ARCEBS in brief

Abstract

The second international conference on Application of Radiotracers in Chemical, Environmental and Biological Sciences (ARCEBS-10) was organized by the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) in cooperation with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and was held in the SINP premises during November 7–13, 2010 in Kolkata, India. From its very inception, ‘‘ARCEBS’’ series of conference attracted researchers from all over the globe from various disciplines of science with the common thread of radiotracers or energetic ion beams. The peer community considers ARCEBS series as platform for trans-disciplinary research and exchanging ideas, ARCEBS-10 is no exception from that. ARCEBS keeps an eye on the cutting edge developments of the world on accelerator based technologies and proposed large scale future facilities like EURISOL or FAIR. This is the reason we have included an article on FAIR written by Professor Bikash Sinha, a renowned high energy physicist. By incorporating this article we would like to give the message that future generation nuclear chemists have lot to play with these kinds of huge radioisotope production facilities starting from the target development to the application of exotic radionuclides for the beneficial use of mankind. The organization of a conference like ARCEBS-10 is a collective effort and charter of cooperation of many. It is our duty to acknowledge the people whose effort made the conference a grand success. Professor Tibor Braun, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry (JRNC) readily agreed to publish ARCEBS proceedings in a special issue of JRNC. Professor A. Chatt is the Editor-in-charge for conference proceedings of JRNC. His support helped us a lot to bring out this issue. The man behind the excellent electronic submission platform of JRNC articles is Dr. Andras Schubert. All the articles were published in the fastest possible time in the ‘‘on line first’’ of JRNC due to the effort of Dr. Schubert. We express our sincere thanks to Professors Tibor Braun, A. Chatt and Andras Schubert. We are deeply indebted to Professor Milan K. Sanyal, Director, SINP, for his generous financial help to organize the conference and his encouragement and suggestions in every step of the conference. We are grateful to Dr. R. K. Bhandari, Director, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), for his cooperation towards organizing the conference both in the form of financial help and other logistic supports. We thankfully acknowledge the encouragement received from Professor Bikash Sinha, Chairman, International Advisory Committee of ARCEBS-10 and Ex-Director of SINP and VECC. Professor Sinha is always a source of inspiration to us. S. Lahiri (&) Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, India e-mail: susanta.lahiri@saha.ac.in