The 22th International Symposium on Nuclear Electronics & Computing (NEC’09) is being held on7-14 September in Varna, Bulgaria.

The symposium was organized by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, (JINR) (Dubna, Russia), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (Geneva, Switzerland) and the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (INRNE) (Sofia, Bulgaria)

The symposium aims to stimulate the further development of investigations in the fields of nuclear electronics and computing for the purposes of physical research and the more close cooperation between JINR, CERN and INRNE. An important task of the symposium is to encourage participation in the symposium of a number of young specialists from Central and East European countries including Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Czech and Slovak Republics, Serbia, Croatia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Uzbekistan.

The main topics of the symposium are:

• Detector & Nuclear Electronics;
• Computer Applications for Measurement and Control in Scientific Research;
• Triggering and Data Acquisition;
• Accelerator and Experiment Automation Control Systems;
• Methods of Experimental Data Analysis;
• Information & Data Base Systems;
• Computer Networks for Scientific Research;
• Data & Storage Management;
• GRID computing.