CANBERRA 2008 Users' Group Meeting

Schedule (Tentative Schedule - Subject to Change)

Sunday, June 22, 2008 Monday, June 23, 2008 Tuesday, June 24, 2008 Wednesday, June 25, 2008 Thursday, June 26, 2008 Friday, June 27, 2008

Sunday, June 22, 2008
Event Time / Description / Speaker	Location / Room
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Registration	Inn Lobby

Monday, June 23, 2008
Event Time / Description / Speaker	Location / Room
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Continental Breakfast	Elan Prefunction
Registration	Elan Prefunction
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM - Educational Seminars
1-Day Educational Seminars
Introduction to ISOCS & LabSOCS	Mozart
“Script Happens”: Using VBScript with Genie 2000	Elan A
QA/QC Implementation in Real World Gamma Spectroscopy	Elan BC
Apex-Alpha Operations and Routine Use	Cannes
Crystal Reports and the Eclipse Database	Elan D
2-Day Educational Seminars: 1st Day
Crystal Reports for Apex-Gamma 2-Day Seminar	Beethoven
Gamma Spectroscopy Using Hand-held Instruments (Inspector 1000 & Falcon)	Chopin
APEX Software Update & Operations	Avignon
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Morning Break	Elan Prefunction
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lunch	Atrium
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Afternoon Break	Elan Prefunction
5:30 PM -
Baseball Game - Assemble at 5:00 PM in Lobby to Board Bus	Meet in Lobby to Board Bus
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Event Time / Description / Speaker	Location / Room
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Continental Breakfast	Elan Prefunction
Registration	Elan Prefunction
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM - Educational Seminars
1-Day Educational Seminars
Alpha Spectroscopy QA / QC Considerations	Elan A
Concepts of Radiological Response from a Planning Perspective	Elan BC
Whole Body Object Contamination Monitor Basic Operation Course	CANBERRA Demo Van - Outside
Alpha/Beta Fundamentals	Elan D
ISOCS and LabSOCS – Advanced Topics	Mozart
2-Day Educational Seminars: 2nd Day
Crystal Reports for Apex-Gamma	Beethoven
Gamma Spectroscopy Using Hand-held Instruments (Inspector 1000 & Falcon)	Chopin
APEX Software Update & Operations	Avignon
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Morning Break	Elan Prefunction
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lunch	Atrium
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Afternoon Break	Elan Prefunction
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Registration	Atrium
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Welcome Reception - Tropical Luau	Poolside
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Event Time / Description / Speaker	Location / Room
7:00 AM - 8:15 AM
Breakfast	Atrium
8:00 AM - 8:15 AM
Speaker Meeting	Elan Ballroom
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM
Welcome - Speaker: Bud Sielaff, CANBERRA	Elan Ballroom
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Opening Remarks - Speaker: Frederic Van Heems, CANBERRA	Elan Ballroom
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Keynote Speaker – 'What We’ve Learned Since the 2005 Energy Policy Act" / Richard Myers – Vice President, Policy Development Nuclear Energy Institute	Elan Ballroom
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
"A New Facility For Very Low Cross Section Measurements:  Application to Astrophysics" - Guy Terwagne, University of Liege	Elan Ballroom
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Morning Break	Elan Prefunction
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
"Closing the Fuel Cycle – Industry Perspective" - Paul Murray, AFS	Elan Ballroom
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Overview on the SRS-MOX Project - Dirk Leach, Executive Vice President, Shaw AREVA MOX Services LLC	Elan Ballroom
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lunch	Atrium
1:00 PM - 2:10 PM : Panel Discussion
"What the Nuclear Renaissance Means for TODAY" - Dirk Leach, Paul Murray, Professor Nolan Hertel, Cindy DeBiasi, Richard Meyers	Elan Ballroom
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM : Breakout Sessions
Discussion: Emergency Response with combined Active / Passive Detection and Real Time Dose Rate Tracking of Responders	Avignon
Open Discussion:  Commercial & Government Nuclear Research Facilities & Laboratories	Cannes
Open Discussion:  NPP Operation	Nice
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Afternoon Break	Elan Prefunction
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM : Breakout Sessions
Genie Software / MCA Products	Avignon
Portable HP Instrumentation and Wireless Applications with CSP-COM and Colibri	Cannes
Environmental Monitoring	Nice
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Demo Room - Cocktails	Monte Carlo
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
Event Time / Description / Speaker	Location / Room
7:00 AM - 7:45 AM
Breakfast	Atrium
7:30 AM - 7:45 AM
Speaker Meeting	Elan Ballroom
7:45 AM - 8:00 AM
Meeting Updates - Speaker: Bud Sielaff, CANBERRA	Elan Ballroom
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
"Gamma Spectrometry Techniques for the 3D Characterization of Transuranic Contaminated Areas", Jose Carlos Saez, CIEMAT	Elan Ballroom
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
"Application of CANBERRA Ge, Ge-well, Si, & Gas Proportional Detectors in Monitoring of Nuclear-Explosion Debris" - Thomas Semkow, State Department of Health/SUNY	Elan Ballroom
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
"OpenCDM Implementation – Through Thick and Thin" - John Stewart, TVA	Elan Ballroom
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
"Municipal Level Emergency Response to a Low Yield Nuclear Detonation:  A Game Plan" - Gordie Polando, Lakewood Fire Department, Ohio	Elan Ballroom
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Break	Elan Prefunction
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
"CERN recipe for Genie 2000 with APEX Flavor" - Yann Donjoux, CERN	Elan Ballroom
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
"Direction Sensitive Detector Concept" - Grant Ford	Elan Ballroom
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
"Developing Trace Ability Applications with Interfaces to CANBERRA Products" - Siebren Van Tuinen, NRG Petten, Nuclear Research Institute	Elan Ballroom
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
"The Health Effects of low Doses of Ionizing Radiation" - Bernard Le Guen, CEIDRE	Elan Ballroom
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Lunch	Atrium
1:00 PM - 2:10 PM : Breakout Sessions
Recent Enhancements in Alpha-Beta Counting	Avignon
ISOCS, InSitu Measurements, & D&D	Cannes
Internal & External Personnel Monitoring	Monte Carlo
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM : Breakout Sessions
Radiochemistry Gamma Spec Solutions	Avignon
Integrated HP Applications	Monte Carlo
Solutions for Radiological Emergency Response	Nice
3:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Afternoon Break	Elan Prefunction
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM : Breakout Sessions
Open EMS	Avignon
Population Monitoring Methodology	Cannes
Apex Alpha	Nice
6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Off-Site Dinner	Pavilion at the Chateau Elan Winery
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Friday, June 27, 2008
Event Time / Description / Speaker	Location / Room
8:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Continental Breakfast	Monte Carlo
Demo Room	Monte Carlo
9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Bus Tour - (Atlanta Sites: Atlanta History Museum, CNN Center, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic District)	n/a
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Tour of Eckert and Ziegler Analytics, Bus to leave at 11am and return at 1pm	Eckert and Ziegler Analytics
10:30 AM
Golf - Tee time starting at 10:30 AM - Woodlands Course Tournament should end around 3:00 PM	n/a

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