Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Nowadays nuclear measurement techniques and associated instrumentation are still in progress, and, within high-energy physics experiments, still bring a key contribution to fundamental research and to our knowledge of the Universe and its fundamental laws, the “physics of the two infinites”. They also enable us to control nuclear reactors, to monitor the dosimetry, to contribute in public health in the field of diagnosis and therapy, to ensure some controls and characterization related to transport safety, radioactive wastes and dismantling operations, to check the compliance of components and industrial processes, to monitor pollution, to cope with nuclear proliferation… Not less than that, so to say!

I think we are all well aware of the fact that, over the past few decades, we have made tremendous progress in the development of measuring devices, data processing and analysis tools in many areas of interest such as computing (data mining, Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic, Machine Learning and Deep Learning), robotics, space, health technologies, energy, environment, and transport. These advances unavoidably affect the requested performances of predictive modelling tools as well as experimental capabilities linked to our fields of activities. In this respect, ANIMMA scientific community has both the legitimacy and the leadership to face these challenges, and continuously develop a relevant international network.

As such, ANIMMA conference and the associated network is a seedbed of new scientific international collaborations dealing with experimental sciences and technologies.