It's official: The Accelerator Section and the Northern California Chapter of the Health Physics Society (HPS) are teaming up to sponsor the 2008 midyear meeting of the HPS in Oakland, California. Members of the Local Arrangements Committee (Kathleen Dinnel-Jones, Dawn Banghart, and John Ahlquist) are already hard at work preparing for the meeting.
After meeting with representatives from the Oakland Marriott (the venue chosen for the meeting) and the Oakland Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Local Arrangements Committee was more convinced than ever that Oakland is the best possible choice for the meeting. The convention center is connected seamlessly to the hotel, making it hard to tell where one leaves off and the other starts. Meeting-goers will find everything they need in the hotel-convention center complex.
Preparations for the meeting (and the proposed professional development school) include myriad activities, such as designing the logo (see the top of this page), publicizing the meeting (watch the February issue of Health Physics News), and staffing a booth at the Knoxville midyear meeting.
And here's where you can lend a hand. Will you be at the Knoxville midyear meeting of the HPS? Will you have a spare hour or two to help us staff the booth? If the answer to both questions is "yes," then please send me a note. Tell me when you can join the fun at the Knoxville booth, lending your enthusiasm and charm to help us make the Oakland meeting the best-attended ever. With your help, we hope to attract all who work with or are interested in radiation-generating devices used in medical, industrial, research, and homeland security settings. Please join us in Knoxville!