ICFA Instrumentation Center in Morelia
First ICFA Instrumentation School/Workshop at the ICFA Instrumentation
Center in Morelia, Mexico
November 18-29, 2002
University of Michoacan
Morelia Michoacan, Mexico
This school/workshop will focus on the teaching of experimental techniques
for particle, nuclear, cosmic-ray, and medical physics by means of laboratory
sessions, lecture courses, and review talks. It is aimed primarily
at graduate students with some participation of young Post Docs and promising
undergraduate students.
Applications are invited from all parts of the world, especially from
institutions in Mexico and from other countries in Latin America.
poster (pdf)
Post event Information and
Photographs
Deadline for Applications: October 1, 2002
International Advisory Committee
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A.H. Walenta, University Of Siegen, Germany, Chairman
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M. Sheaff, University Of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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A. Cattai, CERN, Switzerland
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B. Dolgochein, Moscow Physical Engineering Institute, Russia
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P. Giubellino, INFN Torino, Italy,
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I. Goloutvine, JINR Dubna, Russia,
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A. Gurtu, Tata Institute Of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India,
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G. Herrera Corral, CINVESTAV, Mexico,
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T. Kondo, KEK, Japan,
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S. Kwan, FNAL, USA,
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W. Li, IHEP, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China,
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H. Okuno, INS, Japan,
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A. Savoy-Navarro, LPNHE, University Paris VI, France,
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V. Sidorov, Russian Academy Of Science, Novosibirsk, Russia
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J. Va´Vra, SLAC, USA
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A.P. Vorobiev, IHEP Moscow, Russia
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John Ellis, CERN
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Arnulfo Zepeda, CINVESTAV, Mexico
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Arturo Menchaca, UNAM, Mexico
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Jurgen Engelfried, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
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Humberto Salazar, BUAP, Mexico
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Luis Masperi, CLAF, Brasil
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Luis Villaseñor, UMSNH, Mexico
Local Organizing Committee
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Mary Cervantes, UMSNH, Mexico
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Umberto Cotti, UMSNH, Mexico
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Jaime Nieto, UMSNH, Mexico
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Victor Villanueva, UMSNH, Mexico
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Luis Villaseñor, UMSNH, Mexico, Chairman
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Arnulfo Zepeda, CINVESTAV, Mexico
The School/Workshop is Organized with the Support of
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Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH)
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International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA)
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Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP).
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Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (Cinvestav)
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Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Universidad Autónamoa de San Luis Potosí (UASLP)
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Universidad de Guanajuato (UG)
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University of Siegen, Germany
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Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares (ININ)
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Centro Latinoamericano de Física (CLAF), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
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Centro Latinoamericano de Física en Mexico (CLAFM).
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Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT)
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Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de Michoacan (CIDEM)
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DESY, Germany
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CERN, Switzerland
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INFN, Italy
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FERMILAB, USA
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Berkeley Lab, USA
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Department of Energy (DOE), USA
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National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
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Mexican Physical Society (SMF)
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Division of Particles and Fields of the Mexican Physical Society (DPyC-SMF)
Activities
The School/Workshop will have a duration of 2 weeks (about 75 h: working
7 h/day for 11 days minus 2h for inauguration). Its a format will be similar
to that of the ICFA Schools on Instrumentation with about 7 to 10 Laboratory
Sessions including a practical session on Data Analysis (root) each of
7 h in average for a total of about 56 h.
Besides the laboratory sessions which are the main courses of the School/Workshop,
there will be about four Lecture courses (12 h if each lectures takes 3
h) and about 8 Review Talks (8 h) for a total of about 20 h. The number
of students will be about 40 from Mexico, Cuba, and other countries from
Latin America with the possibility of including some U. S. students as
well.
Each laboratory session will serve about 5-6 students at a time so that
each laboratory will be active for about 35 h.
The students will have some option of selecting the laboratory sessions
of their interest. In average each laboratory sessions will last two morning
or afternoon sessions on two consecutive days.
List of speakers
Laboratory Sessions
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Interfaces and Data Acquisition (LabView), Simon Kwan (FNAL), Marleigh
Sheaff (Madison, USA), Aurora Vargas (BUAP, MEXICO), Sergio Vergara (BUAP,
MEXICO), Marvin Johnson (FNAL, USA)
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Muon, Pion and Kaon Lifetime Measurements, L. Villaseñor
(UMSNH, MEXICO)
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Drift Chambers, A. Walenta (Siegen, Germany), Tuba Conka Nurdan
(Siegen, Germany)
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Silicon Detectors, Paolo Giubellino (CERN, Torino), Shaun Roe (CERN),
Alick Macpherson (CERN), Alan Rudge (CERN), Behcet Alpat (INFN, Perugia)
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PMT Arrays for Fluorescence Detector Cameras and PMT Characterization,
Humberto Salazar (BUAP, MEXICO)
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Multiwire Proportional Chambers, Arturo Menchaca (UNAM, MEXICO)
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Data Analysis (Root), Umberto Cotti (UMSNH, MEXICO)
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Radiation Detectors of PIN Type for X Rays, Francisco Javier Ramírez
(ININ, MEXICO)
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Applications of Sensitive Films to Medical Imaging, María
Ester Brandan (UNAM, MEXICO)
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Mathematical Analysis of Bio-Electrical Signals, Guadalupe Ruiz
(UMSNH, MEXICO)
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Silicon Detectors Applied to Medical Imaging, Luis Manuel Montaño
(CINVESTAV, MEXICO)
Lecture Courses and Review Talks
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Jurgen Engelfried (SLP, Mexico), Particle Identification I
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Eugenio Nappi (CERN), Particle Identification II
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Arnulfo Zepeda (CINVESTAV, Mexico), Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
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Gerardo Herrera Corral (CINVESTAV, Mexico), Physics with ALICE at the
Large Hadron Collider
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Albert Walenta (Siegen, Germany), New Ideas in Radiation Detectors
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Marleigh Sheaff (Madison, USA), Heavy Quark Physics, potential of BTeV
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Paolo Giubellino (CERN, Torino), Silicon Detectors
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Carl Haber (Berkeley Lab), Tracking Detectors
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Helmuth Spieler (Berkeley Lab), Signal processing, front-end electronics
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Joel N. Butler (FNAL), Triggering and Data Acquisition
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Harrison B. Prosper (Florida State University), Confidence Levels and
Upper Limits
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Richard Wigmans (Texas Tech), Calorimetry
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Modesto Sosa (IFUG, Mexico), Application of Detectors of Magnetic Fields
in Medical Physics
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Aurora Aldana (Hospital Angeles del Pedregal, Mexico), Radiotherapy
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Brenda Dingus (Madison, USA), Gamma-Ray Astronomy: Probing Nature's
Particle Accelerators
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Guy Paic (CERN), Technology-HEP connection, Heavy Ion Physics at Alice
Round Tables
There will be one or two Round Tables on "Instrumentation in Mexico, Central
America and the Caribbean" with the following participants:
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Jurgen Engelfried (Mexico)
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Antonio Morelos (Mexico)
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Arturo Menchaca (Mexico)
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Gerardo Herrera Corral (Mexico)
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Marleigh Sheaff (USA)
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Paolo Giubellino (Italy)
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Luis Villasenor (Mexico)
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Humberto Salazar (Mexico)
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Arnulfo Zepeda (Mexico)
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Arturo Fernández (Mexico)
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Modesto Sosa (Mexico)
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Luis Manuel Montaño (Mexico)
Program for Lecture Courses, Review Talks, Lab Sessions and Round Tables
Coffee breaks from 11:00-11:30 and 16:00-16:30
Registration, Inauguration and Talks will be at the Auditorio of
Instituto de Historicas (Auditorium of the History Institute) located
inside the main campus of the University of Michoacan located south of
downtown 10 min by taxi (see map below).
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9:00-10:00
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10:00-11:00
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11:30-12:30
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12:30-14:00
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14:00-15:00
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15:00-16:00
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16:30-17:30
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Monday 18th
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Registration
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Inauguration
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Zepeda
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lunch
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Giubellino
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Nappi 1
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Round
Table 1
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Tuesday 19th
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Spieler 1
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Haber 1
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Butler 1
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lunch
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Laboratory
Session
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Laboratory
Session
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Laboratory
Session
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Wednesday 20th
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Spieler 2
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Haber 2
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Butler 2
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lunch
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Laboratory
Session
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Laboratory
Session
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Laboratory
Session
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Thursday 21st
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Spieler 3
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Prosper 1
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Nappi 2
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lunch
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Laboratory
Session
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Laboratory
Session
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Laboratory
Session
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Friday 22nd
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Spieler 4
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Prosper 2
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Wigmans 1
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lunch
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Laboratory
Session
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Laboratory
Session
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Laboratory
Session
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Saturday 23rd
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Dingus
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Herrera-
Corral
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Wigmans 2
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lunch
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Free
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Free
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Free
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Sunday 24th
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Free
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Free
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Free
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Free
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Free
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Free
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Free
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Monday 25th
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Engelfried 1
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Paic 1
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Wigmans 3
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lunch
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Laboratory
Session
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Laboratory
Session
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Laboratory
Session
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Tuesday 26th
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Engelfried 2
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Paic 2
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Wigmans 4
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lunch
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Laboratory
Session
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Laboratory
Session
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Laboratory
Session
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Wednesday 27th
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Walenta
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Sosa
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Aldana
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lunch
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Laboratory
Session
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laboratory
session
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Laboratory
Session
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Thursday 28th
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Sheaff
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Round
Table 2
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Round
Table 2 (cont)
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lunch
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Laboratory
Session
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Laboratory
Session
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Laboratory
Session
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Friday 29th
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Discussions with
students and closing session.
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Discussions with
students and closing session.
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Discussions with
students and closing session.
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LOCATION
Main campus of Ciudad Universitaria
Inauguration, talks, round tables and poster sessions will take place
al the auditorium of Instituto de Historicas.
The laboratory sessions will take place in four places as shown in
the map.
Travel Information
Morelia has its own international airport with direct flights
to Mexico City but also to some cities in the US like Chicago and
Los Angeles.
If you arrive to the international airport of Mexico City, you take
a taxi to the Observatory Bus Station and from there you can take a bus.
The best bus line is ETN, they
run buses to Morelia every hour, the travel time is 4 h. The second
best bus line is Autovias.
If you arrive to the international airport of Guadalajara, you take
a taxi to the Bus Station and from there you can take an ETN
bus to Morelia every 3-4 hours, the travel time is around 3:30 h.
Morelia
Morelia was
selected as the site for the ICFA Instrumentation Center due to its location
at the center of gravity of the institutions in Mexico who carry activities
in particle, nuclear, cosmic-ray and medical physics. About 1 million and
one of Mexico's colonial gems (UNESCO World Heritage Site), it is located
200 mi west of Mexico City. Aside from its historical attractions, see
map of historic center, Morelia is also the educational, cultural and
political center of the state. The
University
of Michoacan is the largest of the state (45 000 students) and
descends directly form the fist School of Latin America (Colegio de San
Nicolás Obispo, 1540). The University of Michoacan has both undergraduate
and graduate programs in Physics.
The Instrumentation Center in Morelia
Created recently with the support of the ICFA
Instrumentation, Innovation and Development Panel, the University
of Michoacan and a number of other Institutions from Mexico. Its objectives
are the following:
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Provide short courses on instrumentation techniques for particle, nuclear,
cosmic-ray and medical physics for students from the various institutions
of Mexico and the region.
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Establish a well equipped laboratory that can be visited by students (both
undergraduate and graduate) from Mexico and the region to obtain specific
training on the use of detectors, instruments, and/or experimental techniques
related to their specific research projects leading to their Bachelor´s,
Master´s or Ph. D. theses. Out of the community in Mexico, there
are several people involved actively on various international projects
which require state-of-the-art detectors and techniques (at present there
are experimental groups from Mexico working at FNAL, CERN, DESY, and the
Pierre Auger Observatory among other international laboratories).
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The objectives may grow with time to include construction of detectors
and/or instruments for specific uses in basic or applied research in one
or several of the areas of interest. This will require, however, stronger
financial and human commitment from the participating institutions.
Language
The activities will be carried out Spanish (when possible and convenient)
and English.
Proceedings
All write-ups for laboratory sessions, lecture courses and review talks
will be published as proceedings of the school/workshop and a printed
copy will be mailed to all the participants early in 2003. They will
also be posted in the WEB page of the School/Workshop.
Speakers are
requested to bring copies of their manuscripts with them to distribute
to all the students from the very beginning of the school/workshop; they
must be in English language. The deadline for submission of the
camera-ready manuscripts for publication of the proceedings is November
29, 2002, however, if you have it ready in advance please e-mail it
to villasen@ifm.umich.mx.
The manuscript should be prepared using LaTeX or MS-WORD according
to the AIP style
for 6x9 inch format. Please download the necesary files and
information from the AIP website
http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/authors.jsp.
Cost and Funding
Since funds are limited for this activity, preference will be given
to student participants whose travel and subsistence expenses will be paid
by their home institutions or through research funds from their advisor
professors. There will be a registration fee of 100 USD to cover organizational
expenses. Participants who can obtain partial support elsewhere for their
attendance will also be given preference. Financial support will be offered
only to participants who attend the entire activity and preference will
be given to those who are actively pursuing research in related fields.
As the funds available will allow support to only a limited number of participants,
applicants should make every effort to secure financial support from funding
agencies within their home countries.
Deadline for Applications
The participation in the School/Workshop is by invitation
only. Potential participants are required to send the application form
(see below) before October 1, 2002. The International and Local
Organizing Committees will notify the result of the selection to all applicants
by October 18, 2002.
Registration Form
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First ICFA Instrumentation School/Workshop at the ICFA Instrumentation
Center in Morelia, Mexico
Family Name:
First Name:
Email:
Nationality:
Sex and Age:
Present Position (Post Doc, Graduate, Undergraduate):
Institution:
Postal Address:
Telephone Number:
Fax Number:
Please specify the kind of support requested to the organizing
committee (Transportation, Lodging and/or Meals):
Please name a person whom the organizing committee might contact
for references:
Please describe your background and interests in instrumentation:
You may add any other piece of information that may be useful
in the selection process.
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Please fill in the form and send by e-mail to the School/Workshop Secretary:
Mary Cervantes
mary@ifm.umich.mx
Additional Information
Please contact Mary Cervantes
mary@ifm.umich.mx
Information about Hotels
Please make your reservation as early as possible to secure
a room.
Contact Mary Cervantes for help, specially for group
accommodation of students.
List
of Hotels please note that Mexico Country code is 52 and Morelia Area
code is 443; i.e., for Hotel Alameda Tel. 3-12-20-23, in Mexico
you dial 01 443 3122023, outside Mexico you dial +52 443 3122023.
Hotels with special rates for the School/Workshop.
Please consult Mexico on Line
for WEB pages of hotels, restaurants and general information about Morelia.
Just type Morelia in the search space.
This
page: www.ifm.umich.mx/school/
Last update: September 10,
2002