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NEWS ITEMS

ACCELERATOR CONFERENCE

High Voltage Engineering Corporation has organized an accelerator

conference to be held in Amsterdam October 4-6, 1960. The con­

ference report will be published in our journal at an early date.

The conference program is the following:

Tuesday, October 4 - Nuclear Physics

Chairman: Prof. H. BRINKMAN,

University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Resonance Reactions-Prof. P. M. ENDT, University Of

Utrecht, The Netherlands

Energy-Angle Distribution of Positrons from a Thick Target

Irradiated with Fast Electrons and

Spectrum and Intensity of Photons from Positron Annihila­

tion in Flight-Prof. L. KATZ, University of Saskatchewan,

Saskatoon, Canada

Coulomb Excitation-Dr. T. Huus, Institute for Theoretical

Physics, Copenhagen, Denmark

Experiments using Ultra-Fast Pulse Techniques-Dr. G.

GOLDRING, The Weizmann Institute, Rehovoth, Israel

Nuclear Lifetimes-Dr. E. COTTON, Centre d'Etudes Nu­

clCaires de Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (S & 0), France

Injectors-Staff member of Frascati, Italy

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Wednesday, October 5 - Particle Research

Chairman: Prof. H. H. STAUB,

University of Zurich, Switzerland

The Tandem Electrostatic Accelerator-Dr. P. ROSE, High

Voltage Engineering Corporation, Burlington Mass., U.S.A.

Current Experimentation with the Tandem at the Chalk

River Laboratories-Dr. H. GaVE, Atomic Energy of Canada

Ltd., Chalk River, Canada

Advanced Methods for Nuclear Reactions Research-Dr.

K. W. ALLEN, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority,

Aldermaston, England

Polarized Ion Sources-Prof. R. FLEISCHMANN, University

of Erlangen, Germany

Millimicrosecond Pulsing-Mr. R. CONNOR, High Voltage

Engineering Corporation, Burlington, Mass., U.S.A.

Recent Advances in High Power Microwave Electron Ac­

celerators for Physics Research-Mr. J. C. NYGARD, High

Voltage Engineering Corporation, Burlington Mass., U.S.A.

and Dr. R.F.POST, University of California, Livermore, U.S.A.

-Thursday, October 6 - Physics and Radiation Research

Chairman: Prof. K. SIEGBAHN,

University of Uppsala, Sweden

High Intensity Neutron Research-Prof. K. LUCKE, Insti­

tut fur Algemeine Metallkunde, Aachen, Germany

Reactor Physics with Pulsed Neutron Sources-Dr. K.

BECKURTS,Institute of Neutron Physics, Karlsruhe,Germany

Isotope Separation-Prof. J. KISTEMAKER, Laboratorium

voor M assaspectrografie, A msterdam, The Netherlands

-Chairman: Prof. A. CHARLESBY,

Royal Military College of Science, Shriven ham, England

The Use of Electron Bombardment in Solid-State Research

-Dr. P. BARUCH, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France

Photoactivation and Photoneutron Activation Analysis­

Dr. J. W. OTVOS, Shell Development Company, Emeryville,

California, U.S.A.

High Energy Radiation for Research in Biochemistry and

Microbiology-Dr. W. HUBER, Stanford University, U.S.A.

Development of Radiation Process Applications-Dr. S. H.

PINNER, B.X. Plastics Limited, England, and Mr. W. H. T.

DAVISON, Tube Investment Research Laboratories, England.

Research in Radiation Chemistry-Speaker not known

Future Accelerators: Intense Sources for Processing-Mr.

D. A. TRAGESER, High Voltage Engineering Corporation,

Burlington Mass, U.S.A.

For all information apply to Mr. Nathan Tufts, Jr., High

Voltage Engineering Corporation, Burlington, Mass., U.S.A.

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260 NEWS ITEMS

SEMINAIRE INTERNATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR

LE CALCUL ANALOGI QUE APPLIQUE A L 'ETUDE DES PROCESSUS CHIMIQUES

ANALOGUE COMPUTATION APPLIED TO THE STUDY OF CHEMICAL PROCESSES

Bruxelles 21-22-23 Nov. 1960

Organise par/Organized by

Institut Beige de Regulation et d' Automatisme

Sous les auspices del Sponsored by

I' Association Internationale pour Ie Calcul Analogique et I' Applications Committee of the International Federation

of Automatic Control

The papers to be presented will be grouped under four headings:

1. Simulation of kinetic and thermal problems,

II. Simulation of chemical reactors,

III. Automatic control,

IV. Methods of operational research in the chemical industry.

Intending authors are asked to inform the Seminar Secretariat as soon as posible of their desire to present a

paper. The address of the Secretariat is 43, Rue de la Science, Brussels 4, Belgium.