Part I. Scintillators: 1. Transparent Lu2O3:Eu ceramics Zachary Seeley; 2. Nuclear radiation detection scintillators based on ZnSe(Te) crystals Volodymyr Ryzhikov; 3. Nonlinear quenching rates in SrI2 and CsI scintillator hosts Joel Grim; 4. Bridgman growth of SrI2 Michael Fiederle; Part II. CdZnTe: 5. Growth of detector-grade CZT by travelling heater method (THM): an advancement Utpal Roy; 6. Low temperature crystal growth and characterization of Cd0.9Zn0.1Te for radiation detection applications Krishna Mandal; 7. Improvement of CdMnTe detector performance by MnTe purification Ki Hyun Kim; 8. Characterization of Pd impurities and finite-sized defects in detector grade CdZnTe Martine Duff; 9. Effects of dislocations and sub-grain boundaries on X-ray response maps of CdZnTe radiation detectors Anwar Hossain; 10. Study of structural defects in CdZnTe crystals by high resolution electron microscopy Anwar Hossain; Part III. Modelling and Calculations: 11. Performance evaluation of neutron detectors incorporating intrinsic Gd using a GEANT4 modeling approach Abigail Bickley; 12. Material parameter basis for major and minor trends in nonproportionality of scintillators Qi Li; 13. Dimensionally reduced heavy atom semiconductors as candidate materials for γ-ray detection: the case of Cs2Hg6S7 Mercouri Kanatzidis; Part IV. Other Materials: 14. Czochralski growth of indium iodide and other wide bandgap semiconductor compounds Aleksandar Ostrogorsky; 15. Dysprosium-containing nanocrystals for thermal neutron detection Marek Osiński; 16. Semiconductor detectors fabricated from TlBr crystals Keitaro Hitomi; 17. UV emitting single crystalline film scintillators grown by LPE method: current status and perspective Yuriy Zorenko; 18. Bismuth-loaded polymer scintillators for gamma ray spectroscopy Benjamin Rupert; 19. Alkali metal chalcogenides for radiation detection Bruce Wessels; 20. ZnCdSeTe semiconductor compounds: preparation and properties Vello Valdna; 21. Comparative study of HgI2, PbI2 and TlBr films aimed for ionizing radiation detection in medical imaging Marcelo Mulato; 22. Photoemission and cathodoluminescence of doped lithium tetraborate crystals being developed for neutron detection Christina Dugan.