ALAFNA - Latin American Association of Nuclear Physics and Applications
In Spanish: Asociación Latino Americana de Física Nuclear y Aplicaciones, in Portuguese: Associação Latino-Americana de Físic
About ALAFNA
About Us
ALAFNA is a regional association of professionals in nuclear science and its applications, who belong to Latin American countries and participate in ALAFNA according to the rules below. ALAFNA was formed in 2009 on the occasion of the VIII Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Physics and Applications that took place in Santiago, Chile.
Objectives
- To strengthen existing ties among the Latin American communities doing nuclear research and applications and to foster collaborations and the promotion of activities. The official activity supported by ALAFNA is the LASNPA, Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Physics and Applications, that takes place every two years. Other activities are the organization and promotion of symposia, workshops, schools, university-institution cooperation and exchange programs for students, and the production of educational and outreach material.
- To educate the scientific community and the general public through the promotion of nuclear physics and the peaceful uses of nuclear technology.
- To do periodic overall assessments of nuclear science in Latin America in the context of worldwide activities.
- To represent the Latin American Nuclear Physics and Applications communities in other expert communities such as NuPECC, ANPhA, and other similar scientific international bodies.
Team
Prof. Nilberto Medina - President
Prof. Rodolfo M. Id Betan - Secretary
Prof. Diego Torres - Vice President
Associate professor at the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo. Experimental nuclear physicist who works in the area of nuclear structure
with gamma-ray spectroscopy and also in radiation effects in electronic systems.
medina@if.usp.br
Prof. Diego Torres - Vice President
Prof. Rodolfo M. Id Betan - Secretary
Prof. Diego Torres - Vice President
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Guest Researcher at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and at the TRIUMF Nuclear Physics Laboratory in
Canada. Coordinator of the innovation, transfer of knowledge and entrepreneurship program from
Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
https://diego-torres.co
Prof. Rodolfo M. Id Betan - Secretary
Prof. Rodolfo M. Id Betan - Secretary
Prof. Rodolfo M. Id Betan - Secretary
Associate Professor Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Independent Researcher of Conicet, Director of the group Relativistic Quantum Theories
and Gravitation of the Institute of Physics of Rosario, Coordinator of the Nuclear Physics Division of the Argentine Physics Association, Research in Theoretical Nuclear Physics: Microscopic nuclear
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Associate Professor Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Independent Researcher of Conicet, Director of the group Relativistic Quantum Theories
and Gravitation of the Institute of Physics of Rosario, Coordinator of the Nuclear Physics Division of the Argentine Physics Association, Research in Theoretical Nuclear Physics: Microscopic nuclear
structure of rare nuclei and microscopic calculation of alpha half-life time. idbetan@gmail.com
Lasnpa - Latin American Symposium on Nuclear Physics and App
2024 - Mexico
2020 - Costa Rica
2017 - Cuba
2015 - Colombia
2013 - Uruguay
2011 - Ecuador
2009 - Chile
2007 - Peru
2003 - Brazil
2001 - Mexico
proceedings published in NUCLEUS, Vol. 64,65,66
