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; Hee Joung 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