Theme Meeting on Cancer Therapy Facility in India Using Ion Beams

A theme meeting on  “ CANCER THERAPY FACILITY IN INDIA USING ION BEAMS”, will be organised on March 26, 2010 (Friday) at Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Kolkata where experts in the field of oncology,radiation physics and accelerators will get together for an in-depth discussions  on the feasibility of about  setting up  an accelerator-based cancer treatment facility in India.

Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre is a premier R & D unit of the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. This Centre is dedicated to carry out frontier research and development in the fields of Accelerator Science & Technology, Nuclear Science (Theoretical and Experimental), Material Science, Computer Science & Technology and in other relevant areas.

VECC  has a very active programme centered around accelerators.We have just commissioned Superconducting Cyclotron that is almost of the size of a 250 MeV Proton  Superconducting Cyclotron. The centre has a room temperature cyclotron operating since 1978. The centre actively pursues R&D activities in multidisciplinary field of basic science and engineering.

 NOTE:    PARTICIPATION  TO  THIS  THEME  MEETING IS BY INVITATION ONLY

ALL QUERIES  REGARDING  TECHNICAL  PROGRAMME  MUST  BE  ADDRESSED  TO

DR. A. B. B. ACHARY,  Convenor, Technical Programme Committee

Mobile Number: 9432800400    E-Mail Address: abba@vecc.gov.in

All your queries related to your travel, accomodation and transport has to be sent to ctib@vecc.gov.in

or contact

Mr. C. Mallik  Convenor, Organizing Committee

Mobile Number:  9830651652  E-Mail Address:    mallik@vecc.gov.in

1/AF, Bidhan Nagar
Kolkata 700 064
West Bengal, India

         -: Important Dates :-
    Registration : 15/3/2010 To 25/3/2010
    Meeting on 26th March 2010
 
           -: Contact :- 
EMail: ctib@vecc.gov.in, mallik@vecc.gov.in
Phone: 33 23183218,09830651652, 09432800400
          -: Web site :-
Web: www.vecc.gov.in/CTIB