SCHEDULE
Venue for all events is College Park Hall
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Friday, April 23
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| 9:00 – 12:00 |
NYSS-APS Executive Committee Meeting |
| 12:00 |
Registration |
| 1:00 – 1:15 |
Welcome by Sunil Labroo, NYSS APS Chair
Welcome by David Hayes, Union College Dean of Academic Depts.
Welcome by Samuel Amanuel, Local Committee Chair |
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| Session I – Nuclear Medicine |
| 1:15 – 2:00 |
NUCLEAR Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Physics, Engineering and Medicine
William Edelstein – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| 2:00 – 2:45 |
Including the Physics of Imaging in Tomographic Reconstruction
Michael King – UMass Medical Center; |
| 2:45 – 3:15 |
Coffee Break |
| 3:15 – 4:00 |
Current status of brachytherapy dose calculation methods and future directions
Mark Rivard – Tufts U School of Medicine, Tufts Medical Center |
| 4:00 – 4:45 |
Radiation Oncology in the 21st Century: IMRT, VMAT and protons ( - is it safe?)
Peter Biggs – Mass General Hospital, Harvard Medical School |
| 5:00 – 6:00 |
Social Hour with Cash Bar
Student Poster Session |
| 6:00 – 7:30 |
Banquet |
| 7:30 – 8:30 |
The German Physical Society and National Socialism
Evening Talk, Mark Walker, Department of History, Union College |
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| Saturday, April 24 |
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| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Continental Breakfast. (No charge) |
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| Session II – Nuclear Power |
| 9:00 - 9:45 |
Toward Next Generation Nuclear Reactors; Concepts, Challenges, Scientific Advancements
Michael Podowski, Dept Mechanical, Aerospace & Nuclear Engineering, RPI |
| 9:45 - 10:30 |
Fast Igniters in Inertial Confinement Fusion
Charlie Freeman, Dept Physics, SUNY Geneseo |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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| Session III – Nuclear Non-Proliferation |
| 11:00 - 11:45 |
Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle: The Science of Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Jerry Gilfoyle, Dept Physics, University of Richmond |
11:45 - 12:30 |
Proliferation and Terrorism Risks of the "Nuclear Renaissance"
Ed Lyman, Senior Staff Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists |
| 12:30 - 3:00 |
NES-APS Executive Committee Meeting (lunch provided) |
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