ICFA is pleased to announce the call for the 2023 ICFA Instrumentation Awards. These Awards are 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.
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 ICFA Early Career Award is made in 2022, nominees are eligible if the PhD was awarded in 2007 or later.
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 2023 Award recipients will be invited to give a lecture at Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics (TIPP), 4-8 September, 2023, Cape Town, South Africa. For the following two editions of the awards, the lectures will be held at:
- 16th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors in Isola d’Elba, 2024;
- Vienna Instrumentation Conference, 2025.
Review and selection process The review committee for the 2023 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. A nominator may view their nomination made in a previous year at the sidebar option "Edition 2022”. If a nominator wishes to update a previous nomination this requires the entire nomination be submitted to the 2023 cycle.
For questions about the awards please contact ian.shipsey@cern.ch (Chair of the ICFA IID Panel).
