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is in the beautiful and historic city of Dresden, Germany, that
the 2008 IEEE 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 from 19-25 October
2008 at the Maritim Hotel and International Congress Center Dresden
(ICCD). Detailed information concerning the joint conference can
be found on the conference website: www.nss-mic.org/2008.
In addition to providing a superior site, environment and meeting
place for this year’s Conference and the worldwide science
community in Dresden, a secondary objective of this meeting is to
attract and welcome new members from countries in Eastern Europe
to the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) and to encourage
current members in this region to become more actively involved
in the Society. This follows our very successful previous experiences
with holding the conference in Europe, first in Lyon, France, in
2000 and then in Rome, Italy, in 2004. Dresden, Germany, is an ideal
location for the third European NSS/MIC/RTSD that will attract researchers,
especially those from Eastern European countries, to present their
work in the fields of nuclear science and medical imaging in both
a scientific and culturally stimulating environment.
While settlements have been documented here as early as 7,500 years
ago, the city of Dresden itself was founded in about 1173 and is
today the capital of the German state of Saxony. With one Technical
University, one University of Applied Sciences, three Universities
of Fine Arts, three Max-Planck Institutes, four Leibniz Institutes,
and eleven Fraunhofer Institutes in the City of Dresden, Dresden
has attracted over many centuries, a diverse scholarly community.
The Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (FZD) serves as the meeting’s
key local organizer. The town itself is situated close to the Polish
and Czech borders; Poland and the Czech Republic have recently joined
the European Union.
With more than 2,000 abstract submissions, the 2008 IEEE NSS/MIC/RTSD
promises to be the largest meeting ever in this series of conferences.
The Program Chairs have organized the accepted oral papers into
a 5-day NSS program with 5 parallel sessions, a 4-day single session
MIC program and a 5-day single session RTSD program. Each program
also includes a large number of poster paper sessions. An excellent
set of short courses will be given at the start of the NSS/MIC/RTSD
programs, covering a wide range of nuclear and medical technology
topics.
Several Special Focus Workshops are intended to encourage in-depth
discussion among experts on interdisciplinary topics. As satellite
workshops, the 11th Joint Workshop on Detector Development for Future
Particle Physics and Photon Science Experiments will be held on
16-17 October at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg,
Germany, and the 12th Workshop on Hybrid Imaging with MR-PET will
be held at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany,
27-28 October. Strong support has also been provided by both of
these institutions to the meeting in Dresden.
A round-table discussion on Nano CMOS and 3D Electronics for Scientific
Instrumentation and Imaging, a Marie-Curie-Fellow networking event,
a special session on technology transfer and an excursion to the
radiation source ELBE at Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf will
complete the technical program.
In addition, there will be an event organized by the IEEE Women
in Engineering (WIE) to which all conference participants are invited.
Numerous grants have been awarded to those who need support to attend
the Conference and/or educational courses; students and recent graduates
were provided special consideration.
A commercial exhibit featuring state-of-the-art products and services
from a wide range of vendors will take place during the main part
of the meeting. In cooperation with exhibitors and other companies
related to our field, a large job fair will be organized for interested
Conference participants.
A program for companions will provide daily tours during the conference
to the many attractions and activities in and around Dresden.
On behalf of the organizing committee, and our local organizer,
Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, and our partners in Dresden,
we extend our warmest welcome to you and encourage you to make plans
now to attend this exciting joint conference sponsored by the IEEE
Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society. We cordially invite you to
the city of Dresden and the surrounding area on the occasion of
the first NSS/MIC/RTSD in Germany in October 2008.
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