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Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS) offers an outstanding opportunity
for scientists and engineers interested, or actively working in
the fields of nuclear science, radiation detection, accelerators,
high energy physics and astrophysics, and related software. The
scientific program provides a comprehensive review of the latest
developments in technology and covers a wide range of applications
from radiation instrumentation and new detector materials, to complex
detector systems for physical sciences and advanced imaging systems
for biological and medical research.
Having received a record-breaking number of over 1,000 abstracts,
the NSS program was expanded to five full days, Monday to Friday,
with five simultaneous parallel sessions. The program consists of
516 oral (including NSS/MIC/RTSD and NSS/MIC joint sessions) and
484 poster papers, which are presented in two oral plenary sessions,
70 NSS parallel sessions, and two poster sessions.
One of the highlights of the symposium will be the two NSS Plenary
Sessions on Monday, 20 October 2008 (09.00-12.00) and on Friday,
24 October 2008 (10.30-12.30), where prominent experts and leaders
in our field will shed light on the most outstanding current and
planned research frontiers.
Contributed papers were invited describing original, previously
unpublished work in the following subject areas:
• Analog and Digital Circuits
• Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation
• Accelerators and Beam Line Instrumentation
• Computing and Software
• Data Acquisition and Analysis Systems
• Gaseous Detectors
• High Density Detector Processing and Interconnect Technologies
• Nuclear Measurements and Monitoring Techniques
• Nuclear Physics Instrumentation
• High Energy Physics Instrumentation
• Instrumentation for Bio-Medical Research
• Instrumentation for Radiation Applications in Medicine
• New Solid State Detectors
• Neutron Detection Instrumentation
• Photon Detectors and Radiation Imaging Detectors
• Radiation Damage Effects
• Scintillators and Scintillation Detectors
• Safety Instrumentation / Homeland Security
• Semiconductor Tracking and Spectroscopy Detectors
• Synchrotron Radiation and FEL Instrumentation
• Trigger and Front-end Systems
• Nuclear Power
In addition, special events are being organized as a part of the
NSS scientific program:
Joint NSS/MIC/RTSD and NSS/MIC
sessions:
• New Detectors and Technologies for Medical Imaging (Tuesday,
21 October);
• Application-Specific Imaging Instrumentation and Technique
(Tuesday, 21 October);
• Round Table Discussion “Nano CMOS and 3D Electronics
for Scientific Instrumentation and Imaging: Opportunities and Practical
Aspects” (Wednesday, 22 October, 16:30-19:00).
For further information on the scientific program, please contact:
Rolf-Dieter Heuer
NSS Program Chair
DESY
Notkestraße 85,
22607 Hamburg, Germany
E-mail: rolf-dieter.heuer@desy.de
Phone: +49 (0) 40 8998 3023
Fax: +49 (0) 40 8998 4304
Maxim Titov
NSS Program Deputy Chair
CEA SACLAY, DAPNIA
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
E-mail: maxim.titov@cea.fr
Phone: +33 (0) 1 69 08 69 90
Fax: +33 (0) 1 69 08 64 28
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