Quy Nhon, Vietnam, ICISE Conference Center, 22^nd – 26^th April 2024

Conference e-mail: [email protected]

Conference website: https://indico.cern.ch/event/940112

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again! The IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) and its technical committee on Computer Applications in Nuclear and Plasma Sciences (CANPS) invite you to Quy Nhon, Vietnam for the 24^th edition of the Real Time Conference (RT2024). Back in the Spring of 2020 as the world was closing down, we were forced to shift the planned Quy Nhon Real Time conference to a virtual platform.  In April 2024, we are excited to try again. It will be our first return to an in-person event since 2018.

Real Time is an interdisciplinary conference, held every two years, devoted to the latest developments of real-time computing, data acquisition, transport and processing techniques in the related fields including — nuclear and particle physics, nuclear fusion and nuclear power instrumentation, astrophysics and space instrumentation, medical physics and imaging, real-time security and safety and general radiation instrumentation. The upcoming RT2024 conference will be held at the ICISE Conference Center in the beautiful coastal city of Quy Nhon, Vietnam. It is directly accessible via a domestic flight from either Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City international airports. The conference dates are Monday – Friday April 22^nd – 26^th, 2024.

Real Time is a smaller conference (typically around 200 participants) with a more specialized focus. We hold only plenary and poster sessions. In addition, plenary mini-orals will be offered for accepted poster submissions. This format allows for a more engaged and stimulating environment for discussion and exchange, particularly for students and younger scientists and engineers. Papers submitted at the conference will have the option for peer review and, if accepted, will be published in a special edition of the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science journal.

A pre-conference program is planned for both Saturday and Sunday April 20^th – 21^st,. This program will be a two-day workshop focusing on a selection of open-source tools and resources currently available and actively maintained to support development of FPGA and ASIC designs and applications. Participants will have both classroom instruction as well as hands-on coding sessions with instructors. There is funding available through NPSS grants for attendance and potentially lodging. More information on the workshop can be found on the RT2024 conference website.

All students presenting their original research at the conference are encouraged to enter the Student Paper Award competition. Winning participants can receive a certificate and a cash prize of up to $500. They will also have the opportunity to highlight their work in a future NPSS newsletter article. Details on requirements to enter can be found on the conference website.

We welcome correspondence to inquire about how your research might fit within our program. There are also plans for an industry program. Abstract submission for both oral and poster presentations will be closing in December. Registration for the conference will open in January. All details including key dates and submission guidelines can be found on the conference website. Please consider joining us. On behalf of the CANPS committee we look forward to welcoming you to Quy Nhon, Vietnam in April 2024. 

David J Abbott, CANPS Chair, can be reached by E-mail at [email protected]