Announcement

5th International Symposium on Development and Application of Semiconductor
Tracking Detectors

The 5th International Symposium on Development and Application of
Semiconductor Tracking Detectors (5th STD Hiroshima) will be held on June
14 - 17 at the Essor Hiroshima Hotel in Hiroshima, Japan.
On behalf of organizing committee we would like to sincerely invite you to
the symposium and ask you to contribute a paper.

The last symposium was held on March 2000. Since then, we have certainly
accumulated a vast collection of topics worthy of a new meeting. The
primary goal of this symposium is to bring experts together for discussions
of past experiences (good and bad) and allow them to scrutinize new ideas
while still in the development stage.

In addition to the above goals, we would like to summarize and review the
technologies established through this Symposium in the past, and to
identify new directions, new materials, new ideas to be developed in the
coming years.

Attached is the proposed program. Please have a look and submit your
contribution for the different sessions. Most of the topics will be
introduced by invited speakers. There will be ample time for discussions of
the posters during coffee/tea breaks.

March 12, 2004

Takashi Ohsugi, Chair of the organizing committee, Hiroshima
University
Yoshinobu Unno, KEK
Hartmut Sadrozinski, UC Santa Cruz
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Preliminary Program

June 14, Monday Morning
8:30 Registration and Opening Address
9:00 Historical overview of semiconductor tracking detectors
9:40 Silicon micro-strip detector simulations/technology

10:50 Coffee break/Poster session

11:30 Manufacturing
12:10 Silicon drift detectors
12:30 Lunch break/Poster session

June 14, Monday Afternoon
14:00 Large system applications - Lessons learned
15:30 Tea break/Poster session
16:10 Large system applications - Lessons learned, continue
16:55 Discussion on Lessons learned
18:25 Adjourn

June 15, Tuesday Morning
9:00 Pixels
10:10 CCDs

10:50 Coffee break/Poster session

11:30 Radiation tolerant materials
13:00 Lunch break/Poster session

June 15, Tuesday Afternoon
14:30 ASICs

15:40 Tea break/Poster session

16:20 Hybrid technologies/Interconnects

18:30 Symposium Dinner

June 16, Wednesday Morning
9:00 Space Applications
10:40 Coffee Break/Poster session
11:20 Space Applications, continue.

June 16, Wednesday Afternoon
Excursion (including lunch)

June 17, Thursday Morning
9:00 Medical applications
10:25 Coffee break
11:05 Future Applications in HEP

12:05 Lunch break

June 17, Thursday Afternoon
13:30 New Ideas & Future Technologies
15:40 Closing Remarks
16:00 Adjourn