8:30 AM, 31 August 2016 to 6:00 PM, 2 September 2016 at University of Huddersfield
Dates and Location
The Workshop on Accelerator Driven Subcritical Systems will take place, Wednesday 31st August to Friday 2nd September 2016, at the University of Huddersfield, England. This is the 4th workshop in an international series - the previous workshop was held at Richmond, Virginia in 2014.
The Workshop welcomes submissions for the full range of topics in ADS systems and thorium including, but not restricted to, the overlap between them. It will include updates on projects that are, or hope to be soon, under construction around the globe, as well as more preliminary designs and concepts.
The UK has been prominent in the field of civil nuclear power, and there are strong hopes of a 'nuclear renaissance' to meet carbon reduction targets. There has been, and still is, a great deal of expertise. It thus provides a fitting host country for this conference.
Travel
The conference will start on Wednesday morning, delegates are advised to arrive on Tuesday afternoon/evening. The Conference will finish after lunch on Friday.
Travelling by air, Manchester airport is very convenient. Direct trains go frequently (every half hour during most of the day) from the airport to Huddersfield, and additional connections involving one minor change are also available. The journey takes about 1 hour and a ticket costs approximately £20.
Call for Abstracts
The selection of talks and posters will be made on the basis of abstracts submitted to the Conference using the indico website which is here. If you have problems using this system, just email the abstract to R.Barlow@hud.ac.uk
The proceedings of the conference will be published in Proceedings of Science (http://pos.sissa.it), the open access online journal organized by SISSA, the International School for Advanced Studies based in Trieste. The proceedings will be peer-reviewed. The Programme Committee will oversee the refereeing process.
The procedure for submission and the required style-file is describe on http://pos.sissa.it/POSauthors.html. For each talk or paster, a paper should be prepared with a maximum length of ten pages. The submission deadline is 1st October 2016.
Accommodation
Hotels in the town are plentiful and inexpensive, and delegates will find it easy to make their own arrangements for accommodation.
We provide a list of websites below for your convenience - no recommendation is implied, and the list is in order of distance from the conference site.
Costs vary considerably due to variations in demand, special offers, etcetera.
The Key Dates
| Abstract Submission opens |
1 April |
| Registration opens |
1 April |
| Abstract Submission Deadline |
1 June (nominally - but still open!) |
| Notification of abstract acceptance |
14 June |
| End of "Early bird" registration |
21 June |
| Registration deadline* |
14 August |
| Conference |
31 August - 2 September |
| Deadine for submission of contributions |
1 October |
* Registrations after the deadline may be available, subject to availability
Keynote Speakers
Roland Garoby, ESS Technical Director
Status and challenges of the European Spallation Source
Hamid Ait Abderrahim, MYRRHA Director
MYRRHA project status and contribution for HLW management and SMR based on Lead Technology
Programme Committee
- Roger Barlow (University of Huddersfield)
- Yunlong Chi (IHEP)
- Bob Cywinski (University of Huddersfield)
- Srinivas Krishnagopal (BARC)
- Mats Lindroos (ESS)
- Arun Nayak (BARC)
- Hywel Owen (University of Manchester)
- Stephen Peggs (BNL)
- Ganapati Rao (Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium Authority)
- Becky Seviour (University of Huddersfield)
- Stephen Tindale (The Weinberg Foundation)
- Ian Swainson (IAEA)
- Hushan Xu (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
International Advisory Committee
- Hamid Ait Abderrahim (SCK-CEN)
- Ian Anderson (ORNL)
- Srikumar Banerjee (BARC)
- Roger Barlow (Huddersfield)
- Charles Bowman (ADNA Corporation)
- Tadeu Carneiro (Companhia Brasileira de Metalurgia e Mineração)
- David Christian (Dominion Power Generation)
- Brunno Coppi (MIT)
- Rob Edgecock (Huddersfield)
- Andrew Hutton (Jefferson Laboratory)
- John Kelly (US Department of Energy)
- Ganapati Myneni (Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium Authority)
- Chris Prior (STFC/RAL)
- Jean-Pierre Revol (International Thorium Energy Committee)
- Carlo Rubbia (Potsdam)
- Suzie Sheehy (University of Oxford)
- Alexander Stanculescu (Idaho National Laboratory)
Contact
At present, contact Roger Barlow (R.Barlow@hud.ac.uk)
Sponsorship
The conference is sponsored by The IOP PAB group, EuCARD2 and IsoHIM (International Symposium on Hydrogen in Matter) It is organised in co-operation with the International Atomic Energy Agency and a limited number of bursaries are available to delegates from countries eligible to receive IAEA technical co-operation programme funds.
Registration and Costs
Registeration closed
- Early £100
- Standard £125
- Student £35
Registration costs cover lunches, tea and coffee breaks, and the conference banquet, as well as any publication costs.
Additional banquet tickets are obtainable at a cost of £40
Refunds will not normally be given
Support for delegates from developing countries may be available
Support for students and postdocs will be available through the ISOHIM foundation. Anyone interested shoudl email details to Ganapati Myneni (Ganapati@isohim.org)
