Scientific Program (preliminary)

Sunday 18.30-19.30 - "Lectio Magistralis" of Prof. (em) Ignazio Renato Bellobono : The Chemistry in Italy during the century of Alessandro Volta (born in Como 1745), Luigi Galvani (1737), Amedeo Avogadro (1776), Stanislao Canizzaro (1826), Ugo Schiff (1834), Emanuele Paternò (1847).

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SESSION 1 - Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry (radiodiagnostics, radiotherapy, theragnostics). Session convenors:  Silvia JURISSON (tentative) and John CLARK (tentative)

- Opening Lecture - Future prospects in diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine, Prof. Jean Francois Chatal, University of Nantes and GIF Arronax, Nantes, France.

- Invited Lecture - Theragnostic radiopharmaceuticals: an emerging paradigm empowering Personalized Medicine, Dr. Suresh Srivastava, BNL, Upton, New York, USA.

- Invited Lecture - On the road from radiopharmacy to Molecular Imaging: The fundamental role of Technetium and Rhenium Chemistry, Prof. Roger Alberto, University of Zuerich, Switzerland.

- Invited Lecture - Coordination chemistry and  radiochemistry: distinct approaches with common targets in the radiopharmaceutical field, Dr. Francesco Tisato, National Research Council, CNR, Padova, Italy.

-Invited Lecture -    A renaissance of radionuclide generators for versatile applications, Prof. Frank Roesch, Johannes Guetenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany.

- Invited Lecture - ??????

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SESSION 2 - Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry (radiodiagnostics, radiotherapy, theragnostics). Session convenors: Gideon STEYN and Jean Francois CHATAL

  - Opening Lecture - (tentative title) Radiofluorination techniques and microfluidic radiochemical reactors Prof. Ren Iwata, CYRIC, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

- Invited Lecture (tentative title) Labelling techniques of organic radiopharmaceuticals Prof. Joerg Steinbach, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany.

- Invited Lecture - PET Radionuclide Production in a Medical Setting, Dr. Jason Lewis, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, USA.

- Invited Lecture - Ga-68 labelling stategies and associated quality control aspects, Prof. Gerd Meyer, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany.

- Invited Lecture - Alpha particle targeted radionuclide therapy or astatine-211 labeled targeted radiotherapeutics, Prof. Michael R. Zalutsky, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

- Invited Lecture - M. Malpha

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SESSION II - Nuclear fuel cycles, present Gen III+ NPPs, Gen IV and Th based reactors. Session convenors: Cathy CUTLER and Ignazio Renato BELLOBONO

- Invited Lecture - (tentative title)..... Prof. Marco Ricotti, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy.

- Invited Lecture - Update of Gen-IV reactors and lead cooled reactors, Dr. Ing. Luciano Cinotti, xxxxx, Genova, Italy.

- Invited Lecture - updated nuclear fuel cycles, Ru

- Invited Lecture - Chemistry of Thorium based fuels for their utilization in nuclear energy production, Prof. Suresh Kumar Aggarwal, BARC, Trombay, Mumbay, India.

- Invited Lecture - Dr. Ing. Andrea Borio, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.

- Invited Lecture - PP MTransmutation /RU/US/BE

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SESSION III - Nuclear Chemistry, Radionuclide Production, High-Power Targetry. Session convenors: Zoltan HOMONNAY and Mauro BONARDI

- Opening Lecture - Recent advances in nuclear data research for medical radionuclide production, Prof. Syed M. Qaim, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Juelich, Germany.

- Invited Lecture - (tentative) Cross section determination of FS / H

-Invited Lecture - (tentative), Radionuclide production studies by heavy ion beams, Prof. Susanta Lahiri, India.

- Invited Lecture - (tentative) Overview of PET radionuclide production methods, Prof. John Clark, The Queen's Medical Research Institute, Edinburgh, UK.

- Invited Lecture - Nuclear reactor production of radionuclides for molecular imaging and targeted radiotherapy, Prof. Cathy Cutler, MURR, University of Missouri, USA.

- Invited Lecture - Radionuclides and Radiopharmaceuticals at POLATOM, Dr. Renata Mikołajczak, Polatom, Poland.

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afternoon SESSION convenors: Syed M. Qaim and Meera Venkatesch (tentative)

- Opening Lecture - The Road to Cyclotron Tc-99m, Prof. Steve McQuarrie, University of Alberta, Canada.

- Invited Lecture - Cyclotron production of radionuclides with medium-energy proton beams and high-power targetry, Dr. Gideon Steyn, iThemba LABS, Faure, South Africa.

- Invited lecture - Radionuclide production at accelerator with High Power Targets, Dr. Boris Zhuikov, INR, Troitsk, Moskow Region, Russia.

- Invited Lecture - Recent advances in large scale isotope production at LANL, Dr. Meiring Francois Nortier, Isotope Production Facility, LANL, USA.

-Invited Lecture -  ARRONAX: on the way to the production of radioisotopes with high-power targets, Dr. Ferid Haddad, Subatech and GIF Arronax, Nantes, France.

- Invited Lecture - Use of radioactive targets for production of therapy radionuclides at the Brookhaven Linac Isotope Producer, Dr. Leonard Mausner, BNL, Upton, New York, USA.

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SESSION IV - Radioanalytical Chemistry and Nuclear Analytical Techniques. Session convenors: and Enrico Sabbioni

- Invited Lecture - PGAA in high flux reactor, Prof. Zsolt Revay, Institute of Isotopes, Budapest, Hungary.

- Invited Lecture - Neutron activation analysis in agriculture (tentative), Prof. Elisabete De Nadai Fernanzez, CENA, Piracicaba, Brazil.

- Invited Lecture - (tentative title) Neutron activation analysis, reference materials, accurate measurements, Dr. Rolf Zeisler, NIST, Gaitherburg, USA.

- Invited Lecture - (tentative title) Metrology and error analysis in nuclear analytical techniques, Dr. Richard Lindstrom, NIST, Gaitherburg, USA.

- Invited Lecture - (tentative) Elemental Speciation by analytical and radioanalytical techniques, Prof. Amares Chatt, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.

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SESSION V -  Applications of radioactive tracers and nanoparticles. Session convenors: Amares Chatt and Xiaolin Hou

- Opening Lecture - Nuclear and Radioanalytical Techniques  in Nanotoxicology Research, Dr. Enrico Sabbioni, Università di Chieti and Milano, Italy.

- Invited Lecture - (tentative), Prof. (em) France de Corte, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.

- Invited Lecture - The use of radionuclear techniques in the identification and investigation of selenoproteins and arsenoproteins, Prof. Dietrich Behne, Helmholtz Centre, Berlin, Germany.

- Invited Lecture - (tentative) Radiochemical neutron activation analysis: basics and applications, Prof. Jan Kucera, Technical University, Retz, Czeck Republic.

- Invited Lecture - Radiotracers in the waste of a nuclear facility (tentative), Dr. Dorothea Schumann, PSI, Villigen, Switzerland.

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SESSION VI - Chemistry of radioelements and Super Heavy Elements research. Session convenors: Heinz Gaeggeler and Matthias Schaedel (tentative)

- Opening Lecture - The Expanding Periodic Table:  New Discoveries and Chemistry of the Heaviest, Prof. Heino Nitsche, University of California at Berkeley, USA.

- Invited Lecture - (tentative) Nuclear reactions spectroscopy of SHE, Prof. Rolf-Dietmar (Rodi) Herzberg, Liverpool, UK.

- Invited Lecture - (tentative title) The unique chemical and physical properties of the heaviest elements in the Periodic Table, Prof. Dr. Jens Volkert Kratz,  Institut für Kernchemie, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany.

- Invited Lecture - (tentative title) - Vacuum thermochromatography - prospective method for heavies element studies, Prof. Ivo Zvara, JINR, Moskow Region, Russia.

- Invited Lecture - Recent advances in Superheavy Element Research, Prof. Andreas Tuerler, University of Bern and PSI, Villigen, Switzerland.

- Invited Lecture - Aqueous-phase chemistry of the heaviest elements, Dr. Yuichiro Nagame, Tokai, Ibaraki, Japan.

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SESSION VII -  Reaction mechanisms and nuclear recoils, nuclear based spectroscopies (MOSSPEC and PAS), radiation geochronology, isotope effects. Session convenors:  Dorothea Schuman and Zsolt Revay

- Opening Lecture -  (tentative title), Prof. Zoltan Homonnay, Eotvos Lorand University Budapest, Budapest, Hungary.

- Invited Lecture - Half-lives of radionuclides for geological use: 2011 evaluations for U-235 and U-234  (IUPAC-IUGS collaboration), Prof. Igor Villa, Institut für Geologie, Universität Bern, Switzerland and University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.

- Invited Lecture - Rapid radiochemical analysis of radionuclides in environmental and nuclear waste (tentative title), Dr. Xiaolin Hou, Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark.

- Invited Lecture - Aspects for consideration when selecting a Chelator for in vivo Generators, Dr. Jan Rijn Zeevaart, xxxxxxxx NECSA, South Africa.

- Invited Lecture - TELMA low background, Dr. Ezio Previtali, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.

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SESSION VIII - Radioactive elements in the environment, radiation archeometry and Health Physics. Session convenors:  Alexandra Ioannidou and Giacomo Cuttone (tentative)

- Opening Lecture - Environmental Radiochemistry - new trends in radionuclide tracing of environmental processes, Prof. Pavel Povinec, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.

- Invited Lecture - (tentative title) Mixed field radiation dosimetry in BNCT and external radiotherapy, Prof. Grazia Gambarini, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy.

- Invited Lecture - (tentative title) Speciation of actinoids in environmental specimen, Prof. Tobias Reich, Johannes Guetenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany.

- Invited Lecture - Determination of U-236 in environmental samples, Prof. Gabriele Wallner, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria.

- Invited Lecture - (tentative) Environmental radioactivity determination, Dr. Borut Smodis, Jozef Stefan Institute, xxxxx, Slovenia.

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SESSION IX - Education in radiochemistry and dissemination of culture in nuclear and radiochemistry, "session organised by CINCH consortium". Session convenors: Rolf Zeisler and Flavia Groppi

- Opening Lecture - Environmental effects of the Fukushima accident, Prof. Jukka Lehto, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

- Invited Lecture (tentative) - Prof. Jan John, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czeck Republic.

- Invited Lecture - (tentative) Archeometry and Cultural Heritage by radioanalytical techniques Prof. Juan Manuel Navarrete, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.

- Invited Lecture - (tentative title) Terminology, quantities and units in radiation science and technology, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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• Meeting of the Board of Radiochimica Acta 2 hours in separated U table room

• Meeting of th Board of NRC 2 hours in separated U table room

• Meeting of th Board of DNRC of EuCheMS 2 hours in separated U table room

• Meeting of GIR of the Italian Society of Chemistry 2  hours in separated U table room