| Saturday 30 September Registration open from 18:00 | ||
| Sunday 1 October 2006 | ||
| Morning: Visit to Modane Underground Laboratory | ||
| Afternoon Session 1 Screening facilities | ||
| 14:00 | Welcome | |
| 14:10 | American facilities, status of DUSEL (25') | Priscilla Cushman (Univ. of Minnesota) |
| 14:40 | European Underground Laboratories and ILIAS(25') | Fabrice Piquemal (CENBG, Bordeaux) |
| 15:10 | SNOLAB-Design and Status of a New Underground Laboratory (25') | Richard Ford (SNOLAB) |
| 15:35 | Questions and discussion (15') | |
| Coffee break | ||
| Afternoon Session 2 Neutron and muon induced background, Isotope production | ||
| 16:00 | Neutron backgrounds (20') | Vitaly Kudryavtsev (Univ. of Sheffield) |
| 16:25 | Neutron background measurements at the Modane Underground Laboratory (20') | Evgeny Yakushev (JINR, Dubna) |
| 16:50 | Muon induced signals and Isotope production in GERDA (20') | Luciano Pandola (Gran Sasso) |
| 17:15 | Measurement of the cosmogenic 11C background with the Borexino Counting Test Facility (20') | Davide Franco (Univ. of Milano) |
| 17:40 | Passive shielding in CUORE (20') | Fabio Bellini (Univ. of Roma) |
| 18:00 | Questions and discussion (20') | |
| Monday 2 October 2006 | ||
| Morning Session 3 Low background counting techniques and low background detectors | ||
| 9:00 | Gamma spectrometry with Ge detectors (50') | Philippe Hubert (CENBG Bordeaux) |
| 9:55 | Low background counting techniques-status and outlook (20') | Matthias Laubenstein (Gran Sasso) |
| 10:20 | Coffee break | |
| 10:45 | Identification of Photon Induced Background events with segmented Germanium detectors in the Germanium Detector Array designed to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (20') | Iris Abt (MPI Munich) |
| 11:10 | The Bi-Po detector for ultralow radioactivity measurements (20') | Mathieu Bongrand (LAL Orsay) |
| 11:35 | Surface event screening with Beta Cage (20') | Richard Schnee (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland) |
| 12:00 | Germanium spectrometry in GERDA: the NPL intercomparison study (20') | Budjas Dusan (MPI Heidelberg) |
| 12:20 | Questions and discussion (20') | |
| Afternoon Session 4 Techniques for Radon reduction, purified noble gases and liquid scintillator purification | ||
| 14:00 | Purification of liquid scintillator for SNO+ (20') | Mark Chen (Queen's University) |
| 14:25 | Status of the purification at Kamland (20') | Fabrice Piquemal (CENBG Bordeaux) |
| 14:50 | Radon reduction facility and Radon measurements at the Modane Underground Laboratory (20') | Abdel Nachab (CENBG Bordeaux) |
| 15:15 | A novel low background cryogenic detector for Radon (20') | Grzegorz Zuzel (MPI Heidelberg) |
| 15:40 | Ultrapure gases: from the production plant to the laboratory (20') | Hardy Simgen (MPI Heidelberg) |
| 16:00 | Questions and discussion (20') | |
| Coffee break | ||
| Afternoon Session 5 Low levels on Pb/Bi/Po-210 and surface background | ||
| 16:45 | Surface event identification in the Edelweiss Ge bolometers (20') | Xavier-François Navick (CEA Saclay) |
| 17:10 | Surface activity reduction in CUORE (20') | Marisa Pedretti (Univ. dell Insubria) |
| 17:35 | Behavior of the 222Rn daughters on the copper surface during cleaning (20') | Marcin Wojcik (Krakow) |
| 17:55 | Questions and discussion (20') | |
| Evening Dinner banquet | ||
| Tuesday 3 October 2006 | ||
| Morning Session 6 Low radioactivity detector components and material purification | ||
| 9:00 | Background study for solar neutrino measurement in SuperKamiokande (20') | Hiruyi Sekiya(Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo) |
| 9:25 | Status and background considerations of XMASS experiment (20') | Yeonduk Kim (Sejong Univ.) |
| 9:50 | CANDLES for the study of 48Ca double beta decay and low radioactivity CaF2 crystals (20') | Tadafumi Kishimoto (Osaka Univ.) |
| 10:15 | The COBRA Double Beta Decay Experiment (20') | Jaime Dawson (Univ. of Sussex) |
| 10:40 | Electroformed copper at Canfranc Underground Laboratory (20') | Silvia Borjabad (Univ. of Zaragoza) |
| 11:00 | Questions and discussion (20') | |
| 11:30 | Poster session | |
| Afternoon Hiking to the mountains | ||
| Wednesday 4 October | ||
| Morning Session 7 Low radioactivity techniques in other applications | ||
| 9:00 | Application of low background gamma spectrometry techniques to sign the geographical origin of food-products (20') | Frederic Perrot (CENBG Bordeaux) |
| 9:25 | Low background environmental activities at the Institut de Radioprotection et Surete Nucleaire, IRSN (20') | Rodolfo Gurriaran (IRSN Orsay) |
| 9:50 | Findings of archaeological lead in Ukraine (20') | Andriy Nikolayko (Institut for Nuclear Research, Kiev) |
| 10:15 | Dating of wine and radioactivity (30') | Philippe Hubert (CENBG, Bordeaux) |
| Morning Workshop summary and discussions | ||