ICFA Instrumentation Prizes Nomination 2022

Friday 21 Jan 2022, 23:58 → 23:59 Europe/Zurich

ICFA is pleased to announce the creation of the ICFA Instrumentation Awards. The Awards will be bestowed annually to recognise exceptional contributions to instrumentation that has advanced the field of particle physics.

ICFA, the International Committee for Future Accelerators, a Working Group of the C11 Commission of IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics) was created in 1976 to facilitate international collaboration in the construction and use of accelerators for high energy physics.

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The ICFA Instrumentation Early Career Award recognizes achievements in instrumentation made at  an early career stage by an individual, or group of up to three individuals,  that has the promise to, or has already made, an advance in the field of particle physics.  The early career stage is taken to be 15 years from the award of the  Ph.D. or other terminal degree, properly accounting for career interruptions. 

The PhD date is the date that the PhD was awarded, not the date that the thesis was defended. The time that has elapsed since the PhD was awarded is calculated from the year that the nomination call is made, not the year in which the deadline for nominations falls. Accordingly, as the call for nominations for the inaugural ICFA Early Career Award was made in 2021, nominees are eligible if the PhD was awarded in 2006 or later.  

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The ICFA Instrumentation Award recognizes achievements in instrumentation by an individual, or a group of up to three individuals, that has made an advance in the field of particle physics. This award recognizes either a technology development (examples from the past include the Multi-Wire Proportional Chamber or the Bubble chamber) or a multi-faceted contribution including a technology development and also one or more of the following: community organization, training, outreach or  technology transfer.
 

The particle physics community is diverse and global, so the nominees should reflect this.  The nomination of women and other underrepresented groups in the particle physics community is therefore strongly encouraged. 

Award ceremony

The 2022 Award recipients will be invited to give a lecture at the 15th Pisa meeting on Advanced Detectors in Isola d’Elba in May 2022. 

For the following  three editions of the awards, the lectures will be held at: 
-Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics (TIPP), Cape Town, South Africa 2023;
-16th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors in Isola d’Elba, 2024;
- Vienna Instrumentation Conference, 2025.

Review and selection process
The review committee for the 2022  awards will be drawn from a pool consisting of members of the ICFA Instrumentation Innovation and Development Panel and additional instrumentation experts. The composition of the committee will be announced soon.  Nominations will remain active for three years. It will be possible to update nominations in subsequent years in the period between the call for nominations and the deadline for nominations.   

For questions about the awards please contact ian.shipsey@cern.ch (Chair of the ICFA IID Panel).