EDS '09, the 13th International Conference on Elastic & Diffractive Scattering (13th "Blois Workshop") will be held on 29 June – 3 July at CERN. The conference will discuss the physics of high-energy hadronic interactions with a focus on: elastic and total hadron–hadron cross-sections, soft/hard diffractive collisions, central-exclusive processes, photon-induced collisions, low-x QCD and heavy-ions, and ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays. Talks will include the status of the LHC and a discussion on experimental techniques in forward physics. See http://eds09.web.cern.ch/eds09/.
The international summer course, Digital Libraries à la Carte, will be held on 28 July – 5 August at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. The programme consists of a "menu" of seven one-day modules: Strategic Developments and Library Management; Change – Making it Happen in Your Library; Tomorrow's Library Leaders; Integrated Search Solutions Toward Catalogue 2.0; Institutional Repositories – Preservation and Advocacy; Libraries and Research Data – Embracing New Content; Libraries and Collaborative Research Communities. See http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/ticer/09carte/.
The 9th Ion Beam Analysis (IBA) Conference will be held on 7–11 September. This is a biennial series that brings together physicists, materials scientists, biologists and other scientists using ion beams for analysis. In the centenary year of the first Rutherford backscattering spectrometry experiment the 2009 meeting is being held at the University of Cambridge, where Rutherford was Cavendish Professor of Physics. It is being organized in collaboration with the Institute of Physics. For more details, see www.iba2009.org.
Sponsored by the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, the International Conference on Advanced Methods of Laser Applications in Nuclear Science and Neutron Scattering will take place on 2–7 December in Alexandria. Abstracts should be submitted to Prof. Ashraf Elsayed Mohamed Mohamed at ashraf.mohamed@physics.org or ashrafmohamed83@gmail.com. For more details, see www.iaea.org/cgi-bin/maeps.page.pl/search.htm and then select Egypt.