CANPS Report Stefan Ritt – Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

March 6th, 2010NPSS AdCom, Monterey2 RT09 RT09 in Beijing was a big success Special Issue of IEEE TNS for RT2009 Review Process just completed Senior Editor: Sascha Schmeling Associate Editors: Christian Bohm, Günter Eckerlin, Réjean Fontaine, Wolfgang Kühn, Niko Neufeld, Volker Schmidt 51 out of 69 papers accepted for publication from Astrophysics, Medical Imaging, Nuclear and Plasma Physics, Particle Accelerators and Particle Physics Experiments Some rejected papers suggested to other IEEE journals, others will be re- submitted

March 6th, 2010NPSS AdCom, Monterey3 RT10 RT10 after RT05, RT07, RT09 (Beijing)  break “odd-year” rule “Institute based” in the center of Lisbon Chairs: Carlos Varandas and Bruno Goncalves Official Abstract Submission Deadline just passed 160+ abstracts so far  180+ attendants National composition of attendants very interesting (  Patrick’s talk)

March 6th, 2010NPSS AdCom, Monterey4 RT10 Committee CANPS Technical Committee: 32 active people, review of 160+ abstracts almost finished Program Chair: Patrick Le Dû Award Chair: Jean-Pierre Martin Poster Session Chair: Christian Bohm Publications: Dora Merelli NPSS Budget Liaison: Tony Lavietes TNS Editor: Sasha Schmeling

March 6th, 2010NPSS AdCom, Monterey5 RT10 Program Details Expect heavy contribution of Real Time Aspects in Fusion and Plasma Physics Short courses on May 23 rd xTCA Workshop (Ray Larson) Digital Pulse Processing (CAEN with demonstration) GPU Programming with demonstration (Martin Purschke) Industrial/Institutional Exhibit Plan of 6-5 invited overview talks for opening sessions: xTCA, FPGA Programming, Triggering, Fusion, Astro-particle Physics, Real Time in Medicine All-plenary talks “Mini-Orals”: Poster presenters can opt to give a 3-minute presentation before their corresponding poster session 4 Student Awards (4 IEEE certificates, 2 x 500$) CANPS Award: will be decided in the next days Social Events: Reception, Dinner, ½ day Excursion

March 6th, 2010NPSS AdCom, Monterey6 RT12 Follow our tradition US – Europe – Asia  RT12 should go to US Current plan: Bay Area (Berkeley) Keep the participation from Asia and the Fusion Community RT14 in Asia