ANIMMA 2025

Jun 9, 2025, 8:00 AM → Jun 13, 2025, 6:30 PM Europe/Madrid

Hotel Meliá Valencia, Valencia, Spain

ANIMMA community is in full sympathy with the people of Valencia and the surrounding areas for the tragic floods. Our thoughts and sincere condolences go out to all those who have been affected by these terrible events.

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The 9th International Conference on
Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation Measurement Methods and their Applications

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The ninth of a series of conferences devoted to endorsing and promoting scientific and technical activities based on nuclear instrumentation and measurements.

 

ANIMMA 2025 Book Of Abstracts ANIMMA2025_Book_of_Abstracts_all.pdf

ANIMMA 2025 Conference Booklet ANIMMA 2025 Booklet_online.pdf

ANIMMA 2025 Conference Flyer ANNIMMA-2025-Flyer_VF2_compressed.pdf

ANIMMA 2025 Conference Poster ANIMMA 2025 Poster_Final_V_May2024.pdf

ANIMMA 2025 Detailed Program ANIMMA 2025_Detailed_Program_with_Chairs_June2025_FV45.pdf

ANIMMA 2025 Proceedings Template ANIMMA2025_proceedings_template.docx

IEEE TNS template IEEE_TNS_Word_Latex_July29.2024.zip

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Mon, June 9

5:30 PM → 7:00 PM Issuing conference badges

7:00 PM → 9:00 PM Welcome cocktail

Tue, June 10

8:00 AM → 9:20 AM Issuing conference badges

9:20 AM → 11:00 AM Opening Session

Conveners: Abdallah Lyoussi (CEA Cadarache), Rastislav Hodak (IEAP CTU in Prague), Gabriela Llosá (IFIC (CSIC-UV))

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9:20 AM ANIMMA 2025 Opening Ceremony

Speaker: Abdallah Lyoussi (CEA Cadarache)

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11:00 AM → 11:20 AM Group Photo and Coffee break

11:20 AM → 12:35 PM Keynote lectures

Conveners: Gabriela Llosá (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC- CSIC/U. Valencia)), Stanislav Pospisil (IEAP CTU in Prague), Michel Carette (Aix-Marseille University)

11:20 AM Sustainability in Scientific Infrastructures

Large scientific infrastructures must integrate sustainability into their strategies, therefore including detailed plans to reduce their environmental impact.

Reducing the environmental impact generated by research is an aim already reflected as main objective of major current scientific projects. Scientific infrastructures have to deal with the following challenges related with sustainability and life cycle evaluation: minimizing the environmental impact; pursuing actions and technologies aimed at saving energy and its reuse and identifying and developing technologies that can contribute to mitigate society’s impact on the environment, among others.

The reduction of environmental impact and the promotion of sustainable development are two of the key factors that are considered in the evaluation process for future infrastructures and research projects. For years, the term environment was associated only with nature and preservation of ecosystems. However, this definition has recently been expanded to encompass urban landscapes and socio-economic aspects accompanying them. It is mandatory that the scientific community take a more global approach when planning the future of research.

When planning and operating a scientific-technical facility, it is critical to consider a sustainable design in accordance with regulatory compliance and international standards, the management of resource consumption, the minimization of impacts, define a sustainable operation, assess its contribution to the environmental conservation, promote the participation of the community, guarantee transparency and consider climate change adaptation measures. The integration of these aspects not only reduces the environmental impact of the facilities but also reinforces their reputation as responsible and sustainable projects.

Speaker: Yolanda Benito (CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain)

11:45 AM Toward New Frontiers: Deploying State-of-the-Art Astronomical X-ray and Gamma-ray Detectors into Interdisciplinary Fields

Research aimed at addressing profound scientific questions about the universe has driven the development of cutting-edge detectors with exceptional performance, achieved through an unwavering pursuit of sensitivity and resolution. We have successfully applied technologies originally developed for X-ray and gamma-ray space observations-including multipixel superconducting microcalorimeters, large-area CdTe semiconductor imagers, and advanced X-ray astronomical analysis techniques-to interdisciplinary fields such as atomic physics and non-destructive elemental analysis using negative muons. Furthermore, the semiconductor Compton camera, designed to revolutionize MeV gamma-ray observations, has proven remarkably effective for precise polarization measurements of X-rays from highly charged heavy ions and gamma rays from excited states of nuclei.

Beyond applications in physics, we have applied these technologies to cancer research, particularly in nuclear medicine. Key applications include visualizing pharmacokinetics to accurately predict therapeutic efficacy and potential side effects in treatments like alpha-particle radionuclide therapy, as well as facilitating the detection of microcancers.

In this talk, I will highlight examples of collaborative research with interdisciplinary partners that have not only advanced fundamental scientific studies but have also opened new frontiers in applied research, spanning a wide range of fields from elemental analysis to medicine.

Speaker: Tadayuki Takahashi (Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), The University of Tokyo, Japan)

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12:10 PM Gravitational waves with ground-based detectors

In this talk, I will provide an overview of the history of LIGO and Virgo, focusing on key advancements in precision measurement and the challenges faced by these kilometer-scale interferometers that make gravitational-wave detections possible. I will summarize the latest results from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detectors, starting with the groundbreaking first detection in 2015, and discuss their far-reaching implications. Additionally, I will outline the upcoming schedule and planned upgrades for the next data-taking runs. The talk will conclude with a look ahead at the future evolution of ground-based astronomy over the coming decades.

Speaker: Alicia M. Sintes (Institute of Applied Computing & Community Code (IAC3), University of the Balearic Islands, Spain)

25.06.10_Sintes_ANIMMA_v0.pdf

25.06.10_Sintes_ANIMMA_v0.pptx

12:40 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

4:00 PM → 4:20 PM Coffee break

5:20 PM → 6:30 PM Visit to Posters

Poster Session

Wed, June 11

8:35 AM → 9:15 AM Plenary session

Convener: Abdallah Lyoussi (CEA Cadarache)

8:35 AM Non-destructive nuclear measurements, from research to applications

Non-destructive nuclear measurements are widely used in research and industry, in fields ranging from uranium exploration, nuclear reactors, process monitoring, radioactive waste characterization, nuclear accident studies, homeland security, recycling, to the final clean-up and decommissioning of nuclear facilities. Technologies like X-ray imaging, gamma-ray spectroscopy, passive neutron coincidence counting, active neutron interrogation, and neutron or photon activation analysis, are continually being improved with new radiation sources, new detectors, new electronics and new data analysis capabilities or methods. These developments are helping to meet a variety of challenges, including, but not limited to, in situ measurements in poorly controlled environments (e.g. borehole logging, nuclear decommissioning sites, old waste storage), characterization of heterogeneous radioactive waste packages with high attenuation effects, on-line process monitoring in spent nuclear fuel reprocessing, mining or recycling applications, or replacing expensive detectors with cost-effective ones. This talk will present some of these progresses, from research towards industrial applications.

Speaker: Bertrand Pérot (CEA DES IRESNE)

ANIMMA 2025 plenary Bertrand PEROT.pptx

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11:00 AM → 11:20 AM Coffee break

12:40 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

4:00 PM → 4:20 PM Coffee break

5:20 PM → 6:30 PM Visit to Posters

Poster Session

6:30 PM → 8:30 PM Climate change talk and discussion followed by NPSS/WIE event (Women In Engineering)

Thu, June 12

8:35 AM → 9:15 AM Plenary session

Convener: Carlos Marinas (IFIC (CSIC-UV))

8:35 AM Novel photon detectors

The talk will review recent advancements in photodetectors, covering vacuum-based detectors, semiconductor sensors, and gas-based detectors. The focus will be on the detection of low light levels, improved timing resolution, and expanded spectral range. Additionally, the development of photosensors designed for extreme conditions, such as operation in cryogenic environments and high radiation levels, will be discussed.

Speaker: Peter Križan (Faculty for Mathematics and Physics of the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and Senior Research Associate at Joseph Stephan Institute)

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11:00 AM → 11:20 AM Coffee break

12:40 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

4:00 PM → 4:20 PM Coffee break

4:20 PM → 6:30 PM Plenary Session: Visit to Exhibitors

8:00 PM → 12:00 AM Conference Gala Dinner

Please don't forget to bring your badge and ticket!

Fri, June 13

8:35 AM → 9:15 AM Plenary session

Convener: Gabriela Llosá (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC- CSIC/U. Valencia))

8:35 AM Advances in Medical Imaging Instrumentation

Advances in medical imaging instrumentation have lead to significant improvements in the accuracy and sensitivity of the scanners and a reduction of the dose administered to the patients. This trend continues to be pursued by current research in the field, aligned with the advances in biology and medicine. In addition, the new technologies in diagnostic imaging that are being developed at the Institute of Instrumentation for Molecular Imaging (I3M) tend to democratize the use of medical imaging and therapy so that they can be extended to the entire world population, in line with the objectives of the World Health Organization.

Low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), together with post-processing methods based on non-generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), is making it possible to obtain quality images of the human body using portable equipment with permanent magnets. Such scanners can be used for the diagnosis and screening of numerous diseases at a significantly lower cost than conventional high-field equipment.

Whole-body positron emission tomography (PET) needs to reduce its costs substantially to be used universally. However, its applications are very numerous and relevant in oncology, to predict the efficacy of treatments such as immunotherapy.

New X-ray techniques whose principle consists of measuring the small diffraction that X-rays undergo as they pass through the body (and not the absorption currently used in commercial equipment) make it possible to diagnose, for example, certain lung diseases that are not detected by conventional methods.

Finally, we have demonstrated the efficacy of photo-acoustics in the detection and follow-up of skin cancer.

Speaker: José María Benlloch (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain)

11:00 AM → 11:20 AM Coffee break

11:20 AM → 12:40 PM Conclusion panel & Closing session - END of the ANIMMA 2025

Convener: Abdallah Lyoussi (CEA Cadarache)

12:40 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 6:30 PM TBD