Report on Activities of COST action P9
RADAM 2004-5
The 2004 RADAM Meeting and WG Meetings in 2004
The initial work of the Action was to develop a community
within both the Action itself and in the working groups. Therefore each
Working Group was encouraged to arrange a meeting of interested parties within
the first six months of the Action. Three were arranged in February and March
2004. A list of the participants in each WG are listed o nthe website
WG1: Electron and Biomolecular interactions, 14th/15th
February, Aarhus
WG3: Radiation in physiological environments, 27th February, Dublin
WG2: Ions and Biomolecular interactions, 5th/6th March, Groningen
WG4: Theoretical developments for radiation damage held a
meeting later in the year in Brussels on 30 October.
WG5: Track Structure in cells did not hold a separate meeting
in 2004 preferring to meet at the Annual Meeting.
The first Management Committee agreed that each Year there
should be an Annual meeting of the Action and that the Management Committee
would meet at each Annual meeting.
The first Annual meeting was held in Lyons 24th to 27th June,
2004 http://costp9-radam.in2p3.fr/index.html with the Vice Chair Prof M Farizon
acting as local Chair. A full report of the meeting may be found on the Action
website. The meeting attracted more than 100 participants. Each WG was asked to
put together a programme of 34 talks and there was a large poster session.
The meeting was judged a great success and successfully
launched the Action and began the formation of a RADAM community. However it was
apparent that the community required being so wide was a ‘common community
separated by language’. Therefore it was decided that it was necessary to
arrange a more tutorial led meeting at the Second RADAM meeting in 2005 and that
this should be held early in the year. Prof Nikolaus Stolterfoht agreed to host
this meeting in Berlin in March 2005. |