FORTHCOMING EVENTS

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A full list is published in January, April, July and October 1999 A practical and theoretical course in radiotherapy physics (Part B: brachytherapy, radiobiology and treatment machines) 1-5 March, Sutton, Surrey, UK Contact: Dr Alan Nahum, The Joint Department of Physics, The Royal Marsden NHS Trust, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5PT, UK (Tel: +44 181 642 6011; E-mail: alan@icr.ac.uk) 58th ann. mtg of the Japanese Radiological Society; 55th scientific assembly of the Japanese Society of Radiological Technology; Int. technical exhibition of medical imaging '99 6-8 April, Tokyo, Japan Contact: Secretariat of JMCP, Kitaotemachi Bldg, 1-7-6 Uchikanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101 0047, Japan (Tel: 81 3 5281 0456; Fax: 81 3 5281 0457) Combined XXX mtg of the Proton Therapy Co-operative Group (PTCOGXXX), European Hadron Therapy Group (EHTG) and European Clinical Heavy Particle Therapy Group (ECHED) 12-15 April, Cape Town, South Africa Contact: Dr D Jones, National Accelerator Centre, PO Box 72, Faure, 7131 South Africa (Tel: +27 21 843 3820; Fax: +27 21 843 3382; E-mail: jones@nac.ac.za) 4th int. computer aided ergonomics and safety conf., CAES '99 19-21 May, Barcelona, Spain Contact: Mr Markku Leppänen, Secretary General CAES '99, Tampere University of Technology, Occupational Safety Engineering, PO Box 541, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland (Fax: +358 3 365 2671; E-mail: mleppane@cc.tut.fi; http://www.caes99.org) SRP int. symp. Achievements and challenges: Advancing radiation protection into the 21st century 14-18 June, Southport, UK Contact: SRP, Ramillies House, 1-9 Hills Place, London W1R 1AG, UK (Tel: +44 (0)171 287 4955, +44 (0)171 287 4906) 45th ann. scientific mtg of the Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP) 16-19 June, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada Contact: COMP Secretariat, 11328 88 Street, Edmonton, AB, Canada T5B 3P8 (E-mail: bmcgarry@compusmart.ab.ca) AAPM summer school 1999 on digital imaging 22-26 June Contact: Mrs Andrea H DeGirolamo, Membership Manager, American Association of Physicists in Medicine, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740 3846, USA (E-mail: andrea@aapm.org) 6th cong. of the International Society for Skin Imaging 4-6 July, London, UK Contact: Scientific and Administrative Secretariat, c/o HITEC (Hammersmith Hospital), Du Cane Road, London W12 0HS, UK (E-mail: hitec@rpms.ac.uk; Internet: http://www.icr.ac.uk/physics/conferences/issi.html) DOSGEL '99. 1st int. workshop on radiotherapy gel dosimetry 21-23 July, Lexington, KY, USA Contact: DOSGEL '99 workshop secretariat, att. Clive Baldock, Centre for Medical and Health Physics, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Queensland 4001, Australia (Fax: +61 7 3864 1521; E-mail: c.baldock@qut.edu.au; Internet: http://mednet.qut.edu.au/gels/ ) AAPM 41st ann. mtg 25-29 July, Nashville, TN, USA Contact: Mrs Andrea H DeGirolamo, Membership Manager, American Association of Physicists in Medicine, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740 3846, USA (E-mail: andrea@aapm.org) 3rd ann. mtg of the German Society for Biological Radiation Research (GBS) 29 September - 1 October, Dresden, Germany Contact: Klinik und Poliklinik für Strahlentherapie und Radioonkologie Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus, Fetscherstr. 74, D-01307 Dresden, Germany (Tel: +49 351 458 3373; Fax: +49 351 458 4339; E-mail: doerr@rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de)