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A year in orbit: ISS deployment tests radiation detectors for future space missions
The predawn darkness on a cool Florida night was shattered by the ignition of nine Merlin engines on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The thrust of the engines shook the ground miles away. From a distance, the rocket appeared to slowly rise above the horizon. For the cargo onboard, the launch was anything but gentle, as the ignition of liquid oxygen generated more than 1.5 million pounds of force. After the rocket had been out of sight for several minutes, the booster dramatically returned to Earth with several sonic booms in a captivating show of engineering designed to make space travel less expensive and more sustainable.
November 30–December 4, 2021
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
AccApp'21 is the fourteenth international topical meeting on the applications of accelerators; it is being organized by the Accelerator Applications Division (AAD) of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). AccApp’21 is co-sponsored by Texas A&M University, the National Nuclear Security Administration and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
AccApp'21 will be held as an embedded topic meeting at 2021 ANS Winter meeting, November 30–December 4, 2021, Washington, DC.
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Thanks to the generous US DOE NNSA support, we have a number of travel grants for undergraduate and graduate students. Preference will be given to whose who are presenting. To apply please submit your abstract and then send an email containing your name, affiliation (university), abstract number, and abstract title to Dr. Valeriia Starovoitova.
The fourteenth international topical meeting on the applications of accelerators (AccApp'20) was originally planned to be held at the IAEA Headquarters in Vienna, Austria, April 5-9, 2020. The meeting was postponed because of COVID-19.
The AccApp'20 was organized by Dr. Philip Cole (General Chair, Lamar University), Dr. Aliz Simon (General Co-Chair, IAEA), and Dr. Valeriia Starovoitova (Co-Chair, and Technical Program Chair, IAEA), together with 22 topic organizers.
AccApp'20 received total 320 abstracts from 58 countries. AccApp'20 was sponsored by seven industry companies, as well as IAEA and US DOE-NNSA.