ICFA is pleased to announce the 2024 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, not the year in which the deadline for nominations falls. Accordingly, for the 2024 award nominees are eligible if the PhD was awarded in 2008 or later.
The ICFA Instrumentation Award recognizes achievements in instrumentation by an individual, or a group of individuals, that has made an advance in the field of particle physics. This award recognizes either a technology development (for example the 2022 award recognized the development of Micro Pattern Gas Detectors, and the 2021 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) February 7, 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 above page from the sidebar option "Edition 2023” or “Edition 2022”. 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 2024 Award recipients will be invited to give a presentation at the 16th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors in Isola d’Elba, May 26 – June 1, 2024. For the following edition of the awards, the lectures will be held at:
The review committee for the 2024 awards are the members of the ICFA Instrumentation, Innovation and Development Panel.
For questions about the awards please contact ian.shipsey@cern.ch (Chair of the ICFA Instrumentation, Innovation and Development Panel).
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
KEK
Ljubljana/JSI
Rio de Janeiro
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
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 rotation in EU, Asia and North America.
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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