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International Committee for Future AcceleratorsICFA, the International Committee for Future Accelerators, was created to facilitate international collaboration in the construction and use of accelerators for high energy physics. It was created in 1976 by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. Its purposes, as stated in 1985, are as follows:
The Committee has sixteen members, selected primarily from the regions most deeply involved in high energy physics. |
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ICFA Instrumentation School at the ICFA Instrumentation
Center
The activities of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA ) are carried on among other means by the creation of specific panels, one of which, the ICFA Instrumentation Panel, concentrates on instrumentation issues:
Recently another activity has been added as a further development of the Instrumentation School concept. In two strategic important locations permanent Instrumentation Centers are established, one in Morelia, Mexico, the other one in Istanbul, Turkey. The second of a more "regional" oriented ICFA Instrumentation Schools will be held from August 31, to September 11, 2005 in this ICFA Instrumentation Center in Istanbul, and Feza Gürsey Institute, hosted by the Istanbul Technical University (ITU), and TÜBİTAK. It is organized by the Instrumentation Panel of ICFA and the local organization committee and will be supported by the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK). Support for foreign students and lecturers is acknowledged below. |
Scientific goals
The school is devoted to the physics and technologies of instrumentation in elementary particle physics. The main characteristic of these devices lies in the fact of the generation and processing of image-like information from radiation detectors on a quantum-by-quantum basis. Spin-offs as the nuclear medicine and more recently the WWW, the Monte Carlo Method or the super-conducting technology are well known examples of the impact of this basic research field. Application of such techniques to medicine, microbiology and nuclear sciences, as well as to the research and development for non-destructive testing in industry is a continuously growing field. Besides this impressive achievement, the brightest future is expected in the field of synchrotron radiation research; probably the most fruitful spin-off from particle physics. Here as well, the imaging quantum detectors are most promising tools. It is important to note that the instrumentation usually is developed in university laboratories with relatively low investment costs. The cooperative character with other institutes, in particular with the large international research centers or industry allows, however, the access to the latest technology. |
Instruction subjects and methods
Topics covered in lectures are: physics of particle detection, gaseous detectors, particle identification, calorimetry, silicon detectors, signal processing and data acquisition. In addition, several review talks are devoted to new technologies as well as to application in medical physics, molecular biology, astrophysics and data acquisition. In laboratory courses, students work in small groups to exercise selected experimental techniques: multiwire proportional chambers, drift chambers, silicon detectors, microstrip gas chambers, scintillating fibers, analog and digital circuits and data acquisition. Applications comprise medical imaging, cosmic rays, protein crystallography. Poster sessions will give the participants an opportunity to display their own research work and stimulate discussion between them and with the instructors. |
International aspects
The larger fraction of the students is supposed to come from Turkey but also from developing countries in the Eurasien area, where some higher education, often more in theoretical physics, is provided, but where technological infrastructure and courses of experimental physics, of the kind represented by the school, is not available. The basic idea behind organizing the ICFA instrumentation schools locally in a specific region (like Latin America, Eastern Europe, India) is to stimulate the development of experimental particle physics in that region. Up to now 7 schools have been held in the following sites: 1987, 1989, 1991
ICTP, Trieste, Italy; 1990 Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil; 1993 Bombay, India; |
Spouses ProgramThere will be a spouses program offered. Contact person: Nurten Öncan, e-mail: nurtenoncan@hotmail.com, oncan@istanbul.edu.tr |
General Information
Accommodation and Meals Accommodation is being arranged in dormitories and hotels. In the dormitories single and double occupancy rooms will be available. Hotel information will be provided in a second circular. For students full services will be available at 40 $/day. Transport Detailed Information on transport will be given in the second circular. At the beginning and end of the school transportation will be organized to and from Istanbul International Airport. For lecturers arriving on other dates special arrangements can be made. Istanbul September usually at Istanbul is well tempered climate. The days are not too hot with cool evenings. The Strand can often be windy during this period. Addresses: WWW Information: http://www.fizik.itu.edu.tr/icfaschool2005 e-mail address: adviye@gursey.gov.tr ICFA Instrumentation Center Secretariat: Physics Department, Faculty of Sciences and Letters Istanbul Technical University, ITU 80626 Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey Tel: +90 216 308 9429/ +90 212 285 3203 Fax: +90 212 285 6386, +90 216 308 9427 e-mail: adviye@gursey.gov.tr |