IRRMA11: 11th International Topical Meeting on Industrial Radiation and Radioisotope Measurement Applications Belmeloro Complex Bologna, Italy, July 23-28, 2023 |
Conference website | https://irrma.ing.unibo.it |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=irrma11 |
Submission deadline | June 15, 2023 |
The 11th International Topical Meeting on Industrial Radiation and Radioisotope Measurement Applications (IRRMA-11) is a triennial event organized with the purpose of bringing together scientists and engineers from around the world who share an interest in radiation and radioisotope measurement applications. Professor Robin P. Gardner of North Carolina State University was the founder of the IRRMA series of topical meetings and chaired the first and fourth meetings.
It is devoted to current trends and potential future issues involving radiation and radioisotopes. The technical sessions will include invited lectures by leading experts in their fields, contributed oral papers and poster presentations of contributed papers. Attendees will have an opportunity to share ideas on industrial uses of radiation and radioisotopes, and also on research and applications in related fields such as Biomedical Applications of Radiation, Art and Cultural Heritage, Monte Carlo Methods and Models, Radiation in Environmental Sciences, Detection of Threat Material and Contraband, Radiation Protection, Shielding and Dosimetry, Radiation Effects on Materials, Radiation Detection and Measurements, and other topics.
During IRMMA-11, in addition to the dedicated session(s) scheduled in the conference programme, a satellite workshop of the IIFP is organized. The International Initiative on X-ray Fundamental Parameters (IIFP) was created as an expression of common interest in the improvement of X-ray FPs (i.e. data related to the interactions of X-rays with matter) in a joint effort of national metrology institutes, academic laboratories and industrial companies. The main motivation of the IIFP is to overcome the uneven quality and incompleteness of current X-ray FPs, which constitute a serious limitation for further progress of X-ray technologies applied in many fields such as basic physics, nanomaterials, biomedical and environmental sciences. In the past, FPs such as ionization and scattering cross sections, fluorescence yields, transition probabilities have been discussed and relevant experimental techniques and theoretical calculations have been implemented for their determination. Under the auspices of the European X-ray Spectrometry Association (EXSA), the IIFP holds annual or bi-annual workshops where experts discuss the results of recent studies, and suggest future coworks. New attendees are more than welcome.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Oral and poster contributions are welcome on subjects within the scope of the conference. Authors are requested to submit abstracts, no later than 15 June 2023, according to the instructions below.
Authors will be informed of the acceptance of their contribution and its presentation (oral or poster) before 30 June 2023.
Abstracts of all accepted contributions will be published in the Book of Abstracts that will be distributed to all participants during registration.
Only abstracts of registered participants will be included in the book of abstracts.
Instructions for Abstracts
Go to the web address for the abstract submission at the URL:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=irrma11
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List of Topics
Diagnostic techniques:
- Non-destructive measurements with nuclear radiation
- Material characterization with nuclear radiation measurements.
- X-ray inspection techniques.
- Characterization of geophysical properties with nuclear devices.
- Prompt gamma-ray applications to measure elemental composition
- Detection of explosives and contraband with prompt gamma-ray and x-ray methods.
- Microscopic x-ray analysis.
- Tomography of industrial samples like airplane propellers and bulk molten steel.
- Radiation and phase colloids
Nuclear safeguards:
- Uranium and plutonium passive and active measurement methods.
- Nuclear well logging: use of nuclear devices for in-situ measurements of borehole parameters.
- Medical Applications:
- Medical and engineering imaging methods and applications: PET, SPECT, CT methods, and phase contrast radiography and tomography.
- Nuclear applications in medicine: neutron capture therapy (thermal and epithermal neutron methods, BNCT), neutron brachytherapy and clinical applications of Californium-252 sources.
- Lead and heavy element trace measurements by XRF and other nuclear methods.
- Industrial Applications:
- Emission tomography: two-phase flow and other flow applications.
- Synchrotron radiation and other polarized sources.
- Radiotracing applications in industrial processes.
- Sheet thickness gauging.
Sources and detectors:
- Neutron source production and applications.
- Radiation and radioisotope production with reactors and accelerators.
- Plasma sources production and applications.
- New detector technologies.
Modelling:
- Monte Carlo and other modelling methods of radiation transport, applications to design and measurement interference reduction.
- Atomic and nuclear data evaluations.
- Modelling of fundamental interactions.
- Radiation Applications in Art and Archaeometry.
- X-ray fluorescence
- X- and gamma-ray tomography
- Thermography and infrared diagnostics
- Radiation Applications to the Environment.
- Pollution in air, water and soils using traditional and total reflection x-ray fluorescence
- Atmospheric aerosols and other LIDAR applications
- Climate modelling with nuclear techniques.
- Dosimetry and radiation protection.
- Emerging nuclear technologies: new developments.
Fundamental Parameters Initiative
- Theoretical calculations of fundamental parameters (FP)
- Recent measurements of atomic fundamental parameters
- New data evaluations and databases
- Methodological developments to reduce FP uncertainties
- Validation strategies – experiments and theory
Committees
Technical Program Committee
- David Bradley, University of Surrey, UK, Sunway University, Malaysia (Chair)
- Mohammed Alkhorayef, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
- Burkhard Beckhoff, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany
- Federico Boscherini, DIFA, University of Bologna, Italy
- Christopher Chantler, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Dudley Creagh, University of Canberra, Australia
- William Dunn, Kansas State University, USA
- Jorge E. Fernandez, University of Bologna, Italy
- Richard Hugtenburg, University of Swansea, UK
- Koen Janssens, University of Antwerp, Belgium
- Marie-Christine Lepy, Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel, France
- Walter McNeil, Kansas State University, USA
- Ladislav Musilek, Technical University of Prague, Czech Republic
- Francesc Salvat, University of Barcelona, Spain
- Avneet Sood, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
- Francesco Taccetti, INFN-Florence and CHNet, Italy
- James Tickner, Chrysos Corp, Australia
- Hector R. Vega Carrillo, Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas, Mexico
Organizing committee
- Jorge E. Fernandez, DIN, University of Bologna and INFN
- Stefania Bruni, ENEA-Bologna
- Giorgio Cucchi, ANPEQ
- Alessandro Gessi, ENEA-Bologna
- Gian Marco Grippo, ENEA-Bologna
- Lorenzo Isolan, DIN, University of Bologna
- Maria Pia Morigi, DIFA, University of Bologna and INFN
- Domiziano Mostacci, DIN, University of Bologna
- Marco Sumini, DIN, University of Bologna
- Francesco Teodori, DIN, University of Bologna
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to irrma11@unibo.it