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Radiation Instrumentation Technical Committee Report to AdCom. Chuck Melcher November 6, 2010. 2010 NSS-MIC. General Chair: Ron Keyser NSS Program Chair: John Valentine NSS Deputy Program Chair: Tim Devol MIC Program Chair: David Townsend MCI Deputy Program Chair: Charles Watson.
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Radiation Instrumentation Technical Committee Report to AdCom Chuck Melcher November 6, 2010
2010 NSS-MIC • General Chair: Ron Keyser • NSS Program Chair: John Valentine • NSS Deputy Program Chair: Tim Devol • MIC Program Chair: David Townsend • MCI Deputy Program Chair: Charles Watson
2010 NSS Topics • Analog and Digital Circuits • Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation • Scientific Simulation and Computation • Gaseous Detectors • Nuclear Measurements and Monitoring Techniques • High Energy and Nuclear Physics instrumentation • Instrumentation for Homeland and National Security • Instrumentation for Medical and Biological Research • Semiconductor Detectors • Neutron Detectors and Instrumentation • Nuclear Power Reactor Instrumentation • Radiation Imaging Detectors • Radiation Damage Effects • Scintillators and Scintillation Detectors • Synchrotron Radiation and FEL Instrumentation • Trigger and Front-End Systems
Workshops • Workshop on Material Development for the Homogeneous Hadronic Calorimeter Detector Concept • Workshop on 3He Alternatives for Neutron Detection • Workshop on the Management and Dissemination of Intellectual Property in Fundamental Research • Workshop on PET-MR
Short Courses • Integrated Circuit Front-Ends for Nuclear Pulse Processing • Radiation Detection and Measurement • Advanced Photodetectors • Image Quality in Adaptive and Multimodality Imaging • Medical Image Reconstruction • Molecular Imaging
Refresher Courses • Neutron Detection • Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy • Geant4 Physics Modeling Capabilities • MR imaging techniques • New Trends in Scintillators • Recent Advances in X-Ray Computed Tomography
Companion Program • Fly Fishing On The Little River • Smoky Mountain Premier Craft • Biltmore Estate • On Top of Old Smoky • Tuckaleechee Caverns and Smoky Mountain Heritage Center • A Step Back in Time - The Museum of Appalachia
Technical Tours • ORTEC Manufacturing • ORNL Spallation Neutron Source • Siemens Healthcare Molecular Imaging Factory • ORNL Spallation Neutron Source
Future NSS-MIC Conferences • 2011: Valencia; David Townsend • 2012: Anaheim; Tom Lewellen • 2013: Seoul; HeeJoung Kim • 2014: Seattle: ??? • 2015: ???
Possible Future Technical Co-Sponsorship • Fermilab detector workshop • “to coordinate detector R&D at national labs and universities” • First one held in October 2010 • Possibly to be held annually • APS Division of Particle and Fields was involved • IEEE not officially involved but Bo Yu was a presenter • We were contacted by Bruce Brown (Fermilab) about possible IEEE/NPSS/RITC future involvement