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Planning details for the 2018 ENLIGHT meeting and training day, hosted by UCL.

To-Do List

Chairs

  • Email Manjit Dosanjh/Cai Grau about meeting dates to confirm: SJ. — ✓
  • Ask Manchester/Christie what topics they would like to contribute: GR.
  • Find out whether Ran Mackay would be willing to be an agent provocateur for one of the panel discussions: GR.
  • Book Cruciform Building Lecture Theatre for all 4 days: GR.
  • Identify Local Organising Committee: SJ, GR. — ✓
  • Discuss site visit with UCLH/Bouygues: RA.
  • Arrange discussion session topics and speakers: RA, GR.
  • Find out if we can publish contributed papers in peer-reviewed journal special edition: SJ. — ✓ (Manjit Dosanjh prefers not to publish in a journal).
  • Formal invitation letter (save the date letter without details, plus specific invitation to speakers): GR.
  • Arrange monthly meetings with Local Organisers: GR, SJ.
  • Put together web page (use HEP website) including Indico page: SJ. — ✓ — Indico page already created by CERN: they want to host the pages. We won't have edit rights.
  • Put together detailed list of speakers and topics for each session by 28/07/17: All. — Sessions confirmed by ENLIGHT committee.
  • Finalise timetable for all 3 days by mid-November: All. — ✓
  • Check how much funding is available from CERN and Manjit Dosanjh: SJ.
  • Check with Manjit Dosanjh about poster session and prizes: SJ.
  • Should industrial sponsors fund lunches and evening reception?

Local Organiser Tasks

  • Can we use the British Museum for reception on Monday 25th?
  • Find suitable location for formal dinner on Tuesday 26th:
    • British Museum.
    • Thames riverboat.
    • Indian restaurant: Brick Lane, Tayyabs.
  • Accommodation for delegates.
  • Travel for delegates.
  • Find out what local organisation necessary for previous conferences.
  • Local point of contact: TBA...
  • Industry contact: Richard Amos
  • Evening entertainment: Meghan Wilson
  • Room bookings: Mohini Nair
  • Hotel booking: Anastasia Basharina-Freshville
  • Website information: Laurent Kelleter
  • Oyster cards: TBA...

Provisional Dates: Monday 25th–Thursday 28th June 2018

Training Day
Monday 25th
ENLIGHT Meeting
Tuesday 26th–Wednesday 27th
EPTN Meeting
Thursday 28th
UCLH PBT Site Visit
During ENLIGHT Meeting on Wednesday?

Local Organising Committee

Chairs

Richard Amos, Simon Jolly, Gary Royle.

Local Support

Kate Ricketts, Stacey Holloway, Laurent Kelleter, Anastasia Basharina-Freshville, Megan Wilson, Mohini Hair

Training Day

Clinical Proton Delivery: How to design a PBT centre

Organiser: KR, Stacey Holloway.

Monday 25th June, 09.30–18.00

  • Commercial vendors: Varian, Hitachi (30 mins + 15 mins each for questions → 90 mins).
  • History of accelerators: Hywel Owen, Jose Alonso (60 mins inc questions).
  • UCLH build including BIM modelling: Tahir Ahmed, Paulina Zakrzewska, Bouygues (45 mins?).
  • Clinical beam delivery: Richard Amos (45 mins?).
  • How to write a Treatment Planning System: Uwe Oelfke, Antje Knopfe (45 mins?).
  • Monte Carlo simulations, including shielding, planning verification and pre-commissioning: Frank Verhagen, Joao Seco (45 mins?).
  • Commissioning a PBT centre: Håkan Nyström (45 mins?).
  • Heidelberg facility design: TBA (45 mins?)

Practical Sessions:

  • Treatment Planning
  • Machine Design
  • Clinical Trials
  • Patient Selection and Throughput
  • Other suggestions...

5 hours of talks, 1 hour for lunch, 2 hours of practical sessions.

ENLIGHT Meeting

Tuesday 26th–Wednesday 27th June, 09.00–18.00

Each session approx. 2 hours with a 1 hour discussion session scheduled for before lunch.

Imaging

Organiser: GR

  • Chair: David Hawkes
  • Jamie McClelland
  • Tracy Underwood
  • Stacey Holloway
  • Hugo Bouchard
  • Xiao Ming (MGH)
  • Phil Evans

Dosimetry

Organiser: SJ

  • Chair: Gary Royle
  • Hugo Palmans
  • Simon Jolly
  • NPL (Russell Thomas/Giuseppe Schettino/Ana Lourenco)
  • Brunel
  • PRaVDA (Phil Allport/Tony Price/not Nigel Allinson...)
  • Liverpool LHCb VELO+Clatterbridge (Carsten Welsch/Jacinta Yap)
  • STFC/RAL

Light Ions (Other Particles)

Organiser: SJ

  • Chair: Stuart Green?
  • CNAO (Marco Pullia?)
  • Heidelberg
  • MedAustron
  • Japan
  • Radhe Mohan
  • Lanzhou

Radiobiology and Immunotherapy

Organiser: GR.

  • Chair: Rikky Sharma — if Rikky chairs he can sill get someone from his group to speak.
  • Klaus Trott
  • Bleddyn Jones
  • Kevin Prise
  • Marco Durante
  • James Welch

Patient Selection

Organiser: RA

  • Chair: Ed Smith
  • Adrian Crellin
  • Andrzej Kacperek
  • Holland
  • Karen Kirkby (MALTHUS)

Paediatrics

Organiser: RA

  • Chair: Mark Gaze
  • Beate Timmerman/Germany
  • Ed Smith
  • Yen-Ch'ing Chang
  • Anita Mahajan
  • Case studies
  • Jonathan Farr
  • Tsukuba/Japan

Discussion Session

  • Have 1 discussion session and use the other for UCLH PBT site visit.
  • Gantries/no gantries.

EPTN Meeting

Thursday 28th June, 10.00–16.30