WELCOME to TWEPP-12 Oxford, 17 – 21 September 2012

TWEPP-12 Content 206 participants [238 in 2011, 188 in 2010] 120 presentations (56 orals & 64 posters) [48 orals & 76 posters] 12 invited talks [13] 4 Working Group Meetings (MUG/SEU, optoelectronics, power, xTCA) [4] Topical session on “Use of FPGA’s in Presence of Radiation” Tutorial on “Signal Integrity in High Speed Designs” TWEPP-12 Opening philippe.farthouat@cern.ch

Some Statistics (Participants) TWEPP-12 Opening philippe.farthouat@cern.ch

Some Statistics (Contributions) TWEPP-12 Opening philippe.farthouat@cern.ch

Programme at a Glance TWEPP-12 Opening philippe.farthouat@cern.ch

Feedback from TWEPP-11 & Associated Changes Fees to be kept reasonable Poster session to be long enough and poster should be grouped 325 € (+75 € for tutorial) in 2009 330 € (+100 € for tutorial) in 2010 Two sessions this year with 32 posters per session 350 € (+100 € for tutorial) in 2011 However must fit in the available facility 324 € this year, INCLUDING lunches and tutorial; no late bird rate Timing to be respected... Some invited talks “too much marketing” 20-mn for the talks Session conveners to be strict No company talk this year and a lot of teachers involved The evaluation form for this year will appear on Indico during the week Working groups too much as an extra sessions with presentations only Please take time to fill it Reduced number of presentations this year and “discussion organisation” TWEPP-12 Opening philippe.farthouat@cern.ch

Posters Two Poster Sessions Posters to be in place Tuesday & Thursday afternoon For session 1: from today until Wednesday noon 32 posters per session For session 2: from Wednesday noon to Friday noon Grouped by topics TWEPP-12 Opening philippe.farthouat@cern.ch

Posters Location TWEPP-12 Opening philippe.farthouat@cern.ch

Proceedings Use of JINST as last two years A lot of benefits Open access Reference JINST Proceedings Section Nice WEB site to present the articles and possibility to include into them color pictures, video, … Online-only, peer- reviewed Journal of Instrumentation, published by SISSA & IOPP However it comes with constraints... TWEPP-12 Opening philippe.farthouat@cern.ch

Proceedings (cont) Papers MUST be prepared with the JINST template All papers will be reviewed The review process increases the quality of the articles Number of pages limited Latex and MS-WORD versions available You might be requested to do some corrections within a given time limit If not used, the article will just be rejected Copyright assigned to the Institute of Physics Publishing You might be asked to do some review work Please take time to proof read the text before submission and to involve all the signatories in this process Or agreement giving License to Publish Submission via the JINST site before November 1st TWEPP-12 Opening philippe.farthouat@cern.ch

Proceedings (cont) Detailed instructions to authors available on the TWEPP-12 site under the “Contributions” tab on the Indico site under the “Proceedings” tab TWEPP-12 Opening philippe.farthouat@cern.ch

As Usual... Countdown clocks for speaker and chairman 15 min (35) + 5 min left + STOP! There are electrical power for laptops in auditorium but your are asked to refrain reading emails during presentations TWEPP-12 Opening philippe.farthouat@cern.ch

Smart Phone Application Conference4me Free application from the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center Access to Indico, venue information, ... Install from Apple Store or Google Play TWEPP-12 Opening philippe.farthouat@cern.ch

Acknowledgements & the industrial exhibitors Agilent CAEN Hytec Electronics Wiener TWEPP-12 Opening philippe.farthouat@cern.ch

Last Year... TWEPP-12 Opening philippe.farthouat@cern.ch

Asterix is back! TWEPP-12 Opening philippe.farthouat@cern.ch

Acknowledgements & the industrial exhibitors Agilent CAEN Hytec Electronics Wiener TWEPP-12 Opening philippe.farthouat@cern.ch