FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research,( Dubna, Russia), European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) (Geneva, Switzerland) and the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ( Sofia, Bulgaria ) organize the XVIII JINR International Symposium on Nuclear Electronics and Computing.

The meeting and the accommodation will be held at the Hotel of the Bulgarian National Electric Company in St. Konstantine & Helene Black Sea resort village near the ancient Bulgarian town Varna.

MAIN TOPICS

• Detector & Nuclear Electronics;
• Computer Applications for Measurement and Control in Scientific Research;
• Triggering and Data Acquisition;
• Accelerator and Experiment Automation Control Systems;
• Information & Data Base Systems;
• Computer Networks for Scientific Research;
• Data & Storage Management;
• GRID computing.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

JINR (Dubna): Korenkov V.V. - co-chairman, Tikhonenko E.A. (scientific secretary), Churin I.N., Sinaev A.N., Prikhodko V.I., Ivanova S.P., Gorbunov N.V., Zhuravlev N.I., Smirnov V.A., Nikonov E.G., Novikova V.K.

CERN (Geneva): Hoffmann H.F. - co-chairman, Koulberg N., Piperov S.

INRNE (Sofia): Vankov I.D. - co-chairman, Karadjov D. - co-chairman, Dimitrov L.P., Anguelov A. (secretary), Gueorgiev G., Konstantinov P., Vankov P., Vachev B., Damgov I.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

J.Bobovski	CEENet, Bratislava
F.Carminati	CERN, Geneva
S.Citollin	CERN, Geneva
J.Gajewski	CEENet, Warsaw
J.Elias	FNAL, Chicago
H.Frese	DESY, Gamburg
W.Friebel	DESY, Zeuten
M.Goossens	CERN, Geneva
S.Ilyin	SINP MSU, Moscow
G.Mitselmakher	UF, Gainesville
J.Niwicki	Cyfronet, Krakow
M.Lokajicek	IP ASCR, Prague
A.Platonov	RBNET, Moscow
L.Robertson	CERN, Geneva
V.Shirikov	JINR, Dubna
I.Stamenov	INRNE, Sofia
A.Tomilin	MSU, Moscow
Ts.Vylov	JINR, Dubna
I.Willers	CERN, Geneva

Working languages: English and Russian

The presentations will include:
      + Invited review and topical lectures (45 minutes; 10-15 pages);
      + Selected contributed reports (15 minutes; 5 pages max);
      + Posters.

REGISTRATION AND SUBMITTING OF ABSTRACTS

Registration and submitting of abstracts can be made by Application Form (http://sunct2.jinr.ru/cgi-bin/Application_NEC-2001) or by e-mail to the Scientific Secretary of the Symposium E.Tikhonenko mailto:eat@sunct2.jinr.ru.

TIMETABLE

Deadline for registration - June 1, 2001

Deadline for submitting abstracts - June 1, 2001

Notification of acceptance - June 30, 2001

Submission of full papers - at the symposium

The book of abstracts is planned to be published by the beginning of the Symposium.

Proceedings of the Symposium are planned to be published after the meeting and distributed to the participants. Payment for a book of proceedings is included into the conference fee.

REGISTRATION FEE

The registration fee is 300 USD and includes conference fee, full-board accommodation at the rest home, local transportation, meals and refreshments during conference days. Payments should be made AT THE SYMPOSIUM DURING THE REGISTRATION by cash.

Further information on NEC'2001 will be available at http://wwwinfo.jinr.ru/NEC/NEC-2001/