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Dear Colleagues and Friends,

The organizing committee and our local organizers wish to extend to you our personal welcome to attend the 2008 Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS) and Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) to be held in the beautiful and historic city of Dresden, Germany. The meeting will take place 19-25 October, at the Maritim Hotel and International Congress Center Dresden (ICCD) located on the Elbe River.

An exciting and comprehensive program highlighting many state-of-the-art scientific and technological advances is planned. The subjects include radiation detection, detector materials, electronics, and image reconstruction algorithms as well as complex radiation detector and imaging systems for research and applications in the fields of medicine, biology, material science and physics. Interdisciplinary research will be given a special emphasis.

Sharing research and experiences and openly discussing problems will be strongly encouraged in all scientific sessions.

This year the program will include the 16th International Workshop on Room Temperature Semiconductor X- and Gamma-Ray Detectors (RTSD). Topics covered by this workshop correlate directly with numerous areas of interest to participants in both the NSS and MIC.

Satellite workshops will be offered, one before and one after the conference week, by two of the largest and most renowned laboratories in our fields: DESY Hamburg and Forschungszentrum Jülich (located near Cologne). The workshops will cover state-of-the-art topics of the laboratories' current research. In addition to the scientific value of these workshops and laboratory visits, this will be a great opportunity to experience other areas of Germany. All conference registrants are welcome to participate.

The 2008 IEEE NSS/MIC program promises exceptional advances in radiation detector R&D, nuclear science, high energy physics, and medical imaging, as well as multiple opportunities for networking, education, and discussion in a scientifically and socially stimulating, attractive environment.

I especially want to thank the local organizer, Forschungszentrum Dresden Rossendorf (FZD) our Honorary Chair, Prof. Dr. Roland Sauerbrey, Scientific Director of FZD, and Dr. Dr. h.c. Peter Joehnk, Administrative Director of FZD, for their strong support of this important annual meeting of our world-wide science community.

I am certain you will find the City of Dresden and the surrounding area to be most pleasant and it will be my distinct pleasure to welcome each of you to the NSS/MIC in Germany in October 2008.

Uwe Bratzler, General Chair

-- MathieuB - 26 Jan 2009