Vienna Conference on Instrumentation

European Physical Society

Vienna Conference on Instrumentation

By Bénédicte Huchet. Published on 19 December 2012 in:
December 2012, Events, January 2013, Detector, Particle Physics, Synchroton Light, VCI, Vienna Conference on Instrumentation

The Vienna Conference on Instrumentation [VCI] will take place on 11-15 February 2013 and will present the newest developments of detectors for particle, astro-particle and nuclear physics and their applications in biology, medicine, neutron scattering and synchrotron radiation.

The Conference will have plenary sessions with invited talks giving an overview of new detector development. The Conference Organizers particularly encourage contributions relating to associated detector electronics and from detector specific software.

Invited speakers are Hartmut Abele (ATI Vienna); Laura Baudis (ETHZ); Gianluigi Casse (Liverpool); Giora Mikenberg (Weizmann); David Nygren (LBNL); Hartmut Sadrozinski (UC Santa Cruz); Yifang Wang (IHEP Beijing); and Ariella Cattai (CERN).

The conference proceedings will appear as special volume in the journal Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A.

More information to attend the conference can be found on the conference website.

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