Program
(updated 19.7.2007)

(see final Course Schedule)

Introductory Lecture  

• Drug Design and Emotion: Gerd Folkers (Collegium Helveticum, Zurich) - abstract

Nuclear Physics   ---   Chair: Ivan Wilhelm (Charles University, Prague)

• Overview of Nuclear Physics: Carlos Granja (IEAP CTU, Prague) - abstract
• The New Munich Neutron Source FRM2: Overview and uses for biology studies: Wolfgang Doster ( TU Munich) - abstract

• Positron annihilation in the vanadium hydrogen systems: Bialon Beata (Univ. Opole)
• Enhanced electron screening effect in nuclear reactions at very low projectile enegies in metallic enviroments: Lukomska Ksenia (Univ. Szczecin)
• The Simplest Closed-form Description of Dipole Radiative Strength (nuclear gamma transitions): Ielyzaveta Kulich (Nat. T. Shevchenko U, Kiev)
• Experimental determination of cross sections by neutron-activation method: Natalia Dzysiuk (Sevchenko U - Kiev)
• Monte Carlo simulations: FLUKA vs. MCNPX: Maxime Oden (Caen / NPI Rez near Prague)

• Energy spread generation - environmental friendly power devices (photovoltaics, fuel cells, thermoelectric, photoelectrochemical cells and organic polymer cells): Grzela Grzegorz (Univ. Wroclaw)

Enviromental and Life Sciences   ---   Chair: Marina Frontasyeva (JINR Dubna)

• Nuclear and Related Analytical Methods for Life Sciences - I : Marina Frontasyeva (JINR Dubna) - abstract
• Nuclear and Related Analytical Methods for Life Sciences - II: Marina Frontasyeva (JINR Dubna) - abstract
• Radioecology: Eiliv Steinnes (NUNT Trondheim) - abstract
• Use of Neutron Activation Analysis in Biomedical and Enviromental Research: Jan Kucera (NPI Prague)
• The Debrecen Scanning Nuclear Microprobe and its Application in Biology and Environmental Science: Zsofia Kertesz (Atomki - Debrecen, Hungary)
• Cosmic Rays, Environment and Human Health: Jordan Stamenov (Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Bulgarian Ac. of Sc.) - abstract

• Using of NAA for the study of the chemical composition of some components of the Rybinsk Reservoir ecosystem: Zoya Goryaynova (JINR Dubna)
• The radon variations in houses and its health risks: Monika Mullerova (Comenius U Bratislava)
• Outdoor radon - sources, monitoring and risk assesment: Martin Bulko (Comenius U Bratislava)
• Variation of radioactivity of atmospheric aerosol in Bratislava: Miroslav Jeskovske (Comenius U Bratislava)
• Assessment of elemental content in air-particulate in Bratislava's atmosphere using NAA: Jana Meresova (Comenius U Bratislava)
• Air pollution studies in the Republic of Udmurtia, Russian Federation, using the moss biomonitoring technique, NAA and GIS technology: Julia Pankratova (JINR Dubna)
• Air pollution studies in Tver region of Russia using moss-biomonitoring technique with nuclear analytical methods: Konstantin Vergel (JINR Dubna)
• Assessment of heavy metal and other trace element contamination in roadside surface soil studied by NAA: Inna Krupenina (JINR Dubna)
• Determination of boron in steel by nuclear techniques: Waqar Ahmad (Pinstech Islamabad, Pakistan)
• Active moss biomonitoring of atmospheric trace element deposition in urban area using NAA and AAS analytical techniques: Mira Anicic (Belgrade U, Serbia)
• Environmental radionuclides variations in outdoor atmosphere: Equivalent mixing height and 222Rn: Jan Simon (Comenius U Bratislava)

• Air Pollution Studies In Opole Region, Poland, Using The Moss Biomonitoring Technique And Neutron Activation Analysis: Korzekwa Szymon (Univ. Opole)

Particle Accelerators   ---   Chair: Grigory Trubnikov (JINR Dubna)

• Introduction to Accelerators I: Grigory Trubnikov (JINR Dubna) - abstract
• Introduction to Accelerators II: Grigory Trubnikov (JINR Dubna) - abstract
• Cyclic Accelerators: Grigory Trubnikov (JINR Dubna) - abstract
• Linear Accelerators: Grigory Trubnikov (JINR Dubna) - abstract

• Prague TANDETRON Accelerator: Material Analysis and Medicine: Anna Mackova (NPI Prague) - abstract
• Cyclotron Target Systems for Medical Radionuclide Production: Ondrej Lebeda (NPI Prague)
• Overview of Particle Accelerators at NPI Rez and their applications Andrej Kugler (NPI Prague)

• Production of secondary radioactive beams of Li and He neutron-rich isotopes in fragmentation reaction 15N (47 MeV/A) + 9Be: Milewska Aleksandra (Univ. Opole)
• Microtron M30: Current state and applications: Dmytro Symochko (Institute of Electron Physics, Uzhgorod, Ukraine)
• Influence of alpha-beams with energy 30 MeV on wave propagation in Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. Experiment & model (energy transfer/absorbed dose): Dmitriy Artamonov (Moscow St. U)
• X-ray radiation and diffraction bremsstrahlung from moderately relativistic electrons in pyrolytic graphite crystal: Alexander Wagner (Tomsk Polytechnic U)
• Medical Applications of the SARAF- protons/deuterons 40 MeV superconducting linac: Shlomi Halfon (Hebrew U Jerusalem)
• Development of a laser unit with a time structure required by Medical Thomson X-ray Generator: Yulia Maslova (Lebedev Physical Institute)

• The JINR Nuclotron as future accelerator of carbon ions for medicine: Julia Vaneseva (JINR Dubna)

Radiotheraphy   ---   Chair: Oliver Jaekel (DKFZ Heidelberg)

• Introduction to radiotherapy with photon and electron beams: Jan Wilkens (DKFZ Heidelberg) - abstract
• Treatment planning from conformal radiotherapy to IMRT: Jan Wilkens (DKFZ Heidelberg) - abstract
• Hadrontheraphy: Oliver Jaekel (DKFZ Heidelberg) - abstract
• Investigation of antiprotons use for therapy and imaging: Angelos Angelopoulos (U Athens, Greece) - abstract

• Radionuclide Carriers for Diagnostics and Therapy: Ondrej Lebeda (NPI AS Prague)
• Brachytherapy: Vladimir Vondracek (Bulovka Faculty Hospital, Prague)
• Whole body Radiotheraphy: Vladimir Vondracek (Bulovka Faculty Hospital, Prague)

• Hadron based cancer radiotherapy - how does large particle accelerators save life: Marcin Borucki (Univ. Warsaw)
• Proton theraphy: Marta Mocna (AMU Poznan)
• On the commissioning of CT-simulation in radiotherapy treatment planning: A phantom study: Irene Fotina (Tomsk Polytechnic U / Vienna U Technology)
• Generic beamline characterization of proton dynamic irradiation treatment. Forming delivering system: Alexey Agapov (JINR Dubna)
• Chromosome damage in proton theraphy by Phasotron accelerator: Ekaterina Zaytseva (JINR Dubna)
• Verification of patient positioning in proton therapy on the basis of digital x-ray images: Konstantin Shipulin (JINR Dubna)
• Development of elements of three-dimensional planning program for radiotherapy: Sergey Bakaev (JINR Dubna)
• Inverse planning and leaf-sequencing problem in IMRT: Gonzalo Cabal (FNSPE CTU Prague)

Radiation Detectors   ---   Chair: Claude Leroy (U. Montreal)

• Particle/radiation interaction in matter & principles of detection: Claude Leroy (U. Montreal) - abstract
• Review of particle/radiation detectors: Claude Leroy (U. Montreal) - abstract

• Medipix2/USB radiation camera: Zdenek Vykydal (IEAP CTU Prague) - abstract
• Detectors for Neutron Imaging: Josef Uher (IEAP CTU Prague) - abstract

• New photodetector readout technique for PET: Francois Powolny (CERN, France)
• Counter architectures for a single photon-counting pixel detector such as Medipix3: Winnie Wong (CERN / U Waterloo, Canada)

• Dielectric track detectors: Andrey Lashenov (JINR Dubna)

Biomedical Imaging   ---   Chair: Roger Lecomte (Sherbrooke U. Quebec)

• SPECT, PET: Roger Lecomte (Sherbrooke U. Quebec)
• Molecular imaging: Roger Lecomte (Sherbrooke U. Quebec)
• Multimodal Imaging: Roger Lecomte (Sherbrooke U. Quebec)
• Mammography, What is a good mammographic image?: Maria-Ester Brandan (UNAM Mexico) - abstract
• Advances in small animal imaging systems: George Loudos (Technological Educational Institute of Athens) - abstract
• Monte Carlo Simulations in Nuclear Medicine: George Loudos (Technological Educational Institute of Athens) - abstract
• Scintillating Detectors and Digital Camera: Milovan Matovic (University of Kragujevac, Serbia)
• Microradiography with Semiconductor Pixel Detectors: Jan Jakubek (IEAP CTU Prague)

• Magnetic Resonance in Biomedical Engineering: Jan Kaspar (MRI Laboratory, FBMI CTU Prague) - abstract
• Radiography of moving objects: Daniel Vavrik (IEAP CTU Prague) - abstract
• High Resolution in-vivo X-ray Imaging: Jiri Dammer (IEAP CTU Prague) - abstract

• Scattered Gamma Ray Imaging without Collimator: Clemence Driol (Cergy-Pontoise Univ. France)
• Researching of accuracy in determining activity by using the double head gamma camera: Siennicki Jakub (Univ. Lodz)
• Application of digital image processing methods for optimal portal image quality improvement: Dmmitri Kosyrev (Moscow Eng. Phys. Inst.)
• NMR spectroscopy: clinical applications: Elena Verkhoglazova (Moscow St. U.)
• A technique of lung imaging with the use of polarized helium: Kret Marcin/Florek Malgorzata (Univ. Krakow)
• From small animal PET to the human heart - Nuclear Imaging techniques at Atomki: Ivan Valastyan (Atomki - Debrecen)
• Positron microscope for biology and medicine: Roman Pivin (JINR Dubna)
• Atomic force microscope and its implementation in medicine: Brzezinka Grzegorz (Univ. Krakow)

• Contrast-Enhaced Digital Mammography and Angiogenesis: Ivan Rosado (UNAM, Mexico City)
• Study of possibilities of application of the refraction imaging at synchrotron radiation for medical diagn: Natalia Pavlova (Moscow Eng. Phys. Inst.)

Radiobiology   ---   Chair: Evgenij Krasavin (JINR Dubna)

• Radiobiological Investigation on Accelerators: E.A. Krasavin (JINR Dubna)
• Free radicals, life and radiation: Ryszard Krzyminiewski (AMU Poznan) - abstract
• Dosimetry, The art of measuring the energy imparted by ionizing radiation: Maria-Ester Brandan ( UNAM Mexico) - abstract
• Radiation and the Universe: V.M. Petrov (JINR Dubna)
• Damage and Reparation of DNA: E.A. Krasavin (JINR Dubna)
• Biological dosimetry following accidents in the industrial and medical application of radiation: Andrzej Wojcik (Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Warsaw, Poland)
• Application of Laser Technique in Medicine: L. Avramov (Institute of electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) - abstract
• Application of X-ray Lasers in Biology: Jaroslav Kuba (CTU in Prague)

• Ion beam monitoring for radiobiology and hadrontheraphy: Caroline Pautard (CNRS Caen)
• Comparison of doses received on hands in different nuclear medicine institutes: Wierzbianski Piotr (Univ. Lodz)
• The regularities of apoptosis induction in human lymphocytes by ionizing radiation with different characteristics: Alena Mozhaeva (Dubna U)
• Biodistribution of radiolabeled anti III beta-tubulin scFv fragments in mice: Veronika Kleinova (NPI Rez near Prague)
• Experimental investigation of influence of gamma radiation on erythrocyte membranes: Olga Gudkova (Moscow St. U)
• Research of absolute dosimetry results versus the material and the size of the equilibrium cap: Tatyana Zharova (Moscow St. U)
• Extention of film dosimetry to 3-D: Skorszka Malgorzata, Adamczyk Sebastian (AMU Poznan)
• Patient dosimetry for mammography: Koen Michielsen (Leuven, Belgium)
• Influence of cosmic radiation on living organisms: Kowalska Agata (Univ. Szczecin)
• Response of Arabidopsis thaliana to Ionizing Radiation: Takako Kurimoto (California St. Univ. USA)
• Modelling of dose distribution for proton beam delivering system with the use of multi-particle transport code "Fluka": Marta Mumot (JINR Dubna / Poland Cancer Centre Poznan)

• New radioimmunoconjugate 90Y-DOTA-hR3: Synthesis and Radiolabeling: Denis Beckford (Isotopes Center, Havana, Cuba)
• Influence of ionizing radiation on the development of radiation cataract: Kristina Bannik (Dubna U)
• Dosimetric support for total body irradiation with 6MeV photons: Anna Fedyanina (Moscow Eng. Phys. Inst.)

Trends in Biology   ---   Chair: Andrzej Dobek (AMU Poznan)

• Optical and electrical gradients in photosynthesis: Andrzej Dobek (AMU Poznan) - abstract
• Biochemistry and Physics: How much in common?: Jiri Hudecek (Charles U. Prague) - abstract
• Neutron scattering techniques in molecular biology: Wolfgang Doster ( TU Munich) - abstract
• Small Angle X-ray Scattering in Structural Investigation of Biological Systems: Maciej Kozak (AMU Poznan) - abstract
• Biological Molecular Machines: Michal Kurzynski (AMU Poznan) - abstract
• Prediction of Protein Structure: L. Rychlewski (AMU Poznan and BioInfoBank) Leszek Rychlewski (AMU Poznan & BioInfoBank Institute) - abstract
• General Aspects of Drug Design: Gerd Folkers (Collegium Helveticum, Zurich) - abstract
• Targeting of drugs and diagnostics in biological systems: Vladimir Pliska (Collegium Helveticum, Zurich) - abstract
• Intracellular trafficking of nucleic acids: Stanislav Kozubek (Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences, Brno) - abstract

• Virus structure: Alfredo Iorio (Charles U. Prague) - abstract

• Honey Bee in Physics (Biophysics): Sebastian Szwarc (AMU Poznan)
• Biofeedback, neuroscience and EEG in modern Physics: Barbara Witek (Univ. Warsaw)

• Influence of GEMINI surfactant on conformational dynamics of DSPC: Szpotkowski Kamil (AMU Poznan)
• Genetic and restriction analysis of plasmid structure in deletion mutants induced by heavy ions in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Katsiaryna Yatsevich (JINR Dubna / Bielorussia)

Wokshop on Frontier Physics   ---   Chair: Fedor Simkovic (Comenius U. Bratislava)

     short lectures:

• Cosmology: Dimitri Fursaev (UC JINR Dubna)
• PICASSO, an Experiment for Direct Search of Dark Matter: Claude Leroy (U. Montreal) - abstract
• Ultrashort laser pulses in physics and chemistry: Ryszard Naskrecki (AMU Poznan) - abstract
• Neutrino Oscillations: Fedor Simkovic (Comenius U. Bratislava) - abstract
• KATRIN: A new lab-spectroscopic experiment to determine the neutrino mass: Otokar Dragoun (NPI Prague) - abstract
• Double Beta Decay & Experiments NEMO, TGV: Ivan Stekl (IEAP CTU Prague) - abstract
• Cosmic Rays & Experiment CZELTA: Karel Smolek (IEAP CTU Prague) - abstract