Conference Secretariat

Conference Description

The Low Level Techniques Working Group of the International Committee for Radionuclide Metrology is pleased to announce that its next conference will be held at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) in Braunschweig, Germany, September 22-26, 2008.

The measurement of low levels of radioactivity in a wide variety of matrices has been of interest to the scientific community since the beginning of the ‘nuclear age’ and techniques have always been developed to enable the detection of ever lower amounts of radioactivity in smaller samples and for many new applications. This conference will look at the latest developments in this area.

Conference topics

Radiochemical Techniques
Fission Products, Actinides, Activation Products, Long Lived Radionuclides, Rapid Methods
Applications
NORM, TENR, Decommissioning, Bioassay, Food Safety, Safeguards, Remediation, Emergency Response, Forensic, Waste Management, Support Measurements for Astroparticle Physics, etc.
Radiometrics
α-Particle Spectrometry, Liquid Scintillation Counting, ‘Conventional’ and Ultra Low-Level γ-Ray Spectrometry, Other Radiometric Techniques
Non-radiometric measurements
Mass Spectrometry - ICP, Thermal Ionisation, Accelerator Based
Radon
Rn-Isotopes and their Decay Products
Quality
Traceability, Reference Materials, Proficiency Tests, Intercomparisons, Quality Assurance

Conference Venue
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
Bundesallee 100
D-38116 Braunschweig, Germany

Conference Language
The official language of the conference is English. All abstracts and presentations must be in English.

Participation
Please return the Registration Form (doc-file, pdf-file) from the conference web page, duly completed as soon as possible to the Conference Secretariat.

Call for Papers
The deadline for submission of abstracts to the Scientific Secretariat was April 15, 2008.

Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors until May 15, 2008. Authors are requested to submit the final text of accepted papers to the Scientific Secretariat by September 1, 2008. Authors should anticipate discussing their papers with the Scientific Committee during the conference, and making any editorial and/or technical modifications resulting from those discussions by December 1, 2008.

Proceedings
It is planned to publish the conference proceedings in the journal APPLIED RADIATION AND ISOTOPES. Manuscripts must comply with guidelines which will be sent to the authors together with the information on acceptance of the paper. Acceptance of a paper for presentation at the conference does not automatically imply that it will be published in the proceedings. Publication of the manuscripts is subject to the result of a refereeing procedure.

Registration Fees

Registration before July 15, 2008:	EURO 400,-
Registration after July 15, 2008:	EURO 450,-

The registration fee includes refreshments during coffee breaks, lunches, a dinner, transportation between the hotels and PTB each day, conference materials and a published copy of the proceedings. The Registration Form (doc-file, pdf-file) can be found at the conference web page.

Accomodations
A block of rooms has been reserved for participants at local hotels at special rates between EUR 61,- and EUR 120,- per night. A Hotel Accommodation Form can be found at the conference web page. Please return the form duly completed as soon as possible but not later than August 15, 2008 to Braunschweig Congress.

Exhibition
A manufacturer’s exhibition will be held during the conference. Potential exhibitors should contact the Conference Secretariat.

Scientific Committee

Dirk Arnold	PTB Braunschweig, Germany
Pierino De Felice	ENEA Casaccia, Italy
Mikael Hult	EC-JRC-IRMM Geel, Belgium
Christian Hurtgen	SCK•CEN Mol, Belgium
Ken Inn	NIST Gaithersburg, USA
Simon Jerome	NPL Teddington, UK
Matthias Köhler	VKTA Dresden, Germany
Matjaz Korun	JSI Ljubljana, Slovenia
Matthias Laubenstein	LNGS-INFN Assergi, Italy
Marie-Christine Lépy	CEA-LNHB Saclay, France
Franz-Josef Maringer	BEV Vienna, Austria
Annette Röttger	PTB Braunschweig, Germany
Umberto Sansone	IAEA Seibersdorf, Austria
Herbert Wershofen	PTB Braunschweig, Germany

Conference Secretariat (registrations, fees, accommodation)
Mrs. Johanne Schroven
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
Bundesallee 100
D-38116 Braunschweig, Germany
Phone: +49-531-592-6304
Fax: +49-531-592-6305
e-mail: ICRM-LLRMT@PTB.DE

Scientific Secretariat (abstracts, manuscripts, proceedings)
Dirk Arnold
Department 6.1
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
Bundesallee 100
D-38116 Braunschweig, Germany
Phone: +49-531-592-6100
Fax: +49-531-592-6305
e-mail: ICRM-LLRMT@PTB.DE

Deadlines and Dates

2008-Feb-15	Submission of pre-registration form to receive 2^nd announcement
2008-Mar-01	Second announcement and call for abstracts
2008-Apr-15	Deadline for submission of abstracts
2008-May-15	Notification of acceptance of abstracts
2008-Jul-15	Deadline for early registration
2008-Aug.-15	Deadline for submission of the Hotel Accommodation Form
2008-Sep-01	Deadline for conference registration and submission of accepted papers
2008-Sep-22	Start of conference
2008-Sep-26	End of conference
2008-Dec-01	Submission of final version of papers