"The XI International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA)
  School/Workshop on Instrumentation in Elementary Particle Physics",
  sponsored by the ICFA Instrumentation, Innovation, and Development
  Panel.

ICFA2010 will take place at the Institute Balseiro, Centro Atomico,
Bariloche (CAB-IB), Argentina, January 11 through 22, 2010.

The program will follow the usual format, but many courses have been 
updated to reflect recent advances in detector technology. There will be 
lectures given by experts in the fields of particle physics, 
astroparticle physics, and particle physics instrumentation.

Lecture topics will include:

Beyond the standard model:challenges for the new generation experiments
Particle interactions with matter and detector design principles
Silicon detectors and industrial applications
Tracking in HEP
Electromagnetic and hadronic calorimetry
Particle identification
Electronics & signal processing
DAQ & trigger
From raw data to physics results
Experimental challenges and techniques for future accelerators
Astroparticle physics
Detectors for non-accelerator physics
Organic and inorganic scintillators

A number of "hands-on" laboratories will be organized in which students 
will participate in small groups:

Silicon detectors & solar energy
Ring Imaging Cerenkov Detectors
Micropattern and other gaseous detectors
Basic electronics
CCD Characterization and Readout
Deep sub-micron electronics
Extreme processors for extreme experiments
Telescope for cosmic ray measurements
Measurement of the muon lifetime
MWPC for medical applications
Detectors for medical applications
Control of large systems via PVSS and PLC
On-line programming with Labview
On-line experience with digital oscilloscopes

This is a truly international event.  We invite graduate students and
post docs from all over the world to apply to ICFA2010. Limited travel
support will be available for students coming from less industrialized
parts of the world.  Also, we have received a special award from the
National Science Foundation in the U.S. that will enable us to provide
support for air travel round-trip to Bariloche for some U.S. and Latin
American student participants.  Since we want to get good prices on air
tickets, we have set deadlines quite far in advance of the workshop for
receipt of applications and two supporting letters or recommendation,
including one from your current postdoctoral or graduate student
advisor. In anticipation of a large number of applications, we urge you
to apply immediately to assure support from the NSF travel grant or the
ICFA School account.  Please indicate in your application the level of
support you will require in order to attend.  Our Argentine hosts will p
rovide on-site housing at the Institute Balseiro free of charge for all
student participants.

There is every reason to believe that this school/workshop will be
extremely successful, perhaps the most successful ever. The
infrastructure at CAB-IB will provide excellent support for the
workshop, including the lab sessions.  San Carlos de Bariloche is in a
beautiful part of the world.  We couldn't ask for a place with better
ambiance in which to hold this event.

For further information, including the application form to be filled out
and a downloadable poster, please refer to our Web pages:

"http://particulas.cnea.gov.ar/icfa/"

The ICFA Panel on Instrumentation, Innovation, and Development and
the Local Argentine Organizing Committee