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FROM THE OFFICERS
The President's
Message
Kamran Vaziri
A lot has come to
pass since my last message. Both the Health Physics Society’s (HPS's) midyear meeting and the professional development
school (PDS) were resounding successes. At the 2007 annual meeting, six
months before the midyear, we had received only 13 abstracts. However,
through Herculean efforts by Northern California Chapter (NCCHPS) members
(spear-headed by their past-president, Radoslav Radev; Local Arrangement Task Force co-chairs Kathleen Dinnel-Jones, John Ahlquist,
and Dawn Banghart; NCCHPS liaison, our own Linnea
Wahl; Elsa Nimmo of the Technical Program
Committee; and all of our section membership), we ended up with more than120
papers and a very well-attended meeting.
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The Past President's
Message
Scott Walker
The Health Physics
Society's (HPS's) midyear meeting in Oakland, California,
was very successful: 475 individuals registered for the meeting. Nearly as
many vendors had booths at this meeting as at the 2007 HPS annual meeting in Portland.
The two American Academy of Health Physics (AAHP) classes were very well
attended as were the six professional enrichment program (PEP) classes on
Sunday.
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The Editor's Message
Linnea Wahl
With the 2008
Health Physics Society (HPS) midyear meeting and professional development school
behind us, we can take a breather and reflect on our successes. The meeting
was very well-planned and went off without a hitch (unless you count the
visual "earthquake" that rocked Ralph Thomas's slides during the
plenary address—he recovered beautifully, as you would expect).
As for the school, we had a few growing pains as the registration numbers
climbed beyond our expectations, but as the article in the April issue of Health Physics
News notes, it was all great fun and a great success.
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In this issue
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From the Officers
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From the Correspondents
• Other News
• How to Subscribe
• Newsletter Archives
Also of
interest
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Accelerator Section Website
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HPS Website
• Reflections on the 2008 Professional Development School
• Purchase 2008 School Textbook
OFFICERS
President:
Kamran Vaziri, Fermi National Accelerator
Lab
President-Elect:
Henry Kahnhauser, Brookhaven National Lab
Past
President:
Scott Walker, Los Alamos National Lab
Secretary:
Ed Lessard, Brookhaven National Lab
Treasurer:
Marcia Torres, Argonne National Lab
Newsletter Editor:
Linnea Wahl, Berkeley National Lab
Directors:
Erik Abkemeier, Naval Sea Systems
Command
Richard Brey,
Idaho State University
Mike Duran, Los
Alamos National Lab
Don Gregory, Oak
Ridge National Lab
Mike Sandvig,
Idaho National Lab
Mike Singh,
Livermore National Lab
FROM THE CORRESPONDENTS
News from Louisiana State University
Lorraine Marceau-Day
First, congratulations to Scott Walker, Kamran Vaziri, Elsa Nimmo, and Linnea Wahl for an outstanding midyear
meeting, as well as to Patricia Lee who really helped as chair of the Program
Committee. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the Northern
California Chapter who also worked tirelessly to make the midyear meeting a
success . . .
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News from Los
Alamos National Lab
Scott Walker
The Los Alamos National Laboratory operational
health physics team and the radiation detection instrument team are
preplanning an experiment to measure and document the response of
radiation-detection instruments of all types to pulsed radiation fields.
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OTHER NEWS
Bridge Collapse Impacts Physics
Lab
Jenny Allan
The I-35W bridge
that collapsed Wednesday, August 1st was very close to the School of Physics
and Astronomy's Williams Laboratory, known as the "Tandem Lab." The
bridge was twenty feet from the building's loading dock. There were no University staff, faculty, or students in the
laboratory at the time of the collapse.
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Next U.S.
Particle Accelerator
School in Annapolis, Maryland
Susan Winchester
The U.S. Particle Accelerator School is offering a
program of graduate-level courses sponsored by the University
of Maryland at College
Park and held in Annapolis,
Maryland, from June 16-27,
2008. Participants may earn 3 University
of Maryland credits in two weeks or
earn 1.5 University
of Maryland credits in
one week. One undergraduate course and twelve specialized graduate-level
courses will be offered.
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Photos of the 2008 HPS Midyear
Meeting
Linnea Wahl
What a photogenic group! Check out these photos of
your colleagues enjoying the professional enrichment opportunities of the 2008
Health Physics Society (HPS) Midyear Meeting on "Radiation-Generating
Devices," held January 27-30 in Oakland,
California. Many thanks to Casper Sun, CHP, the HPS's official photographer, for these great photos.
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