Coimbra welcomes the DRD1 Collaboration

The 8th edition of the DRD1 Collaboration Meeting will take place in Coimbra, bringing together researchers from around the world working on the development of gas radiation detectors. Hosted in one of Portugal’s most historic academic cities, the meeting will provide an opportunity for collaboration, discussion, and exchange of ideas among experts advancing detector technologies and instrumentation for particle physics and related fields.

This Collaboration Meeting will be hosted by Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (LIP) and Physics Department of the University of Coimbra from the 29^th June to 03^rd July 2026.

The main topics addressed will be:

• Detector technologies (MPGD, RPC, Wire-based, etc.)

• Detector physics

• Detector performance

• Simulation and software

• Electronics

• New materials and Production techniques

• Applications and Future perspectives

• Industrialization

Important dates:

• 23 March: start of registration and young researchers grant application. 

• 30 April: deadline for young researchers grant application

• 17 May: 

  • annoucement of the young research grant recipients

  • end of registration for the DRD1 Collaboration meeting

• 29 May: deadline for payment of early-registration fee for on-site participation. 

• 10 June: end of registration and payment of late-registration fee for on-site participation. 

Registration fees

The registration fees include all lunches and coffee-breaks through the week, the gala dinner, the social activity and the scientific activity, as well as a welcome pack and the participation in the welcome drink

• Early-registration fee: 250 EUR (until 17 May)

• Late-registration fee: 350 EUR (from 18 May up to 10 June)

Accompanying person fees

• 60 EUR (only gala dinner) 

• 25 EUR (only social activity) 

• 85 EUR (gala dinner + social activity)

• 190 EUR (gala dinner + social activity + welcome drink + lunches)

Local Organising Committee

• Filipa Borges (LIP Coimbra / Univ. Coimbra) - Chair

• Alexandre Trindade (LIP Coimbra) - Vice-Chair

• Afonso Marques (LIP Coimbra / Univ. Coimbra)

• Filomena Santos (LIP Coimbra / Univ. Coimbra)

• Alberto Blanco (Director of LIP Coimbra)

• Vitaly Tchepel (LIP Coimbra / Univ. Coimbra)

• Luís Margato (LIP Coimbra / Univ. Coimbra)

Honorary members

• João Carvalho (Director of the Physics Department at Univ. Coimbra)

Organisers: LIP Coimbra / University of Coimbra

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