The Gordon Research Seminar on Radiation Chemistry is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas. The Radiation Chemistry GRS is a newly established and exciting addition to the highly unique and successful parent Gordon Research Conference (GRC): Radiation Driven Processes in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Industry. The GRS will bolster the small-format GRC meeting that has focused on the chemical and physical science of ionizing radiation since 1953.
The overarching objective of this conference is to promote and catalyze the interchange of new ideas and recent discoveries of early career scientists within the basic radiation sciences of physics, chemistry, and biology, and to facilitate translating this knowledge to applications in medicine and industry. This meeting, run and operated by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, promotes the development of new and innovative cross-disciplinary ideas vital to answering questions currently investigated in the radiation chemistry fields.
Capitalizing on its interdisciplinary platform, the GRS provides a unique opportunity to both educate and promote the next generation of scientists interested in radiation-driven processes. By fostering interactions between young investigators, the GRS establishes a camaraderie that extends into the GRC and increases opportunities for young investigators to interact with leaders in all of the radiation science fields. The GRS will directly correlate to, and have a synergistic relationship with, the traditional "Young Investigators Session" hosted by the GRC that is designed to showcase early career scientists by giving them an opportunity to present and discuss their work with a diverse audience populated with leaders in fields that span all of the radiation sciences.
The GRS, which is organized, run, and attended, only by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, is held 1 day prior to the GRC. There will be 4 sessions encompassing a minimum of 4 topics selected to complement and augment the topics presented during the GRC.
