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I R P S BULLETIN Newsletter of the International Radiation Physics Society VolNo 2 49 No 3/4 December December,, 2014 2015 IRPS COUNCIL 2015 - 2018 President : Christopher Chantler (Australasia) EDITORIAL BOARD Vice Presidents : Editors Ron Tosh Larry Hudson Africa & Middle East : M.A. Gomaa (Egypt) Phone : +1 301 975 5591 Phone : +1 301 975 2537 Western Europe : J. Rodenas (Spain) email : [email protected] email : [email protected] Central & Eastern Europe : I. Krajcar Bronic (Croatia) NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8460 F.S.U. : S. Dabagov (F.S.U) Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8460, U.S.A. North East Asia : Y-H Dong (P.R.China) South East Asia : P. Sarkar (India) Associate Editors Australasia : J. Tickner (Australia) D.C. Creagh S.A. McKeown South & Central America : M. Rubio (Argentina) email : email : North America : L. Hudson (USA) [email protected] [email protected] Faculty of Education Science Technology and Mathematics Secretary : J.E. Fernandez (Italy) University of Canberra Canberra ACT 2601 Australia Treasurer : W. Dunn (USA) Chair, Advisory Board : L Musilek (Czech Republic) MEMBERSHIPS Membership Officer : E. Ry an (Australia) Membership Officer Vice President, IRRMA : R. Gardner (USA) Elaine Ryan Department of Radiation Sciences Executive Councillors: University of Sydney 75 East Street ,(P.O. Box 170) R.P. Hugtenburg (UK) A. Sood (USA) Lidcombe, N.S.W. 1825, Australia P.K.N. Yu (Hong Kong) D. Bradley (UK) email: [email protected] E. Hussein (Canada ) O. Gonçalves (Brazil) I. Lopes (Portugal) T. Trojek (Czech Republic) IRPS BULLETIN : ISSN 1328533 Printing and postage of the Bulletin, and support for the IRPS web pages, are courtesy of the University of Canberra, Canberra,Tel 001 A.C.T, (905) Australia 525 9140 Ext 23021 cell 905 906 5509 Internet Address : http://www.canberra.edu.au/irps IRPS BULLETIN : ISSN 1328533 Contents of this Journal From the Editors : ................................................................................................................... Page 3 Election Form Results : ……………………………………………………………………………….. Page 4 From the President : ................................................................................................................. Page 5 Summaries of Presentations made at ISRP-13…………..…………………………..………….... Page 7 Yvete Cauchois and her contribution to X-ray and inner-shell ionization processes by F. J. Wuilleumier : ……………………………………………………..………………....... Page 15 Conferences - ICDA-2: …………..……………….………………………………………………….... Page 36 Calendar : .................................................................................................................................. Page 37 Call for Papers - Recent Trend on Radiation Protection in Nuclear Fuel Cycle : ............... Page 38 Contacts : …………..……………………………………..………………………………………........ Page 3 ' Membership payments information : …………..………………………………………………..... Page 6 Membership Registration Form : ……….…............................................................................. Last two pages Vol 29 No 3 2. December, 2015 From the Editors Dear Reader, Welcome one and all to this final issue of volume Tomáš Trojek, and an item of historical interest 29 of the IRPS Bulletin and the end of a year in on the contributions of Yvette Cauchois to x-ray which outreach promoting radiation physics spectroscopy, written by Francois J. Wuilleumier received special emphasis through activities both (Paris-Sud University) and reprinted here with within the Society and without, as the world the kind permission of the American Physical celebrated the International Year of Light. Society. Finally, we direct your attention to the events Calendar and other notices herein Within the Society itself, 2015 witnessed the containing registration details, submission triennial election of the IRPS Executive Council deadlines and other useful information related to and the 13th International Symposium on upcoming meetings and conferences, such as the Radiation Physics (ISRP-13), in Beijing, PRC. The 2nd triennial International Conference on election results are summarized herein, and we at Dosimetry and its Applications (ICDA-2), to be the Bulletin extend hearty congratulations to the held July 3-8, 2016 in Surrey, England. new Executive Council, wishing them luck over the next three years. At the same time we bid a While the International Year of Light has come to fond farewell to outgoing Executive Officers and an end, we trust that other segments of the vast Councillors, whom we thank for steadfast service spectrum occupied by radiation physics will give over the past three years, with a special salute to fresh cause for celebration, with new departing IRPS President Ladislav Musilek, whose developments and opportunities for research and final President’s Column in this issue reflects collaboration. And so we appeal to you, our readers, upon notable accomplishments during his to keep us informed in the coming year, to let us administration, including the newly revised IRPS help you tell your stories of discovery and Constitution. Also within these pages you’ll find collaboration and outreach, as we extend to you our an engaging summary of ISRP-13, contributed by warmest wishes for the holiday season and hopes Executive Councillors Richard Hugtenberg and for a prosperous and busy 2016! Ron Tosh and Larry Hudson Election Form results on following page Contacts Items for the Bulletin : Ron Tosh, Larry Hudson Membership Enquiries : Elaine Ryan Layout and distribution of the Bulletin : Shirley McKeown Web Pages : Shirley McKeown Contact addresses for the above are listed in the IRPS information on page 2. Internet Address : http://www.canberra.edu.au/irps Vol 29 No 3/4 3. December, 2015 The results of our recent, triennial election are in, and we congratulate all new officers and members of the Executive Council! We also acknowledge the efforts of the previous Council to revise the IRPS Constitution, which was formally ratified in the same election. Vol 29 No 3/4 4. December, 2015 FROM THE PRESIDENT Dear friends, dear colleagues, after three years as possibility to start one more series of conferences President of IRPS, I write my last President’s to fill this gap. The 1st International Conference on Column. Therefore, though I am not a friend of Dosimetry and its Applications (ICDA), we hope, evaluating reports, I feel that it should be useful has started this new series of scientific events, in to summarise briefly this last period in the life of which our Society is engaged. ICDA-2 is currently our Society, to share with you my views, where we being organized. succeeded and those areas that we can work And, last but not least, I should like to mention our together to improve. Bulletin, which has accompanied us for many years The previous Constitution of the Society was in and which was years ago step-by-step transformed some aspects a bit obsolete and did not correspond from the printed form to the electronic one. Let to the actual practice of the Society. The revision me express my thanks to its Editors, as I am of the Constitution, which has been just approved convinced that they have been doing a great work; by a correspondence voting, follows the main spirit the quality and information value of this periodical and ideas of the original version, but specifies has been therefore substantially increased. In this better some activities, rights and duties of the context, I should like to invite all of you to Society and its Council members, position and goals collaborate more actively with the Editors. of the Advisory Board, the way of elections, and Anytime, when you have some interesting the organisation of the scientific conferences in information, news, or you feel competent to review which IRPS is involved. It does not further include some branch of radiation physics, do not hesitate the life-long membership in the Society, which has to contact them, to send them an article, never been put into effect, and on the other hand, information or notice for publication. it endorses the awarding of honorary memberships. Let us turn now to the parts of our activities that As you could notice, three of our colleagues, would benefit from more local engagement or Professors Malcolm Cooper, Dudley Creagh and collaborations among the membership. First of all, Richard Pratt, who have substantially contributed we have not steadily increased our membership and to the life of the Society, have been recognized in we can find regions and countries in which we have this way. It would be too long and boring to only a few or even no members. This should be one mention here all the amendments to the of our goals for the future development of the Constitution; you have the full text in the June Society. The other issue is the membership fee 2015 issue of the IRPS Bulletin. payment. Though we keep the level of fee at the The other substantial contribution to the life of minimum possible level, some members do not pay it the Society has been the portfolio of scientific in time and some members even do not react when conferences that we endorse and organize. Our our Membership Officer sends a reminder. Because main scientific meeting, the International of the low level of the fee, I believe that this fact Symposium on Radiation Physics (ISRP), is no longer is caused by listlessness and not by thrift; the only periodic conference co-organised by the indifferent members are probably even more Society. Close scientific and personal relations to dangerous