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Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS), Medical Imaging Conference (MIC),
and 16th International Workshop on Room Temperature Semiconductor
X- and Gamma-Ray Detectors (RTSD) will be held for the first time
in Germany, in the culturally rich city of Dresden, on 19-25 October
2008, at the International Congress Center Dresden. Forschungszentrum
Dresden-Rossendorf (FZD, was FZR), a German national physics laboratory,
is both the cosponsor and local organizing institution in Dresden.
This will be the third NSS/MIC held outside North America. Attendance
at the European-based NSS/MIC meetings has been strong from the
beginning, and has steadily increased since with about 1,300 participants
in Lyon (2000) and over 1,800 participants in Rome (2004). It is
anticipated that the Dresden 2008 conference will be the largest
yet, with 2,000 participants or more.
Preparations for this major annual event for our world-wide science
community are on schedule and in full swing. Currently, the scientific
program as well as the detailed local arrangements are being worked
out. In addition to the regular workshop program in Dresden, two
Satellite Workshops will be offered, one before and another one
after the conference week, by two of the largest and most renowned
laboratories in our fields; at DESY in Hamburg and at Forschungszentrum
Jülich (located near Cologne). The workshops will cover state-of-the-art
topics of the laboratories’ current research. In addition
to the scientific value of these workshops and laboratory visits,
this will also be a great opportunity to experience other areas
of Germany. All conference registrants are welcome to participate.
As the 2008 NSS/MIC General Chair, being also active in the NPSS
Transnational Committee (TNC), I encourage and welcome feedback
and input of any ideas, suggestions, or any other comments you may
have, related to the preparation work and shaping of this major
event for our world-wide science community.
For additional information and to provide feedback, ideas and suggestions,
please contact the 2008 IEEE NSS/MIC General Chair: Dr. Uwe Bratzler,
CERN and TMU, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Physics
Department, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland; E-mail: Uwe.Bratzler@cern.ch.
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