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International School on Nuclear Methods and Applied Research in Environmental, Material, and Life Sciences (NUMAR-2025)

The International School On Nuclear Methods and Applied Research in Environmental, Material, and Life Sciences (NUMAR-2025) will take place in Havana (Cuba) on 24–27 February 2025. The organizers are the Joint Institute For Nuclear Research and the Agency of Nuclear Energy and Advanced Technologies (AENTA, Cuba).

All lectures will be given by the scientists from JINR and the Institute’s partner organizations. The working language is English. Participation is available for students finishing their third year of Bachelor studies, Master’s, and PhD students from Latin America.

You can send your application until 10 January 2025 via the link.

The school will be organized in the form of several courses into life sciences, environmental studies, and materials science. Each course will start with an introduction to the subject and discuss its development up to the modern studies. In addition, the students will learn about the opportunities to participate in the related scientific activities in the JINR laboratories and partner institutions of the JINR Member States and Associated Members.

The life science courses will include lectures on:

• production of radiopharmaceuticals and theranostics (development of drugs used both as early diagnostic tools and therapeutic agents at the same time) in nuclear medicine;
• physics and technology of hadron therapy of tumours;
• modern radiation detectors in medical imaging;
• radiation biology and its applications in space research and radiation therapy;
• radiation neuroscience;
• astrobiology;
• biomedical applications of nanostructures;
• high performance computing and data processing in radiation biology and medicine.

The environmental science courses will focus on:

• radioecology;
analytical techniques in environmental studies and nanotechnology;
• new technologies of wastewater treatment;
• nuclear technologies for dating and imaging in environmental sciences and cultural heritage studies;
• laser technologies applications in accelerators and seismology;
• artificial intelligence and machine learning in agriculture and environmental studies.

The materials science courses will discuss:

• neutron and x-ray scattering for studies of biological systems;
• molecular dynamics simulations in soft matter research and drug design;
• structural studies and radiation hardening of functional, complex, and nanocomposite materials.