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			   PRORIB2001
   
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  	It is our great pleasure to inform you that Variable Energy
  Cyclotron Centre (VECC) and Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP),
  Calcutta, India, two premier institutes engaged in accelerator based
  nuclear physics research, and The Institute of Physical and Chemical
  Research (RIKEN), Japan, a leading international laboratory pursuing 
  one of the most ambitious RIB project (the RI Beam Factory), have 
  decided to jointly organise an International Workshop on Production 
  of Radioactive Ion Beams (PRORIB 2001) during February 12-17, 2001 
  near Calcutta, INDIA.
  
  	The Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre has undertaken a project 
  to develop an ISOL-Post-Accelerator type of RIB facility which will 
  use the light ions from the existing K=130 Variable Energy Cyclotron 
  for the production of radioactive nuclides. In phase-1 (end of the 
  year 2002) RI beams upto about 500 keV/u will be accelerated. 
  Subsequently in phase-2 the energy will be upgraded to about 4 MeV/u. 
  The RIB project is being pursued in collaboration with SINP, Calcutta 
  and RIKEN, Japan, and is progressing as per the schedule. It was felt
  that it would be timely to organise an international workshop in early
  2001 with the aim to bring together the international experts in this
  field to exchange ideas on various aspects of RIB development, detector 
  systems and the utilization of RI Beams in basic and applied research.  
   
  
   Alok Chakrabarti
   Convenor
   PRORIB 2001
  
>  Address for correspondence : 
>  Alok Chakrabarti
>  Project Leader, VEC-RIB project
>  Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre 
>  1/AF, Bidhan Nagar            
>  Calcutta - 700 064, INDIA
>  Tel: 91 33 337 1230-33             
>  Fax: 91 33 334 6871            
>  e-mail: ribwshop@veccal.ernet.in 
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NB: We have already sent you by mail the symposium poster for more
information. The venue is now fixed. It will be in a very comfortable
hotel in Puri, a famous sea resort, about 300 Km from Calcutta.We will
send you the second circular shortly.