Asian Forum for Accelerators and Detectors (AFAD-2012)

Asian Forum for Accelerators and Detectors Workshop (AFAD-2012) and Asian Committee for Future Accelerators (ACFA) Meeting will be hosted by Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata, from February 6 to February 8, 2012. The AFAD workshop will be held on February 6th & 7th,  followed by the 19th ACFA Meeting on February 8, 2012.

AFAD is  the new name for the Joint Asian Accelerator Work Shop (JAAWS).  The first JAAWS  was held during December 22-23, 2009 at IHEP, Beijing, China and 2nd JAAWS was held during Nov 29-30, 2010 at Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL), Pohang, Korea.

There will be six categories in the workshop as follows:

* Accelerator and its related technologies for photon science
   Conveners:
              S.K. Deb ([email protected])
              Junji Urakawa ([email protected])

* Accelerator and its related technologies for hadron (neutron) science
  Conveners:
              Pitambar Singh ([email protected])
              Hirohiko Shimizu / Suguru Muto ([email protected] / [email protected] )   

* Detector Technology Development
  Conveners:
              S. Chattopadhyay ([email protected])
              Dr. Shoji Uno ([email protected])

* Accelerator and its related technologies for Industrial & Medical Applications 
  Conveners:
               D. Kanjilal ([email protected])
               Ken Takayama ([email protected]) 

* R&D for innovative accelerators
  Conveners:
               P.A. Naik ([email protected])
               Mitsuhiro Yoshida ([email protected])

* Network & Computing
  Conveners:
               Debranjan Sarkar ([email protected])
               Mitsuaki Nozaki([email protected])

Participation is by Invitation Only
              &
Registration is Compulsory  (No Registration fee)

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Saltlake, Kolkata 700064
West Bengal, India