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SECOND
INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE STUDY OF RADIATION
EFFECTS IN MATTER.
Fodele Beach Hotel, Crete, Greece
7th -11th September, 2008 |
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Festschrift. The Organizing Committee are also arranging this meeting to be a Festschrift to recognize George Carter of the University of Salford to celebrate his contributions to the general field of Radiation Effects in Matter for more than fifty years. George completed his PhD in 1959 at the University of Liverpool. His thesis on "the electrical clean up of some inert gases in hot cathode discharge tubes" set the tone of his research for the rest of his career. He joined the University of Salford in 1968 to take up a Chair in Physical Electronics, which later became the Chair of Electronic Materials and Devices. He headed the Atomic Collision in Solids group at Salford for 25 years. During that time he published over 450 papers, 5 books and edited a number of conference proceedings in the field. He is probably best known for the book he co-wrote with John Colligon in 1968 "The Ion Bombardment of Solids". The research group he set up at Salford with Bill Grant, John Colligon, Dave Armour and others became a well known centre for ion beam applications across the world. |
The group soon started attracting visitors
such as Lew
Chadderton (honoured at the previous conference), John Davies, Raul
Baragiola, Jim Williams, Rob Elliman,
Salvador Cruz, and many others from all parts of the globe. Many others
such as Steve Donnelley, Jaap van den Berg, Dave Ingram, Roger Webb,
Georgre Kiriakidis, Ken Snowden, Paul Bailey spent their formative
years there and became entangled with this field. Many of us in the ion
beam community owe a lot to George and his group at Salford. The field
has moved on over the past 40 years and has expanded into many
technological areas. This meeting gives us an opportunity to provide an
update on this field of research that was pioneered by people like
George.