Programme

October 1

 
Arrival in Erice, welcome party  
   

October 2

 
9:00 Registration, welcome
9:20 - 10:00 Marco Durante (GSI Helmholtzzntrum für Schwerionenforschung, Germany)
  Introduction: common research topics for hadrons in tehrapy and space
   
Particle therapy Chairperson: Karin Haustermans (ESTRO, Belgium)
   
10:00 - 10:40 Hak Choy (UT Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX, USA)
  Hypofractionation with photons and hadrons
   
10:40 - 11:20 Jürgen Debus (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
  Clinical trials: protons vs. carbon ions
   
11:20 - 11:40 Coffee break
   
11:40 - 12:20 Jay S. Loeffler (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA)
  Proton therapy for malignant and benign diseases
   
12:20 - 13:00 Marco Schwarz (ATreP, Trento, Italy)
  Medical physics in particle therapy
   
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
   
14:30 - 15:10 Nancy Tarbell (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA)
  Risk of second cancers in particle therapy
   
15:10 - 15:50 Reinhard Schulte (Loma Linda Medical Center, CA, USA)
  Protons in therapy and space
   
15:50 - 16:10 Coffee break
   
16:10 - 16:50 Piero Giubilato (University of Padua, Italy)
  Accelerator-based facilities in Europe for space and medical research
   
16:50 - 17:30 Manjit Dosanjh (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
  CERN for particle therapy research
   

October 3

 
   
Space radiation risk Chairperson: Kerry George (NASA Johnson Space Center, USA)
   
9:30 - 10:10 Francis A. Cucinotta (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA)
  Radiation risk for the mission to Mars
   
10:10 - 11:00 Günther Reitz (DLR, Cologne, Germany)
  The Mars Science Laboratory radiation measurements on Mars
   
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
   
11:30 - 12:10 Eamonn Daly (ESTEC, ESA, Nordwijk, The Netherlands)
  Radiation damage to microelectronics
   
12:10 - 13:00 Ulrich Straube (ESA, Cologne, Germany)
  Medical issues in spaceflight
   
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
   
14:30-15:10 Chiara La Tessa (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)
  Applied nuclear physics for therapy and space radiation protection
   
15:10 - 15:50 Lembit Sihver (Chalmers University, Sweden)
  Transport codes for charged particles in matter
   
15:50 - 16:10 Coffee break
   
16:10 - 16:50 William J. Burger (INFN, Perugia, Italy)
  SR2S-RD. Space Radiation Superconducting Shield
   
16:50 - 17:30 Shayne C. Westover (NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA)
  Magnetic architectures and active radiation shielding system – supporting missions beyond Low Earth Orbit
   

October 4

 
   
9:15 - 10:00 Roberto Battiston (ASI, Italy)
  Space radiation research: future plans
   
10:00 - 11:00 Discussion: dose limits for the mission to Mars – chairperson: Francis Cucinotta
   
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
   
11:30 - 12:30  Discussion: late risks in particle therapy – chairperson: Nancy Tarbell
   
12:30 Lunch