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 climbed beyond our expectations, but as the article in the Health Physics News notes, it was all great fun and a great success.
If you weren't able to attend, not to worry for we have lots of photos to share with you. Start with the Health Physics News article to see photo highlights of the professional development school. Then check out Casper Sun's great photos of the midyear meeting.
And if you'd like some text to go along with your photos, you might be interested in purchasing the professional development school textbook, Topics in Accelerator Health Physics. Written by the school faculty and edited by J. Donald Cossairt, Vashek Vylet, and John Edwards, the textbook is available for $50 from Medical Physics Publishing.
Finally, if you're a regular reader of this newsletter, you may notice the new HPS Accelerator Section logo displayed in the banner of this issue. This logo was voted on and approved by the Accelerator Section members. We owe thanks to Shirley Venis (Los Alamos National Lab) and Mike Calvert (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) for their graphics skills in updating this logo.