Michigan State Hosts Top Labs' Nuclear Scientists
EAST LANSING (AP) -- Michigan State University says 220 top nuclear scientists from around the world are coming to the East Lansing campus for a three-day meeting starting Thursday.
The university says it's the first joint user meeting of researchers who work at four of the nation's leading nuclear science facilities.
Those are Michigan State's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and its upcoming Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, the Argonne Tandem Linac Accelerator System at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, and the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
The meeting runs through Saturday at the Biomedical and Physical Sciences building.
The university says scientists are coming from 48 institutions in 23 states and nine countries.
Details of the meetings may be found at http://meetings.nscl.msu.edu/superuser2011.
