Volume 4, Number 1
April 2006

Annual Meeting News

Plan to Attend the INMM 47th Annual Meeeting
By Charles Pietri
Chair, INMM Technical Program Committee

Believe it or not the INMM 47th Annual meeting is upon us. INMM Annual Meetings are always highly successful and appreciated by our attendees. The 2006 meeting will be an outstanding event this summer with a record breaking 400+ papers and 51 sessions. As you must already know, the 47 th Annual Meeting will be held in the Nashville Convention Center and Marriott Renaissance Hotel in Nashville, Tenn., USA, July 16-20.

Annual Meeting highlights include:

• Opening Plenary Speaker Dr. Olli J. Heinonen, deputy director general, head of the Department of Safeguards, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
• More than 50 technical sessions to choose from including Civil, Homeland and Public Security and University Nonproliferation Education and Training Programs
• Student Orientation and Initiative Meeting – mentorship opportunities available
• Fun! At our Awards Banquet we’re going to have a live band with that Nashville sound. C’mon y’all!
• Annual Golf Outing and 3K Fun Run

Details are available on the INMM Web site—www.inmm.org/meetings. Find the preliminary program, hotel and travel information, and much more.

Register before June 15 and save $50 on the registration fee! If you are one of the lucky speakers this year, remember that your final paper is due no later than June 16. Awards for all those speakers submitting their paper on time. (Write that paper now! And get your management, sponsor and classification approvals early.)

Students, those of you who plan to present a paper will only be eligible for the for the J. D. Williams Student Paper Award if your final written paper is submitted on time –don’t miss out on this opportunity.

Hotel Reservations – If you are so unfortunate to have to cancel your plans for attending the Annual Meeting, be sure to cancel your hotel reservations also so other attendees on the hotel waiting list can be placed.

A final reminder – If you must cancel your presentation for any reason, change speakers, modify abstract or any other meeting detail, let us know as soon as possible but at least before the Final Program goes to press on June 1. Then you won’t be embarrassed by having it publicly noted in the program that you withdrew your paper – and your colleagues will appreciate your consideration.

Looking forward to next year, please remember that 2007 Call for Papers will not be published in hard copy; available as electronic copy only.

We hope to see you all soon in Nashville. Wear your hat and boots but please leave your horse outside!