Photos of the 2008 HPS Midyear Meeting and School

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.

• Downtown Oakland, California
• Ralph Thomas (University of California, retired) presents scholarship check to Kim Burns (Georgia Tech)
• Fred Mettler (University of New Mexico), G. William Morgan lecturer, receives plaque from Kevin Nelson (Health Physics Society President)
• Ralph Thomas ((University of California, retired) presents his plenary speech
• Vashek Vylet (Jefferson National Accelerator Facility) tries his skill at the Bean-Bag Toss, a game to raise money for the Burton J. Moyer Scholarship Fund
• Scott Walker, Accelerator Section Past-President (Los Alamos National Lab)
• Nisy Ipe (consultant)
• Takashi Nakamura (Tohoku University, Japan)
• Kevin Nelson, Health Physics Society President, and Lorraine Marceau-Day (Louisiana State University Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices)
• J. Donald Cossairt (Fermi National Accelerator Lab)
• Marcia Torres, Accelerator Section Treasurer (Argonne National Lab)
• Mike Calvert, webmaster for midyear meeting and professional development school sites (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
• Carter Ficklen (Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)
• J. Donald Cossairt (Fermi National Accelerator Lab) and Henry Kahnhauser, Accelerator Section President-Elect (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
• Kamran Vaziri, Accelerator Section President (Fermi National Accelerator Lab), and Nisy Ipe (consultant)
• James Liu (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) and Scott Walker, Accelerator Section Past-President (Los Alamos National Lab)
• Scott Walker, Accelerator Section Past-President (Los Alamos National Lab), Sandy May, and Bob May (Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)
• Steve Frey (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) and J. Donald Cossairt (Fermi National Accelerator Lab)
• Nolan Hertel (Georgia Tech University)
• Ken Kase (Lyncean Technologies) and Qui "Kelly" Riu from China
• Dick Toohey, Health Physics Society President-Elect, and Martha Dibblee (Portland, Oregon) Ken Kase (Lyncean Technologies)
• Takashi Nakamura (Tohoku University, Japan) and Sayed Rokni (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
• Steve Frey (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
• Scott Walker, Accelerator Section Past-President (Los Alamos National Lab)
• Lorraine Marceau-Day (Louisiana State University Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices) and Linnea Wahl, Accelerator Section Newsletter Editor (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
• Steve Frey (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) and Henry Kahnhauser, Accelerator Section President-Elect (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
• Henry Kahnhauser, Accelerator Section President-Elect (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Vashek Vylet (Jefferson National Accelerator Facility), Ken Kase (Lyncean Technologies), and Joe McDonald (Radiation Protection Dosimetry)
• Linnea Wahl, Accelerator Section Newsletter Editor (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) and Kim Burns, scholarship winner (Georgia Tech University)