Radiation Instrumentation Technical
Committee Report to AdCom
Chuck Melcher
October 29, 2011
Knoxville, 2010
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Total Number of Registrants - 1985 "paid", includes life members, and exhibitors
who pay through the booth fee. Doesn't include companions.
# of Abstracts Submitted - 1500
# of Abstracts Accepted about 1350
# of Short Courses - 6 with 400 students
# of Exhibits - 58 (sold out)
Trainee grants – 135
Sessions – 8 days
Denmark Hungary
Israel
Norway
Sweden
Latvia New Zealand
Uruguay
Taiwan
Finland
Australia
Brazil
Czech Republic
Belarus
Slovakia
Singapore
Algeria
Russian Federation
Ukraine
Bulgaria
India
Chile
Slovenia
Austria
Mexico
Portugal
Greece
Ireland
Poland
Belgium
China
Netherlands
Spain
Switzerland
Canada
South Korea
France
United States
Italy
United Kingdom
Japan
Germany
Knoxville, 2010
Future NSS-MIC Conferences
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2011:
2012:
2013:
2014:
2015:
Valencia; David Townsend
Anaheim; Tom Lewellen
Seoul; Hee Joung Kim
Seattle; Tony Lavietes
Liverpool ???
SORMA 2012 (Sponsored by NPSS)
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Oakland Marriott City Center (hotel contract has been signed)
May 14-18, 2012
management contract with the IEEE Meeting Planners has been signed
contract for the reception site, the Oakland Museum, will be signed soon
budget was submitted to Ron and Tony for for approval about a month ago
web site is up
Expecting 600 attendees
General Chair: Jasmina Vujic, Chairman of the Nuclear Engineering Department
at UC Berkeley
Assistant General Chair: Jim Siegrist, Associate Laboratory Director for General
Sciences (Physics, Nuclear Science, Accelerator/Fusion, and Engineering) at
LBNL
Several members of the organizing committee have strong experience from the
2008 SORMA
ANIMMA 2011 (Technically Co-Sponsored by NPSS)
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June 6-9, 2011 in Ghent, Belgium
Patrick Le Du was very active in the organization of the conference as well as in
the preparation of the MOU.
226 accepted submissions; 199 presented
299 participants
85 % Europe (France + Belgium = 55%); 10% North America; 5% Asia
Exhibitors : 16
New this year:
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One day short courses
Intensive oral sessions --> replace POSTER sessions
IEEE NPSS @ ANIMMA
Stand in middle of exhibit - Newsletters and NPSS brochure distributed
Proceeding table Dora Merelli
Transaction Ch.Ilgner
SCINT 2011 (Technically Co-Sponsored by NPSS)
• General Chair: Rainer Novotny
• Organizing Committee
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Paul Lecoq
Bill Moses
Chuck Melcher
Alex Gektin
• ~200 attendees
• 5 days (no parallel sessions)
3rd PLIM – 2012 (Technically Co-Sponsored by NPSS)
Third International Symposium
on Nuclear Power Plant life
Management for Long Term
Operation
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
May 13/14 – May 18, 2012
Third International Symposium on Nuclear
Power Plant life Management for Long Term
Operation
Briefing IAEA, February 10, 2011
Leonard J Bond, PNNL
Gene Carpenter, NRC
Richard Reister, DOE-NE
Observations regarding American Physical Society meetings
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At the April 2011 meeting in Anaheim, a trial of the usefulness of online slide
presentations was conducted
Slides were uploaded by (some of) the speakers and were available immediately
after their talks
Preliminary analysis indicates 39,000 page hits and 7000 talk downloads (7 x
number of attendees)
A survey indicated particular value to members in industry, members outside the
U.S., and student members
http://www.physics.wisc.edu/APSApril2011
APS is using smart phone apps to give attendees access to session schedules,
abstracts, maps, and exhibitor lists
The apps have a personal scheduler capable of real time updates (when wifi is
available), but the apps are primarily off-line; data is downloaded in advance
This is also done at Pittcon