The 17th IEEE NPSS Real Time Conference RT-2010 will be held at the Congress Centre of the Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, on 24–28 May. As before, this will be a multidisciplinary conference devoted to the latest developments in real-time techniques in the fields of plasma and nuclear fusion, particle physics, nuclear physics and astrophysics, space science, accelerators, medical physics and radiation instrumentation. The conference will only feature plenary sessions, with mini-orals arranged for posters. The aim is to provide a stimulating environment and ample opportunity for discussions and fruitful exchanges, particularly for young scientists and engineers. For more details, see http://rt2010.ipfn.ist.utl.pt.
Physics in Collision 2010 will take place at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, on 1–4 September. At the meeting, invited speakers will review and update key topics in elementary particle physics with the aim of encouraging informal discussions about new experimental results and their implications. Topics will cover a range of subjects from experimental and theoretical collider physics to astroparticle physics, in particular: electroweak phenomena, QCD, neutrino physics, heavy flavour physics, Higgs physics and beyond the Standard Model. The poster session is open to contributions from all participants and short talks in plenary session will be allocated to selected posters. For more details, see www.pic2010.kit.edu.
The 12th Topical Seminar on "Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors" (IPRD10) will take place at the University of Siena, Italy, on 7–10 June. Attendance will be by invitation: interested physicists should write to the Organizing Committee, indicating name, address, affiliation and, if applicable, the title of a contribution. The deadline for submitting an abstract is 15 March, but post-deadline contributions will also be considered. A limited number of grants covering the conference fees is available for young PhD students wishing to attend the conference. For further information, see www.bo.infn.it/sminiato/siena10.html, e-mail: kaos@bo.infn.it or contact F.-L. Navarria, Dip. di Fisica, V.le Berti Pichat 6/2, I-40127 BOLOGNA.