Following the very successful RT-2009 conference in Beijing last May, the CANPS committee has already been active in the preparation of RT-2010. This is one year ahead of our traditional every-other-year cycle. It was decided that starting from year 2010, the RT conferences would be organized in even numbered years, rather than in odd number years. This decision was taken in order to minimize the schedule conflicts with other competing conferences held during the same fiscal year.
So the next Real Time Conference will be in 2010, rather than 2011. It will be in Lisbon, Portugal, from May 24 to May 28. The chair of the conference is Carlos Varandas, from the Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear (IPFN). The Conference is organized jointly by IPFN and the “Laboratório de Instrumentação e Partículas” (LIP). Both institutes are involved in the ITER international fusion reactor project that is now gaining momentum. This should bring a very interesting new field of applications to the conference program.
The format of the conference will be similar to the previous RT conferences: one day before the conference there will be workshops and tutorials, followed by a week of plenary presentations. The all-plenary concept is well appreciated by the participants. They find that looking at how scientists from other fields of interest solve instrumentation problems similar to theirs is very profitable. The “mini-oral poster presentations” will also be part of the program as before. These are 3-minute oral presentations during which time the speaker has the opportunity to introduce the poster and convince the audience that this particular poster is something not to be missed!
Further details about the RT-2010 conference can be seen in the conference announcements section of this newsletter, and on the conference web site: http://rt2010.ipfn.ist.utl.pt
Jean-Pierre Martin, chair of the Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Science Technical Committee, can be reached at the University of Montreal, RJA Lévesque Laboratory, Montreal (QC), Canada H3C 3J7. Phone +1 514 343 7340; E-mail: jpmartin@lps.umontreal.ca
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