UCL HEP Seminars & Vivas
Seminars are generally held at 16:00 on Fridays in room A1 on the top floor of the Physics Department or — in the unlikely event of a global pandemic — online via Microsoft Teams or Zoom.
A calendar of all seminars in the Physics Department is available on the Physics Events Calendar page.
Please send suggestions for topics and/or speakers to Matteo Agostini, Lucy Bailey, Lucian Harland-Lang, Andreas Korn and Margot MacMahon.
Upcoming Seminars & Vivas
: Sougato Bose (UCL)
Quantum Gravity
: Xin Ran Liu (UNDO)
Climate Change Special: UNDO
: Sarah Mancina (Padova)
IceCube
: Karol Lang (UT, Austin) -- Physica A1/3
Image-guided FLASH Proton Therapy
Image-guidance and dosimetry of the in-vivo proton range verification is perhaps one of the most underinvested aspects of radiation cancer treatment. The scarcity of sensitive instruments and treatment protocols for precision monitoring of effects of beam radiation leaves much room for improvement. This is despite that such measurements may dramatically enhance the treatment accuracy and lower the post-exposure toxicity thus improving the entire outcome of cancer therapy. In this talk, we will discuss our effort on designing and building of an in-beam time-of-flight positron-emission-tomography (PET) scanner to be tested in pre-clinical studies at Proton Therapy Center of MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. We will also discuss selected results of recent experiments with FLASH proton beam irradiations of phantoms and other related ideas towards improving and expanding the use of PET detectors, including the total body imaging. This endeavor has been made possible by the support of the U. of Texas – Portugal program at the University of Texas at Austin.
: Jonathan Oppenheim (UCL)
Quantum Gravity