Radiation Instrumentation Technical Committee Report to AdCom

Chuck MelcherJuly 30, 2011

2011 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference, &

18th International Workshop on Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detectors

Valencia, Spain

Future NSS-MIC Conferences

• 2011: Valencia; David Townsend• 2012: Anaheim; Tom Lewellen• 2013: Seoul; Hee Joung Kim• 2014: Seattle; Tony Lavietes• 2015: Strasbourg, Liverpool ???

Technical Co-Sponsor: ANIMMA 2011

• 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.

Co-Sponsor: SORMA 2012

• Expecting 600 attendees which presents a space issue• Not enough hotel space in Berkeley due to conflict with another

event• Will be held in the Oakland Marriott City Center• May 14-18, 2012• 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

Technical Co-Sponsor: 3rd PLIM – 2012

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, 2011Leonard J Bond, PNNLGene Carpenter, NRC

Richard Reister, DOE-NE

Technical Co-Sponsor: SCINT 2011

• General Chair: Rainer Novotny• Organizing Committee

– Paul Lecoq– Bill Moses– Chuck Melcher– Alex Gektin

Valentin T. Jordanov Fund

• Additional donations have increased the fund balance to $215K

• Distributions have been doubled to $7200 per year starting in 2011

• Supports attendance at the Nuclear Science Symposium by young researchers