A friendly guide for first-time attendees and students — what to expect and how to get the most from the week.
NSREC — the IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference — is the leading annual meeting for the radiation-effects community. Researchers and engineers from universities, government labs, and industry around the world come together to share work on how radiation affects electronic and photonic materials, devices, circuits, and systems, and how to design hardened technology.
If it's your first time, welcome! NSREC is a single-track conference, which means everyone attends the same sessions together — it's smaller and more close-knit than many large conferences, and a great place to meet the people behind the papers.
Never been to NSREC before? You'll learn how the week is structured, what to pack, and how to navigate San Juan.
There's a travel grant, mentorship, and a welcoming community built to help you launch your career — see the student section below.
The community is welcoming and the format is single-track, so you'll keep running into the same friendly faces all week.
Questions after talks are encouraged — even "basic" ones. Everyone was new once.
Build a personal agenda in the Program Finder and export it to your calendar so you never miss a talk.
It's an intense week. Take breaks, hydrate (San Juan is hot & humid), and enjoy Old San Juan.
NSREC actively invests in the next generation of the radiation-effects community. A few things made just for you:
Presenting at NSREC is only the first step. If you have an oral or poster paper, you're expected to submit a full manuscript afterward — and the Data Workshop has its own paper process. New to this, or has it been a while? Here's the what and when, with the official starting points.
Every oral and poster author is expected to submit a full, peer-reviewed manuscript (about 8 pages) for the special NSREC issue of the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science — the January archive of the conference. Submit through the TNS portal and choose manuscript type “NSREC 2026”. (Data Workshop and test-facility papers go to the Workshop Record instead — see right.)
The Data Workshop (REDW) is a poster session, and authors also submit a full-length paper (8-page max) for the Radiation Effects Data Workshop Record. These papers are not peer-reviewed — they're edited by the REDW Chair and IEEE. Use the IEEE TNS paper template, and submit on the RADOCS site.
Welcome to the community — we're glad you're here. See you in San Juan!