovanni Ettore Gigante from the University La Sapienza in Rome.
He will share his experience in using physical techniques for the
analysis and restoration of art works. This promises to be an exciting
talk, and is particularly topical in a city such as Rome! The other
special event at the MIC banquet will be the presentation of the
IEEE Senior Scientist Award for Medical Imaging. In view of the
large attendance expected and the limited number of seats, we encourage
you to register early for this banquet.
Sibylle Ziegler is the MIC Program Chair
Michel Defrise is the MIC Deputy Program Chair
International Workshop on Room-Temperature Semiconductor X-Ray and
Gamma-Ray Detectors (RTSD)
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 14th International
Workshop on Room-Temperature Semiconductor X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Detectors.
This conference represents the largest forum of scientists and engineers
working to develop new solid-state radiation detectors and imaging
arrays. For those of you who have attended the past workshops, welcome
back! As Chairs of the workshop, we are particularly delighted to
make the acquaintance of new contributors, as there are many challenges
that lie ahead, some of which will be solved by those who are relatively
new to the subject area.
It is our sincere hope that this conference will facilitate cross-fertilization
of research and spawn creative ideas, and that these ideas will
be incarnated into knowledge, lending to new directions and thrusts.
We urge you to take time at this meeting to build on the commonality
of your work with colleagues within the RTSD, NSS and MIC conferences,
and to share your data, energy and experience, and explore ways
to enhance cooperation and collaboration with others.
We have chosen to hold this meeting in conjunction with the IEEE
NSS and MIC meetings for the purpose of encouraging information
exchange between a much larger body of scientists and engineers
who have an in-depth knowledge of detectors, instrumentation, nuclear
science and technology, and medical imaging. A joint session with
MIC has been planned to help bring together people with common interests
and offer the right environment for the creation of new and fruitful
associations.
Eugenio Perillo and Ralph B. James are the RTSD Program Co-Chairs.
SYMPOSIUM ON NUCLEAR POWER SYSTEMS
(SNSP)
Thursday, October 21
The technical session will cover subjects of major interest to the
operation of nuclear power stations and the contributors to this
session are from nuclear suppliers, services, power utilities, architect
engineering firms, the U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and especially
the Nuclear Power Engineering Committee of the IEEE.
SPECIAL FOCUS WORKSHOPS
Gravitational Wave Detection
Thursday, October 21
In view of the importance that gravitational wave detection will
have in fundamental physics research, this Special Focus Workshop
in the framework of the 2004 IEEE NSS - MIC has been organized.
The emphasis is on how signal is extracted from detectors and how
this signal is used to keep the instrument on the correct working
point: these control systems are essential to achieve the instrument's
ultimate sensitivity. This subject involves knowledge in optics,
photon detection, low noise electronics, feedback control systems.
As many related problems are studied by the traditional NSS audience,
including accelerator physicists and engineers, the Workshop coordinators
would like to welcome a wider community than gravitational wave
detector experts and establish fruitful contacts both ways.
Francesco Fidecaro and Matteo Barsuglia are the Coordinators of
the Workshop
Synchrotron Radiation Detectors
Friday, October 22
During the past 20 years, Synchrotron Light Sources and the associated
optical components developed at a fast pace providing a remarkable
increase of intensity and brightness. Ever since then research with
synchrotron radiation has emerged to be one of the most powerful
tools in almost every field of science and technology. However,
these sources can maintain their high level of competitiveness only
if a new generation of X-ray and electron detectors is developed
as well. Right now we are facing a situation in which it is mostly
the detection device that limits the final data quality. As a result
of these circumstances, it is necessary to increase the research
effort in this field. Therefore, the purpose of this one-day workshop
is to review the aspects of recent detector development for synchrotron
radiation and to develop multidisciplinary and new ideas for the
next generation of detection devices.
Ralf Menk and Heinz Graafsma are the Coordinators of the Workshop
Workshop on the Nuclear Radiology of Breast Cancer
Friday and Saturday, October 21 &22
This one-and-a-half day workshop will cover issues related to nuclear
emission imaging for breast cancer evaluation. Topics will include
biology and markers for breast cancer, conventional and emerging
breast imaging technologies, potential roles of nuclear techniques
(PET/SPECT), new breast cancer radio tracers, clinical practicality
issues, new nuclear imaging instrumentation and methods designed
for breast cancer, industrial perspectives, and funding opportunities.
Craig Levin, Martin Tornai, Roberto Pani, Franco Garibaldi, Iraj
Khalkhali, and David Mankoff are the organizers of this workshop
CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAM
An excellent set of short courses will be given at the start of
the NSS/MIC programs, covering a wide range of nuclear and medical
technology. All courses include refreshments, lecture notes, and
a certificate of completion as part of the registration fee. Full
day courses also include lunch.
NSS Courses
- SC1: Radiation Detection and Measurement (Saturday, October
16-Full day)
- SC2: Detectors for Astroparticle and Synchrotron Radiation
Experiments (Saturday, October 16-Half day)
- SC3: Semiconductor Strip, Pixel and Voxel Arrays (Saturday,
October 16-Half day)
- SC4: GEANT4 (Sunday, October 17-Full day) MIC Courses
- SC5: Detectors for SPECT and PET (Monday, October 18-Full day)
- SC6: Biomedical Applications of Particle Detectors (Monday,
October 18-Half day)
- SC7: Optical Imaging (Monday, October 18-Half day)
- SC8: Statistical Methods for Image Recon-struction (Tuesday,
October 19-Half day)
Industrial Program
The IEEE NSS/MIC/SNPS and RTSD Industrial Program provides our conference
attendees with ample opportunities to meet the different exhibitors
on Tuesday 19, Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 October. More than 50
companies from all around the world will be present to meet conference
attendees and to demonstrate their latest products. These represent
the state-of-the-art in detectors, pulse processing instrumentation,
imaging, software, and other associated areas. The three-day exhibition
is complemented by a series of seminars and technical presentations
which will allow an in-depth exchange of information between attendees
and exhibitors on existing products, future developments and needs.
An Industrial Program brochure will be available at the meeting
with full details of the exhibitors and the seminar program. Companies
interested in participating should contact Christopher Parkman,
Industrial Program Chair, at chris.parkman@cern.ch.
REGISTRATION
Studio EGA has been selected as the professional congress organizer
that takes care of the registration and accommodation. Preregistration
is highly recommended to save both time and money. A number of methods
are available to allow everyone to register early. Preregistration
ensures that your registration packet will be ready for you when
you arrive at the conference. You may preregister using the registration
form contained within this booklet, or electronically through the
conference website. There is only one registration form that includes
registration to the Conference, to the Short Courses, Lunch and
Dinner Program, Social Events, Tour and Companion Program, and Hotel
Accommodation. In order to book Hotel Accommodation you have to
register for the Conference. Hotel accommodation for attendees and
companions is provided at the Ergife Palace Hotel. Registration
and payment must be received by September 25, 2004 in order to qualify
for the lower registration, short courses, lunch/dinner and tours
fees.
SOCIAL EVENTS
The organizing committee is happy to offer an entertaining social
events program to all attendees and their companions:
- Welcome Cocktail at Ergife Palace Hotel (Monday, October 18,
2004 at 19:00)
- Exhibitors Reception at Ergife Palace Hotel (Tuesday, October
19, 2004 at 19:00)
- Conference Dinner at Villa Miani (Wednesday, October 20, 2004
at 19:00)
An exciting Tour and Companion program has been set-up. Visiting
Rome means more than simply visiting a city, it means revisiting
the entire history of the western world from its early beginnings.
With its Coliseum, its timeless Forum, it ancient Spas and pagan
temples, Rome offers a unique opportunity to breathe the atmosphere
which once reigned during the great Emperors' days. With its more
than three hundred churches ranging from Michelangelo's magnificent
St Peter's Basilica to more humble buildings where the first Christians
gathered, Rome also offers visitors a unique window on the history
of Christianity. Moreover, thanks to its unsurpassed art collections,
Rome provides a rare opportunity to meet up close with the work
of such Renaissance and Baroque geniuses as Raphael, Bernini and
Caravaggio.
- Tour #1: Rome Seen from Its Belvederes (Sunday, October 17,
2004; 14:00 - 17:00)
- Tour #2: The Glories of Baroque Rome (Monday, October 18, 2004;
09:00 - 12:30)
- Tour #3: Ostia Antica (Tuesday, October 19, 2004; 09:00 - 16:30)
- Tour #4: Imperial Rome (Wednesday, October 20, 2004; 09:00
- 12:30)
- Tour #5: Tivoli and Stately Homes (Thursday, October 21, 2004;
09:00 - 16:30)
- Tour #6: Vatican Museums (Friday, October 22, 2004; 09:00 -
12:30)
GENERAL INFORMATION
A complete computer facility including Internet access at the conference
will be provided. A staff of very experienced personnel will be
at hand to assist all attendees with the use of the computers and
equipment in the facility. The facility will consist primarily of
PC platforms, several printers, and additional stations allowing
laptop Internet connections both wired and wireless. The facility
is intended for use by all attendees to perform last minute editing
of papers and presentation material and to retrieve email from parent
organizations. Standard word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation
software will be available. The computer rooms will be open Monday
(October 18) at 08:00 and close on Friday (October 22) at 17:00.
In addition, a wireless connection will be available in the exhibitors
area on Tuesday 19, Wednesday 20, and Thursday 21 October, during
the opening hours of the exhibition.
The Conference Record is the official repository for manuscripts
presented at the 2004 NSS/MIC/RTSD/SNPS Conference in Rome, Italy,
and will be published on CD-ROM, complimentary for all registered
attendees to the conference. Anticipated is a January 2005 release
of the materials. Additionally, papers presented at the conference
that contain important information of lasting value may be submitted
for review and publication in the conference issue of the Transactions
on Nuclear Science (TNS). The TNS is a premier peer-reviewed journal
with a significant distribution within the nuclear science and medical
imaging communities.
An IEEE membership desk will be located in Galleria Expo near the
Registration Desk. Vernon Price, IEEE Membership Chairman, will
be available to answer questions and explain the benefits of IEEE
membership. A portion of your nonmember conference registration
fee (e41) will be deducted from your new IEEE membership (not applicable
to student memberships). By joining IEEE during the conference,
you will also receive one year's free membership in the Nuclear
and Plasma Sciences Society, and a subscription to either the Transactions
on Nuclear Science or Transactions on Medical Imaging. Students
may join at the conference and the membership fee will be covered
if the students provide a statement from their professor that they
are full-time students. They should be encouraged to join IEEE and
NPSS over the web prior to coming to the conference. If they do,
they can qualify for the reduced student rate.
Website
Information for the complete conference program (NSS, MIC, RTSD,
SNPS, Special Focus Workshops and NRBC Workshop), short courses,
and tours, and the conference Booklet can be found at: http://nss-mic-rtsd-2004.df.unipi.it/.
Alberto Del Guerra, General Chair, can be reached at the Department
of Physics, University of Pisa, Via F. Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa,
Italy; Phone: +39-050-2214942; Fax: +39-050-2214333; E-mail: alberto.delguerra@df.unipi.it
Lucia Lilli, Conference Coordinator, can be reached at INFN, Sezione
di Pisa, Via F. Buonarroti 2, 56127 Pisa, Italy; Phone: +39-050-2214327;
Fax: +39-050-2214317; E-mail: ieee-rome2004@df.unipi.it
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