ICFA is pleased to announce the ICFA Instrumentation Awards. The Awards are bestowed annually to recognize exceptional contributions to instrumentation that has advanced the field of particle physics.
The ICFA Instrumentation Early Career Award recognizes achievements in instrumentation made at an early career stage by an individual, or group of individuals, that has the promise to make, or has already made, an advance in the field of particle physics. The early career stage is taken to be 15 years from the award of the Ph.D. or other terminal degree, properly accounting for career interruptions. The PhD date is the date that the PhD was awarded, not the date that the thesis was defended. The time that has elapsed since the PhD was awarded is calculated from the year that the nomination call is made. Accordingly, for the 2025 award nominees are eligible if the PhD was awarded in 2009 or later
The ICFA Instrumentation Award recognizes achievements in instrumentation by an individual, or a group of individuals, making an advance in the field of particle physics. This award recognizes either a technology development (for example the 2024 award recognized the development of MAPS, the 2023 award recognized the development of Micro Pattern Gas Detectors, and the 2022 award recognized development of advanced low-noise electronics instrumentation, in particular for liquid argon technology) or a multi-faceted contribution including a technology development and also one or more of the following: community organization, training, outreach or technology transfer. While past achievements form the main basis for the award, the potential for future instrumentation developments may also be considered.
Individuals or groups of individuals are to be nominated by Noon (Central European Time) October 15, 2024 at https://indico.cern.ch/e/ICFA_Instrumentation_Award. Self-nominations are not permitted. The nomination package must include the following:
Nominations will remain active for three years. A nominator may view their nomination made in a previous year at the sidebar option. "Edition 2022" nominations are no longer active. "Edition 2023 and Edition 2024” remain active. If a nominator wishes to update a previous nomination this requires the entire nomination be submitted to the 2025 cycle.
The particle physics community is diverse and global, so the nominees should reflect this. The nomination of women and other underrepresented groups in the particle physics community is therefore strongly encouraged.
The 2025 Award recipients will be invited to give a talk at the Vienna Conference on Instrumentation, 2025, held on 17-21 February, 2025, in Vienna, Austria. For the following two editions of the awards, the talk will be held at:
The review committee for the 2025 awards will be a subset of the members of the ICFA Instrumentation, Innovation and Development Panel and potentially several external experts.
After the shock and profound sadness caused by the sudden passing of Ian Shipsey, Chair of the ICFA Instrumentation, Innovation and Development Panel (https://icfa-iid.physics.ox.ac.uk ), the panel is reorganizing to carry out the award selection as planned .
For questions about the awards please contact Francesco Forti Francesco.Forti@pi.infn.it and Marcel Demarteau demarteau@ornl.gov
If you wrote to Ian recently, please write again to the new contacts, so the information is not lost.
ICFA is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 ICFA Instrumentation Awards.
For pioneering and developing an innovative detector technique to achieve a clear separation between scintillation and Cherenkov photons which has the potential to significantly influence the design of future neutrino experiments.
For their vision and leadership in the development of low-mass and high-resolution particle physics detectors, based on commercial CMOS technology, the Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS).
For their vision and leadership in the development of low-mass and high-resolution particle physics detectors, based on commercial CMOS technology, the Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS).
For their vision and leadership in the development of low-mass and high-resolution particle physics detectors, based on commercial CMOS technology, the Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS).
ICFA is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 ICFA Instrumentation Awards.
For the development of an innovative 3D optical readout for liquid argon time projection chambers that uses novel glass thick GEMS (THGEM) coupled to very fast Timepix cameras to provide high-granularity images and low-energy thresholds.
For the development of novel micropattern gas detector technologies enabling the construction of large-scale detectors with novel geometries for particle physics, and also widespread application to other fields.
For the development of novel micropattern gas detector technologies enabling the construction of large-scale detectors with novel geometries for particle physics, and also widespread application to other fields.
ICFA is pleased to announce the recipients of the inaugural 2022 ICFA Instrumentation Awards.
For a leading role in the development of advanced scintillating bolometers for fundamental physics, having made fundamental contributions to the detector technology employed in today’s most advanced experiments.
For groundbreaking contributions and leadership in the development of advanced low-noise electronics instrumentation in particle physics as well as other fields, in particular for liquid argon technology.
Taskforce to mount the next ICFA School
Taskforce to develop a proposal for the next EDIT school
Taskforce to Establish Instrumentation Studentships
Taskforce to Establish Instrumentation Prizes
Taskforce to Establish Interdisciplinary Workshops
University of Melbourne, Australia
Zurich
Mohammad V University, Rabat, Morocco
Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon
Oak Ridge National Laboratory USA
INFN Pisa & Universita di Pisa
University of Manchester
Ljubljana/JSI
Rio de Janeiro
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
KEK
Fermilab
INFN Bari & Universita di Bari
TRIUMF
DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
Chair, Oxford
IHEP
EDIT: Excellence in Detectors and Instrumentation Technologies schools are hosted in approximate rotation in Europe, Asia and North America. The EDIT Schools are a great opportunity for students or young postdocs to learn a wide variety of detector technologies and experimental methods in a hands-on environment.
The most recent EDIT School (EDIT 2023) took place from October 10-20, 2023 at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) on Long Island U.S.A. The website can be found here: EDIT School 2023. A powerpoint presentation about the BNL School by the School Organizers, Gabriella Carini and Michael Begel, is here (PDF file, 12MB).
The 2024 EDIT School will take place at Fermilab, U.S.A. in November, 2024. The website is coming soon. There will be two EDIT schools in 2025. The first will be hosted by CERN, the second by IHEP, Beijing. The dates of both of these schools will be confirmed shortly and websites made available in due course.
There will be one EDIT school in 2025. It will be hosted by IHEP, Beijing. There will be one EDIT school in 2026, in February at CERN.
AN ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE NEXT ICFA SCHOOL TO BE HELD IN 2025 WILL BE MADE HERE
With a goal is to increase participation of young scientists (in particular graduate students) in leading-edge instrumentation R&D, and to foster growth of future HEP instrumentation experts and help them to compete subsequently for permanent positions by the creation of prestigious instrumentation studentships providing extended internships at laboratories.
Two thrusts: National and Global
National: identify best practices within our nations and be a catalyst encouraging national communities without instrumentation studentships to consider introducing them, and make it as easy as possible to do so, by adopting best practice suitably modified to match national context (for example length of PhD).
Global: Extend national program to countries without a major lab. Funding for this possibly through EU/UNESCO and others…..
Taskforce has members with significant experience of developing instrumentation studentships, including scope, rules of governance including eligibility, nomination procedures, selection committees and selection procedures. Developing these and a survey of national practices will lead to a proposal to ICFA.
It is important to recognize the achievements of our colleagues. There are relatively few specific awards for instrumentation in our community.
Two thrusts: National and Global
National: identify best practices within our nations and be a catalyst encouraging national communities without prizes to consider introducing prizes, and make it as easy as possible to do so, by adopting best practice suitably modified to match national context.
Global: Create high profile annual international Instrumentation Prizes under the auspices of ICFA for junior, mid-career and senior researchers. A high profile live-streamed awards ceremony where awardees give lectures on their work . Could be incorporated into ICHEP in even years or a standalone event at a major laboratory.
Program of work: Taskforce has members with significant experience of developing prizes, including scope, rules of prize governance including eligibility, nomination procedures, selection committees and selection procedures, prize ceremonies and publicity. Developing the international prizes (in the form of a proposal to ICFA) and a survey of national practices are the next steps
The pace of development across the sciences is breathtaking. We can achieve more in instrumentation development together with our colleagues in other fields of science than we can working apart.
Two thrusts: National and Global
National: identify best practices within our nations and be a catalyst encouraging national communities without interdisciplinary workshops and/or other suitable fora to consider introducing them, and make it as easy as possible to do so, by adopting best practice suitably modified to match national context.
Global: Encourage international conferences to feature interdisciplinary sessions.
We support selected workshops with an interdisciplinary focus or component with an ICFA-IID association. Examples are: MultiHEP 2020 (public access link to be added) and the CPAD Instrumentation Workshop 2021.
The publication of the ICFA Instrumentation Bulletin is an activity of the Panel on Future Innovation and Development of ICFA (International Committee for Future Accelerators)
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