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. NSREC 2027 takes place July 19–23, 2027 at The Westin Peachtree Plaza in downtown Atlanta, Georgia.
Never been to NSREC before? You'll learn how the week is structured, what to pack, and how to find your way around Atlanta.
There's a travel grant, mentorship, and a welcoming community built to help you launch your career. See the student section below.
This is the pattern of recent NSREC weeks. The detailed 2027 schedule will be posted with the technical program in late spring.
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 (Atlanta in July is hot and humid), and enjoy the city: Centennial Olympic Park and the downtown attractions are within walking distance of the hotel.
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 2027”. (Data Workshop and test-facility papers go to the Workshop Record instead; see right.)
For 2026 the initial submission was due on the Friday of conference week, with two review rounds through the autumn and final materials in mid-February. Expect a similar cadence; the exact 2027 dates will be posted with the technical program.
Full instructions & deadlines → Manuscript preparation help (PDF) → NSREC publications overview →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 Atlanta!