SCINT 2026 Summer School
May 23th AND 24th, 2026
Future Science Building, Kyungpook National University, Daegu
The SCINT conference series focuses on scintillation science, with a primary emphasis on inorganic materials. Since SCINT 2011 in Giessen (Germany), a summer school has been organized on the weekend preceding each SCINT conference.
The SCINT Summer School is designed for scientists and students entering the field of scintillation, offering a comprehensive introduction to this multidisciplinary area. The program covers a wide range of topics, from material preparation and performance measurement to the mechanisms of energy relaxation leading to light emission, as well as engineering aspects related to practical applications.
The school features lectures delivered by leading experts in the field, providing participants with both foundational knowledge and insights into the latest developments. Beyond the scientific program, the event encourages networking and community building, fostering future connections and collaborations among attendees.
Participants will also have the opportunity to present their research projects through short oral presentations (one-slide “pitch talks”), promoting discussion and feedback in an informal and supportive environment.
The school will take place at Kyungpook National University’s Future Science building in Daegu, which is a separate location from the main SCINT2026 conference venue. (The building across from KNU Natural Science Building 2)
TOPICS AND LECTURERS
| May 22, 2026 (Friday) | |
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| 17:00 – 18:00 | Registration |
| May 23, 2026 (Saturday) | |
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| 10:00 – 11:00 | Christophe Dujardin – Introduction to Scintillation Science |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Youngduk Kim – Scintillators for the Rare Event Search |
| Lunch (12:00 – 13:30) | |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Pieter Dorenbos – The Scintillation mechanisms and fundamental limits of scintillator performance |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Anne-Laure Bulin – Nanoscintillators for Therapy |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Student Pitch |
| Coffee Break (16:00 – 16:30) | |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Jae Sung Lee – Detector and Medical Imaging |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | Scintillation and Semiconductor Lab Tour |
| Social Dinner (from 18:30) | |
| May 24, 2026 (Sunday) | |
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| 09:00 – 10:00 | Francesca Cova – The Role of Defects in Scintillation |
| Coffee Break (10:00 – 10:30) | |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | Aurélie Bessière – From Scintillation to Persistent Luminescence: Shared Mechanisms and New Opportunities |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Weronika W. Wolszczak – Nonproportionality of Scintillators: From Phenomenology to Microscopic |
| Lunch (12:30 – 13:30) | |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Guillaume Bertrand – The Organic Scintillator Family: Liquids, Plastics, Crystals and Glasses |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Yuriy Zorenko – Crystal Growth of Scintillators |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Student Pitch |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Vivek Nagarkar – Scintillators from an Industrial Perspective |
| Closing & Transfer to Gyeongju for SCINT2026 Conference | |
SOCIAL EVENT LOCATIONS
to be announced
May 23th
- to be announced