Join us on April 16-18, 2018 to hear Brian Meincke, ASTM at CIRMS 2018

Register now for CIRMS 2018 April 16-18, 2018

Join us on April 16-18, 2018 to hear Brian Meincke, Assistant Vice President, Business Development, American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), talk about Standards and Innovation at the upcoming 2018 Annual Meeting of CIRMS.  Join our Twitter chat #CIRMS2018 Please register now, before the deadline of April 9th 2018, to attend the 26th Annual Meeting of the Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements and Standards (CIRMS) to be held April 16-18, 2018 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland.  This year’s topic is RADIATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FUTURE. This is a great opportunity to participate in fruitful and stimulating discussions and listen to more than 50 outstanding speakers on a diverse number of topics in ionizing radiation and identify needs for Measurement Standards. Topics include the fields of medical physics, radiation protection, advances in detector instrumentation, radiation processing, materials modification, space applications, microdosimetry, imaging, radiation biology, radiation therapy and diagnostics, emergency response to nuclear events and more.  The meeting is composed of morning plenary presentations and afternoon parallel working group sessions. In addition, novel cutting edge technologies in ionizing radiation will be discussed in various fields. For example, come and hear about: DARPA’s Electrical (Medical) Prescription program and its application to ionizing radiation, https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2015-10-05 The challenges & needs to be addressed in the Breakthrough Starshot Mission https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ixojIvymxM How Big Data and Machine Learning will help improve radiation treatments DNA Dosimetry ASTM Standards & Innovation The future of Radiation Processing and Sterilization And more …. Please see the agenda online. The full program with abstracts can be downloaded in PDF format at http://cirms.org/pdf/CIRMS_2018_Final_Program_web3.pdf For questions about registration or about the meeting please contact Renata Freindorf, the CIRMS administrative assistant. Her contact information is listed in the signature section below. We look forward to seeing you in April 2018 at CIRMS 2018! Renata FreindorfCIRMS Administrative AssistantCIRMSP.O. Box 262333 |Plano, TX |75026email: cirms@cirms.orgP 301.591.8776|F 972.883.7202http://www.cirms.org/index.html