MPGD Applications Beyond Fundamental Science Workshop

from Thursday, September 15, 2016 (8:00 AM) to Friday, September 16, 2016 (1:00 PM)
Other Institutes

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Sep 15, 2016
Sep 16, 2016
AM
9:00 AM
Opening session (until 9:20 AM)
9:20 AM
Workshop I (until 10:50 AM)
9:20 AM First results of a combined fast-neutron & gamma-ray LXe imaging detector with gaseous photomultiplier readout - Artur Cardoso Coimbra (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))  
9:40 AM CERN developments of optical readout for MPGDs - Filippo Resnati (CERN)  
10:10 AM Optically Read Out Planispherical GEM Detector for Minimizing Parallax Error - Fabio Sauli (TERA Foundation (IT))  
10:30 AM MPGD-based muon telescopes for archeology: the ScanPyramids project - Sebastien Procureur (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
10:50 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:20 AM
Workshop II (until 1:00 PM)
11:20 AM MPGDs face2face with art and industry: EDXRF imaging systems - Ana Luisa Silva (University of Aveiro)  
11:40 AM GEMPix-based system for the determination of Fe-55 in radioactive waste - Fabrizio Murtas (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (IT))  
12:00 PM A robust large area x-ray imaging system based on 100 µm thick Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) - Xavier Carvalho (LIBPhys-Coimbra, University of Coimbra, Portugal)  
12:20 PM (WITHDRAW) Tomographic 2-D X-ray imaging of toroidal fusion plasma using a tangential pinhole camera with gas electron multiplier detector - Danilo Pacella  
9:00 AM
Workshop V (until 10:30 AM)
10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Workshop VI (until 12:30 PM)
PM
1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:30 PM
Workshop III (until 4:00 PM)
2:30 PM X-ray detection in medical imaging - Keynote - Steffen Kapler (Siemens)  
3:20 PM Energy Resolving X-ray Imaging Systems using MPGDs - Lara Filipa Das Neves Dias Carramate (University of Aveiro (PT))  
3:40 PM Towards the application of patterned RPCs to very high resolution RPC-PET for small animals - Paulo Fonte  
4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:30 PM
Workshop IV (until 6:00 PM)
4:30 PM The Innovation Path: From Science to Market - Keynote - Gonçalo Amorim (ISCTE)  
5:20 PM Applications of MPGD detectors for hadron therapy and investigation of their potential use for environmental gamma rays monitoring. - Palma Rita Altieri (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))  
5:40 PM The GEMPix detector for energy deposition measurements in Hadrontherapy - Fabrizio Murtas (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (IT))  
6:30 PM --- Boat trip in Ria de Aveiro in "Moliceiro" boat ---
12:30 PM
Closing Session (until 1:00 PM)