The International Committee for Radionuclide Metrology is pleased to announce that its next conference will be held at the National Metrology Institute of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (NMIJ/AIST) in September 19-23, 2011.

The goal of ICRM 2011 is to provide an opportunity for the exchange of information on the development of techniques and new applications of radionuclide metrology, and to encourage international co-operation in this field. This biennial conference was recently held in September 2009 in Bratislava, Slovak Republic. The conference will include oral and poster presentations and business meetings of the ICRM Working Groups.

• Aspects of international metrology
• Intercomparisons
• Measurement standards and reference materials
• Radionuclide metrology techniques
• Alpha-particle and beta-particle spectrometry
• Gamma-ray spectrometry
• Liquid scintillation counting techniques
• Nuclear decay data
• Low level measurement techniques
• Life sciences
• Source preparation techniques
• Quality asurance and uncertainty evaluation in radioactivity measurements

Additional activities during the conference will be the meeting of the ICRM Executive Board, the General Meeting of ICRM members, a visit to the laboratory facilities of the NMIJ/AIST and social events.

http://www.icrm2011.jp

The official language of the conference is English.
All abstracts and presentations must be in English.

All those interested in participating in the conference are asked to return the Pre-Registration Form, duly completed as soon as possible to the Conference Secretariat (preferably by e-mail:), but not later than the end of September, 2010.

Contributed papers on the topics listed above are welcome. Authors wishing to submit a paper should send an Abstract to the Scientific Secretariat by February 28, 2011.

The abstracts should be sufficiently detailed and informative to allow the Scientific Committee to judge the scientific merit of the papers and their suitability for the conference programme. An abstract submission form will be available soon at the conference web page.

Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors until April 18, 2011. Authors are requested to submit the final text of accepted papers to the Scientific Secretariat by July 31, 2011. Authors should anticipate discussing their papers with the Scientific Committee during the conference, and making editorial and/or technical modifications resulting from those discussions, and send it to the Scientific Secretariat by November 11, 2011.

Conference proceedings are planned to be published in the journal APPLIED RADIATION AND ISOTOPES Manuscripts in English must comply with guidelines which will be sent to the authors together with the information on acceptance of the paper.

Acceptance of a paper for presentation at the conference does not automatically imply that it will be published in the proceedings. Publication of the manuscripts is subject to the result of a refereeing procedure.

• Dirk Arnold, PTB, Germany
• Marie-Martine Bé, LNE-LNHB, France
• Philippe Casette, LNE-LNHB, France
• Jeffrey Cessna, NIST, USA
• Pierino De Felice, ENEA, Italy
• Eduardo Garcia-Torã, CIEMAT, Spain
• Arvic Harms, NPL, UK
• Yoshio Hino, NMIJ/AIST, Japan
• Mikael Hult, EC-JRC-IRMM, EU
• Simon Jerome, NPL, UK
• Lisa Karam, NIST, USA
• John Keightley, NPL, UK
• Matjaz Korun, JSI, Slovenia
• Marie-Christine LAcpy, LNE-LNHB, France
• Franz Josef Maringer, BEV, Austria
• Stefaan PommAc, EC-JRC-IRMM, EU
• Guy Ratel, BIPM, International
• Bruce Simpson, NMISA, South Africa
• Mike Unterweger, NIST, USA
• Uwe Wätjen, EC-JRC-IRMM, EU
• Mike Woods, IRMC, UK
• Brian Zimmerman, NIST, USA

Akira Yunoki

National Metrology Institute of Japan
Central2, 1-1-1 Umezono Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan
Phone: +81 29 861 3470
Fax: +81 29 861 5673
e-mail:

Yoshio Hino

National Metrology Institute of Japan Central2, 1-1-1
Umezono Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan
Phone: +81 29 861 5667
Fax: +81 29 861 5673
e-mail: