Program

Recent Trends in Digital Radiography – Uwe Ewert (DgzfP)

Uwe Ewert was faculty member at the Baker-Lab of the Cornell university 1989/90 and Director and Professor of the division “Non-destructive testing, radiation methods” at the German research institute BAM-Berlin (Federal Institute for Material Research and Testing) from 2000 to 2017.
He is elected vice chairman of the “radiology committee” of the German society of NDT (DGZfP), past member of the DGZfP advisory board and council member of Academia NDT International and he is delegate and convenor of different standard committees and working groups at DIN, CEN, ISO and ASTM.

Uwe Ewert received the Berthold award of DGZfP (2005), the Roentgen medal of the birth city of Prof. Roentgen, Remscheid (2009), the Briggs Award of ASTM-International (2010), the Roy Sharpe Award of BINDT (2016), the needle of honour of DGZfP (2021) and the Innovator Award of DIN (2021 for a team).

High energy laser-based X-ray source – Cédric Thaury, ENSTA – Paris Tech /LOA

Cédric Thaury is a senior CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée, where he leads the UPX team, which focuses on developing ultra-fast particle and X-ray sources based on laser-plasma interaction as well as their applications. In 2017, he was awarded the Fresnel Prize for Applied Aspects by the EPS, and in 2021, the Laclare Prize by the SFP.

Cruise dinner on the Seine river on July 2nd, 2025

We warmly invite all the participants to enjoy a summer evening on the Seine. Along with an excellent dinner on a private boat, you will have the opportunity to appreciate a sightseeing of several major monuments in Paris, such as the Eiffel Tower, Orsay Museum, Louvre Museum and Notre Dame Cathedral.

Industrial visits

Industrial and/or lab visits are planned at the end of the conference, on the morning of July 4^th, 2025